List of Famous people who died in 1986

Lars Leksell (1907–1986) was a Swedish physician and Professor of Neurosurgery at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the inventor of radiosurgery.

Pietro Parente was a long-serving theologian in the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church, and was made a cardinal on 26 June 1967. At his peak he was regarded as one of the foremost Italian theologians.

Kodardas Kalidas Shah was an Indian politician who served as the Governor of Tamil Nadu from 1971 to 1976.

Khaled Nazzal was the central committee secretary of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a militant leader for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Born in Qabatiya, Jenin in 1948, he joined the Palestinian forces in 1967, and in 1971 he joined Damascus University.

Laura Alves (1921–1986) was a Portuguese actor on stage, film and radio.

Masaji Kitano was a medical doctor, microbiologist and a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army.