Approximately 143,836 people died worldwide on October 18, 1986.
Unusual Deaths in 1986
Unusual Deaths in 1986
- While on the air giving a traffic report, the helicopter that jane dornacker was riding in stalled and crashed into the hudson river, killing her. this was the second helicopter crash she had been in that year.
- Great San Salvador Earthquake
- Lake Nyos
- Winisk Flood, 1986
- 2006 - Anna Russell, English music satirist
- 2006 - Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda
- 2005 - Johnny Haynes, English footballer
- 2005 - John Hollis, British actor
- 2004 - Veerappan, Indian bandit and smuggler
- 2003 - Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Spanish writer
- 2003 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas
- 2002 - Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer
- 2002 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut
- 2001 - Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician
- 2000 - Gwen Verdon, American dancer and actress
- 2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress
- 1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet
- 1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor
- 1983 - Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish anarchist
- 1983 - Willie Jones, baseball player
- 1982 - John Robarts, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
- 1982 - Pierre Mendès-France, French politician
- 1982 - Dwain Esper, American film director
- 1982 - Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States
- 1978 - Ramón Mercader, Assassin of Leon Trotsky
- Jan-Carl Raspe
- Gudrun Ensslin
- 1977 - Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides Andreas Baader
- 1976 - Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer
- 1975 - Al Lettieri, American actor
- 1973 - Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher
- 1973 - Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher
- 1966 - Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant (Kmart)
- 1966 - Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman
- 1961 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress
- 1959 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete
- 1948 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal
- 1942 - Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter
- 1932 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast
- 1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor
- 1921 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria
- 1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist
- 1893 - Charles Gounod, French composer
- 1889 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor
- 1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician
- 1865 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor
- 1817 - Etienne-Nicolas Méhul, French composer
- 1775 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian
- 1770 - John Manners, Marquess of Granby, British soldier
- 1744 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain
- 1739 - Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist
- 1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter
- 1667 - Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1646 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary
- 1604 - Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman
- 1570 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil
- 1564 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician
- 1558 - Maria of Austria, wife of Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia
- 1545 - John Taverner, English composer
- 1541 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland
- 1503 - Pope Pius III
- 1417 - Pope Gregory XII
- 1141 - Margrave Leopold IV of Austria
- 1101 - Hugh of Vermandois, son of Henry I of France
- 1035 - Sancho III of Navarre
- 707 - Pope John VII