1986 (people)


 * 1 January - Actor Colin Morgan was born.
 * 5 January - Continuity supervisor Pamela Davies died.
 * 6 January - Actor Elizabeth Tan was born.
 * 9 January - Actor Simon Lipkin was born.
 * 11 January - Actor Kamara Bacchus was born.
 * 26 January - Actor Alix Wilton Regan was born.
 * 2 February - Actor Donald Eccles died.
 * 16 February - Narrator Howard Da Silva died.
 * 6 March - Actor Kyle Redmond-Jones was born.
 * 6 April - Actor David Avery was born.
 * 27 April - Actor Jenna Coleman was born.
 * 14 May - Actor William Lindsay died.
 * 17 May - Actor Erin Richards was born.
 * 21 May - Actor David Ajala was born.
 * 24 May - Writer Robert Holmes died.
 * 25 May - Actor Lauren Crace was born.
 * 31 May - Actor Sylvia Coleridge died.
 * June - Script editor Sheena Bucktowonsing was born.
 * 11 June - Actor Reed De Rouen died.
 * 23 June - Actor Nigel Stock died.
 * 23 June - Actor Colin Ryan was born.
 * 23 June - Actor Willis Chung was born.
 * 19 August - Actor Sara Lloyd Gregory was born.
 * 15 September - Actor Christian Cooke was born.
 * 20 September - Script Editor Dennis Spooner died.
 * 28 September - Actor Denis Carey died.
 * 8 October - Actor Michael Obiora was born.
 * 10 October - Actor Lucy Griffiths was born.
 * 11 October - Director John Crockett died.
 * 28 October - Actor and Writer Ian Marter died.
 * 10 December - Actor Jack Shalloo was born.
 * 11 December - Sound recordist Maurice Askew died.
 * 14 December - Actor Dermot Tuohy died.
 * 21 December - Actor Eve Mauro was born.
 * 26 December - Actor Leslie Dwyer died.
 * 30 December - Actor Faye Marsay was born.