Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 - 1891 - 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
Events
Births
- January 8 - Walter Bothe[?], physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 (+ 1957)
- February 9 - Ronald Colman, actor (+ 1958)
- February 11 - J W Hearne[?] English cricket player.
- February 27 - David Sarnoff, broadcasting pioneer (+ 1971)
- March 10 - Sam Jaffe[?], actor (+ 1984)
- March 19 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (+ 1974)
- March 24 - John Knittel[?], dramatist (+ 1970)
- March 29 - Yvan Goll[?], lyricist and dramatist (+ 1950)
- April 2 - Max Ernst, painter (+ 1976)
- April 13 - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist.
- April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer
- May 15 - Mikhail Bulgakov, writer (+ 1940)
- May 16 - Richard Tauber[?], tenor (+ 1948)
- May 18 - Rudolf Carnap, German philosopher (+ 1970)
- May 19 - Oswald Boelcke, World War I fighter ace (+ 1916)
- June 9 - Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter
- September 14 - William F. Friedman, cryptanalyst
- November 14 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine, 1923
- November 15 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
- December 26 - Henry Miller, writer
Deaths