page_title: 1886
section_title: January–June
hierarchical_section_title: 1886 / Deaths / January–June
caption_attribution_description: English: Daguerreotype of the poet Emily Dickinson, taken circa 1848. (Original is scratched.) From the Todd-Bingham Picture Collection and Family Papers, Yale University Manuscripts &amp; Archives Digital Images Database, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
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: January 16 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b. 1834)
  January 18 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
  January 25 – Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, Chilean historian (b. 1831)
  January 26 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
  February 2 - David Hunter, Union Army general (b. 1802)
  February 9 – Winfield Scott Hancock, Union general of the American Civil War, Democratic political candidate (b. 1824)
  February 10 – Laura Don, American actress (b. 1852)
  February 12 –  Horatio Seymour, 18th Governor of New York, 1868 Democratic Party presidential nominee (b. 1810)
  February 15 – Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell, British politician (b. 1813)
  February 18 – Dave Rudabaugh, American outlaw, gunfighter (b. 1854)
  February 24 – Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (b. 1823)
  March 9 – William S. Clark, American chemist (b. 1826)
  March 17 – Pierre-Jules Hetzel, French editor, publisher (b. 1814)
  March 27 –  Sir Henry Taylor, British dramatist and poet (b. 1800)
  April 9 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (b. 1826)
  April 16 – Andrew Nicholl, Northern Irish painter (b. 1804)
  April 27 – Henry Hobson Richardson, American architect (b. 1838)
  May 9 – Facundo Bacardí, Cuban rum manufacturer (b. 1814)
  May 15 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
  May 17 – John Deere, American inventor (b. 1804)
  May 23 – Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795)
  June 13
  Bernhard von Gudden, German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b. 1824)
  King Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845)
  June 19 – Sir Charles Trevelyan, British civil servant and colonial administrator (b. 1807)
  June 21 – Daniel Dunglas Home, Scottish medium (b. 1833)
caption: Emily Dickinson
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