1986

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
• April 3 - Amanda Bynes, American actress and variety show host
• 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
• August 16 - Shawn Pyfrom, American actor
• September 9 - Michael J. Sox, German singer
• September 12 - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
• October 31 - Christie Hayes, Australian actress
• November 2 - Lara Sacher, Australian actress
• November 5 - BoA, Korean singer
• November 3 - Jasmine Trias, American singer
• November 25 - Amber Hagerman, American murder victim (d. 1996)

Deaths

• January 1 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
• January 8 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
• January 14 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
• January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, American science fiction writer, 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 11 - Frank Herbert, American science fiction author (b. 1920)
• February 27 - Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)
• February 28 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
• 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)

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.
• April 21 - Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on live television and finds nothing.
• Bubble Bobble is created, a video game popular world-wide

Nobel Prizes

Movies released

• Little Shop of Horrors
• Top Gun
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Stand by Me
• Back to School
• Ailens
• Three Amigos
• Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
• Club Paradise
• 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
• "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