1886 in The United Kingdom - Births

Births

• 10 May — Olaf Stapledon, author and philosopher (died 1950)
• 20 May — John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, businessman (died 1971)
• 18 June — George Mallory, climber (died 1924)
• 24 June — George Shiels, dramatist (died 1949)
• 26 August — Ronald Niel Stuart, Royal Navy Captain (died 1954)
• 27 August — Rebecca Helferich Clarke, composer and violist (died 1979)
• 27 August — Eric Coates, composer (died 1957)
• 13 September — Robert Robinson, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
• 20 September — Charles Williams, author (died 1945)
• 26 September — Archibald Vivian Hill, physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)