List of Famous people who died at 86

Susan Mary Alsop was an American socialite and writer active in Washington, D.C. political circles. The wife of columnist Joseph Alsop and a descendant of founding father John Jay, her Georgetown home hosted dignitaries and publishers during the 1960s and 70s ranging from John F. Kennedy, Phil and Katharine Graham, and Isaiah Berlin, earning her the nickname "the grand dame of Washington society."

Howard Lynn Matthews, usually known as Matty Matthews or H. L. Matthews, was a minor league baseball player and coach of several sports at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. His son Clay became head of a long family line of standout National Football League players.

Steve Dodd was an Indigenous Australian actor, notable for playing indigenous characters across seven decades of Australian film. After beginning his working life as a stockman and rodeo rider, Dodd was given his first film roles by prominent Australian actor Chips Rafferty. His career was interrupted by six years in the Australian Army during the Korean War, and limited by typecasting.

Antal Bolvári was a Hungarian water polo player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Charles E. Freeman was an American attorney who served as a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. He was elected to the position on November 6, 1990, becoming its first African-American justice. He served as Chief Justice from May 12, 1997 to January 1, 2000. He retired from the court on June 14, 2018.

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics and electrical engineering. Alfvén made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the behavior of aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts, the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field, the terrestrial magnetosphere, and the dynamics of plasmas in the Milky Way galaxy.

James Charles Macnab of Macnab JP, otherwise known as The Macnab, was the 23rd Chief of Clan Macnab, and a member of the Royal Company of Archers, Queen Elizabeth II's bodyguard in Scotland.