List of Famous people who died in 1986

Fritz Albert Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953.

Hisatora Kumagai was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Joseph Blaine Johnson was an American politician who served as the 70th Governor of the state of Vermont from 1955 to 1959.

Dénes Pataky was a Hungarian figure skater who competed in men's singles. He was a four-time gold medalist at the Hungarian Figure Skating Championships from 1933 to 1936. He also won the silver medal at the 1934 European Figure Skating Championships, captured the bronze medal at the 1935 World Figure Skating Championships, and finished ninth at the 1936 Winter Olympics.

Raymond Earl Baldwin was a United States Senator and served as the 72nd and 74th Governor of Connecticut. A conservative Republican, he was elected governor of Connecticut in 1938 during a Republican landslide promising a balanced budget, government aid to private business, and lower taxes. He sharply cut the state budget, producing a million dollars surplus. He was defeated for reelection in 1940, but was elected governor again in 1942 and 1944. He supervised a complex system of civil defense and statewide services on the homefront during the war. He planned an elaborate program to deal with the postwar reconversion of Connecticut's many warplane and munitions plants. He was elected to the Senate in the Republican landslide of 1946. As a spokesman for the small businesses of America, he compiled a conservative record in favor of less regulation, except for more regulation of labor unions through the Taft–Hartley Act. As chairman of a subcommittee of the Armed Services committee, Baldwin engaged in a long-running dispute with Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy alleged that Baldwin was whitewashing an episode in which Army prosecutors in 1944 gained the death penalty for German soldiers accused of massacring Americans at the Malmedy Massacre. Exhausted by the highly publicized controversy, Baldwin resigned from the Senate in December 1949 to become a state judge.

Lars-Erik Larsson was a Swedish composer.

Henrik Samuel Conrad Sjögren was a Swedish ophthalmologist best known for describing the eponymous condition Sjögren syndrome. Sjögren received his medical degree in Stockholm 1927 and in 1933 published a doctoral thesis at the Karolinska Institute titled "On knowledge of keratoconjunctivitis" that eventually served as the basis of identifying and naming of Sjögren's syndrome. He had one child born in 1934 named Gunvor.

Arthur Schröder was a German actor.