About the day » Saturday February 1, 1986Calender converter

• Jurgen van Ark († 1986)
• Brandon Jay Feister, Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan, VS († 2019)

• Annechien Super (90), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Annechien Super (90)
• Adrianus Broers (68), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Beulah May Hicks (89), Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Johanna den Breejen (82), Hardinxveld
• Aart Ruisch (83), Heemstede
• Adriana Magdalena Van Craeynest (80), Torhout
• Anna Bloem (88), Musselkanaal (gem. Stadskanaal)
• Adriana Maria Willems (98), Balgoij, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis Griffioen (83), Driebergen

• 1984 » Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
• 1985 » Dean Shiels, Irish footballer
• 1986 » Jorrit Bergsma, Dutch speed skater
• 1986 » Lauren Conrad, American fashion designer and author
• 1987 » Austin Jackson, American baseball player
• 1987 » Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
• 1987 » Moises Henriques, Portuguese-Australian cricketer
• 1987 » Ronda Rousey, American mixed martial artist and actress
• 1987 » Sebastian Boenisch, Polish footballer
• 1988 » Brett Anderson, American baseball player

• 1976 » George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (b. 1929)
• 1981 » Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American engineer and businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (b. 1892)
• 1981 » Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1989 » Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (b. 1918)
• 1992 » Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Ray Crawford, American race car driver, pilot, and businessman (b. 1915)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
• February 25 » People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
• March 21 » Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
• April 29 » Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
• June 30 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
• September 28 » The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.
• October 9 » The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.

The temperature on February 1, 1986 was between 0.8 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.