List of Famous people who died at 86

Lawrence Joseph Shehan was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1961 to 1974 and was made a cardinal in 1965. His legacy as a Catholic prelate is noted for transferring priests accused of sexual abuse to new posts without disciplining them or warning parishioners.

Lesser Samuels enjoyed a 20-year career as a Hollywood screenwriter.

Eddie Bauer was an American outdoorsman, inventor, author, and businessman. He founded the Eddie Bauer company to sell tennis-related items in Seattle, Washington in 1920. From a rented workbench inside another man's shop, it grew to become an international brand outfitting mountaineering and scientific expeditions with down-insulated garments and sleeping bags.

Mary Elizabeth Pruett Farrington, more commonly known as Elizabeth P. Farrington, was publisher of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and an American stateswoman who served as delegate to the United States Congress for the Territory of Hawai'i. She was the wife to Joseph Rider Farrington, whom she had succeeded in Washington, DC. Her father-in-law was the Territorial Governor of Hawai'i Wallace Rider Farrington.

Gaston Émile Marius Jacquet was a French actor.

Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens was a Dutch scholar of literature, dialects, and ethnology. He founded the institutes which later merged into the Meertens Instituut, of which he was the director until 1965.

Sidney Hickox, A.S.C. was an American film and television cinematographer.

Ole Bjørn Kraft (1893–1980) was a Danish journalist and politician who was the leader of the Conservative People's Party. He also served as the minister of foreign affairs.