Title: 1986 Content: 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was . == Births == * January 24 – Mischa Barton, English-born American actress * January 24 – Ricky Ullman, Israeli-born American actor * February 1 – Johan Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer * February 19 – Maria Mena, Norwegian singer * February 21 – Charlotte Church, Welsh soprano * March 1 – Jonathan Spector, American footballer * March 9 – Brittany Snow, American actress * March 14 – Jamie Bell, English actor * March 16 – Alexandra Daddario, American actress * March 28 – Lady Gaga, American singer * April 3 – Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host * April 9 – Leighton Meester, American actress * May 13 – Robert Pattinson, Actor, Singer & Model * May 16 – Megan Fox, American actress * June 3 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player * June 10 – Joey Zimmerman, American actor * June 11 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor * June 13 – Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, American actresses and entrepreneurs * June 24 – Solange Knowles, American actress and singer * June 25 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer * June 27 – Drake Bell, American actor * July 2 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress * July 4 – Shane Kippel, Canadian actor * July 17 – Brando Eaton, American actor * August 16 – Shawn Pyfrom, American actor * September 9 – Michael J. Sox, German singer * September 12 – Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer * October 16 - Inna, Romanian singer and songwriter * October 31 – Christie Hayes, Australian actress * November 1 – Penn Badgley, American actor * November 2 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress * November 3 – Jasmine Trias, American singer * November 5 – BoA, Korean singer * November 17 – Nani, Portuguese footballer * November 25 – Amber Hagerman, American murder victim (d. 1996) * December 28 – Tom Huddlestone, English football player * December 30 – Ellie Goulding, British singer == Deaths == === January === * January 1 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902) * January 2 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903) * January 4 – Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904) * January 4 - Phil Lynott, Irish bass guitarist (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949) * January 8 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906) * January 14 – Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921) * January 24 – L. Ron Hubbard, American fiction writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911) * January 24 – Gordon MacRae, American actor, singer (b. 1921) * January 24 – Vincente Minnelli, American director (b. 1903) * January 27 – Lilli Palmer, actress (b. 1914) * January 28 – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger: Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Greg Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe. === February === * February 11 – Frank Herbert, American science fiction writer (b. 1920) * February 27 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929) * February 28 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927) === March === * March 6 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887) * March 10 – Ray Milland, Welsh actor (b. 1907) * March 30 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899) === April === * April 14 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer and intellectual (b. 1908) * April 15 - Tim McIntire, American actor (b. 1944) * April 24 – Wallis Simpson, wife of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1896) * April 26 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911) === May === * May 9 – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain guide (b. 1914) === June === * June 14 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899) === August === * August 22 – Celâl Bayar, 3rd President of Turkey (b. 1883) * August 26 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923) * August 31 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900) === September === * September 1 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923) * September 24 – Cliff Burton, American bassist and songwriter from Metallica (b. 1962) === October === * October 14 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916) * October 19 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933) === November === * November 2 – Paul Frees, American actor, comedian (b. 1920) * November 8 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890) * November 21 – Jerry Colonna, American comedian (b. 1904) * November 22 – Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician (b. 1910) * November 29 – Cary Grant, English actor (b. 1904) === December === * December 2 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, musician and television producer (b. 1917) * December 26 – Elsa Lanchester, British-American actress (b. 1902) * December 28 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (b. 1932) * December 29 – Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the UK (b. 1894) == Events == * January 1 – Spain and Portugal enter the European Community * January 1 – Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles. * January 9 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business. * January 12 – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz. * January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. * January 20 – The first federal Martin Luther King Day, honoring Martin Luther King Jr. * January 24 – Voyager 2 space probe makes first encounter with Uranus * January 28 – Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven astronauts on board. * January 29 – Yoweri Kaguta Museveni became President of the Republic of Uganda after leading a successful five-year liberation struggle. * February 25 – Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines. * February 28 – Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated. * April 20 - NBA player Michael Jordan scores a playoff record 63 points in a game against the Boston Celtics. * April 21 – Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live television and finds nothing. * April 26 – An explosion occurs at a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl. * August 21 – A leak of volcanic gases at Lake Nyos in Cameroon kills many people nearby as they sleep. *September 24 — Metallica bassist Cliff Burton is killed in a bus crash * October 11 – Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan hold a meeting in Iceland. * October 19 – Mozambique's President Samora Machel dies in a plane crash. * Bubble Bobble is created, a video game popular world-wide == Movies released == * Little Shop of Horrors * Top Gun * Ferris Bueller's Day Off * Stand by Me * Back to School * Aliens * The Delta Force * Three Amigos! * Cobra * Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation * Club Paradise * Ruthless People * The Hitcher * Heartbreak Ridge * The Great Mouse Detective * My Little Pony: The Movie * Maximum Overdrive * 16 Candles * An American Tail == Hit songs == * "Stimulation – Wa Wa Nee * "You're The Voice" – John Farnham #1 * "No Lies" – Noiseworks * "Funkytown" – Psudeo Echo #1 * "Throw Your Arms Around Me" – Hunters + Collectors * "(There's Gonna Be) A Showdown – The Johnnys * "Walk Like an Egyptian" – The Bangles * "Livin' on a Prayer" – Bon Jovi * "The Final Countdown" – Europe * "French Kissin' In The USA" – Debbie Harry * "True Colors" – Cyndi Lauper * "Hip To Be Square" – Huey Lewis and the News * "Real Wild Child (Wild One)" – Iggy Pop * "Hymn To Her" – The Pretenders * "War" – Bruce Springsteen * "Breakout" – Swing Out Sister * "I Want To Wake Up With You" – Boris Gardiner * "Two Of Hearts" – Stacey Q * "Whole Of The Moon" – Waterboys * "Take My Breath Away" – Berlin * "Glory Of Love" – Peter Cetera * "The Next Time I Fall" – Peter Cetera * "You Give Love A Bad Name" – Bon Jovi * "Move Away" – Culture Club * "That's What Friends Are For" – Dionne Warwick * "Hey, You!" – Divine * "Little Baby" – Divine * "Sara" – Starship * "Parce que je ne t'aime plus" – Dalida * "Le sixième jour" – Dalida * "Addicted To Love" – Robert Palmer * "Stuck With You" – Huey Lewis & the News * "How Will I Know" – Whitney Houston * "When I Think of You" – Janet Jackson * "West End Girls" – Pet Shop Boys * "Live to Tell" – Madonna * "Holding Back The Years" – Simply Red * "Stay For Awhile" – Amy Grant * "Papa Don't Preach" – Madonna * "Rock Me Amadeus" – Falco * "On My Own" – Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald * "Notorious" – Duran Duran * "Sometimes" – Erasure * "Kyrie" – Mr. Mister * "That Was Then, This Is Now" – The Monkees * "Kiss" – Prince * "The Greatest Love of All" – Whitney Houston * "Manic Monday" – The Bangles * "Locked In" – Judas Priest * "Turbo Lover" – Judas Priest * "Love Walks In" – Van Halen * "La Isla Bonita" – Madonna * "Sledgehammer" – Peter Gabriel * "Invisible Touch" – Genesis * "Living In America" – James Brown * "Lady In Red" – Chris de Burgh * "Holding Out For A Hero" – Bonnie Tyler * "My Hometown" – Bruce Springsteen * "Venus" – Bananarama == New books == * Extinction – Thomas Bernhard * The Bourne Supremacy – Robert Ludlum * The Bridge – Iain Banks * Cadillac Desert – Marc Reisner * The Fence Post Chronicles – W.P. Kinsella * The Fisher King – Anthony Powell * Ghost – Piers Anthony * The Golden Cup – Belva Plain * Hollywood Husbands – Jackie Collins * I'll Take Manhattan – Judith Krantz * In the Hollow of His Hand – James Purdy * It – Stephen King * Kara Kush – Idries Shah * Kate Vaiden – Reynolds Price * Last of the Breed – Louis L'Amour * Leo Africanus – Amin Maalouf * The Light Fantastic – Terry Pratchett * Love You Forever – Robert Munsch * A Matter of Honour – Jeffrey Archer * The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America – Martin Amis * Nobody Lives For Ever – John Gardner * The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis * A Perfect Spy – John le Carré * The Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy * Red Storm Rising – Tom Clancy * Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card * Sportswriter – Richard Ford * Tourist Season – Carl Hiaasen * Wanderlust – Danielle Steel * Whirlwind – James Clavell * The Wizards and the Warriors – Hugh Cook