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Buddhist calendar 2480
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Ethiopian calendar 1928 – 1929
Hebrew calendar 5696 5697
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 - Shaka Samvat 1858 – 1859
 - Kali Yuga 5037 – 5038
Holocene calendar 11936
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Islamic calendar 1354 – 1355
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 - Imperial Year Kōki 2596
(皇紀2596年)
Julian calendar 1981
Korean calendar 4269
Thai solar calendar 2479
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Year 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events[]

January[]

March[]

Hoover Dam

March 1: Hoover Dam is completed

  • March 1 – Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
  • March 7 – In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Nazi Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
  • March 9 – Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada steps down as Prime Minister of Japan and is replaced by radical militarist Koki Hirota.
  • March 17March 18 – St. Patrick's Day Flood: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suffers the worst flooding in its history.
  • March 26 – The longest game in the history of the National Hockey League was played. The Montreal Maroons and Detroit Red Wings went scoreless until 16 and a half minutes into the sixth OT when Mud Bruneteau ends it at 2:25 in the morning. It would be the longest game until May 4, 2000.

April[]

  • April 3Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of kidnapping and killing Charles Lindbergh III, is executed in New Jersey.
  • April 5 – A tornado hits Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 216 and injuring over 700 (the 4th deadliest tornado in U.S. history).
  • April 6 – Two tornadoes strike Gainesville, Georgia. The smaller tornado hits north Gainsville, the stronger tornado the west side of town. 203 die and 1,600 are injured in the 5th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
  • April 11 – The first Butlins holiday camp opens at Skegness. It was officially opened by Amy Johnson from Hull, who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
  • April 19 – The 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the British government and opposition to Jewish immigration begins.

May[]

  • May 2Peter and the Wolf, a Russian fairy tale of Sergei Prokofiev's composition, debuts at the Nezlobin Theater in Moscow, Soviet Union.
  • May 5 – Italian forces occupy Addis Ababa.
  • May 7Italy annexes Ethiopia.
  • May 9Italian East Africa is formed from the Italian territories of Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Italian Somaliland.
  • May 12 – The Santa Fe railroad in the United States inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.
  • May 25 – The Remington Rand strike of 1936–1937 begins, spawning the notorious "Mohawk Valley formula", a corporate plan for strikebreaking.
  • May 27
    • The first flight by the Irish airline Aer Lingus takes place.
    • British luxury liner RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic
  • May 30Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind is first published.

June[]

  • June
    • A major heat wave strikes North America; high temperature records are set and thousands die.
    • The first production model PCC trolley car, built by St. Louis Car Company, is placed in service by Pittsburgh Railways.
  • June 7
    • The general strike in France is ended by the Matignon Agreements.
    • The Steel Workers Organizing Committee is founded in the United States.
  • June 15 – An army laboratory explodes in Estonia, killing 60.
  • June 19Max Schmeling knocks out Joe Louis in the 12th round of their heavyweight boxing match at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
  • June 26Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, makes its maiden flight.
  • June 29United States Maritime Commission formed

July[]

  • July 11Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
  • July 1314 – Peak of July 1936 heat wave: The U.S. states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature. At Mio in northern Michigan, it soars to 113°F (45°C).
  • July 17 – The Army of Africa launches a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War.

August[]

  • August 1 – The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history. Note that John Logie Baird had previously broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931.
  • August 3African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics.
  • August 14
    • Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the last public execution in the United States
    • 1936 Summer Olympics: The United States men's national basketball team wins the first Olympic basketball tournament in the final game over Canada, 19–8.
  • August 19 – The first of the Moscow Trials begins in the Soviet Union.
  • August 26Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 is signed.
  • August 30

September[]

  • September – Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (1936) is signed.
  • September 45English-born aviatrix Beryl Markham becomes the first woman to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight, from Abingdon-on-Thames, England, to Baleine, Nova Scotia.
  • September 7 – The last known thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

October[]

  • October 11Earl Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and builds Mississippi's first permanent rodeo arena at Columbia, Mississippi.
  • October 19 – H.R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, wins a race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights, beating out Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of the New York Times. The flight takes 18½ days.
  • October 25Rome-Berlin Axis is formed.
  • October 29 – The historic Uptown Theater opens in Washington D.C.

November[]

  • November 2
    • The BBC launches the world's first regular (then) high-definition television service.
    • The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) begins radio in Canada.
  • November 3U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon. Farmers support Roosevelt.
  • November 12 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
  • November 20 – A levee failure and continued massive rain at the Mitsubishi Osarizawa mine, Kazuno, northeastern Akita, Japan, results in at least 375 deaths.
  • November 23 – The first edition of Life Magazine is published.
  • November 25 – The Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from New York City on its way to the Spanish Civil War.
  • November 26 – The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan.
  • November 30 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition).

December[]

  • December 1 – Hitler makes it mandatory that Boys 10 to 18 join Hitler Youth
  • December 3 – Radio station WQXR is officially founded in New York City.
  • December 5 – The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic is dissolved and Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia become full Republics of the Soviet Union.
  • December 10December 11King Edward VIII signs an instrument of abdication at Fort Belvedere in the presence of his three brothers, The Duke of York, The Duke of Gloucester and The Duke of Kent.
  • December 11
    • The British Parliament passes His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 on behalf of the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
    • The King performs his last act as sovereign by giving royal assent to the Act.
    • Prince Albert, Duke of York, becomes King, reigning as King George VI.
    • The abdicated King Edward VIII, now HRH Prince Edward, makes a broadcast to the nation explaining his decision to abdicate. He leaves the country for Austria.
  • December 12
    • The Irish Free State passes the External Relations Act to legislate for Edward VIII's abdication in that realm.
    • Xi'an Incident: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.
  • December 24 – Release of the film Natalka Poltavka in Ukraine, the first filmed Russian opera.
  • December 29 – The United Auto Workers begins the Flint Sit-Down Strike in Flint, Michigan.

Date unknown[]

  • West China Famine: five million die.
  • Ipswich Town Football Club turns professional.
  • The YMCA Youth and Government program is founded in Albany, New York.
  • Mordecai Ham begins his radio ministry.
  • Stress is first recognised as a medical condition.
  • Polaroid sunglasses and Ambre Solaire sunblock both first marketed.
  • Cocoa production in the Gold Coast reaches 305,000 tons.

Births[]

January–February[]

  • January 2Roger Miller, American singer (King of the Road) (d. 1992)
  • January 5Florence King, American writer
  • January 6Julio Maria Sanguinetti Coirolo, President of Uruguay
  • January 10
    • Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
    • Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist, author and actor (d. 1997)
    • Robert Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
  • January 11Eva Hesse, American artist (d. 1970)
  • January 12Emile Lahoud, President of Lebanon
  • January 20Frances Shand Kydd, Princess Diana's mother (d. 2004)
  • January 23
    • Jerry Kramer, American football player
    • Arlene Golonka, American actress
  • January 27Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
  • January 28
  • January 29James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
    • Alan Alda, American actor (M*A*S*H)
    • Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
  • February 3Jim Marshall, American photographer (d. 2010)
  • February 4Gary Conway, American actor (Land of the Giants)
  • February 6Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2009)
  • February 8Larry Verne, American singer and songwriter
  • February 9
    • Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country/folk singer
    • Clive Swift, British actor
  • February 11Burt Reynolds, American actor (Dan August)
  • February 14Andrew Prine, American actor
  • February 17Jim Brown, African-American football player
  • February 19Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (d. 2006)
  • February 20
    • Larry Hovis, American actor (Hogan's Heroes) (d. 2003)
    • Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese professional baseball player and coach
  • February 24Lance Reventlow, English playboy, entrepreneur, and race car driver (d. 1972)
  • February 27Roger Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles
  • February 29Alex Rocco, American actor

March–April[]

  • March 2Alan Scott, blacksmith and brick oven constructer.
  • March 4
    • Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d. 1968)
    • Aribert Reimann, German composer
  • March 5Dean Stockwell, American actor (Quantum Leap)
  • March 6
    • Elmira Zherzdeva, Soviet singer and voice actress.
    • Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
  • March 7Loren Acton, American astronaut
  • March 8Sue Ane Langdon, American actress
  • March 9
    • Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
    • Mickey Gilly, American musician
  • March 10Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA
  • March 11
    • Ralph Abernathy, African-American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
    • Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
  • March 15Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)
  • March 16Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian American practitioner of MRI
  • March 17Patty Maloney, American actress
  • March 18F. W. De Klerk, President of South Africa
  • March 19Ursula Andress, Swiss actress (James Bond: 007)
  • March 20Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican musician
  • March 26Harry Kalas, American Sportscaster (d. 2009)
  • March 28Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • March 31Marge Piercy, American poet and activist
  • April 10
    • Bobby Smith, American singer and songwriter (The Spinners)
    • John Madden, American football coach and television sportscaster
  • April 12Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
  • April 17Jiří Grygar, Czech astronomer
  • April 21James Dobson, Ph.D. (Focus On The Family), American child psychologist and conservative political activist
  • April 22Glen Campbell, American country musician (Wichita Lineman)
  • April 23Roy Orbison, American singer (Oh Pretty Woman) (d. 1988)
  • April 24
    • Glen Hobbie, American baseball player
    • Jill Ireland, English actress (d. 1990)

May–June[]

  • May 2
    • Sam DeLuca, American football offensive lineman and sports broadcaster (d. 2011)
    • Engelbert Humperdinck, British/American singer
    • Perdita Huston, American journalist
  • May 9
    • Albert Finney, English actor
    • Glenda Jackson, British actress and politician
  • May 12
    • Guillermo Endara, Panamanian President, 1989–1994 (d. 2009)
    • Tom Snyder, American talk show host (Tomorrow) (d. 2007)
    • Frank Stella, American minimalist painter
  • May 14
    • Bobby Darin, American singer (Mack The Knife) (d. 1973)
    • Dick Howser, American baseball shortstop/manager (d. 1987)
  • May 15Paul Zindel, American writer (d. 2003)
  • May 17Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (Easy Rider) (d. 2010)
  • May 23Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
  • May 25Tom T. Hall, American country singer
  • May 30Ruta Lee, Canadian actress
  • June 1Joe Doyle, Irish politician
  • June 8James Darren, American actor and singer (The Time Tunnel)
  • June 17Ken Loach, British director
  • June 18
    • Ronald Runaldo Venetiaan, President of Suriname
    • Dick Wimmer, American novelist (d. 2011)
  • June 21Joseph Gosnell, Nisga'a statesman
  • June 22Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter, and actor
  • June 25Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia
  • June 28Chuck Howley, American football player
  • June 29Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (d. 2011)

July–August[]

  • July 5Shirley Knight, American actress
  • July 9
    • Andre Pronovost, French Canadian ice hockey player
    • Richard Wilson, Scottish actor and director
  • July 15George Voinovich, American politician, senior senator of Ohio
  • July 16
    • Buddy Merrill, American musician, The Lawrence Welk Show
    • Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan
  • July 18Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
  • July 20Barbara Mikulski, American politician
  • July 22Tom Robbins, American author
  • July 23Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
  • July 24
    • Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian (Sesame Street)
    • Mark Goddard, American actor and teacher (Lost in Space)
  • July 26Mary Millar, British actress (d. 1998)
  • July 28Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
  • July 29Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
  • July 30
    • Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer
    • Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (d. 2001)
  • August 1
    • Bradford Bishop, American fugitive indicted for the murders of his three children, spouse and mother in 1976
    • Yves Saint-Laurent, Algerian-born French fashion designer (d. 2008)
    • Donald Neilson, British serial killer known as the Black Panther
  • August 6Robert Gnaizda, lawyer and social justice advocate
  • August 11Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (d. 1999)
  • August 12
    • Andre Kolingba, President of Central African Republic (d. 2010)
    • Tom McAvoy, American baseball player (d. 2011)
  • August 18Robert Redford, American actor
  • August 21Wilt Chamberlain, African-American basketball player (d. 1999)
  • August 24Kenny Guinn, American politician (d. 2010)
  • August 25Giridharilal Kedia, Former Working President of KVK, Cuttack; Past District Governor of Lions Club International 322C & Former Chairman of IITM cuttack & is known as liondayon.
  • August 29John McCain, U.S. Senator, 2008 Republican Presidential candidate

September–October[]

  • September 2
    • Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
    • Károly Krajczár, Hungarian Slovene teacher, writer and collector of ethnological objects
  • September 3Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia
  • September 7Buddy Holly, American rock 'n' roll singer (d. 1959)
  • September 11Charles Dierkop, American actor
  • September 14Walter Koenig, American actor (Star Trek)
  • September 16Ken Forsse, American inventor and producer, creator of Teddy Ruxpin
  • September 19Anna Karen, British actress
  • September 21Yuriy Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow
  • September 24Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (The Muppets) (d. 1990)
  • September 25Moussa Traore, President of Mali
  • September 27Don Cornelius, American television personality (d. 2012)
  • September 29Silvio Berlusconi, Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor
  • October 1 - Duncan Edwards, English Footballer (d. 1958)
  • October 5Václav Havel, Czech playwright, writer and politician (d. 2011)
  • October 7Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian Entertainer (d. 1992)
  • October 11Larry Staverman, American professional basketball player and coach (d. 2007)
  • October 19
    • Tony Lo Bianco, American actor
    • James Bevel, American 1960s Civil Rights Movement strategist and organizer (d. 2008)
  • October 24David Nelson, American actor and singer (The Adventures of Ozzie And Harriet) (d. 2011)
  • October 25Masako Nozawa, Japanese voice actress
  • October 26Shelley Morrison, American actress
  • October 29Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
  • October 31Michael Landon, American actor and director (Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie) (d. 1991)

November–December[]

  • November 2Rose Bird, American judge (d. 1999)
  • November 3Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
  • November 4C. K. Williams, American poet
  • November 5
    • Uwe Seeler, German football player and manager
    • Billy Sherrill, American record producer and arranger
  • November 9Teddy Infuhr, American child actor (d. 2007)
  • November 17Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
  • November 19Dick Cavett, American talk show host
  • November 20Don DeLillo, American author
  • November 23
    • Robert Barnard, British writer, critic and lecturer
    • Steve Landesberg, American actor and director (Barney Miller) (d. 2010)
  • December 5James Lee Burke, American writer
  • December 6Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist
  • December 8
    • David Carradine, American actor, director, martial artist and singer (Kung Fu) (d. 2009)
    • Michael Hobson, American publisher
    • Elizabeth MacRae, American actress
  • December 12Iolanda Balaş, Romanian high-jumper
  • December 23James Stacy, American actor
  • December 25Princess Alexandra of Kent, daughter of The Duke and Duchess of Kent
  • December 29Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)

Deaths[]

January–June[]

  • January 1Harry B. Smith, American composer (b. 1860)
  • January 4James Churchward, British writer (b. 1851)
  • January 6Louise Bryant, American journalist (b. 1885)
  • January 9John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1897)
  • January 15George Landenberger, United States Navy Captain and the 23rd Governor of American Samoa (b. 1879)
  • January 16Albert Fish, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1870)
  • January 18Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
  • January 20 – King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
  • January 23John Mills, Jr., "Mills Brothers" basso and guitarist (b. 1911)
  • January 28Richard Loeb, American murderer (b. 1905)
  • February 3Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
  • February 4Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi Party (b. 1895)
  • February 8Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)
  • February 19Billy Mitchell, U.S. general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879)
  • February 26 – in the "February 26 Incident":
    • Takahashi Korekiyo, 11th Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1854)
    • Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral, 19th Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1858)
  • February 27
    • Ivan Pavlov, Russian psychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
    • Mulugeta Yeggazu, Ethiopian government official and military leader
  • February 28Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
  • March 11David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, British admiral (b. 1871)
  • March 16Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist leader (b. 1864)
  • March 21Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1865)
  • March 23Oscar Asche, Australian actor (b. 1871)
  • April 3Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh Jr. (b. 1899)
  • April 7Marilyn Miller, American actress (b. 1898)
  • April 8Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1876)
  • April 18Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer, musicologist, and conductor (b. 1879)
  • April 26Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
  • April 28Fuad I of Egypt, King of Egypt (b. 1868)
  • April 30Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
  • May 8Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (b. 1880)
  • May 14Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, British soldier and administrator (b. 1861)
  • May 20Elmer Fowler Stone, American aviator, the first United States Coast Guard aviator (b. 1887)
  • May 29Norman Chaney, American actor (Our Gang) (b. 1914)
  • June 3Walther Wever, German general and Luftwaffe commander (b. 1887)
  • June 7Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1878)
  • June 11Robert E. Howard, American author (suicide) (b. 1906)
  • June 14G. K. Chesterton, English author (b. 1874)
  • June 18Maxim Gorky, Russian writer (b. 1868)
  • June 28Alexander Berkman Russian anarchist (b. 1870)
  • June 29János Szlepecz Slovene priest and writer (b. 1872)

July–December[]

  • July 8Thomas Meighan, American actor (b. 1879)
  • July 11James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
  • July 16Alan Crosland, American film director (b. 1894)
  • July 21Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1857)
  • August 2Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
  • August 9Lincoln Steffens, American journalist (b. 1866)
  • August 15Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
  • August 19
    • Federico García Lorca, Spanish writer (b. 1898)
    • Hugh Patrick Lygon, English artistocrat (b. 1904)
  • August 25
    • Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician (b. 1883)
    • Lev Kamenev, Soviet politician (b. 1883)
  • September 7Kenneth Robert Balfour, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1863)
  • September 14Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
  • September 17Henri Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist (Le Chatelier's principle) (b. 1850)
  • September 19Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
  • September 24József Klekl, Slovene writer and journalist (b. 1879)
  • September 25William Sims, American admiral (b. 1858)
  • October 2Juho Sunila, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1875)
  • October 3John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
  • October 8William Henry Stark, American businessman (b. 1851)
  • October 20Anne Sullivan, American teacher of Helen Keller (b. 1866)
  • November 7Chic Sale, American vaudevillian (b. 1885)
  • November 17John Bowers, American actor (b. 1885)
  • November 20Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)
  • November 25Andrew Harper, Scottish–Australian biblical scholar and teacher (b. 1844)
  • December 9
    • Juan de la Cierva, Spanish civil engineer, aviator, and aeronautical engineer. and inventor of the autogyro (b. 1895)
    • Arvid Lindman, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1862)
    • Lottie Pickford, Canadian actress (b. 1893)
  • December 10
    • Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
    • Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
  • December 23William Henry Harrison, English cricketer (b. 1866)
  • December 24Irene Fenwick, American actress (b. 1887)

Nobel Prizes[]

  • PhysicsVictor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson
  • ChemistryPetrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
  • Physiology or MedicineSir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi
  • LiteratureEugene Gladstone O'Neill
  • PeaceCarlos Saavedra Lamas

References[]


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People of the year 1936 at Familypedia

84 people were born in 1936

 FatherMotherAge mother at birth
Kenneth Jerry Adair (1936-1987)Kinnie Adair (1909-1986)Ola Marie Estis (1914-1952)
Mary Adair (1936-)Walter Corrigan Adair (1896-1944)Velma Ruth Warwick (1910-2005)
Nikolaus Bade (1936)
Hugh Bangasser (1936-1981)
Bobby Barber (1936-1991)Alexander Barber (1910-1990)Francine Thomas (1918-1996)
Richard Lee Baughman (1936)
Anastasia Bell (1936-2008)
Michelle Bentley (1936-2004)Dennis Bentley (1910-1989)Louise Jackson (1912-1993)
Brian Francis Blundell (1936-2002)Eric Jack Blundell (1911-1994)Kathleen Ellen Leonard (1913-1973)
Ferdinand Cornelius Boers (1936)
Lauraine Margaret Elizabeth Boyte (1936-2017)Albert Victor Boyte (1899-1970)Lillian Elizabeth Andersen (1905-1999)
Shirley Ann Brown (1936)Kenneth George Christie Brown (1902-1957)Gladys Winifred May Bool (1907-1992)
Catherine Buckingham (1936-2000)Frederick Buckingham (1908-1980)Caroline McKenzie (1898-1964)
Béla Bánffy de Losoncz (1936)József Bánffy de Losoncz (1906-1983)Mária Wesselényi de Hadad (1912-1984)
Glen Travis Campbell (1936-2017)John Wesley Campbell (1901-1984)Carrie Dell Stone (1905-1991)
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35 children were born to the 41 women born in 1936

279 people died in 1936

 FatherMotherAge at death
Forrest Adair (1864-1936)George Washington Adair (1823-1899)Mary Jane Perry (1832-1936)
Lucy Ann Allen (1869-1936)James Summerfield Allen (1830-1906)Sarah Jane Draper (1829-1912)
Charles Minot Amory (1889-1936)Francis Inman Amory (1850-1921)Grace Josephine Minot (1859-1911)
Frank Leonard Andrews (1881-1936)William Andrews (c1844-1928)Ellen Hillier (1852-1923)55
Millard Andrus (1856-1936)Milo Andrus (1814-1893)Jane Lancaster Munday (1832-1900)
George Frederick Arledge (1863-1936)Jesse E. Arledge (1822-1884)Emily A. Taylor (1833-1883)
Thomas Ashcroft (1852-1936)John Ashcroft (1814-1882)Ann Jenkins (1818-1870)
Agnes Ashenden (1862-1936)William Ashenden (1829-1867)Sarah Blackman (1834-1877)74
Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper (1902-1936)Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury (1869-1961)Constance Sibell Grosvenor (1875-1957)
Robert Wesley Averett (1861-1936)Elisha Averett (1810-1890)Sarah Jane Witt (1831-1875)
Catherine Bailey (1862-1936)Henry Bailey (1837-1920)Elizabeth Edwards (1837-1909)
John Harold Bailey (1857-1936)John Bailey (1832-1877)Ellen Preston (1838-1915)
William Bailey (1854-1936)John Thomas Bailey (c1810-1890)Elizabeth Ann Prosser (1814-1885)
Tamás Barcsay de Nagybarcsa (1868-1936)Béla Barcsay de Nagybarcsa (1838-c1895)Mária Sándor de Kénos (c1848-c1900)
Edouard Mesmin Beaudet (1843-1936)Godfroy Beaudet (1813-1891) (.fr)Sophie Beaudet (c1813-)93
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14799 people lived in 1936

 FatherMother
Lady Irina Bud de BudfalvaLord János Bud de BudfalvaBaroness Anna Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged
Reinhard Meyer
Tsunekichi Yonogi (1905-2015)Shigeru Yonogi (1876-1940)Miyoko Yonogi (1882-1950)
Ludwik Wiktor Plater-Zyberk h. wł (1853-1938)Henryk Wacław Ksawery Plater-Zyberk (1811-1903)Adelaida von Keller (1817-1905)
Petre Văsescu (1891-1967)Ilie Văsescu (1838-1913)Mardelline Velloton
Geertje Aangeenbrug (1871-1947)Pieter Aangeenbrug (1834-1908)Grietje Breed (1845)
Alfred Alonzo Aaron (1883-1969)Thomas Aaron (1850-1932)Sarah Dobbs (1858-1948)
Hubert Charles Titus Aaron (1919-1941)Alfred Alonzo Aaron (1883-1969)Jemima Davis (1884-1966)
Sadie Aaronson (1908-1970)Jack Aaronson (1880-1927)Laura Barenboim (1882-1932)
Rebecca Ababio (1926-1998)
Isabella Abadiano (1930-2003)
Amanda Abadie (1898-1957)Jean-Claude Abadie (1848-1930)Jeanette Armellino (1860-1934)
Annabelle Abargil (1922-2000)
Dominique Abasolo (1882-1947)Rafael Abasolo (1849-1900)Nancy Haugen (1855-1929)
Jennifer Abaya (1918-1996)
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Events of the year 1936 at Familypedia

130 people were married in 1936.

 Joined with
Alexander Abel-Smith (1904-1980)Elizabeth Knight Morgan (c1916-1948)+Henriette Alice Cadogan (1914-2005)
Vivian Adair (1914-1959)Rhea Cope (1917-2010)
Rulon Clark Allred (1906-1977)
George William Andrews (1906-1971)Leslie Elizabeth Bullock (1911-2002)
Leo Apatow (1910-1987)Belle Zegansky (1916-1997)
Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones (1899-1966)Anne Messel (1902-1992)+Gwendoline Carol Akhurst Coombe (1910-1966)+Jenifer M Unite (1928)
Myrel Bell (1913-)George Raymond Baker (c1913-)
Alice Bentley (1915-2011)Frank Dennis Holland (1910-1977)
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950)Eileen O'Shaughnessy+Sonia Brownell
Bernard Blanch (1888-1964)Lilly May Pitt (1892-1931)+Bertha Eliza Sutton (1897-1974)
Margie Marron Mita Bool (1908-1981)Arthur Thomas Murray Brown (1909-1975)
Axel Bort (1913-1972)Kristen Chomsky (1910-2000)
Phyllis Mary Brazel (c1910-2000)Arthur James Kermode (1907-1992)
Arthur Thomas Murray Brown (1909-1975)Margie Marron Mita Bool (1908-1981)
Sonia Bruhns (1913-1996)Teophil Demetriescu (1891-1958)
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There were 0 military battles in 1936.


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1936


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