List of Famous people who died at 86

Mícheál C. Cranitch was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann in 1973.

Nathan Eugene Brooks was a boxer from the United States, who won the gold medal in the flyweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Harold Goodwin was an English actor born in Wombwell, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Georg Robert Döpel was a German experimental nuclear physicist. He was a participant in a group known as the "first Uranverein", which was spawned by a meeting conducted by the Reichserziehungsministerium, in April 1939, to discuss the potential of a sustained nuclear reaction. He worked under Werner Heisenberg at the University of Leipzig, and he conducted experiments on spherical layers of uranium oxide surrounded by heavy water. He was a contributor to the German nuclear weapon project (Uranprojekt). In 1945, he was sent to Russia to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project. He returned to Germany in 1957, and he became professor of applied physics and director of the Institut für Angewandte Physik at the Hochschule für Elektrotechnik, now Technische Universität, in Ilmenau (Thuringia).

Vagn Gylding Holmboe was a Danish composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neo-classical style.