In the year 1986, the first PC virus starts to spread (Jan 19), space shuttle Challenger explodes right after launch (Jan 28), Pixar Animation Studios open in California (Feb 3), the Soviet Union launches the Mir space station (Feb 19), Olof Palme is shot to death in Stockholm (Feb 28), Rendez-vous Concert in Houston by Jean-Michel Jarre (Apr 5), leak at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl spreads disaster (Apr 26), Desmond Tutu becomes the first black bishop in South Africa (Sep 7), the Oprah Winfrey Show premieres in syndication (Sep 8), the Phantom of the Opera opens in London (Oct 9), Mike Tyson wins his first world boxing title (Nov 22) - and all these fine people were born:
1986-0101
1986-0102 Wille Rydman* politician - Helsinki, Finland
1986-0103 Liam Treadwell* jockey - Arundel, West Sussex, England (2020/34)
1986-0105 Veli-Matti Savinainen* hockey player - Espoo, Finland
1986-0106 Petter Northug* cross-country skier/OG - Framverran, Mosvik, Norway
1986-0115 Mariya Abakumova* athlete/javelin - Stavropol, Russia, Soviet Union
1986-0116 Marcel Hug* ‘The Silver Bullet’/Paralympic athlete (wheelchair racer)/OG - Pfyn, Switzerland
1986-0117 Antoaneta Kostadinova* (b Boneva) sport shooter/OS - Targovishte, Bulgaria
1986-0117 Chloe Rose Lattanzi* singer/actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1986-0121 Sushant Singh Rajput* actor - India (2020/34)
1986-0201
1986-0202 Gemma Arterton* actress/producer - Gravesend, Kent, England
1986-0205 Brittany Allen* actress/producer - Toronto, ON Canada
1986-0207 T. J. Dillashaw* mixed martial artist - Sonora, CA USA
1986-0210
1986-0211 Gabriel Boric* politician/P - Punta Arenas, Chile
1986-0216 Diego Gordon* football player - Rosario, Uruguay
1986-0218 Blake Comeau* hockey player - Meadow Lake, SK Canada
1986-0220
1986-0221 Charlotte Church* (b Reed) singer-songwriter/ actress/political activist - Cardiff, Wales
1986-0225 James Phelps* actor (Harry Potter films)/twin of Oliver - Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England
1986-0225 Oliver Phelps* actor (Harry Potter films)/twin of James - Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England
1986-0226 Nacho Monreal* football player - Pamplona, Spain
1986-0226 Teresa Palmer* actress/writer/model - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
1986-0228
1986-0301
1986-0302 Ethan Peck* actor/ grandson of Gregory Peck/w Finnish ancestry - Los Angeles, CA USA
1986-0304 Amanda Collin* (b Bjerre-Peterse) actress - Denmark
1986-0309 Bryan Bickell* hockey player - Bowmanville, ON Canada
1986-0309 Fátima Molina* actress/singer - Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
1986-0309 Brittany Snow* actress - Tampa, FL USA
1986-0310
1986-0313 Gillian Alexy* actress - Perth, WA Australia
1986-0313 Whitney Genoway* water polo player - Canada
1986-0314 Jamie Bell* actor - Billingham, County Durham, England
1986-0315 Alexandra Daddario* actress - New York City, NY USA
1986-0318 Li Lykke Zachrisson* singer “Lykke Li”/songwriter/ model - Ystad, Sweden
1986-0320
1986-0321 Scott Eastwood* actor/son of Clint Eastwood - Monterey County, CA USA
1986-0322 Ardalan Esmaili* Iranian-Swedish actor/ to Sweden at age 2 - Teheran, Iran
1986-0322 Kamila Lićwinko* high jumper - Bielsk Podlaski, Poland
1986-0323 Kangana Ranaut* actress - Bhambla, Himachal Pradesh, India
1986-0326 Jessica McClure* little girl rescued - Midland, TX USA
1986-0326 Maija Saari* football player - Vaasa, Finland
1986-0327 Manuel Neuer* football goalie - Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
1986-0328 Stefani “Lady Gaga” Germanotta* singer - Manhattan, NY USA
1986-0328 Young Scooter* (b Kenneth Bailey) rapper - Walterboro, SC USA (2025/39)
1986-0329
1986-0330 Sergio Ramos* football player - Camas, Spain
1986-0331
1986-0401 Mahdi Olad* Paralympic athlete (shot put)/OG - Tehran, Iran
1986-0406 David Avery* actor - Birmingham, England
1986-0408 Igor Akinfeev* football goalie - Vidnoye, Soviet Union
1986-0409 Leighton Meester* model/ actress/singer - Fort Worth, TX USA
1986-0409 Chloe Ting* actuarial analyst/fitness personality YouTuber/to Australia at age 16 - Brunei
1986-0410 Olivia Borlée* sprinter/OGr - Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium
1986-0410 Vincent Kompany* football player/manager - Uccle, Belgium
1986-0410 Kara Winger* (b Patterson) athlete (javelin) - Seattle, WA USA
1986-0411 Natalie Anderson* Survivor S29 Contestant - New York, NY USA
1986-0412 Matt McGorry* actor - New York City, NY USA
1986-0414 Anne Watanabe* fashion model/actress/singer - Tokyo, Japan
1986-0422 Amber Heard* actress - Austin, TX USA
1986-0429 Crystal Hefner* (b Harris) model/widow & third wife of Hugh Hefner - Lake Havasu City, AZ USA
1986-0429 Bev Priestman* futsal player/football manager - Consett, England
1986-0430
1986-0501 Abby Huntsman* reporter (Fox News) - Philadelphia, PA USA
1986-0503 Poppy Delevingne* model/ socialite/actress - London, England
1986-0504 Devan Dubnyk* hockey goalie/WJC - Regina, SK Canada
1986-0505 Pavlo Kyrylenko* prosecutor/ politician/governor - Makiivka, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1986-0506
1986-0507 Nate Prosser* hockey player - Elk River, MN USA
1986-0509 Grace Gummer* actress/ daughter of Meryl Streep - New York City, NY USA
1986-0510
1986-0513 Robert Pattinson* actor - London, England
1986-0515 Claire Buffie* photographer - Indianapolis, IN USA
1986-0516 Megan Fox* actress/model - Oak Ridge, TN USA
1986-0516 Tuomas Seppänen* athlete (hammer) - Pori, Finland
1986-0517 Tahj Mowry* actor/singer - Honolulu, HI USA
1986-0518 Kevin Anderson* tennis player - Johannesburg, South Africa
1986-0520 Matti Juhani Saari* mass murderer - Pyhäjärvi, Finland (2008/22)
1986-0522 Hashemiyeh Motaghian* Paralympic athlete (javelin)/OG - Avaz, Khuzestan, Iran
1986-0526 Ástrid Bergès-Frisbey* Spanish-French actress - Barcelona, Spain
1986-0528 Seth Rollins* (b Colby Daniel Lopez) pro wrestler - Davenport, IA USA
1986-0531 Matti Suur-Hamari* para-snowboarder/OG - Rovaniemi, Finland
1986-0601
1986-0603 Rafael Nadal* tennis player - Manacor, Balearic Islands, Spain
1986-0603 Josh Segarra* actor - Longwood, FL USA
1986-0604 Oona Castilla Chaplin* actress/grandchild of Charlie Chaplin - Madrid, Spain
1986-0604 Michael Johnson* mixed martial artist - St. Louis, MO USA
1986-0605
1986-0606 Cameron Britton* American preschool teacher/actor - Burlington, ON Canada
1986-0606 Leslie Carter* singer/ sister of the singers Nick and Aaron Carter - Tampa, FL USA (2012/25)
1986-0610
1986-0611 Keisuke Honda* football player - Osaka, Japan
1986-0613 Ashley Olsen* actress/producer/fashion designer - Sherman Oaks, CA USA
1986-0613 Mary-Kate Olsen* actress/producer/fashion designer - Sherman Oaks, CA USA
1986-0615 Stjepan Hauser* Croatian cellist - Pula, Croatia, Yugoslavia - YouTube
1986-0616
1986-0618 Richard Madden* actor - Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland
1986-0620 Dreama Walker* actress - Tampa, FL USA
1986-0623 Salwan Momika* refugee in Sweden/activist/homicide victim - Qaraqosh, Ba’athist Iraq (2025/38)
1986-0624
1986-0627 Sam Claflin* actor - Ipswich, Suffolk, England
1986-0627 LaShawn Merritt* athlete (sprinter) - Portsmouth, VA USA
1986-0628 Suzuko Mimori* 三森すずこ actress/voice actress/singer - Tokyo, Japan
1986-0629 Edward Maya* (b Eduard Marian Ilie) musician/singer/ songwriter - Bucharest, Romania
1986-0630 Alicia Fox* model/pro wrestler - Ponte Vedra Beach, FL USA
1986-0630 Allegra Versace* businesswoman/ heiress and niece of Gianni Versace - Milan, Italy
1986-0701 Jean-Christophe Napoléon Bonaparte* prince/ great-great-great-great-nephew of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte - Saint-Raphaël, Var, France
1986-0702 Katie Taylor* football player/boxer - Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
1986-0703 Ola Toivonen* football player - Degerfors, Sweden
1986-0705 Alexander Radulov* hockey player/WC - Nizhny Tagil, Russia, Soviet Union
1986-0708 Kaiane Aldorino* Miss World 2009/politician/Mayor of Gibraltar - Gibraltar, UK
1986-0709 Teemu Roivainen* singer (Tango King 2014) - Oulu, Finland
1986-0710 Wyatt Russell* actor/son of Kurt Russell - Los Angeles, CA USA
1986-0711 Yum-Yum Arocho* salon owner/Survivor contestant - San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
1986-0714 Alexander Gerndt* football player - Visby, Sweden
1986-0715 Yahya Abdl-Mateen II* actor - New Orleans, LA USA
1986-0715 Dinesh Priyantha* Paralympic athlete (javelin)/OG - Kagama, Sri Lanka
1986-0716 Laura Carmichael* actress - Southampton, Hampshire, England
1986-0719 Pang Wei* sport shooter/OG - Baoding, Hebei, China
1986-0721 Diane Guerrero* actress/ singer - Passaic, NJ USA
1986-0724 Jai McDowall* singer-songwriter - Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland
1986-0725
1986-0728 Nolan Gerard Funk* actor /singer - Vancouver, BC Canada
1986-0728 Huma Qureshi* model/actress - New Delhi, India
1986-0730 Arthur Abele* athlete (decathlon/EG) - Mutlangen, West Germany
1986-0731 Evgeni Malkin* hockey player/SC - Magnitogorsk, Russia Soviet Union
1986-0803 Darya Domracheva* biathlete/OG - Minsk, Belarus, Soviet Union
1986-0806 Nanna Blondell* Swedish actress/director/w Ghanaian background - Sweden
1986-0806 Liu Li* Paralympic athlete (shotput/OG & club throw/OG) - Tangshan, Hebei, China
1986-0807
1986-0808 Sudesh Fitzgerald* pro darts player - Georgetown, Guyana
1986-0808 Mark Parsons* football manager - Cranleigh, England
1986-0813 Demetrious Johnson* mixed martial artist - Madisonville, KY USA
1986-0816 Ted-Jan Bloemen* Dutch-Canadian speed skater - Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
1986-0817 Deborah Feldman* autobiographer (Unorthodox) - New York, NY USA
1986-0818 Miesha Tate* mixed martial artist - Tacoma, WA USA
1986-0818 Andreas Weise* singer/television personality/son of Arne Weise - Stockholm, Sweden
1986-0821 Usain Bolt* athlete/sprinter/OG - Trelawny, Jamaica
1986-0823 Joe Grimaldi* hockey player - Ronkonkoma, NY USA
1986-0828 Armie Hammer* actor/ greatgrandson of Armand Hammer - Santa Monica, CA USA
1986-0831 Blake Wheeler* hockey player - Plymouth, MN USA
1986-0901 Gaël Monfils* tennis player - Paris, France
1986-0901 Stella Mwangi* Kenyan Norwegian singer/ songwriter/ rapper - Nairobi, Kenya
1986-0904 Eetu Karvonen* swimmer/coach - Tampere, Finland
1986-0908 Leah LaBelle* singer - Toronto, ON Canada (2018/31)
1986-0909 Brittney Reese* athlete (long jump/OG) - Inglewood, CA USA
1986-0910
1986-0913 Kamui Kobayashi* 小林 可夢偉 racing driver - Amagasaki, Japan
1986-0915 Jenna McCorkell* figure skater - Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
1986-0916 Ian Harding* American actor - Heidelberg, West Germany
1986-0919 Sally Pearson* (b McLellan) hurdler/OG - Sydney, Australia
1986-0928 Jonathan Estrada Becerra* actor/ television host - Quito, Ecuador
1986-0930 Olivier Giroud* football player - Chambéry, France
1986-1001 Jurnee Smollett* actress - New York City, NY USA
1986-1005 Niko Saarinen* television personality/presenter - Uusikaupunki, Finland
1986-1006
1986-1007 Tuomas Kiiskinen* hockey player - Kuopio, Finland
1986-1008 Brianna Maitland* disappeared teenager - Burlington, VT USA (2004/17)
1986-1009 Denis Gnezdilov* Paralympic athlete (shot put)/OG - Rustavi, Russia, Soviet Union
1986-1010 Samuel Hunt* actor - Chicago, IL USA
1986-1012 Li Wenliang* 李文亮 ophthalmologist - Beizhen, Liaoning, China (2020/33)
1986-1014 Kelly-Ann Baptiste* sprinter - Plymouth, Tobago
1986-1014 Sara Fabel* (b Sari Virtanen) model/tattoo artist - Espoo, Finland
1986-1021 Natalee Holloway* high school student - Clinton, MS USA (disappeared in Aruba 2005/18)
1986-1023 Jessica Stroup* actress - Anderson, SC USA
1986-1024 Oliver Jackson-Cohen* actor - Wimbledon, London, England
1986-1027 Alba Flores* actress (La casa de papel) - Madrid, Spain
1986-1029 Tina Yuzuki* 柚木ティナ AV idol/singer/actress - Tokyo, Japan
1986-1030 Thomas Morgenstern* ski jumper/OG - Spittal an der Drau, Austria
1986-1031
1986-1101 Penn Badgley* actor/ musician - Baltimore, MD USA
1986-1102 Izu Ugonoh* Polish-Nigerian mixed martial artist - Szczecin, Poland
1986-1103 Antonia Thomas* actress - London, England
1986-1104 Hanna Jaff* television personality/ speaker/activist - San Diego, CA USA
1986-1105 Kasper Schmeichel* football goalie - Copenhagen, Denmark
1986-1106 Robin S.** - Stockholm, Sweden
1986-1111
1986-1114 Cory Michael Smith* actor - Columbus, OH USA
1986-1115 Winston Duke* actor - Argyle, Trinidad and Tobago
1986-1115 Sania Mirza* tennis player - Mumbai, India
1986-1120 Kingsley Ben-Adir* actor - Kentish Town, London, England
1986-1125 Katie Cassidy* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1986-1126 Carly Gullickson* tennis player - Cincinnati, OH USA
1986-1128 Arjun Gupta* actor - Tampa, FL USA1986-1130
1986-1201
1986-1206 Matt Niskanen* hockey player/SC - Virginia, MN USA
1986-1209 Wanda Nara* television personality/entertainer/of Lebanese descent - Boulogne Sur Mer, Argentina
1986-1215 Keylor Navas* football goalie - Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica
1986-1219 Annie Murphy* actress - Ottawa, ON Canada
1986-1222 Arianne Caoili* Filipino-Australian chess player/ financial consultant - Manila, Philippines (2020/33)
1986-1223 T. J. Oshie* hockey player/SC - Mount Vernon, WA USA
1986-1226 Hugo Lloris* football goalie - Nice, France
1986-1227 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce* (b Fraser) sprinter/OG - Kingston, Jamaica
1986-1231
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