List of Famous people who died in 1986

Roger Trinquier was a French Army officer during World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War, serving mainly in airborne and special forces units. He was also a counter-insurgency theorist, mainly with his book Modern Warfare.

Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician. She was a prominent leader of the disarmament movement. She, along with Alfonso Garcia Robles, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924.

George Arthur Victor Duckworth, known as Arthur Duckworth, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Michel Seurat was a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS, born 14 August 1947 in Tunisia and died in Beirut in 1986.

Jacques Rispal was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1952 and 1986.

Gian-Carlo Coppola was an American film producer.

John Trevelyan, CBE was Secretary of the Board of the British Board of Film Censors from 1958 to 1971.