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In the year 1886
531 Notable birthdays
Maithili Sharan Gupt
Indian poet (1886-1964).
Born August 3rd, 1886 in Chirgaon. [ref]
Died December 12th, 1964 at 78 years old in India. [ref]
Béla Kun
Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician, the de facto leader of the hungarian soviet republic in 1919, people's commissar of foreign affairs.
Born February 20th, 1886 in Cehu Silvaniei. [ref]
Died August 29th, 1938 at 52 years old in Moscow (execution). [ref]
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor.
Born December 9th, 1886 in Brooklyn.
Died October 9th, 1956 at 69 years old in Manhattan (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Radhabinod Pal
Indian judge and jurist.
Born January 27th, 1886 in Bangladesh.
Died January 10th, 1967 at 80 years old
Jean Hersholt
Danish-american actor (1886-1956).
Born July 12th, 1886 in Copenhagen. [ref]
Died June 2nd, 1956 at 69 years old in Hollywood (cancer). [ref]
Sergei Kirov
Soviet politician and bolshevik revolutionary.
Born March 27th, 1886 in Urzhum. [ref]
Died December 1st, 1934 at 48 years old in Saint Petersburg (murder). [ref]
Marc Bloch
French historian and resistance fighter.
Died June 16th, 1944 at 57 years old in Saint-Didier-de-Formans (ballistic trauma, execution). [ref]
Harold Nicolson
British diplomat, author, diarist and politician (1886-1968).
Born November 21st, 1886 in Tehran.
Died May 1st, 1968 at 81 years old in Sissinghurst Castle Garden.
Charles Williams
British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the inklings.
Born September 20th, 1886 in London. [ref]
Died May 15th, 1945 at 58 years old in Oxford. [ref]
Erich Hoepner
German general.
Born September 14th, 1886 in Frankfurt (Oder).
Died August 8th, 1944 at 57 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging).
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Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius