1986 deaths

Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)

French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)

Indian spiritual philosopher, mystic, speaker and writer (1895–1986)

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)

Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)

British-American actor (1904–1986)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963

Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)

Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate (1901–1986)

American modernist artist (1887–1986)

American actor and dancer (1899–1986)

American writer (1920–1986)

Swedish Prime Minister (1969–76, 1982–86)

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

3rd President of the Republic of Turkey (1883–1986)

eighth President of Finland (1900–1986)

Swedish sociologist and politician (1902-1986)

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago (1907–1986)

American socialite and wife of the Duke of Windsor (1896-1986)

Russian mathematician (1912-1986)

Soviet physical chemist (1896-1986)

American physicist

American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909–1986)

1st President of Mozambique (1933–1986)

American physicist, chemist and botanical collector (1896 - 1986)

French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)

American biochemist (1893-1986)

Donna Reed was an American actress. Her career spanned more than 40 years and included appearances in over 40 films. She is best known for playing Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capra's Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and for her Academy Award–winning performance as Lorene in Fred Zinnemann's war drama From Here to Eternity (1953).

German artist, teacher, and theorist of art (1921–1986)

American bassist (1962–1986)

Mexican writer (1917–1986)

American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)

Welsh-American actor and film director (1907–1986)

German-American biochemist

American actor (1911–1986)

Japanese diplomat, Righteous Among the Nations (1900-1986)

American stage and film director (1903-1986)

American educator and astronaut

Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholar (1921–1986)

American engineer and astronaut (1949–1986)

British-American actress (1902–1986)

American director, producer and actor (1905–1986)

Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci (, ; 28 October 1944 – 19 June 1986), better known under his stage name Coluche (), was a French stand-up comedian, film actor, activist and philanthropist. He adopted Coluche as a stage name at age 26, as he began his entertainment career. He became known for his irreverent attitude towards politics and the establishment, and he incorporated this into much of his material.

English-American novelist (1904-1986)

French philologist (1898-1986)

American author (1914–1986)

6th President of FIFA (1895–1986)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1907-1986)

American model (1960–1986)

Indian flight attendant of Pan Am Flight 73 (1963–1986)

American actor (1916–1986)

American physicist, astronaut (1950-1986)

Argentine-Italian footballer (1901-1986)

Soviet chess player (1904-1986)

German actress (1914–1986)

American astronaut

American actress (1898–1986)

Danish ballet dancer (1928-1986)

American astronaut (1944-1986)

former Head of State of the People's Republic of China (1897-1986)