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The following is a list of notable deaths in 1986 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Deaths in 1986
January
Phil Lynott
Jaroslav Seifert
Donna Reed
STS-51-L crew
January 4
January 5 –
Ilmari Salminen , Finnish Olympic athlete (b.
1902 )
January 6 –
Una Merkel , American actress (b.
1903 )
January 7 –
Juan Rulfo , Mexican writer (b.
1917 )
January 10 –
Jaroslav Seifert , Czech writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1901 )
January 12 –
Juan Carlos Corazzo , Uruguayan football player (b.
1907 )
January 13 –
Abdul Fattah Ismail , Leader of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (
South Yemen ) (b.
1939 )
January 14 –
Donna Reed , American actress (b.
1921 )
January 16 –
Herbert W. Armstrong , founded the Worldwide Church of God (b.
1892 )
January 17 –
Abdul Majid Kubar , 4th
Prime Minister of Libya (b.
1909 )
January 23 –
Willard Van Dyke , American filmmaker and photographer (b.
1906 )
January 24
January 27
January 28 – In the
Challenger disaster :
January 29 –
Leif Erickson , American actor (b.
1911 )
February
Jacques Plante
Olof Palme
February 1
February 6 –
Minoru Yamasaki , Japanese architect, designed the twin towers of the
World Trade Center (b.
1912 )
February 7 –
Cheikh Anta Diop , Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician (b.
1923 )
February 10 –
Brian Aherne , British actor (b.
1902 )
February 11 –
Frank Herbert , American author (b.
1920 )
February 14 –
Edmund Rubbra , British composer (b.
1901 )
February 16 –
Howard da Silva , American actor (b.
1909 )
February 17
February 19
February 20 –
Bert Schneider , Canadian boxer (b.
1897 )
February 21
February 24 –
Tommy Douglas , Canadian politician and "
Father of medicare " in Canada (b.
1904 )
February 25 –
Pasquale Festa Campanile , Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist (b.
1927 )
February 27 –
Jacques Plante , Canadian hockey player (b.
1929 )
February 28 –
Olof Palme , Swedish politician, 26th
Prime Minister of Sweden (b.
1927 )
March
Ray Milland
James Cagney
March 4
March 6
March 10 –
Ray Milland , Welsh-American actor and director (b.
1907 )
March 13 –
Eugen Gerstenmaier , German politician, 20 July Plotter (b.
1906 )
March 15 –
Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez , Mexican
Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b.
1895 )
March 17 –
John Bagot Glubb , British soldier (b.
1897 )
March 18 –
Bernard Malamud , American writer (b.
1914 )
March 19 –
Jon Lormer , American actor (b.
1906 )
March 22
March 23
March 24 –
Michael, Prince of Montenegro (b.
1908 )
March 28 –
Virginia Gilmore , American actress (b.
1919 )
March 29 –
Harry Ritz , American actor (b.
1907 )
March 30 –
James Cagney , American actor and dancer (b.
1899 )
March 31 –
Jerry Paris , American actor and director (b.
1925 )
April
Yukiko Okada
Jean Genet
Broderick Crawford
April 1 –
Erik Bruhn , Danish ballet dancer and choreographer (b.
1928 )
April 3 –
Sir Peter Pears , English tenor (b.
1910 )
April 7 –
Leonid Kantorovich , Russian economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1912 )
April 8 –
Yukiko Okada , Japanese idol singer (b.
1967 )
April 14
April 15
April 17
April 19 –
Alvin Childress , American actor (b.
1907 )
April 20 –
Aleksei Arbuzov , Soviet playwright (b.
1908 )
April 21 –
Teodoro Casana Robles , Peruvian lawyer, historian, journalist, archaeologist, photographer and geographer (b.
1900 )
April 22 –
Mircea Eliade , Romanian historian of religions and writer (b.
1907 )
April 23
April 24 –
The Duchess of Windsor (b.
1896 )
April 26
April 27 –
J. Allen Hynek , American ufologist (b.
1910 )
April 30 –
Robert Stevenson , English film director (b.
1905 )
May
Elisabeth Bergner
Elio de Angelis
Lurene Tuttle
May 2 –
Henri Toivonen , Finnish rally car driver (b.
1956 )
May 3 –
Robert Alda , American actor (b.
1914 )
May 7 –
Herma Szabo , Austrian figure skater (b.
1902 )
May 9
May 11
May 12
May 13 –
Vasily Ignatenko , Soviet firefighter who responded to the
Chernobyl disaster (b.
1961 )
May 15
May 20 –
Helen B. Taussig , American cardiologist (b.
1898 )
May 22 –
Georgie Nokes , American child actor (b.
1936 )
May 23
May 24 –
Yakima Canutt , American actor and stuntman (b.
1895 )
May 25 –
Chester Bowles , American politician (b.
1901 )
May 26 –
Gian-Carlo Coppola , American film producer (b.
1963 )
May 28 –
Lurene Tuttle , American actress (b.
1907 )
May 30 –
Perry Ellis , American fashion designer (b.
1940 )
May 31 –
James Rainwater , American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1917 )
June
Benny Goodman
Kate Smith
June 3 – Dame
Anna Neagle , English actress (b.
1904 )
June 5 –
Bryan Grant , American tennis champion (b.
1909 )
June 11 –
Chesley Bonestell , American painter (b.
1888 )
June 13 –
Benny Goodman , American jazz musician (b.
1909 )
June 14
June 16 –
Maurice Duruflé , French composer (b.
1902 )
June 17 –
Kate Smith , American singer (b.
1907 )
June 19
Len Bias , American basketball player (b.
1963 )
Coluche , stage name of Michel Colucci, French comedian and humorist (b.
1944 )
June 23 –
Sir Moses Finley , British classicist (b.
1912 )
June 26 –
Kunio Maekawa , Japanese architect (b.
1905 )
June 27 –
Don Rogers , American football player (b.
1962 )
June 28 –
Mary Anderson , American actress (b.
1897 )
July
Fritz Albert Lipmann
Chiune Sugihara
July 3 –
Rudy Vallée , American singer, actor, and bandleader (b.
1901 )
July 4 –
Oscar Zariski , Russian mathematician (b.
1899 )
July 6 –
Jagjivan Ram , Indian politician (b.
1908 )
July 8 –
Hyman G. Rickover , American admiral (b.
1900 )
July 14
July 18
July 19 –
Alfredo Binda , Italian cyclist (b.
1902 )
July 22 –
Floyd Gottfredson , American cartoonist (b.
1905 )
July 23 –
Kazimierz Sikorski , Polish composer (d.
1895 )
July 24
July 25
July 26 –
W. Averell Harriman , American diplomat and politician (b.
1891 )
July 31
August
Celâl Bayar
Urho Kekkonen
August 2 –
Roy Cohn , American lawyer (b.
1927 )
August 6 –
Emilio Fernández , Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter (b.
1904 )
August 11 –
Chuck McKinley , American tennis champion (b.
1941 )
August 19 –
Hermione Baddeley , British actress (b.
1906 )
August 20 –
Thad Jones , American jazz musician (b.
1923 )
August 22 –
Celâl Bayar , Turkish politician, 3rd
Prime Minister of Turkey and
President of Turkey (b.
1883 )
August 23 –
Mikhail Kuznetsov , Soviet actor (b.
1918 )
August 24 –
Harry Benjamin , American endocrinologist and sexologist (b.
1885 )
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August 26 –
Ted Knight , American actor (b.
1923 )
August 27 –
George Nēpia , New Zealand Maori rugby player (b.
1905 )
August 31
September
Hank Greenberg
Nikolay Semyonov
September 1 –
Murray Hamilton , American actor (b.
1923 )
September 3 –
Vittorino Veronese , Italian lawyer and international servant, 4th Director-General of
UNESCO (b.
1910 )
September 4 –
Hank Greenberg , American baseball player and member of the
MLB Hall of Fame (b.
1911 )
September 4 –
Alexei Fofanov , Soviet
major and
Hero of the Soviet Union
September 6 –
Blanche Sweet , American actress (b.
1896 )
September 7 –
Omar Ali Saifuddien III , Sultan of Brunei (b.
1914 )
September 11
September 18 –
Pat Phoenix , English actress (b.
1923 )
September 22 –
József Asbóth , Hungarian tennis champion (b.
1917 )
September 23 –
Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield , Austro-Hungarian naval aeroplane pilot in the First World War (b.
1890 )
September 25 –
Nikolay Semyonov , Russian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1896 )
September 26 –
Noboru Terada , Japanese Olympic swimmer (b.
1917 )
September 27 –
Cliff Burton , American musician and songwriter (b.
1962 )
September 28 –
Robert Helpmann , Australian actor, dancer and choreographer (b.
1909 )
September 29 –
Prince Georg of Denmark (b.
1920 )
October
Samora Machel
Albert Szent-Györgyi
October 4 –
Arno von Lenski , German military officer and general (b.
1893 )
October 5
October 10 –
Michele Pellegrino , Italian
Roman Catholic cardinal (b.
1903 )
October 11 –
Georges Dumézil , French philologist and historian (b.
1898 )
October 14 –
Keenan Wynn , American actor (b.
1916 )
October 16 –
Arthur Grumiaux , Belgian violinist (b.
1921 )
October 19 –
Samora Machel , Mozambican military commander, politician and revolutionary, 1st
President of Mozambique (b.
1933 )
October 21 –
Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian author (b.
1911 )
October 22 –
Albert Szent-Györgyi , Hungarian physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1893 )
October 23 –
Edward Adelbert Doisy , American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1893 )
October 25 –
Forrest Tucker , American actor (b.
1919 )
October 26 –
Jackson Scholz , American Olympic athlete (b.
1897 )
October 28 –
Ian Marter , English actor and writer (b.
1944 )
October 31 –
Robert S. Mulliken , American physicist and chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b.
1896 )
November
Vyacheslav Molotov
Cary Grant
November 2 –
Paul Frees , American actor, comedian (b.
1920 )
November 4 –
Abdallah El-Yafi , Lebanese politician, 9th
Prime Minister of Lebanon (b.
1901 )
November 5 –
Claude Jutra , Canadian film director (b.
1930 )
November 6 –
Elisabeth Grümmer , Alsatian soprano (b.
1911 )
November 7 –
Tracy Pew , Australian musician (b.
1957 )
November 8
November 11 –
Roger C. Carmel , American actor (b.
1932 )
November 15 –
Alexandre Tansman , French composer and virtuoso pianist (b.
1897 )
November 16 –
Siobhán McKenna , Irish actress (b.
1923 )
November 18 –
Gia Carangi , American supermodel (b.
1960 )
November 21
November 22
November 29 –
Cary Grant , English actor (b.
1904 )
December
Desi Arnaz
Harold Macmillan
Andrei Tarkovsky
December 2 –
Desi Arnaz , Cuban-American actor, bandleader, musician and television producer (b.
1917 )
December 8 –
Anatoly Marchenko , Soviet dissident and author (b.
1938 )
December 10 –
Susan Cabot , American actress (b.
1927 )
December 12 –
Paul Verner , German politician (b.
1911 )
December 13
December 14 –
Antal Páger , Hungarian actor (b.
1899 )
December 15 –
Serge Lifar , Soviet dancer and choreographer (b.
1905 )
December 17
December 21 –
Willy Coppens , Belgian pilot (b.
1892 )
December 24
December 26 –
Elsa Lanchester , British-American actress (b.
1902 )
December 29
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