List of Famous people who died at 86

Jacques Colombier (1901–1988) was a French art director who designed the sets for many films during his career.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Arkhangelsky was a Soviet and Russian aircraft designer and doctor of technical sciences. Hero of Socialist Labour (1947)

Serge Silberman was a French film producer.

Dov Shilansky was an Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset from 1988 to 1992.

Ioan Ploscaru was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.

Max August Zorn was a German mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, ordered sets and the like. Zorn's lemma was first postulated by Kazimierz Kuratowski in 1922, and then independently by Zorn in 1935.