Famous people born in 1886

The best-known people born in 1886, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

David Ben-Gurion
Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) - (born1886–1973)
October 16 · d. 1973
Photo: Fritz Cohen, Public domain
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
German architect (1886–1969)
March 27 · d. 1969
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Diego Rivera
Mexican muralist (1886–1957)
December 8 · d. 1957
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Alfonso XIII
King of Spain from 1886 to 1931 (1886–1941)
May 17 · d. 1941
Photo: Kaulak, Public domain
Manne Siegbahn
Swedish physicist (1886-1978)
December 3 · d. 1978
Photo: Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1924, Public domain
Karl Barth
Swiss Protestant theologian (1886-1968)
May 10 · d. 1968
Photo: Hans Lachmann, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Robert Schuman
Luxembourgish-born German-French statesman and Venerable (1886-1963)
June 29 · d. 1963
Photo: European Commission, CC BY 4.0
Faisal I of Iraq
1st king of Hashemite Iraq from 1921 to 1933
May 20 · d. 1933
Photo: Vandyk photographic studio, Public domain
Archibald Hill
English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)
September 26 · d. 1977
Photo: Photographer unknown. Subject (Hill) deceased. This photo is under copyright by The Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Sergei Kirov
Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary (1886–1934)
March 27 · d. 1934
Ernst Thälmann
German communist politician, leader of Communist Party of Germany (1886–1944)
April 16 · d. 1944
Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain
Marc Bloch
French historian (1886–1944)
July 6 · d. 1944
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Karl von Frisch
German-Austrian ethologist (1886-1982)
November 20 · d. 1982
Photo: Stefanie Ludwig, Public domain
Jean Arp
Alsatian sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (1886–1966)
September 16 · d. 1966
Photo: Original uploader was Vincent Steenberg at nl.wikipedia, Public domain
Béla Kun
Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician, the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs
February 20 · d. 1938
Photo: Gyula Jelfy, Public domain
Robert Robinson
English chemist (1886-1975)
September 13 · d. 1975
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian dramatic, painter and writer (1886–1980)
March 1 · d. 1980
Photo: Hugo Erfurth, Public domain
Willem Drees
Dutch politician (1886–1988)
July 5 · d. 1988
Photo: Rob Bogaerts for Anefo, CC0
Edward Calvin Kendall
American chemist (1886-1972)
March 8 · d. 1972
Photo: Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain
Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Soviet politician (1886-1937)
October 24 · d. 1937
Photo: G.K. Ordzhonikidze, Public domain
Frank Lloyd
British film director (1886–1960)
February 2 · d. 1960
Photo: Anonymous photographer, not identified anywhere, Public domain
René Guénon
French metaphysician (1886-1951)
November 15 · d. 1951
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Michael Curtiz
Hungarian-American director (1886–1962)
December 25 · d. 1962
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Paul Tillich
German-American theologian and philosopher
August 20 · d. 1965
Photo: raschau, CC BY 2.0
Alain-Fournier
French writer
October 3 · d. 1914
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Gottfried Benn
German physician, poet, and essayist (1886–1956)
May 2 · d. 1956
Photo: Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1984-1116-500,_Gottfried_Benn-Arzt_und_Schriftsteller.jpg : o.Ang. derivative , CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Zhu De
Marshal of the People's Republic of China (1886－1976)
December 1 · d. 1976
Photo: anonymous (Gov), Public domain
Aaron Nimzovich
Latvian-born Danish chess player and theoretician (1886-1935)
November 7 · d. 1935
Photo: Not mentioned, Public domain
Olaf Stapledon
British novelist and philosopher (1886–1950)
May 10 · d. 1950
Edward Rydz-Śmigły
Polish general, politician, marshal of Poland, poet, and painter (1886–1941)
March 11 · d. 1941

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January

January 1 · Garegin Nzhdeh, Armenian politician and philosopher (1886-1955)
January 2 · Florence Lawrence, Canadian-American actress (1886-1938)
January 10 · Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian anti-communist general (1886-1921)
January 14 · Hugh Lofting, British author (1886–1947)
January 24 · Henry King, American film director (1886–1982)
January 25 · Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (1886–1954)

February

February 10 · Raicho Hiratsuka, Japanese anarchist feminist (1886–1971)
February 11 · May Ziadeh, Lebanese-Palestinian writer (1886-1941)
February 15 · Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Russian economist and politician (1886–1937)
February 20 · Takuboku Ishikawa, Japanese poet (1886-1912)
February 22 · Hugo Ball, German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)
February 28 · Max Vasmer, Russian-German linguist (1886-1962)

March

March 5 · Dong Biwu, former acting President of the People's Republic of China (1886–1975)
March 7 · Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, British mathematician and physicist (1886-1975)
March 15 · Gerda Wegener, Danish artist (1885-1940)
March 17 · Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (1886-1974); younger daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
March 18 · Kurt Koffka, German psychologist (1886–1941)
March 24 · Edward Weston, American photographer (1886–1958)

April

April 6 · I. Athenagoras, ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1886–1972)
April 6 · Asaf Jah VII of Hyderabad, Last Monarch of the Kingdom of Hyderabad (1886-1967)
April 14 · Edward C. Tolman, American psychologist (1886–1959)
April 15 · Nikolay Gumilev, Russian poet (1886-1921)
April 26 · Ğabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet
April 26 · Ma Rainey, American blues singer (1886–1939)

May

May 3 · Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (1886–1971)
May 9 · Francis Biddle, United States federal judge (1886-1968)
May 12 · Rudolf Schmidt, German general
May 20 · Ali Sami Yen, Turkish association football player and manager (1886–1951)
May 26 · Al Jolson, American entertainer, actor, and singer (1886–1950)
May 28 · Vladislav Khodasevich, Russian poet, literary critic (1886–1939)

June

June 5 · Toivo Mikael Kivimäki, Finnish politician (1886-1968)
June 5 · Kurt Hahn, German educator (1886-1974)
June 7 · Henri Coandă, Romanian inventor (1886-1972)
June 18 · George Mallory, English mountaineer (1886-1924)
June 22 · Philip Khuri Hitti, Lebanese-American academic and authority on the Middle East (1886-1978)
June 25 · Henry H. Arnold, American general officer holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force (1886-1950)

July

July 3 · Raymond A. Spruance, United States admiral (1886-1969)
July 6 · Annette Kellermann, Australian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writer (1887–1975)
July 22 · Theodor Morell, personal physician to Adolf Hitler (1886-1948)
July 23 · Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer and historian (1886-1978)
July 23 · Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (1886–1976)
July 24 · Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese author (1886–1965)

August

August 5 · Bruce Fairchild Barton, American author, politician and advertising executive (1886-1967)
August 6 · Inez Milholland, (1886-1916) American suffragist, lawyer
August 10 · George Cœdès, French historian (1886–1969)
August 15 · Karl Korsch, German politician (1886-1961)
August 27 · Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist (1886–1979)
August 27 · Angela Piskernik, botanist and conservationist (1886-1967)

September

September 8 · Siegfried Sassoon, English war poet and writer (1886-1967)
September 10 · H.D., American Imagist poet (1886–1961)
September 14 · Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak diplomat and politician (1886–1948)
September 14 · Erich Hoepner, German general (1886–1944)
September 20 · Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Crown Princess of Prussia (1886-1954)
September 24 · Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, former President of Argentina (1886-1942)

October

October 2 · Jisaburō Ozawa, Japanese admiral (1886–1966)
October 2 · Robert Julius Trumpler, Swiss-American astronomer (1886-1956)
October 16 · Armin T. Wegner, German pacifist, writer and poet (1886–1978)
October 20 · Frederic Bartlett, British psychologist and academic (1886–1969)
October 24 · Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan modernist poet
October 25 · Karl Polanyi, Hungarian economist, philosopher and historian

November

November 1 · Hermann Broch, Austrian writer (1886-1951)
November 2 · Gheorghe Tătărescu, Romanian politician (1886–1957)
November 7 · Mohammad-Taqi Bahar, Iranian Poet, writer, historian, scholar and politician
November 9 · Ed Wynn, American actor (1886-1966)
November 13 · Mary Wigman, German dancer, choreographer, and dance instructor (1886–1973)
November 21 · Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author, diarist and politician (1886-1968)

December

December 1 · Rex Stout, American writer (1886-1975)
December 18 · Ty Cobb, American baseball player (1886–1961)
December 23 · John Cromwell, American actor, director and producer (1886/7–1979)
December 25 · Gotthard Heinrici, German general (1886–1971)
December 25 · Franz Rosenzweig, German Jewish theologian and philosopher (1886–1929)
December 26 · Gyula Gömbös, Hungarian fascist politician (1886-1936)

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