1886 - Births - July–September

July–September

• July 3
  • Giovanni Battista Caproni, Italian aeronautical, civil, and electrical engineer, aircraft designer, and industrialist (d. 1957)
  • Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and ambassador (d. 1969)
• July 5 – Willem Drees, Dutch politician, prime minister, and centenarian (d. 1988)
• July 12 – Jean Hersholt, Danish-born actor (d. 1956)
• July 15
  • Arthur L. Bristol, American admiral (d. 1942)
  • William Edmunds, Italian stage and screen character actor (d. 1981)
• July 18 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., American general (d. 1945)
• July 19 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (d. 1957)
• 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, aviation pioneer & Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1961)
• August 12 – Campbell Tait, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1946)
• August 6 – Inez Milholland, Suffragist, labor lawyer, World War I correspondent and public speaker (d. 1916)
• August 27
  • Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
  • Eric Coates, English composer (d. 1957)
• August 28 – Andrew Higgins, American boatbuilder and industrialist. (d. 1952)
• September 1 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer (d. 1957)
• September 4 – Albert Orsborn, the 6th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)
• September 5 – Nell Brinkley, American illustrator and comic artist (d. 1944)
• September 8 – Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (d. 1967)
• September 13 – Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• September 14 – Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (d. 1948)
• September 16 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (d. 1966)
• September 20 – Charles Williams, British author (d. 1945)
• September 24
  • Roberto María Ortiz, President of Argentina (d. 1942)
  • Edward Bach, English metaphysician and homeopath (d. 1936)
• September 25 – Nobutake Kondō, Japanese admiral (d. 1953)
• September 26 – Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
• September 28 – Alice Hollister, American silent film actress (d. 1973)