In the year 1986
531 Notable deaths
Len Bias
American basketball player.
Born November 18th, 1963 in Landover.
Died June 19th, 1986 at 22 years old in Riverdale Park (heart arrhythmia, drug overdose).
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet and russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, and theatre and opera director (1932-1986).
Born April 4th, 1932 in Zavrazhye. [ref]
Died December 29th, 1986 at 54 years old in Paris (lung cancer). [ref]
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986).
Born August 24th, 1899 in Buenos Aires. [ref]
Died June 14th, 1986 at 86 years old in Geneva (liver cancer). [ref]
Frank Herbert
American writer (1920-1986).
Born October 8th, 1920 in Tacoma.
Died February 11th, 1986 at 65 years old in Madison (pancreatic cancer).
Anne Baxter
American actress (1923–1985).
Born May 7th, 1923 in Michigan City. [ref]
Died December 12th, 1986 at 63 years old in New York City (intracranial aneurysm). [ref]
Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese indian sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986).
Born May 15th, 1914 in Nepal, Khumbu.
Died May 9th, 1986 at 71 years old in Darjeeling (cerebral hemorrhage). [ref]
Scatman Crothers
American entertainer (1910-1986).
Born May 23rd, 1910 in Indiana.
Died November 23rd, 1986 at 76 years old in Van Nuys (lung cancer).
Ted Knight
American actor (1923-1986).
Born December 7th, 1923 in Terryville.
Died August 26th, 1986 at 62 years old in Glendale (colorectal cancer).
Sterling Hayden
American actor (1916–1986).
Born March 26th, 1916 in Montclair. [ref]
Died May 23rd, 1986 at 70 years old in Sausalito (prostate cancer). [ref]
V. C. Andrews
Novelist.
Born June 6th, 1923 in Portsmouth. [ref]
Died December 19th, 1986 at 63 years old in Virginia Beach (breast cancer). [ref]
Deaths 21 to 30 of 531
Life without an ideal is spiritual death. Emma Goldman