List of Famous people who died in 1986

Walter Brooke was an American actor. Brooke is best known for playing Mr. McGuire in the 1967 hit film The Graduate, where his character famously said "Plastics".

Niazi Mostafa was an Egyptian film director.

Ralph Steiner was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avant-garde filmmakers in the 1930s.

Mauro Simonetti was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the team road race at the 1968 Olympics. After that he rode professionally between 1970 and 1979.

Paul Galdone was an illustrator and writer known best for children's picture books.

Alton Asa Lennon of Wilmington, New Hanover County, N.C., was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1953 and 1954, and later, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing North Carolina's 7th congressional district from 1957 to 1973. Lennon was one of the very few former United States Senators in modern times to be elected to the House after their Senate careers.

Marietta Canty (1905-1986) was an American actress, community activist and recipient of numerous humanist awards.

Raphael Nii Amaa Ollennu was a jurist and judge who became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana from 1962 to 1966, the acting President of Ghana during the Second Republic from 7 August 1970 to 31 August 1970 and the Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana from 1969 to 1972.