* 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 )

In 1986, she attracted a blaze of international publicity when reporter Juliet O ' Neill caught her slapping her social secretary Connie Gibson Connors at an official dinner she and her husband were hosting in honour of the Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney and U. S. Vice-President George H. Bush.

Between 1986 and 1988 he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company appearing in productions of Romeo and Juliet, The Fair Maid of the West, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

* ' Progress and Prospects ' ( of the draft treaty on European Union ) in Juliet Lodge ( ed ), Foreword by Altiero Spinelli ; ' European Union: The European Community in Search of a Future ' London, Macmillan ( 1986 ) ISBN 0-333-39739-8

Bullies is a 1986 Canadian action-drama film about a feud between two families in a small town in a similar vein to the story of Romeo and Juliet.

* Oneworld Publications, a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey

Cusack starred opposite Sean Bean in the 1986 RSC production of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet, Oedipus the King, Away, Taming of the Shrew, The Game of Love and Chance and more than 20 other professional credits with Queensland Theatre Company since 1986.

The Renaissance Theatre Company was founded in 1987 by Kenneth Branagh and David Parfitt as a development of the work they had been doing periodically on the London ' Fringe ', producing and appearing in lunchtime shows, leading up to Branagh's full-scale production of Romeo and Juliet, at the Lyric Studio in Hammersmith in August 1986 co-starring Branagh and Samantha Bond.

In January 1986, Don Pardo replaced Hal Simms as announcer on the NBC soap opera Search for Tomorrow.

The work, routinely described as " the first masterpiece of electronic music " ( Simms 1986, 391 ; Kohl 1998, 61 ) and " an opus, in the most emphatic sense of the term " ( Decroupet and Ungeheuer 1998, 97 ), is significant in that it seamlessly integrates electronic sounds with the human voice by means of matching voice resonances with pitch and creating sounds of phonemes electronically.

* Simms, Bryan R. 1986.

In 1986 former editor Kurt Andersen co-founded the satirical magazine Spy, which employed Lampoon writers Paul Simms and Eric Kaplan, and published the work of Lampoon alumni Patricia Marx, Lawrence O ' Donnell and Mark O ' Donnell.

Perhaps the most notable example of this was when the San Francisco 49ers, who had clinched a playoff berth, lost their regular-season finale in 1988 to the Los Angeles Rams, thereby keeping the New York Giants ( who had defeated the 49ers in the playoffs in both 1985 and 1986, also injuring 49er quarterback Joe Montana in the latter year's game ) from qualifying for the postseason ; after the game, Giants quarterback Phil Simms angrily accused the 49ers of " laying down like dogs.

At the time of Anderson's retirement following the 1986 season, he held NFL records for consecutive pass completions ( 20 ), completion percentage for a single game ( 20 of 22, 90. 9 %, vs. Pittsburgh in 1974 ) and completion percentage for a season ( 70. 6 % in 1982 ), as well as the Super Bowl records for completion percentage ( 73. 5 %) ( since broken by Phil Simms ) and completions ( 25 ; Tom Brady and Drew Brees each hold the current record with 32 ).

In his first five seasons, despite earning a Super Bowl ring with the 1986 Giants, he played sparingly, rarely making an appearance as he was the third string quarterback behind both Simms and Jeff Rutledge.

Simms, War and Politics in Ireland 1649-1730, Hambledon Press, London 1986.

* Shipwreck Kelly ( John Simms Kelly, 1910 – 1986 ), American football player

* James Simms (" Jimmy ")-Released from prison in 1986, his Whereabouts are unknown.