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In the year 1986
531 Notable deaths
Bessie Love
American actress (1898–1986).
Born September 10th, 1898 in Midland. [ref]
Died April 26th, 1986 at 87 years old in London. [ref]
Elio de Angelis
Italian racing driver.
Born March 26th, 1958 in Rome.
Died May 15th, 1986 at 28 years old in Marseille (smoke inhalation injury).
Erich Koch
Nazi leader, war criminal, art collector (1896-1986).
Born June 19th, 1896 in Elberfeld.
Died November 12th, 1986 at 90 years old in Barczewo.
Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock
German world war ii u-boat captain (1911-1986).
Born December 11th, 1911 in Bremen.
Died April 18th, 1986 at 74 years old in Bremen.
Juan Rulfo
Mexican writer (1917-1986).
Born May 16th, 1918 in Sayula Municipality. [ref]
Died January 7th, 1986 at 67 years old in Mexico City (lung cancer). [ref]
Lady Diana Cooper
English social figure, actress and memoirist, editor.
Born August 29th, 1892 in Bruton Street. [ref]
Died June 16th, 1986 at 93 years old in London. [ref]
Lyudmila Rudenko
Soviet chess player (1904-1986).
Born July 27th, 1904 in Lubny.
Died March 4th, 1986 at 81 years old in Saint Petersburg. [ref]
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian biochemist who won the nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1937.
Born September 16th, 1893 in Budapest. [ref]
Died October 22nd, 1986 at 93 years old in Woods Hole (kidney failure). [ref]
Marcel Dassault
French aircraft industrialist (1892-1986).
Born January 22nd, 1892 in 9th arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Died April 18th, 1986 at 94 years old in Neuilly-sur-Seine. [ref]
Emilio Fernández
Mexican film director and actor (1904-1986).
Born March 26th, 1904 in Coahuila.
Died August 6th, 1986 at 82 years old in Mexico City (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Deaths 111 to 120 of 531
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe