1986

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 - Celal 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 sixieme 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 Carre
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