List of Famous people who died in 1986

Arthur Llewellyn Basham was a noted historian, Indologist and author of a number of books. As a Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in the 1950s and the 1960s, he taught a number of famous Indian historians, including Professors R.S. Sharma, Romila Thapar A.K.Narain and V. S. Pathak.

Lando Conti was an Italian politician and past Mayor of Florence, Italy, who was assassinated by the terrorist group the Red Brigades.

Bruce Cowling was a film and television actor in the 1940s and 1950s.

Augusto Ruschi was a Brazilian agronomist, ecologist, and naturalist.

Oscar Zariski was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.

Hendrik Hubert Frehen was a Dutch clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Reykjavik. He became ordained in 1943. He was appointed bishop in 1968.

Gerardo Guerrieri was an Italian film director, playwright, screenwriter, translator, theater critic, and essayist. He is particularly remembered for translating numerous plays into the Italian language, including works by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, August Strindberg, Eugene O'Neill, William Saroyan and William Shakespeare among others. His own works were avant-garde in design. He was notably the librettist for Renzo Rossellini's 1961 opera Uno sguardo dal ponte.

Cesare Polacco was an Italian actor and voice actor.