1986

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1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.

Births

January 5 – Sana Mir, Pakistani cricketer
January 24 – Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
January 24 – Ricky Ullman, Israeli-born American actor
February 1 – Johan Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer
February 19 – Maria Mena, Norwegian singer
February 21 – Charlotte Church, Welsh soprano
March 1 – Jonathan Spector, American footballer
March 9 – Brittany Snow, American actress
March 14 – Jamie Bell, English actor
March 16 – Alexandra Daddario, American actress
March 28 – Lady Gaga, American singer
April 3 – Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
April 9 – Leighton Meester, American actress
April 18 – Mateusz Rutkowski, Polish ski jumper (d. 2024)
May 13 – Robert Pattinson, Actor, Singer & Model
May 16 – Megan Fox, American actress
June 3 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
June 10 – Joey Zimmerman, American actor
June 11 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor
June 13 – Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs
June 24 – Solange Knowles, American actress and singer
June 25 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
June 27 – Drake Bell, American actor
July 2 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress
July 4 – Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
July 17 – Brando Eaton, American actor
August 16 – Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
September 9 – Michael J. Sox, German singer
September 12 – Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
October 16 - Inna, Romanian singer and songwriter
October 31 – Christie Hayes, Australian actress
November 1 – Penn Badgley, American actor
November 2 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
November 3 – Jasmine Trias, American singer
November 5 – BoA, Korean singer
November 17 – Nani, Portuguese footballer
November 25 – Amber Hagerman, American murder victim (d. 1996)
November 27 – Suresh Raina, Indian cricketer
December 28 – Tom Huddlestone, English football player
December 30 – Ellie Goulding, British singer

Deaths

January

Christopher Isherwood

Phil Lynott

Donna Reed

Space Shuttle Challenger

January 1 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
January 2 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
January 4 – Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)
January 4 - Phil Lynott, Irish bass guitarist (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949)
January 8 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
January 14 – Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
January 24 – L. Ron Hubbard, American fiction writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
January 24 – Gordon MacRae, American actor, singer (b. 1921)
January 24 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (b. 1903)
January 27 – Lilli Palmer, actress (b. 1914)
January 28 – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe.

February

Olof Palme

February 11 – Frank Herbert, American science fiction writer (b. 1920)
February 27 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)
February 28 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)

March

Georgia O'Keeffe

Ray Milland

James Cagney

March 6 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
March 10 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor (b. 1907)
March 30 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)

April

Simone de Beauvoir

Broderick Crawford

April 14 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer and intellectual (b. 1908)
April 15 - Tim McIntire, American actor (b. 1944)
April 24 – Wallis Simpson, wife of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1896)
April 26 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)

May

Tenzing Norgay

May 9 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain guide (b. 1914)

June

June 14 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899)

August

Celâl Bayar

Urho Kekkonen

August 22 – Celâl Bayar, 3rd President of Turkey (b. 1883)
August 26 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
August 31 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)

September

September 1 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
September 24 – Cliff Burton, American bassist and songwriter from Metallica (b. 1962)

October

Samora Machel

October 14 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
October 19 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)

November

Cary Grant

November 2 – Paul Frees, American actor, comedian (b. 1920)
November 8 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890)
November 21 – Jerry Colonna, American comedian (b. 1904)
November 22 – Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician (b. 1910)
November 29 – Cary Grant, English actor (b. 1904)

December

Desi Arnaz

Harold Macmillan

December 2 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, musician and television producer (b. 1917)
December 26 – Elsa Lanchester, British-American actress (b. 1902)
December 28 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (b. 1932)
December 29 – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the UK (b. 1894)

Events

January 1 – Spain and Portugal enter the European Community
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 – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
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.
January 24 – Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with Uranus
January 28 – Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven astronauts on board.
January 29 – Yoweri Kaguta Museveni became President of the Republic of Uganda after leading a successful five-year liberation struggle.
February 25 – Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines.
February 28 – Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated.
April 20 - NBA player Michael Jordan scores a playoff record 63 points in a game against the Boston Celtics.
April 21 – Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live television and finds nothing.
April 26 – An explosion occurs at a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl.
August 21 – A leak of volcanic gases at Lake Nyos in Cameroon kills many people nearby as they sleep.
September 24 — Metallica bassist Cliff Burton is killed in a bus crash
October 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan hold a meeting in Iceland.
October 19 – Mozambique's President Samora Machel dies in a plane crash.
Bubble Bobble is created, a video game popular world-wide

Movies released

Hit songs

"Stimulation – Wa Wa Nee
"You're The Voice" – John Farnham #1
"No Lies" – Noiseworks
"Funkytown" – Psudeo Echo #1
"Throw Your Arms Around Me" – Hunters + Collectors
"(There's Gonna Be) A Showdown – The Johnnys
"Walk Like an Egyptian" – The Bangles
"Livin' on a Prayer" – Bon Jovi
"The Final Countdown" – Europe
"French Kissin' In The USA" – Debbie Harry
"True Colors" – Cyndi Lauper
"Hip To Be Square" – Huey Lewis and the News
"Real Wild Child (Wild One)" – Iggy Pop
"Hymn To Her" – The Pretenders
"War" – Bruce Springsteen
"Breakout" – Swing Out Sister
"I Want To Wake Up With You" – Boris Gardiner
"Two Of Hearts" – Stacey Q
"Whole Of The Moon" – Waterboys
"Take My Breath Away" – Berlin
"Glory Of Love" – Peter Cetera
"The Next Time I Fall" – Peter Cetera
"You Give Love A Bad Name" – Bon Jovi
"Move Away" – Culture Club
"That's What Friends Are For" – Dionne Warwick
"Hey, You!" – Divine
"Little Baby" – Divine
"Sara" – Starship
"Parce que je ne t'aime plus" – Dalida
"Le sixième jour" – Dalida
"Addicted To Love" – Robert Palmer
"Stuck With You" – Huey Lewis & the News
"How Will I Know" – Whitney Houston
"When I Think of You" – Janet Jackson
"West End Girls" – Pet Shop Boys
"Live to Tell" – Madonna
"Holding Back The Years" – Simply Red
"Stay For Awhile" – Amy Grant
"Papa Don't Preach" – Madonna
"Rock Me Amadeus" – Falco
"On My Own" – Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald
"Notorious" – Duran Duran
"Sometimes" – Erasure
"Kyrie" – Mr. Mister
"That Was Then, This Is Now" – The Monkees
"Kiss" – Prince
"The Greatest Love of All" – Whitney Houston
"Manic Monday" – The Bangles
"Locked In" – Judas Priest
"Turbo Lover" – Judas Priest
"Love Walks In" – Van Halen
"La Isla Bonita" – Madonna
"Sledgehammer" – Peter Gabriel
"Invisible Touch" – Genesis
"Living In America" – James Brown
"Lady In Red" – Chris de Burgh
"Holding Out For A Hero" – Bonnie Tyler
"My Hometown" – Bruce Springsteen
"Venus" – Bananarama

New books

Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
The Bourne Supremacy – Robert Ludlum
The Bridge – Iain Banks
Cadillac Desert – Marc Reisner
The Fence Post Chronicles – W.P. Kinsella
The Fisher King – Anthony Powell
Ghost – Piers Anthony
The Golden Cup – Belva Plain
Hollywood Husbands – Jackie Collins
I'll Take Manhattan – Judith Krantz
In the Hollow of His Hand – James Purdy
It – Stephen King
Kara Kush – Idries Shah
Kate Vaiden – Reynolds Price
Last of the Breed – Louis L'Amour
Leo Africanus – Amin Maalouf
The Light Fantastic – Terry Pratchett
Love You Forever – Robert Munsch
A Matter of Honour – Jeffrey Archer
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America – Martin Amis
Nobody Lives For Ever – John Gardner
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
A Perfect Spy – John le Carré
The Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy
Red Storm Rising – Tom Clancy
Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
Sportswriter – Richard Ford
Tourist Season – Carl Hiaasen
Wanderlust – Danielle Steel
Whirlwind – James Clavell
The Wizards and the Warriors – Hugh Cook

1986 Media

June 14: The Mindbender at Galaxyland inside West Edmonton Mall derails, kills three riders, injures one rider, and slams into a concrete post
Deepika Padukone à Cannes en 2018
Zlata Ognevich at a press conference during the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Malmö.
Joannie Rochette (CAN) during the medals ceremony at the 2009 World Figure Skating Champiohships. She won the silver medal.
Джессика Шрэм
Becca Tobin in an interview for Sidewalks Entertainment in 2021
Manish Malhotra’s 50th birthday bash
Mischa Barton 2017
Jessica Ennis with the UK flag after winning gold in the heptathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics

1986 by topic
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Archaeology Architecture Art Literature Poetry Music Science
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