List of Famous people who died at 86

James Cagney

James Francis Cagney
First Name James
Last Name Cagney
Born on July 17, 1899
Died on March 30, 1986 (aged 86)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

James Francis Cagney Jr. was an American actor and dancer also known professionally as Jimmy Cagney. On stage and in film, Cagney was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. He won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. He is remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), and White Heat (1949), finding himself typecast or limited by this reputation earlier in his career. He was able to negotiate dancing opportunities in his films and ended up winning the Academy Award for his role in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among its list of greatest male stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Orson Welles described Cagney as "maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera".

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Anasuya Sarabhai

First Name Anasuya
Born on November 11, 1885
Died on January 1, 1972 (aged 86)

Anasuya or Anusyabehn Sarabhai was a pioneer of the women’s labour movement in India. She founded the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association, India's oldest union of textile workers, in 1920.

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Otto Günsche

First Name Otto
Last Name Günsche
Born on September 24, 1917
Died on October 2, 2003 (aged 86)
Born in Germany, Thuringia

Otto Günsche was a mid-ranking officer in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a member of the SS Division Leibstandarte before he became Adolf Hitler's personal adjutant. Günsche was taken prisoner by soldiers of the Red Army in Berlin on 2 May 1945. After being held in various prisons and labour camps in the USSR, he was released from Bautzen Penitentiary on 2 May 1956.

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Armando Manzanero

Armando Manzanero Canché
First Name Armando
Last Name Manzanero
Born on December 7, 1935
Died on December 28, 2020 (aged 85)
Born in Mexico, Yucatán

Armando Manzanero Canché was a Mexican Mayan musician, singer, composer, actor and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successful composers of Latin America. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in the United States in 2014. He was the president of the Mexican Society of Authors and Composers.

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Pierre Bergé

Pierre Vital Georges Bergé
First Name Pierre
Last Name Bergé
Born on November 14, 1930
Died on September 8, 2017 (aged 86)

Pierre Bergé was a French industrialist and patron. He co-founded the fashion label Yves Saint Laurent, and was a longtime business partner of the eponymous designer.

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Henry Tandey

First Name Henry
Last Name Tandey
Born on August 30, 1891
Died on December 20, 1977 (aged 86)

Henry Tandey VC, DCM, MM was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the most highly decorated British private of the First World War and is most commonly remembered as the soldier who supposedly spared Adolf Hitler's life during the war. Born with the family name of Tandy, he later changed his surname to Tandey after problems with his father, therefore some military records have a different spelling of his name.

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Miloš Forman

Jan Tomáš Forman
First Name Miloš
Last Name Forman
Born on February 18, 1932
Died on April 13, 2018 (aged 86)

Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman was a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968.

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Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

First Name Vaikom
Died on July 5, 1994 (aged 24)
Born in India

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, also known as Beypore Sultan, was an Indian independence activist and writer of Malayalam literature. He was a writer, humanist, freedom fighter, novelist and short story writer, noted for his path-breaking, down-to-earth style of writing that made him equally popular among literary critics as well as the common man. His notable works include Balyakalasakhi, Shabdangal, Pathummayude Aadu, Mathilukal, Ntuppuppakkoranendarnnu, Janmadinam and Anargha Nimisham and the translations of his works into other languages have earned him worldwide acclaim. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 1982. He was also a recipient of the Sahitya Academy Fellowship, Kerala Sahitya Academy Fellowship, and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Story.

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Bernard Francis Law

First Name Bernard
Last Name Law
Born on November 4, 1931
Died on December 20, 2017 (aged 86)
Born in Mexico, Coahuila

Bernard Francis Law was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, known largely for covering up molestation of children by Catholic priests. He served as Archbishop of Boston, archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, and Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna, which was the American Catholic church in Rome until 2017, when the American community was relocated to San Patrizio.

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Marjorie Merriweather Post

First Name Marjorie
Born on March 15, 1887
Died on September 12, 1973 (aged 86)

Marjorie Merriweather Post was an American businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist, and owner of General Foods, Inc. She used much of her fortune to collect art, particularly pre-revolutionary Russian art, much of which is now on display at Hillwood, the museum which was her estate in Washington, D.C. She is also known for her mansion, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, which following her death eventually became a resort owned by Donald Trump.

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