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Months in Year 1886: January February March April May June July August September October November December

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Jan 2nd - Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet (In New-York)
Jan 2nd - Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
Jan 2nd - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1959)
Jan 3rd - Arthur Mailey, cricketer (great Aussie leg-spinner & cartoonist)
Jan 3rd - John G Fletcher, US, poet (Epic of Arkansas)
Jan 3rd - Josephine Hull, Newtonville MA, Academy award actress (Harvey)
Jan 8th - Noble Drew Ali, [Timothy Drew], NC, prophet (Moorish Science Temple)
Jan 10th - Jose Antonio de Donostia, composer
Jan 11th - George Zucco, England, actor (Adv of Sherlock Holmes, Capt Fury)
Jan 13th - Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964)
Jan 14th - Hugh Lofting, England, writer & illustrator (Dr Dolittle)
Jan 17th - Glenn Luther Martin, aviator (Collier Trophy-1933)
Jan 17th - Ronald Firbank, London, novelist (Flower Beneath the Foot)
Jan 18th - Antoine Pevsner, French sculptor
Jan 18th - Peter Alma, Dutch painter/graphic artist
Jan 21st - Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Finance/Economy
Jan 22nd - John Joseph Becker, composer
Jan 24th - Henry King, American film director (d. 1982)
Jan 25th - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
Jan 26th - Joannes A Veraart, Dutch economist/MP (Jews of the Netherlands)
Jan 28th - Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist
Jan 28th - Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
Jan 28th - Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
Jan 31st - Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman (Pres UN security council-1948)
Feb 2nd - Kurt Baschwitz, German/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Du und)
Feb 3rd - Erwin Kroll, composer
Feb 8th - Charlie Ruggles, LA Calif, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show)
Feb 12th - Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist, composer
Feb 12th - Michel Brusselmans, composer
Feb 14th - Theodor Werner, German painter
Feb 15th - Sax Rohmer, England, author (Dr Fu Manchu)
Feb 16th - Andrew Ducat, cricketer (Test for Eng 1921 (3 & 2) Soccer intl)
Feb 16th - Van Wyck Brooks, NJ, literary historian/writer (Ordeal of Mark Twain)
Feb 19th - George Luther Foote, composer
Feb 20th - Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
Feb 22nd - Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti
Feb 23rd - Albert Edward Sammons, composer
Feb 23rd - Ventura Garcia Calderon, Peruvian diplomat/author
Feb 27th - Hugo L Black, Ala, (Sen-D-Ala)/78th Supreme Court justice (1937-71)
Feb 28th - Jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas)
Feb 28th - Max Vasmer, German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo)
Mar 1st - Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960)
Mar 2nd - Willis O'Brien, American animator (d. 1962)
Mar 3rd - James Friskin, composer
Mar 3rd - Reginald Owen Morris, composer
Mar 3rd - Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)
Mar 4th - Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
Mar 5th - Paul Radmilovic, England, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1908)
Mar 5th - Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)
Mar 7th - Raymond Largay, Wisc, actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl)
Mar 8th - Anton Portielje, Dutch radio host/zoo director (Artis)
Mar 8th - Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
Mar 13th - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist
Mar 13th - John "Home Run" Baker, hall of famer (hit 2 HR in 1911 world series)
Mar 14th - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
Mar 17th - Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (d. 1974)
Mar 18th - Edward Everett Horton, Bkln NY, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show)
Mar 18th - Kurt Koffka, Germany, Gestalt psychologist
Mar 18th - Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth)
Mar 24th - Athenagoras I, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
Mar 24th - Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
Mar 25th - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
Mar 26th - Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
Mar 27th - Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus)
Mar 27th - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
Mar 28th - Jaroslav Novotny, composer
Mar 29th - Gustaf Adolf Tiburtius Bengtsson, composer
Mar 30th - Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician/mathematician
Apr 1st - Casimir von Paszthory, composer
Apr 1st - Wallace Beery, KC MO, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8)
Apr 5th - Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist (Der Toncharakter)
Apr 6th - Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (d. 1967)
Apr 7th - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971)
Apr 8th - Margaret A Barnes, writer
Apr 10th - Val Paul
Apr 13th - Ethel Leginska, composer
Apr 14th - Edward C Tolman, US psychologist (behaviorism)
Apr 14th - Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian
Apr 15th - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)
Apr 16th - Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate
Apr 16th - Jekabs Graubins, composer
Apr 16th - Konstantin Mostras, composer
Apr 17th - Otto Lederer, Czechoslovakia, actor (Jazz Singer)
Apr 21st - Charlie Naughton, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Frozen Limits)
Apr 24th - Kurt Pinthus, writer
Apr 24th - R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man (died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108)
Apr 26th - Ma Rainey, [Gertrude Pridgett], "Mother of the Blues
Apr 26th - Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
Apr 26th - Ğabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet (d. 1913)
Apr 28th - Erich Salomon, German photographer
Apr 30th - Frank Merrik, composer
May 2nd - Gottfried Benn, writer
May 3rd - Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
May 5th - Manuel Borguno, composer
May 8th - Jef van Hoof, composer
May 9th - Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
May 10th - Karl Barth, Basel Switzerland, theologian/author (Action in Waiting)
May 10th - Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
May 10th - Felix Manalo, Founder and 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (d. 1963)
May 12th - Albert Saverys, Flemish painter
May 12th - Hermann Grabner, composer
May 12th - Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor/director (Chechov)
May 13th - Joseph Achron, Latvia/US violinist/composer (Golem suite)
May 17th - Alfonso XIII of Spain (d. 1941)
May 18th - Ole Windingstad, composer
May 24th - Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979)
May 25th - Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
May 25th - Rash Behari Bose, leader against the British Raj in India (d. 1945)
May 26th - Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], jazz singer/silent actor (Mamie, Swanee)
May 28th - Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph)
May 28th - Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (d. 1954)
May 30th - Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
Jun 1st - Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist
Jun 6th - Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
Jun 7th - Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
Jun 9th - Kusaku Yamada, composer
Jun 10th - Baron Josse Emile van Dievoet, Flemish lawyer
Jun 11th - David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)
Jun 11th - Lillian Fontaine, Reading England, actress (Suddenly it's Spring)
Jun 15th - Charles Wood, composer
Jun 18th - George Mallory, England, mountain climber ("because it is there")
Jun 18th - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
Jun 19th - Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
Jun 19th - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer (Hiawatha's Song)
Jun 24th - George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949)
Jun 25th - Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, US Army Air Force (WW II)
Jun 26th - Margaretha C E "Greta" Beekman, actress (Wrong Poes)
Jun 27th - Charles Macartney, cricketer (Governor-General)
Jun 28th - Joe Cox, cricketer (S African pace bowler in 1913-14 series v England)
Jun 29th - George Frederick Boyle, composer
Jun 29th - James Van DerZee, famous African
Jun 29th - Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician (Artus Quellin)
Jun 29th - Robert Schuman, French premier
Jul 3rd - Raymond A Spruance, US admiral/fleet commander/ambassador
Jul 4th - Heinrich Kaminski, composer
Jul 5th - Felix Timmermans, Flemish writer/painter/cartoonist (Pallieter)
Jul 5th - Willem Drees, PM of Netherland (PvdA, 1948-58)/Indonesia (AOW)
Jul 10th - John SSPV Gort, viscount of Limerick/fieldmarshal of Palestine
Jul 11th - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
Jul 12th - Jean Hersholt, Copenhagen Denmark, actor (Men in White, Aryan)
Jul 23rd - Arthur Whitten Brown, aviator
Jul 23rd - John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist
Jul 23rd - Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, writer/diplomat
Jul 23rd - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
Jul 24th - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting)
Jul 26th - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
Jul 27th - Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970)
Jul 30th - Johan Algot Haquinius, composer
Jul 31st - Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure (d. 1931)
Aug 1st - Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher/founder (System Keesing)