List of Famous people who died at 86

Anthony Quinn

First Name Anthony
Last Name Quinn
Born on April 21, 1915
Died on June 3, 2001 (aged 86)
Born in Mexico, Chihuahua
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca, known professionally as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-American actor, painter, writer and film director. He was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental virility" in numerous critically acclaimed movies both in Hollywood and abroad; including La Strada, The Guns of Navarone, Guns for San Sebastian, Lawrence of Arabia, The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Message, Lion of the Desert, and A Walk in the Clouds. His Oscar-nominated titular role in Zorba the Greek is considered one of the most iconic performances in cinematic history.

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Danny Aiello

Daniel Louis Aiello Jr.
First Name Danny
Born on June 20, 1933
Died on December 12, 2019 (aged 86)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Daniel Louis Aiello Jr. was an American actor. He appeared in numerous motion pictures, including The Godfather Part II (1974), The Front (1976), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Moonstruck (1987), Harlem Nights (1989), Hudson Hawk (1991), Ruby (1992), Léon: The Professional (1994), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), Dinner Rush (2000), and Lucky Number Slevin (2006). He played Don Domenico Clericuzio in the miniseries The Last Don (1997). Aiello was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Salvatore "Sal" Frangione in the Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing (1989).

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Karlheinz Böhm

First Name Karlheinz
Born on March 16, 1928
Died on May 29, 2014 (aged 86)
Born in Germany, Hesse

Karlheinz Böhm was an Austrian-German actor and philanthropist. He took part in 45 films and became well known in Austria and Germany for his role as Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in the Sissi film trilogy and internationally for his role as Mark, the psychopathic protagonist of Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell. He was the founder of the trust Menschen für Menschen, which helps people in need in Ethiopia. He also received honorary Ethiopian citizenship in 2003. He is sometimes referred to as Carl Boehm or Karl Boehm.

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Bea Arthur

Bernice Frankel
First Name Bea
Last Name Arthur
Born on May 13, 1922
Died on April 25, 2009 (aged 86)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Beatrice Arthur was an American actress and comedian.

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Steve Belichick

First Name Steve
Last Name Belichick
Born on January 7, 1919
Died on November 19, 2005 (aged 86)

Stephen Nickolas Belichick was an American football player, coach, and scout. He played college football at Western Reserve University, now known as Case Western Reserve University, from 1938 to 1940 and then in the National Football League (NFL) with the Detroit Lions in 1941. After serving in World War II, Belichick began his coaching career. From 1946 to 1949, he was the head football coach and the head basketball coach at Hiram College. He continued on as an assistant coach in college football with stints at Vanderbilt University (1949–1952), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1953–1955), and then for 34 years at the United States Naval Academy (1956–1989).

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Della Reese

First Name Della
Born on July 6, 1931
Died on November 19, 2017 (aged 86)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Delloreese Patricia Early, known professionally as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades. She began her long career as a singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single "Don't You Know?". In the late 1960s she hosted her own talk show, Della, which ran for 197 episodes. From 1975 she also starred in films, playing opposite Redd Foxx in Harlem Nights (1989), Martin Lawrence in A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) and Elliott Gould in Expecting Mary (2010). Reese achieved continued success in the religious television drama Touched by an Angel (1994–2003), in which she played the leading role of Tess.

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Mikhail Zhvanetsky

Михаил Маньевич Жванецкий
First Name Mikhail
Last Name Zhvanetsky
Born on March 6, 1934
Died on November 6, 2020 (aged 86)

Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky was a Soviet and Russian writer, satirist and performer of Jewish origin, best known for his shows targeting different aspects of the Soviet and post-Soviet everyday life.

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Michel Legrand

Michel Jean Legrand
First Name Michel
Last Name Legrand
Born on February 24, 1932
Died on January 26, 2019 (aged 86)

Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).

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Pierre Brice

Pierre Louis Le Bris
First Name Pierre
Last Name Brice
Born on February 6, 1929
Died on June 6, 2015 (aged 86)
Born in France, Brittany

Pierre-Louis Le Bris, known as Pierre Brice, was a French actor, best known as portraying fictional Apache-chief Winnetou in German films based on Karl May novels.

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Saeed Jaffrey

First Name Saeed
Last Name Jaffrey
Born on January 8, 1929
Died on November 14, 2015 (aged 86)
Born in British India

Saeed Jaffrey was a British-Indian actor. His career covered radio, stage, television and film roles over six decades and more than a hundred and fifty British, American, and Indian movies. During the 1980s and 1990s he was considered to be Britain's highest-profile Asian actor, thanks to his leading roles in the movie My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and television series The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–1987) and Little Napoleons (1994). He played an instrumental part in bringing together film makers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant and acted in several of their Merchant Ivory Productions films such as The Guru (1969), Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978), The Courtesans of Bombay (1983) and The Deceivers (1988).

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