page_title: 1886
section_title: July–August
hierarchical_section_title: 1886 / Births / July–August
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Willem Drees. Minister-president van Nederland (1948-1958)
context_page_description: 1886 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1886th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 886th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 19th century, and the 7th year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1886, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: July 3
  Giovanni Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical, civil, and electrical engineer, aircraft designer, and industrialist (d. 1957)
  Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral, ambassador (d. 1969)
  July 5
  Willem Drees, Dutch politician, prime minister, and centenarian (d. 1988)
  Oskar Leimgruber, Swiss politician (d. 1976)
  July 6  – Lou Skuce, Canadian cartoonist (d. 1951)
  July 12 – Jean Hersholt, Danish-born actor (d. 1956)
  July 15
  Arthur L. Bristol, American admiral (d. 1942)
  William Edmunds, Italian stage, screen character actor (d. 1981)
  July 16 – Frank Hastings Griffin, American engineer (d. 1974)
  July 18 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
  July 19
  Edward Sloman, English silent film director, actor, screenwriter and radio broadcaster (d. 1972)
  Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (d. 1957)
  July 21 – Masaomi Yasuoka, Japanese general (d. 1948)
  July 23 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976)
  July 24 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Japanese writer (d. 1965)
  July 25 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
  July 31 – Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965)
  August 2 – John A.D. McCurdy, Canadian aviation pioneer, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1961)
  August 6 – Inez Milholland, American suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent and public speaker (d. 1916)
  August 12 – Campbell Tait, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1946)
  August 20 – Paul Tillich, German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, theologian (d. 1965)
  August 26 – Ceferino Namuncurá, Argentine Roman Catholic lay brother and blessed (d. 1905)
  August 27
  Nicolette Bruining, Dutch theologian, humanitarian (d. 1963)
  Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer, violist (d. 1979)
  Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
  August 28 – Andrew Higgins, American boatbuilder, industrialist (d. 1952)
caption: Willem Drees
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