List of Famous people who are 86

Thomas Kailath is an electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, including the well-known book Linear Systems, which ranks as one of the most referenced books in the field of linear systems. In 2012, Kailath was awarded the National Medal of Science, presented by President Barack Obama in 2014 for "transformative contributions to the fields of information and system science, for distinctive and sustained mentoring of young scholars, and for translation of scientific ideas into entrepreneurial ventures that have had a significant impact on industry." Kailath is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher and is generally recognized as one of the preeminent figures of twentieth-century electrical engineering.

Huguette Bouchardeau is a French socialist politician, as well as a publisher, essayist, and biographer.

Daniel Roche is a French social and cultural historian, widely recognized as one of the foremost experts of his generation on the cultural history of France during the later years of the Ancien Régime. Roche was elected an International member of the American Philosophical Society in 2009.

Siegfried Köhler is a German cyclist. He won the silver medal in team pursuit in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Nikitin was a Russian chess player, chess coach, theorist; and Master of Sports of the USSR (1952). He was an honored coach of the Azerbaijan SSR (1980) and the USSR (1986). Nikitin is also known as a coach of Garry Kasparov from 1976 to 1990.