List of Famous people who died in 1986

Jean-Jacques Gautier was French theatre critic, novelist and essayist. A Norman via his father and a champenois via his mother, he was elected a member of the Académie française in 1972.

Oldřich Lipský was a popular and influential Czech film director, brother of actor Lubomír Lipský.

Rear Admiral James Humphrey Walwyn was a British officer in the Royal Navy who served during the Second World War.

Endre Bálint was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.

Dag Ivar Wirén was a Swedish composer.

Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology. He was a professor at Istanbul University, École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, and a member of the Académie Française. Dumézil is well known for his formulation of the trifunctional hypothesis on Proto-Indo-European mythology and society. His research has had a major influence on the fields of comparative mythology and Indo-European studies.

Knut Gunnar Johanson was a Swedish actor known for his frequent work with writer and director Ingmar Bergman.

Margarete Emma Dorothea "Grete" Mosheim was a German film, theatre, and television actress of Jewish ancestry.

Sir Charles Lloyd Birkin, 5th Baronet was an English author of horror short stories and the editor of the Creeps Library of anthologies. Typically working under the pseudonym Charles Lloyd, Birkin's tales tended towards the conte cruels rather than supernatural fiction.