* 1986 – Nikolas Asprogenis, Cypriot footballer

* 1986 – Aaron Curry, American football player

* 1986 – Ryota Moriwaki, Japanese footballer

* 1986 – Tara Osseck, American model, Miss Missouri 2009

* 1986 – Lorena, Spanish singer

* 1986 – Blerim Džemaili, Swiss footballer

* 1986 – Marcel Granollers, Spanish tennis player

* 1986 – Athena Lundberg, American model

* 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

* 1986 – Dianna Agron, American actress, singer, and dancer

* 1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player ( d. 1986 )

* 1986 – Mario, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

* 1986 – Nabil El Zhar, Moroccan footballer

* 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters ( 13 inches ) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

* 1986 – Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player

* 1986 – Reby Sky, American model and wrestler

* 1941 – Way Bandy, American make-up artist ( d. 1986 )

* 1986 – Michael Lerchl, German footballer

* 1986 – Daniel Preussner, German rugby player

* 1986 – Tyler " Telle " Smith, American singer-songwriter and musician ( The Word Alive and In Fear and Faith )

* 1986 – Rafaela Zanella, Brazilian model, Miss Brasil 2006

Mike Gatting was the captain in 1986 – 87 but his team started badly and attracted some criticism.

* 1941 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter ( d. 1986 )

* 1986 – Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier

* 1986 – Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer ( b. 1928 )

With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken public on London's Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) in 1986.

Westminster John Knox Pr., 1986.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

In 1986, during John Byrne's revamping of the character, the emphasis was on Superman being the manufactured persona of Clark Kent, the side of the character he most identifies with.

" In John Byrne's 1986 origin version The Man of Steel, instead of adopting him through an orphanage, the Kents passed Clark off as their own child after their farm was isolated for months by a series of snowstorms that took place shortly after they found his rocket, using their past medical history of various miscarriages to account for their reasons for keeping Martha's pregnancy secret.

* Hoyt L. Edge, Robert L. Morris, Joseph H. Rush, John Palmer, Foundations of Parapsychology: Exploring the Boundaries of Human Capability, Routledge Kegan Paul, 1986, ISBN 0-7102-0226-1

Proposals to allow divorce were put by referendum by two Fine Gael – led governments, in 1986 under FitzGerald, and in 1995 under John Bruton, passing very narrowly on this second attempt.

In Britain, the Courage brewing group was acquired in 1986 by Australian businessman John Elliott.

Banned movies included The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 by Finnish director Caspar Wrede and Born American by Finnish director Renny Harlin in 1986.

Widespread discontent in Haiti began in 1983, when Pope John Paul II condemned the regime during a visit, finally provoking a rebellion, and in February 1986, after months of disorder, the army forced Duvalier to resign and go into exile.

The term was coined by Reformed Baptist pastor John Piper in his 1986 book Desiring God.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

* John Barrell, The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt ( 1986 ).

* 1916 – John D. MacDonald, American novelist ( d. 1986 )

1986, The Chronicle of John Malalas: A Translation, Byzantina Australiensia 4 ( Melbourne: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies ) ISBN 0-9593626-2-2

There she soon met Freda Boner ( now Freda Love ) and John Strohm, forming the Blake Babies with them in 1986, at the age of 19.

On 8 June 1979 Pope John Paul II prayed at her sarcophagus ; and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments officially affirmed her beatification on 8 August 1986.

* John Anthony Walker ( born 1937 ), American communications specialist convicted in 1986 of spying for the Soviet Union

* Kenrick, Philip M. ( 1986 ), Excavations at Sabratha, 1948-1951: a Report on the Excavations conducted by Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins, ( Journal of Roman Studies Monographs 2 ), London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1986.

Dream West was a TV 1986 docudrama that includes Kit Carson and John C. Fremont as characters.

In the 1986 limited series The Man of Steel, John Byrne redesigned Lex Luthor from scratch, intending to make him a villain that the 1980s would recognize: an evil corporate executive.