List of Famous people who died at 86

Robert Rush Miller "was an important figure in American ichthyology and conservation from 1940 to the 1990s."

Ursula Thiess was a German film actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s.

John Lawrence Seigenthaler was an American journalist, writer, and political figure. He was known as a prominent defender of First Amendment rights.

Carlo Rambaldi was an Italian special effects artist, winner of three Oscars: one Special Achievement Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1977 for the 1976 version of King Kong and two Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects in 1980 and 1983 for, respectively, Alien (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). He is most famous for his work in those two last mentioned films, that is for the mechanical head-effects for the creature in Alien and the design of the title character of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Erika Dannhoff was a German actress. She played the female lead in the 1935 mountain film Demon of the Himalayas.

Charles Nolte was an American stage and film actor, director, playwright, and educator.

George O'Brien was an American actor, popular during the silent film era and into the talkie era of the 1930s, best known today as the lead actor in F. W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.