List of Famous people who died at 86

Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.

Ebrahim Yazdi was an Iranian politician, pharmacist, and diplomat who served as deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest at the Iran hostage crisis. From 1995 until 2017, he headed the Freedom Movement of Iran. Yazdi was also a trained cancer researcher.

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton, also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the aristocratic Lyttelton family.

Isaac Iosifovich Schwartz, also known as Isaak Shvarts, was a Soviet composer.

Marius Re Goring, was an English stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death and as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes, and also for the title role in the long-running TV drama series, The Expert. He regularly performed French and German roles, and was frequently cast in the latter because of his name, coupled with his red-gold hair and blue eyes. However, he explained that he was not of German descent in a 1965 interview, stating that "Goring is a completely English name."

Tokuji Hayakawa was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Hayakawa Kinzoku Kōgyō. He invented and patented the “Tokubijō” belt buckle in 1912 and invented the "Ever Ready Sharp" mechanical pencil in 1915.

Martí Vergés Massa, usually known as "Martín Vergés", was a Spanish footballer. He played for FC Barcelona and earned 12 caps for the Spain national football team and was included in their 1962 FIFA World Cup squad. He died nineteen days short of his 87th birthday.

Tuanku Ja’afar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman was the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia from 26 April 1994 until 25 April 1999 and the tenth Grand Ruler of Negeri Sembilan.

Martín Esteban Pando was an Argentine footballer who played as a forward.