1986 deaths

Olympic cyclist (1905-1986)

Spanish writer (1899-1986)

Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1896-1986)

German tenor (1915–1986)

American actor (1947–1986)

Venezuelan composer (1917-1986)

Italian cyclist (1914–1986)

Spanish footballer (1895-1986)

Lebanese politician (1901-1986)

American stunt performer and actor (1947-1986)

Finnish wrestler (1917–1986)

German Righteous Among the Nations; affiant in the IMT (International Military Tribunal)

Swiss rower (1908-1986)

American blues and jazz singer (1898–1986)

PKK military commander (1956-1986)

cyclist

German actor (1912-1986)

Turkish playwright (1915–1986)

first Abkhaziyan woman pilot (1917–1986)

German engineer (1901–1986)

Soviet mathematician (1921–1986)

American historian and author (1915–1986)

Soviet film and theatre actor (1918–1986)

British swimmer, Olympic silver medallist

French novelist (1908–1986)

American long jumper (1908-1986)

(1910–1986) actor, theatre manager

Olympic wrestler (1912–1986)

German civil engineer (1899–1986)

Television inventor (1911-1986)

Governor-General of Grenada (1921-1986)

Soviet politician, scientist (1916-1986)

Vietnamese general (1914-1986)

Australian composer (1904–1986)

Italian actor (1907-1986)

Chadian soldier

Luftwaffe general (1894–1986)

American actor (1910-1986)

Belgian road bicycle racer (1912-1986)

American tennis player (1910–1986)

American songwriter (1903-1986)

English classicist, writer, and translator (1905–1986)

American singer (1902-1986)

Indian Odia-language writer

fighter ace (1892–1986)

Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter (1930–1986)

Greek writer (1909-1986)

American physicist and geochemist (1917–1986)

American mathematician (1886-1996)

President of the Senate of the Philippines from 1946 to 1949

African American beat poet (1925–1986)

Icelandic writer (1899–1986)

United States Marine and actor

Soviet film director, screenwriter (1934-1986)

Spanish association football player (1903-1986)

Olympic sailor

American stage, film and television actress (1911-1986)

German classical philologist (1896–1986)

Georgian ethnographer

Mexican politician and diplomat