List of Famous people who died at 86

Sylvan Nathan Goldman was an American businessman and inventor of the shopping cart. His design had a pair of large wire baskets connected by tubular metal arms with four wheels.

Tomoyuki Tanaka was a Japanese film producer, most famous for creating the Godzilla franchise. He was born in Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan on April 26, 1910, and died in Tokyo on April 2, 1997. Tanaka was married to the actress Chieko Nakakita. He died of a stroke at the age of 86.

Didier Motchane was a French politician who served as a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1989.

Horst Schüler-Springorum was a German Professor of Jurisprudence. The focus of his work was on Criminal justice.

Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group Die Brücke which existed 1905–1913. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Benito Quinquela Martín was an Argentine painter. Quinquela Martín is considered the port painter-par-excellence and one of the most popular Argentine painters. His paintings of port scenes show the activity, vigor and roughness of the daily life in the port of La Boca.

Alberto Dines was a Brazilian journalist and writer. With a career spanning over five decades, Dines directed and launched several magazines and newspapers in Brazil and Portugal. He has taught journalism since 1963, and was a visiting professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1974.

Karl Gerstner was a Swiss designer, typographer, author, and artist.

Smail Hamdani was an Algerian politician. He was Prime Minister of Algeria from 15 December 1998 to 23 December 1999.

Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi was a Congolese politician who served in the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2000 and as Vice-President from 2003 to December 2006.