* 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 – 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 )

* 1986 – Aschwin Wildeboer, Spanish swimmer

* 1986 – Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer

* 1986 – Xisco, Spanish footballer

* 1986 – Mario Casas, Spanish actor

* 1986 – Sergio Rodriguez, Spanish basketball player

* 1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player

* 1986 – Adrián Vallés, Spanish race car driver

* 1986 – Raúl García, Spanish footballer

* 1986 – David Silva, Spanish footballer

* 1986 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.

* 1986 – Miguel Pérez Cuesta, Spanish footballer

* 1986 – Pedro León, Spanish footballer

Butragueño amassed La Liga totals of 341 games and 123 goals for his main club, in 12 seasons, and represented the Spanish national team in two World Cups ( being the second top scorer in the 1986 edition ) and as many European Championships, scoring 26 international goals for his country, a record that stood for several years.

In 1986, Zaragoza won its third Spanish Cup, defeating Barcelona 1 – 0.

The Oct. 1986 Smithsonian magazine explored the " melting timepieces " artwork of the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí.

In 1986, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas ( former Governor of Michoacán and son of the former president of Mexico Lázaro Cárdenas ) formed the " Democratic Current " ( Spanish: Corriente Democrática ) of the PRI, which criticized the federal government for reducing spending on social programs to increase payments on foreign debt.

* Agustín Sauto Arana ( 1908 – 1986 ), Spanish footballer

The first Spanish national championships took place in Spain in 1986.

His nationality was first addressed by contemporary Spanish chronicler Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, who, in his Historia General de los hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas y tierra firme del Mar Oceano, referred to Cabrillo as Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Português, Still, historian Henry Kelsey, in his exhaustive 1986 biography Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, writes that Cabrillo appears to have been born in Castilla.

Regueiro began acting in Spanish language soap operas in 1986 when she participated in Cristal and the miniseries Mansion de Luxe alongside another famous Venezuelan actor, Carlos Mata.

Slow Food began in Italy with the founding of its forerunner organization, Arcigola, in 1986 to resist the opening of a McDonald's near the Spanish Steps in Rome.

Vadiz released her only album, Amor en Mil Idiomas ( Love in a Thousand Languages ), in 1986, produced by her mother, in Spanish, English and Italian.

On 2 December 1986 AP leader Manuel Fraga resigned following fierce internal party fighting in the aftermath of another failure to dislodge the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ).