page_title: 1986
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1986 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Christopher Isherwood in Los Angeles
context_page_description: 1986 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1980s decade.
  The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
context_section_description: January 3
  Dustin Gee, British comedian and impressionist (b. 1942)
  January 4
  Giuseppe Addobbati, Italian actor (b. 1909)
  Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)
  Phil Lynott, Irish musician, lead singer and bassist (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949)
  January 5
  Sir John Barlow, 2nd Baronet, British politician (b. 1898)
  Ilmari Salminen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1902)
  January 6 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
  January 7 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (b. 1917)
  January 8 – Maria L. de Hernández, Mexican-born American rights activist (b. 1896)
  January 10 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
  January 12 – Juan Carlos Corazzo, Uruguayan football player (b. 1907)
  January 13 – Abdul Fattah Ismail, Leader of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) (b. 1939)
  January 14
  Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
  Juan Manuel Rozas, Spanish writer (b. 1936)
  January 16 – Herbert W. Armstrong, founded the Worldwide Church of God (b. 1892)
  January 17 – Abdul Majid Kubar, 4th Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1909)
  January 23 – Willard Van Dyke, American filmmaker and photographer (b. 1906)
  January 24
  Victor Crutchley, British admiral (b. 1893)
  L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
  Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
  January 27
  Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical sitarist (b. 1931)
  Lilli Palmer, German actress (b. 1914)
  January 28 – In the Challenger disaster:
  Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (b. 1944)
  Christa McAuliffe, American astronaut and teacher (b. 1948)
  Ronald McNair, American astronaut (b. 1950)
  Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (b. 1946)
  Judith Resnik, American astronaut (b. 1949)
  Dick Scobee, American astronaut (b. 1939)
  Michael J. Smith, American astronaut (b. 1945)
  January 29 – Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
caption: Christopher Isherwood
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