Aged 86
Famous people who died at 86
223 of the 11,867 best-known people in our data died aged 86, including Nikola Tesla, Jorge Luis Borges and Silvio Berlusconi. Here are the 100 best known.
- Nikola TeslaSerbian-American engineer and inventor · 1856–1943
- Jorge Luis BorgesArgentine writer, essayist, poet and translator · 1899–1986
- Silvio BerlusconiItalian media tycoon and politician · 1936–2023
- Claude MonetFrench painter · 1840–1926
- Martin HeideggerGerman philosopher · 1889–1976
- Maya AngelouAmerican poet, author, and civil rights activist · 1928–2014
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresFrench painter · 1780–1867
- Maurice MaeterlinckBelgian playwright and essayist · 1862–1949
- Ivan PavlovRussian physiologist · 1849–1936
- Suharto2nd President of Indonesia (1968—1998) and Acting President of Indonesia · 1921–2008
- Graham GreeneBritish writer, playwright and literary critic · 1904–1991
- Paul von HindenburgPrussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany · 1847–1934
- John Forbes NashAmerican mathematician and economist · 1928–2015
- Imre KertészHungarian author · 1929–2016
- Martti AhtisaariPresident of Finland from 1994 to 2000 · 1937–2023
- Eduard ShevardnadzeSoviet and Georgian politician and diplomat, Soviet foreign minister and second President of Georgia · 1928–2014
- Alfred North WhiteheadEnglish mathematician and philosopher · 1861–1947
- Franz Joseph I of AustriaEmperor of Austria and King of Hungary · 1830–1916
- Karl JaspersGerman-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher · 1883–1969
- Klemens von MetternichAustrian diplomat, foreign minister and Chancellor · 1773–1859
- Groucho MarxAmerican comedian · 1890–1977
- James CagneyAmerican actor and dancer · 1899–1986
- Susan B. AnthonyAmerican women's rights activist · 1820–1906
- Ilya RepinRussian-empire painter of Ukrainian birth · 1844–1930
- B.F. SkinnerAmerican behaviorist · 1904–1990
- Henrik PontoppidanDanish writer, Nobel Laureate · 1857–1943
- Walter GropiusGerman-American architect · 1883–1969
- Georges SimenonBelgian writer · 1903–1989
- Miloš FormanCzech American director, screenwriter, and professor · 1932–2018
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan2nd President and 1st Vice President of India, Indian philosopher and politician · 1888–1975
- Vicente AleixandreSpanish poet · 1898–1984
- Alberto FujimoriPresident of Peru from 1990 to 2000 · 1938–2024
- Tove JanssonFinnish children's writer and illustrator · 1914–2001
- Anthony QuinnMexican and American actor · 1915–2001
- Benedetto CroceItalian philosopher · 1866–1952
- Gelasius IBishop of Rome from 492 to 496 · c. AD 410–496
- Hannes AlfvénSwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics · 1908–1995
- Bobby CharltonEnglish association football player and manager · 1937–2023
- Georgy MalenkovSoviet politician · 1902–1988
- Alec GuinnessBritish actor · 1914–2000
- Arnold J. ToynbeeBritish historian · 1889–1975
- Georges CharpakFrench physicist · 1924–2010
- Gore VidalAmerican writer · 1925–2012
- Camille Saint-SaënsFrench composer, organist, conductor and pianist · 1835–1921
- Clement XPope of the Catholic Church from 1670 to 1676 · 1590–1676
- Donald Arthur GlaserAmerican physicist and neurobiologist · 1926–2013
- Elizabeth Cady StantonAmerican writer, suffragist and Women's Rights activist · 1815–1902
- Glenn Theodore SeaborgAmerican chemist · 1912–1999
- Charles Messier18th- and 19th-century French astronomer · 1730–1817
- Ilya PrigogineRussian-Belgian physical chemist · 1917–2003
- Paul ClaudelFrench diplomat, poet and playwright · 1868–1955
- Bud SpencerItalian actor, lawyer, professional swimmer and water polo player · 1929–2016
- Georg Philipp TelemannGerman composer · 1681–1767
- Sidney LumetAmerican director, producer and screenwriter · 1924–2011
- Deborah KerrBritish actress · 1921–2007
- Paul SabatierFrench chemist · 1854–1941
- Wilhelm Eduard WeberGerman physicist · 1804–1891
- Fred HoyleBritish astronomer · 1915–2001
- Georg LukácsHungarian marxist philosopher and literary critic · 1885–1971
- Todor ZhivkovFormer General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party · 1911–1998
- Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le BrunFrench portrait painter · 1755–1842
- Willard BoyleCanadian physicist and inventor · 1924–2011
- Man RayAmerican and French visual artist · 1890–1976
- Theodor Svedberg ↗Swedish chemist · 1884–1971
- William Crookes ↗British chemist and physicist · 1832–1919
- Édouard Daladier ↗French politician · 1884–1970
- Juho Kusti Paasikivi ↗7th President of Finland · 1870–1956
- Otto Heinrich Warburg ↗German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate · 1883–1970
- David Brewster ↗Scottish astronomer and mathematician · 1781–1868
- François Guizot ↗French historian, orator and statesman · 1787–1874
- Margaret Sanger ↗American birth control activist and nurse · 1879–1966
- Soh Jaipil ↗Korean-American independence activist and journalist · 1864–1951
- Alexander Oparin ↗Soviet biochemist · 1894–1980
- Carl Orff ↗German composer · 1895–1982
- Gustav Fechner ↗German scientist · 1801–1887
- Cesar Romero ↗American actor · 1907–1994
- James Garner ↗American film and television actor · 1928–2014
- Alexander Grothendieck ↗French mathematician · 1928–2014
- Alan Bean ↗American astronaut and painter · 1932–2018
- Anna Freud ↗Austrian-British psychoanalyst · 1895–1982
- Krzysztof Penderecki ↗Polish composer and conductor · 1933–2020
- Vladimir Horowitz ↗Russian/Ukrainian and American pianist · 1903–1989
- Cyd Charisse ↗American dancer and actress · 1922–2008
- Robert Fogel ↗American economist and historian · 1926–2013
- Tadeusz Mazowiecki ↗Polish politician and prime minister · 1927–2013
- William Giauque ↗American chemist · 1895–1982
- László Bíró ↗Hungarian-Argentine inventor · 1899–1985
- Teresa Wright ↗American actress · 1918–2005
- Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ↗Sheikh of Abu Dhabi from 1966 to 2003 · 1918–2004
- Amrita Pritam ↗Indian novelist, poet, and essayist (in Hindi and Punjabi languages) · 1919–2005
- Edward Calvin Kendall ↗American chemist · 1886–1972
- Ferhat Abbas ↗Algerian politician (1899-1985), President of Provisional Government of Algeria, president of the National Constitutional Assembly of Algeria · 1899–1985
- Michel Legrand ↗French film score composer · 1932–2019
- Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah ↗Emir of Kuwait · 1937–2023
- Frederick Chapman Robbins ↗American doctor · 1916–2003
- Frederick Forsyth ↗English novelist · 1938–2025
- Hank Aaron ↗American baseball player · 1934–2021
- Paul Scofield ↗British actor · 1922–2008
- Bea Arthur ↗American actress and comedienne · 1922–2009
- Jerry West ↗American basketball player and executive · 1938–2024
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