List of Famous people who died in 1986

William Brian de Lacy Aherne was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who enjoyed a long and varied career in Britain and the US.

Virginia Lee Gregg was an American actress known for her many roles in radio dramas and television series.

Princess Yolanda of Savoy was the eldest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.

Lothar Kreyssig was a German judge during the Weimar and Nazi era. He was the only German judge who attempted to stop the Action T4 euthanasia program, an intervention that cost him his job. After the Second World War, he was again offered a judgeship but declined. Later, he became an advocate of German reconciliation and founded the Action Reconciliation Service for Peace and the German development aid non-government organization, Action for World Solidarity.

Kisaku Maekawa was a Japanese industrialist and philanthropist who founded Mayekawa Manufacturing Company in Tokyo, Japan in 1924. A graduate of Japan's Waseda University, he also founded the all-male Dormitory Wakeijuku through his philanthropic work.

• 1920: Graduated from Waseda University School of Science and Engineering
• 1924: Founded Mayekawa Manufacturing Ltd.
• Supplied imperial Japan with war supplies.
• 1948: Councilor of Waseda University
• 1955: Established the Wakeijuku Foundation

Jackson Volney Scholz was an American sprint runner. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games. After his athletic career, he also gained fame as a writer.

Alfredo Binda was an Italian cyclist of the 1920s and 1930s. He was the first to win five editions of the Giro d'Italia, and a three-time world champion. In addition he won Milan–San Remo twice, and the Tour of Lombardy four times.

Erich Koch was a Gauleiter of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in East Prussia from 1 October 1928 until 1945. Between 1941 and 1945 he was Chief of Civil Administration of Bezirk Bialystok. During this period, he was also the Reichskommissar in Reichskommissariat Ukraine from September 1941 until August 1944 and in Reichskommissariat Ostland from September 1944. After the Second World War, Koch stood trial in Poland and was convicted in 1959 of war crimes and sentenced to death. The sentence was never carried out and Koch died of natural causes in his cell at the Barczewo prison on the 12 November 1986.

Loïc Caradec (1948–1986) was a French engineer, born in Paris. He died in the 1986 Route du Rhum race.

Antonio di Benedetto was an Argentine novelist, short-story writer and columnist.