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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.
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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
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
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 )
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 )
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 )
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