Ron Eldard

Understudied Matthew Broderick in the Broadway production of "Biloxi Blues" in 1986 and was unceremoniously fired by playwright Neil Simon during an understudy rehearsal just days before he was to take over the part.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1986.

Jim Backus

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 43-45. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Cayden Boyd

Says his favorite movies include Top Gun (1986) and A Few Good Men (1992).

Joel McCrea

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 574-575. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Margaret Mitchell

Mitchell was pictured on a one-cent American postage stamp in the "Great Americans" series, and hers was issued for sale at post offices on June 30, 1986.

Mervyn LeRoy

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 527-530. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Chris Penn

He and his brother Sean Penn also appeared as brothers in At Close Range (1986). In addition to that, their actress mother, Eileen Ryan, played their grandmother.

Played the son of Christopher Walken's character in At Close Range (1986) and then years later, played Walken's younger brother in The Funeral (1996).

Charlie Sheen

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38.

Played a stoner in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). Even though his real life drug addiction hadn't started yet, Sheen told a magazine he stayed up for 48 hours to look the role.

Credited actor Keith David with saving his life during the shooting of Platoon (1986). According to Sheen, while shooting a battle scene in an open-doored Huey helicopter, the pilot banked too hard and Sheen was thrown towards the open door. He would have plunged through the door and fallen to his death, but David grabbed on to him and pulled him back in.

He once owned the baseball hit by Mookie Wilson in the 1986 World Series that went under Boston Red Sox's first baseman Bill Buckner's legs for the game-winning RBI. (He's since sold the ball).

Wendy Williams

Graduated from Northeastern University in 1986.

Donna Reed

Had a close relationship with her TV daughter, Shelley Fabares. Was considered by Fabares as her second mother until Reed's death in 1986.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 725-727. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

Jim Nantz

Has covered golf at CBS since 1986 and has been the golf anchor since 1994.

Janet Jackson

The last five of her eight albums (excluding her first two albums "Janet Jackson," "Dream Street" and her greatest hits album "Design of a Decade: 1986 -1996") have all hit #1.

With her 1986 song "When I Think of You", she and her brother, Michael Jackson, became the first siblings in the rock era to have #1 songs as soloists.

The last five of her eight albums (excluding her first two albums "Janet Jackson," "Dream Street" and her greatest hits album "Design of a Decade: 1986 -1996") have all hit #1.