Year '1986' ('
MCMLXXXVI') was a
common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986
Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1986
January
★
January 1 -
Spain and
Portugal enter the ''
European Community'', which later becomes the
European Union.
★ January 1 -
Aruba gains increased autonomy from the
Netherlands and is separated from the
Netherlands Antilles.
★
January 9 - After losing a patent battle with
Polaroid,
Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
★
January 12 - ''
STS-61-C'': Space Shuttle ''
Columbia'' is launched with the first
Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr.
Franklin Chang-Diaz.
★
January 19 - The first PC virus,
Brain, starts to spread.
★
January 20 - The
United Kingdom and
France announce plans to construct the
Channel Tunnel.
★
January 20 - The first federal
Martin Luther King Day, honoring
Martin Luther King Jr., is observed.
★
January 24 - The
Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with
Uranus.
★
January 26 - The
Chicago Bears win
Super Bowl XX.
★
January 28 - ''
STS-51-L'': Space Shuttle ''
Challenger'' disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts including schoolteacher
Christa McAuliffe.
★
January 29 -
Yoweri Museveni becomes President of
Uganda after leading a successful 5-year liberation struggle.
February
★
February 2 - One of Australia's worst crimes, the
Anita Cobby murder, occurs.
★
February 7 - President
Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc") flees
Haiti, ending 28 years of family rule.
★
February 9 -
Mohinder Amarnath becomes the first
batsman dismissed for
handling the ball in
one-day international cricket.
★
February 9 -
Comet Halley reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th Century.
★
February 11 - Human rights activist
Anatoly Shcharansky is released by the
Soviet Union and leaves the country.
★
February 16 - The Soviet liner ''
Mikhail Lermontov'' runs aground in the
Marlborough Sounds,
New Zealand.
★
February 16 - The
French Air Force raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern
Chad.
★
February 19 - The
Soviet Union launches the
Mir space station.
★
February 19 - After waiting 37 years, the
United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing
genocide.
★
February 21 -
Nintendo releases the
Famicom Disk System in
Japan. A customer could re-write games with the
disk for 500
yen. The instruction manual was sold seperatly for 100
yen. The first game enhanced with
Famicom Disk System capabilities was
The Legend of Zelda.
★
February 25 -
EDSA Revolution: President
Ferdinand Marcos of the
Philippines goes into exile in
Hawaii after 20 years of rule;
Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president, first as an interim president.
Salvador Laurel becomes her Prime Minister.
★
February 25 -
Egyptian military police, protesting against bad salaries, enter 4 luxury hotels near the
pyramids, set fire to them and loot them.
★
February 27 - The
United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
★
February 28 - Swedish Prime Minister
Olof Palme is shot dead on his way home from the cinema.
March
★
March 3 - The first paper is published describing the
Atomic force microscope, invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig,
Calvin Quate and Christophe Berger.
[1]
★
March 4 - The ''
Today'' national tabloid newspaper is launched in the
United Kingdom, pioneering the use of computer photosetting and full-colour
offset printing at a time when British national newspapers still use
Linotype machines and
letterpress.
★
March 8 -
Japanese spacecraft
Suisei flies by
Halley's Comet, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.
★
March 9 -
United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle ''
Challenger''; the bodies of all 7
astronauts are still inside.
★
March 13 - Irish racemare
Dawn Run wins the
Cheltenham Gold Cup at
Cheltenham, England, becoming the first racehorse to complete the Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup double.
★
March 26 - An article in the ''
New York Times'' charges that
Kurt Waldheim, former
United Nations Secretary General and candidate for president of
Austria, may have been involved in
Nazi war crimes during
World War II.
★
March 27 - A
car bomb explodes at
Russell Street Police HQ in
Melbourne, killing a police officer.
★
March 31 - A fire devastates
Hampton Court Palace in
Surrey,
England.
April
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The
Chernobyl reactor following the explosion.
★
April 2 - A bomb explodes on a
Trans World Airlines flight from
Rome to
Athens, killing 4 people.
★
April 5 -
1986 Berlin discotheque bombing: The
West Berlin discotheque, a known hangout for
United States soldiers, is bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230;
Libya is held responsible.
★
April 13 -
Pope John Paul II officially visits the
Synagogue of Rome, the first time a modern Pope had visited a synagogue.
★
April 14 -
Hailstones weighing 2.2 lb (880 g) fall on the Gopalganj district of
Bangladesh, killing 92.
★
April 15 - At least 15 people die after
United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital,
Tripoli, and the
Benghazi region as part of
Operation El Dorado Canyon.
★
April 17 - British journalist
John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut (released in August
1991) - 3 others are found dead;
Revolutionary Cells (RZ) claims responsibility in retaliation for the U.S. bombing of Libya.
★
April 17 - A treaty ends the
Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the
Netherlands and the
Isles of Scilly.
★
April 17 - The
Hindawi Affair begins when an Irishwoman is found unknowingly carrying explosives onto an
El Al flight from
London to
Tel Aviv.
★
April 21 -
Geraldo Rivera opens
Al Capone's secret
vault on ''
The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault'', discovering only a bottle of
moonshine.
★
April 26 - In
Ukraine, one of the reactors at the
Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst
nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident, many more die from cancer in later years, many thousands more are exposed to significant amounts of
radioactive material, and vast territories in
Ukraine and
Belarus are rendered uninhabitable.
★
April 27 - "
Captain Midnight" interrupts
HBO satellite feed.
★
April 29 -
Roger Clemens set the record for the most
strikeouts, in a nine inning
MLB game
May-June
★
May 2 - The
1986 World Exposition in
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada opens.
★
May 16 - The
Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for
UNESCO, in
Seville,
Spain.
★
May 25 - ''
Hands Across America'': At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from
New York City to
Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.
★
May 26 - The
European Community adopts the
European flag.
★
May 31 - The
1986 FIFA World Cup begins in
Mexico.
★
June 4 -
Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to
espionage for selling top secret
United States military intelligence to
Israel.
★
June 8 - Former
United Nations Secretary-General
Kurt Waldheim is elected president of
Austria.
★
June 9 - The
Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle ''
Challenger'' disaster.
★
June 29 -
Argentina defeats
West Germany 3-2 to win the
1986 FIFA World Cup.
July
★
July 1-
CSX Transportation established.
★
July 5 - The
Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an extensive refurbishing.
★
July 7 - Australian drug smugglers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers executed in Malaysia.
★
July 23 - In
London,
Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries
Sarah Ferguson at
Westminster Abbey.
★
July 27 -
Greg LeMond wins the
Tour de France.
★
July 28 - Estate agent
Suzy Lamplugh vanishes after a meeting in London.
August
★
August 6 - A low pressure system moving from
South Australia and redeveloping off the
New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on
Sydney.
★
August 6 - In
Louisville, Kentucky,
William Schroeder, the second person to receive an
artificial heart, dies after 620 days.
★
August 6 -
Australian Democrats leader
Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by
Janine Haines, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.
★
August 19 - Two weeks after it was stolen, the
Picasso painting ''Weeping Woman'' is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in
Melbourne,
Australia.
★
August 20 - In
Edmond, Oklahoma,
United States Postal Service employee
Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing
suicide.
★
August 21 - The
Lake Nyos disaster occurs, killing nearly 2,000 people.
★
August 31 - The
Soviet passenger liner ''
Admiral Nakhimov'' collides with the bulk carrier ''Pyotr Vasev'' in the
Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.
★
August 31 -
Aeroméxico Flight 498, a
Douglas DC-9, collides with a
Piper PA-28 over
Cerritos, California, killing 67 on both aircraft and 15 on the ground.
★
August 31 - The cargo ship ''
Khian Sea'' departs from the docks of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, carrying 14,000 tons of toxic waste. It will wander the seas for the next 16 months trying to find a place to dump its cargo.
September
★
September 5 -
Pan Am Flight 73, with 358 people on board, is hijacked at
Karachi International Airport by 4 armed men of the
Abu Nidal organization, which operates much in the same manner as
Al Qaeda.
★
September 6 - In
Istanbul, 2
Abu Nidal terrorists kill 22 and wound 6 inside the
Neve Shalom synagogue during
Sabbath services.
★
September 6 -
Casualty (TV series) is first aired on
BBC1.
★
September 7 -
Desmond Tutu becomes the first black
Anglican Church bishop in
South Africa.
★
September 7 -
Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the
FPMR; 5 of his bodyguards are killed.
★
September 13 - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocks the city of
Kalamata in southern
Greece, killing 20 people, injuring 80 and completely destroying one fifth of the city.
★
September 21 -
Cheryl Keeton is found dead in her van on the Sunset Highway, inspiring the novel
Dead By Sunset.
★
September 27 - A tour bus carrying heavy metal band
Metallica crashes in Sweden, killing their bassist,
Cliff Burton.
October
★
October 1 - U.S. President
Ronald Reagan signs the
Goldwater-Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the
United States Department of Defense since the
Air Force was made a separate branch of service in
1947.
★
October 9 -
United States District Court Judge
Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through
impeachment.
★
October 9 -
News Corporation completes its acquisition of the
Metromedia group of companies, thereby launching
Fox Broadcasting Company
★
October 10 - An
earthquake measuring 7.5 on the
Richter Scale strikes
San Salvador,
El Salvador, killing an estimated 1,500 people.
★
October 11 -
Cold War:
Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev meet in
Reykjavík,
Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate
missile arsenals in
Europe (the talks break down in failure).
★
October 12 -
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the
People's Republic of China
★
October 19 - Mozambican president
Samora Machel's plane crashes in South Africa.
★
October 22 - In
New York City WNBC Radio's traffic helicopter crashes into the
Hudson River killing traffic reporter
Jane Dornacker. The last words heard on-the-air were Dornacker's screams of terror "Hit The Water!, Hit The Water!, Hit The Water!".
★
October 26 -
Bus deregulation goes into effect in the United Kingdom, except Greater London and Northern Ireland.
★
October 27 - The
New York Mets win the
Major League Baseball World Series, beating the
Boston Red Sox in 7 games.
★
October 27 -
Big Bang in the
London Stock Exchange abolishes fixed commission charges, paving the way for electronic trading.
★
October 28 - The centennial of the
Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in
New York Harbor.
★
October 28 - In
London,
Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the
murder of his parents, sister and twin nephews and sentenced to
life imprisonment with a recommendation by the trial judge that he should serve at least 25 years before being considered for parole.
November
★
November 1 -
Queensland,
Australia:
Joh Bjelke-Petersen wins his final election as
Premier of Queensland with 38.6% of the vote. He resigns on
December 1,
1987 following revelations of his involvement with corruption released in the
Fitzgerald Inquiry.
★
November 3 -
Iran-Contra Affair: The
Lebanese magazine
Ash-Shiraa reports that the
United States has been selling weapons to
Iran in secret in order to secure the release of 7 American
hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
★
November 4 -
Democrats regain control of the
United States Senate for the first time in 6 years. In
California, Chief Justice
Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by voters from the
Supreme Court of California for opposing
capital punishment.
★
November 11 -
Sperry Rand and
Burroughs merge to form
Unisys, becoming the second largest
computer company.
★
November 12 - Australian singer
John Farnham releases the album ''Whispering Jack'', which becomes the highest selling album in Australia's history.
★
November 18 -
Greater Manchester Police announce that they are to search for the bodies of 2 missing children (who both vanished more than 20 years ago) after the
Moors Murderers Ian Brady and
Myra Hindley confessed to 2 more murders.
★
November 21 -
Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member
Oliver North and his secretary,
Fawn Hall, start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to
Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the
Contra rebels in
Nicaragua.
★
November 22 -
Mike Tyson wins his first world boxing title by defeating
Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas.
★
November 25 -
Iran-Contra Affair: U.S. Attorney General
Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to
Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist
Contra rebels in
Nicaragua.
★
November 26 -
Iran-Contra Affair: U.S. President
Ronald Reagan announces that as of
December 1 former Senator
John Tower, former Secretary of State
Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser
Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal (they became known as the
Tower Commission). Reagan denies involvement in the scandal.
December
★
December 14 -
Rutan Voyager, an experimental
aircraft designed by
Burt Rutan and piloted by
Dick Rutan and
Jeana Yeager, begins its flight around the world.
★
December 19 - Soviet dissident
Andrei Sakharov is permitted to return to
Moscow after years of
internal exile.
★
December 20 - Three
African Americans are assaulted by a group of white teens in the
Howard Beach neighborhood of
Queens, New York. One of the victims,
Michael Griffith, is run over and killed by a motorist while attempting to flee the attackers.
★
December 22 - British
Liberal Party Member of Parliament David Penhaligon, 42, is killed in a car crash near
Truro in
Cornwall,
England.
★
December 23 -
Voyager completes the first nonstop circumnavigation of the earth by air without refueling in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds.
★
December 29 - Former
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan dies at the age of 92.
★
December 31 - A fire at the
Dupont Plaza Hotel in
San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
Undated
★ The
National park passport stamps program begins.
Ongoing
★
Cold War.
Fictional
★ Computer/video games:
:
★ '' (2002) - set in 1986.
:
★ ''
Shenmue'' (1999) - set in 1986.
Births
January
★
January 1 -
Alexa Ray Joel, American singer/songwriter daughter of Billy Joel
★
January 3 -
Lloyd Polite, American singer
★
January 6 -
Petter Northug, Norwegian cross-country skier
★
January 6 -
Alex Turner, British musician
★
January 15 -
Jessy Schram, American actress
★
January 17 -
Chloe Rose Lattanzi, Australian actress and singer
★
January 22 -
Daniel Smith, son of
Anna Nicole Smith (d.
2006)
★
January 24 -
Mischa Barton, British-born American actress
★
January 24 -
Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
★
January 26 -
Matt Heafy, American lead vocalist (
Trivium)
★
January 29 -
Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
★
January 31 -
Yves Makabu-Makalambay, Belgian footballer
===
February===
★
February 1 -
Lauren Conrad, reality star from and
The Hills, fashion designer,
Teen Vogue intern
★
February 5 -
Claudia Cruz, Dominican model and beauty queen
★
February 7 -
Deanna Casaluce, Canadian actress (degrassi)
★
February 7 -
Stephen Colletti, American reality television star
★
February 8 -
Charles Andrew Williams, American murderer
★
February 15 -
Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer
★
February 19 -
Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
★
February 21 -
Charlotte Church, Welsh soprano
★
February 25 -
Justin Berfield, American actor
★
February 26 -
Teresa Palmer, Australian actress and model
★
February 27 -
Nicole Linkletter, America's Next Top Model winner, cycle 5
March
★
March 3 -
Stacie Orrico, American singer
★
March 4 -
Margo Harshman, American actress
★
March 6 -
Eli Marienthal, American actor
★
March 9 -
Brittany Snow, American actress
★
March 12 -
Danny Jones, British musician (
McFly)
★
March 13 -
Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
★
March 14 -
Jamie Bell, British actor
★
March 16 -
Ken Doane, American professional wrestler
★
March 17 -
Olesya Rulin, Russian-born actress
★
March 23 -
Steven Strait, American actor
★
March 27 -
Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham, American professional wrestling valet
===
April===
★
April 3 -
Amanda Bynes, American actress
★
April 3 -
Coleen McLoughlin, English model
★
April 8 -
Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress and model
★
April 9 -
Leighton Meester, American actress
★
April 10 -
Fernando Gago, Argentine football player
★
April 10 -
Vincent Kompany, Belgian football player
★
April 13 -
Andrea Edwards, American actress
★
April 19 -
Candace Parker, American basketball player
★
April 22 -
Amber Heard, American actress
★
April 28 -
Keri Sable, American pornographic actress
May
★
May 3 -
Rachel Grate, American actress
★
May 12 -
Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
★
May 13 -
Robert Pattinson, British actor
★
May 15 -
Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer
★
May 16 -
Megan Fox, American actress
★
May 17 -
Tahj Mowry, American actor
★
May 19 -
Eric Lloyd, American actor
★
May 31 -
Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian musical artist
★
May 31 -
Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
===
June===
★
June 1 -
Antonella Barba, American singer
★
June 2 -
Dane Christensen, American actor
★
June 3 -
Brenden Richard Jefferson, American actor
★
June 3 -
Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
★
June 3 -
Tomáš Verner, Czech republic ice skater
★
June 11 -
Shia LaBeouf, American actor
★
June 13 -
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
★
June 13 -
Kat Dennings, American actress
★
June 14 -
Haley Hudson, American actress
★
June 19 -
Marvin Williams, American basketball player
★
June 25 -
Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
★
June 26 -
Philip Hughes, American baseball player
★
June 27 -
Drake Bell, American actor and singer
★
June 28 -
Kellie Pickler, American singer
★
June 28 -
Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress
★
June 29 -
Austin Drage, British actor and singer
July
★
July 1 -
Casey Reinhardt, American actress, model and charity spokesperson, also seen on the MTV reality series
★
July 2 -
Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
★
July 2 -
Choi Dae Hyun, Korean model
★
July 6 -
Caroline Welz,
Tallest woman in
Germany and model
★
July 9 -
Kiely Williams, American actress and singer
★
July 12 -
JP Pietersen, South African rugby player
★
July 17 -
Dana, Korean singer/dancer/actress
TSZX
★
July 28 -
Alexandra Chando, American actress (''
As The World Turns'')
★
July 31 -
Evgeni Malkin, Russian hockey player
===
August===
★
August 2 -
Caitlin Murphy, Australian model and actress ()
★
August 3 -
Charlotte Casiraghi, heir to the Monaco throne
★
August 6 -
Bryan Young, Canadian ice hockey player
★
August 16 -
Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
★
August 17 -
Tobias Schönenberg, German actor and photomodel
★
August 20 -
Robert Clark, Canadian actor
★
August 23 -
Neil Cicierega, American musician and animator
★
August 27 -
Mario, R&B singer
★
August 28 -
Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier/hostage
★
August 29 -
Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
★
August 29 -
Samuell Benta, British actor
★
August 30 -
Ryan Ross, guitarist (
Panic! at the Disco)
September-October
★
September 3 -
Shaun White, American professional snowboarder
★
September 6 -
Raven Riley, American porn star
★
September 12 -
Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
★
September 14 -
Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer
★
September 16 -
Kyla Pratt, American actress
★
September 18 -
Keeley Hazell, British model
★
September 19 -
Peter Vack, American voice actor
★
September 23 -
Kaylee DeFer, American actress
★
September 26 -
Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress
★
September 27 -
Natasha Thomas, Danish singer and songwriter
★
September 28 -
Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
★
September 29 -
Lisa Foiles, American actress and singer
★
October 1 -
Jurnee Smollett, American actress
★
October 2 -
Camilla Belle, American actress
★
October 9 -
Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
★
October 12 -
Marcus T. Paulk, American actor
★
October 22 -
Kyle Gallner, American actor
★
October 24 -
Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor
★
October 30 -
Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian ski jumper
November-December
★
November 2 -
Talan Torriero, American reality television star
★
November 3 -
Jasmine Trias, Filipino - American singer
★
November 4 -
Alexz Johnson, Canadian actress and singer
★
November 5 -
BoA, Korean singer
★
November 10 -
Josh Peck, American actor
★
November 12 -
Evan Yo, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
★
November 15 -
Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
★
November 17 -
Karmichael Hunt, Australian NRL player
★
November 18 -
Nic Sampson, New Zealand actor
★
November 22 -
David Pasqualini, French pianist
★
November 25 -
Katie Cassidy, American singer and model
★
December 8 -
Amir Khan, British boxer
★
December 11 -
Lee Peltier, English footballer
★
December 18 -
Jery Sandoval, Colombian actress, model and singer
★
December 24 -
Edward Southall, English composer
★
December 26 -
Mew Azama, Japanese actress
Unknown dates
★
Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
Deaths
January
★
January 1 -
Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b.
1902)
★
January 4 -
Phil Lynott, lead singer and bassist of
Thin Lizzy (b.
1949)
★
January 7 -
Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (b.
1917)
★
January 8 -
Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b.
1906)
★
January 10 -
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1901)
★
January 14 -
Donna Reed, American actress (b.
1921)
★
January 24 -
L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of
Scientology (b.
1911)
★
January 24 -
Gordon MacRae, American actor, singer (b.
1921)
★
January 27 -
Lilli Palmer, German actress (b.
1914)
★
January 28 - Crew of
Space Shuttle Challenger:
★
★
Greg Jarvis (b.
1944)
★
★
Christa McAuliffe (b.
1948)
★
★
Ronald McNair (b.
1950)
★
★
Ellison Onizuka (b.
1946)
★
★
Judith Resnik (b.
1949)
★
★
Francis R. Scobee (b.
1939)
★
★
Michael J. Smith (b.
1945)
February-March
★
February 1 -
Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1902)
★
February 6 -
Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of
The Salvation Army (b.
1899)
★
February 11 -
Frank Herbert, American author (b.
1920)
★
February 21 -
Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b.
1895)
★
February 21 -
Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese
supercentenarian, the oldest man ever (b.
1865?)
★
February 24 -
Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "
Father of Medicare" in Canada (b.
1904)
★
February 27 -
Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b.
1929)
★
February 28 -
Olof Palme,
Prime Minister of Sweden (b.
1927)
★
February 28 -
Thomas Williams, British politician (b.
1915)
★
March 4 -
Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (
The Band) (b.
1943)
★
March 4 -
Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b.
1936)
★
March 6 -
Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b.
1887)
★
March 10 -
Ray Milland, Welsh actor (b.
1905)
★
March 23 -
Moshe Feinstein, Orthodox Rabbi (b.
1895)
★
March 30 -
James Cagney, American actor (b.
1899)
April
★
April 3 -
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 -
Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b.
1908)
★
April 15 -
Jean Genet, French writer (b.
1910)
★
April 19 -
Aileen Britton, Australian actress (b.
1916)
★
April 22 -
Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (b.
1907)
★
April 23 -
Harold Arlen, 20th century American music composer (b.
1905)
★
April 23 -
Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (b.
1906)
★
April 24 -
Wallis Simpson, wife of
King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, later titled "Duke of Windsor" due to his abdication (b.
1896)
★
April 26 -
Broderick Crawford, American actor (b.
1911)
★
April 26 -
Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b.
1899)
May
★
May 2 -
Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally car driver (b.
1956)
★
May 3 -
Robert Alda, American-born actor (b.
1914)
★
May 9 -
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (b.
1914)
★
May 11 -
Henry P. McIlhenny, American art collector, socialite, philanthropist and the chairman of the Philadelphia Art Museum (b.
1910)
★
May 12 -
Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b.
1897)
★
May 15 -
Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b.
1958)
★
May 15 -
Theodore White, American writer (b.
1915)
★
May 19 -
Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b.
1931)
★
May 23 -
Sterling Hayden, American actor (b.
1916)
★
May 25 -
Chester Bowles, American politician (b.
1901)
★
May 26 -
Gian-Carlo Coppola, American film producer (b.
1963)
★
May 31 -
Jane Frank (
Jane Schenthal Frank), American artist (b.
1918)
★
May 31 -
James Rainwater, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1917)
June-July
★
June 13 -
Benny Goodman, American jazz musician (b.
1909)
★
June 14 -
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b.
1899)
★
June 16 -
Maurice Duruflé, French composer (b.
1902)
★
June 17 -
Kate Smith, American singer (b.
1907)
★
June 18 -
Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of
F. Scott Fitzgerald and
Zelda Sayre. (b.
1921)
★
June 19 -
Len Bias, American basketball player (b.
1963)
★
June 19 -
Coluche, stage name of Michel Colucci, French comedian and humorist (b.
1944)
★
June 21 -
Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, conductor and author (b.
1923)
★
July 4 -
Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b.
1899)
★
July 6 -
Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b.
1908)
★
July 8 -
Hyman Rickover, American admiral (b.
1900)
★
July 8 -
Skeeter Webb, baseball player (b.
1909)
★
July 14 -
Raymond Loewy, French-born industrial designer (b.
1893)
★
July 15 -
Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b.
1923)
★
July 21 -
Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b.
1892)
★
July 24 -
Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1899)
★
July 25 -
Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b.
1903)
August-October
★
August 2 -
Roy Cohn, American lawyer and anti-Communist (b.
1927)
★
August 16 -
Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b.
1921)
★
August 20 -
Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright (b.
1923)
★
August 26 --
Ted Knight, American actor (b.
1923)
★
August 31 -
Urho Kekkonen,
President of Finland (b.
1900)
★
August 31 -
Henry Moore, British sculptor (b.
1898)
★
September 4 -
Hank Greenberg, baseball player (b.
1911)
★
September 7 -
Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (b.
1914)
★
September 25 -
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1896)
★
September 27 -
Cliff Burton, American bassist (
Metallica) (b.
1962)
★
October 5 -
James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician (b.
1919)
★
October 14 -
Keenan Wynn, American actor (b.
1916)
★
October 16 -
Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b.
1921)
★
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 runner (b.
1897)
★
October 28 -
Ian Marter, British actor and writer (b.
1944)
★
October 31 -
Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b.
1896)
November-December
★
November 2 -
Paul Frees, American voice actor (b.
1920)
★
November 6 -
Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b.
1911)
★
November 8 -
Artur London, Czech statesman (b.
1915)
★
November 8 -
Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (b.
1890)
★
November 18 -
Gia Carangi, supermodel (b.
1960)
★
November 21 -
Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b.
1947)
★
November 22 -
Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician (b.
1910)
★
November 22 -
William Bradford Huie, American journalist, editor, publisher and author (b.
1910)
★
November 29 -
Cary Grant, British actor (b.
1904)
★
December 2 -
Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor (b.
1917)
★
December 3 -
Austin Hayes, Irish footballer (b.
1958)
★
December 21 -
Willy Coppens, Belgian pilot (b.
1892)
★
December 29 -
Harold Macmillan,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1894)
★
December 29 -
Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b.
1932)
Unknown dates
★
Iren Marik, classical Hungarian pianist (b.
1906)
Ship events
★
List of ship launches in 1986
★
List of ship commissionings in 1986
★
List of ship decommissionings in 1986
★
List of shipwrecks in 1986
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Ernst Ruska,
Gerd Binnig,
Heinrich Rohrer
★
Chemistry -
Dudley R Herschbach,
Yuan T Lee,
John C Polanyi
★
Physiology or Medicine -
Stanley Cohen,
Rita Levi-Montalcini
★
Literature -
Wole Soyinka
★
Peace -
Elie Wiesel
★
Economics -
James Buchanan Jr
Templeton Prize
★
Rev. Dr. James McCord
See also
★
20th century
Notes
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