List of Famous people who died at 86

Haradhan Bandopadhyay was a Bengali Indian male actor of television and films. He made his debut in the 1948 Bengali film Devdut, directed by Atanu Bandopadhyay. He worked with some of the most prominent directors of Bengali cinema, like Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen.

Erika Dunkelmann was a German film and television actress. Based in East Germany, she worked regularly for the state-controlled DEFA studios.

Veniamin Fyodorovich Yakovlev was a Soviet and Russian lawyer. He was the first and only Chairman of the Supreme Court of Arbitration of the USSR and later became the first Chairman of the Supreme Court of Arbitration of Russia. He also served as the Soviet Minister of Justice from 1989 to 1990 and as the legal adviser to both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev from 2005 till his death in 2018.

Albert W. Overhauser was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his theory of dynamic nuclear polarization known as the Overhauser Effect in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Gottfried Wilhelm Flügge was a German engineer, and Professor of Applied Mechanics at Stanford University. He is known as recipient of the 1970 Theodore von Karman Medal in Engineering Mechanics, and the 1970 Worcester Reed Warner Medal.