Your American History Reference Guide! - 1936
1936
1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-February
March-April
May-June
July-September
October
November
November 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1936 : Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon .
November 12 - In California , the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
November 16 - Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his intention to marry Wallis Simpson
November 20 - In UK , new Matrimonial Causes Act permits divorce on the grounds of cruelty, drunkenness, willful desertion, incurable insanity, and being a prisoner on a death sentence
November 23 - The first edition of Life is published.
November 25 - In Berlin , Nazi-Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact , thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation (Adolf Hitler broke the terms of the pact when he signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact in August, 1939 ).
November 25 - Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from New York City on its way to Spanish Civil War
November 30 - In London , the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition ).
December
Unknown Dates
Year in topic
Births
January-February
January 3 - Georgina Spelvin , pornographic film actress
January 10 - Stephen Ambrose , historian (d. 2002 )
January 10 - Robert Wilson , physicist, radio astronomer
January 21 - Koji Hashimoto , film director and assistant director (d. 2005 )
January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh , author
January 23 - Jerry Kramer , US football star
January 27 - Troy Donahue , actor (d. 2001 )
January 28 - Alan Alda , actor
January 28 - Ismail Kadare , Albanian writer
February 11 - Burt Reynolds , United States actor
February 17 - Jim Brown , Pro Football Hall of Famer
February 21 - Barbara Jordan , American politician (d. 1996 )
February 24 – Lance Reventlow , playboy, entrepreneur, F1 driver (d. 1972 )
February 29 - Henri Richard , ice hockey player
March-April
March 4 - Jim Clark , racing driver (d. 1968 )
March 5 - Dean Stockwell , actor
March 6 - Marion Barry Jr. , mayor of Washington, DC
March 7 - Loren Acton , astronaut
March 9 - Tom Sestak , American football player (d. 1987 )
March 11 - Rev. Ralph Abernathy , civil rights leader (d. 1990 )
March 11 - Antonin Scalia , associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
March 17 - Ladislav Kupkovic , composer
March 18 - Frederik Willem de Klerk , South African politician
March 19 - Ursula Andress , actress
March 24 - David Suzuki , environmentalist
March 28 - Mario Vargas Llosa , author and politician
March 31 - Marge Piercy , novelist
April 10 - John Madden , sportscaster, former NFL coach
April 14 - Kenneth Mars , actor
April 22 - Glen Campbell , musician
April 23 - Roy Orbison , singer (d. 1988 )
April 29 - Zubin Mehta , Indian conductor
May-August
May 9 - Albert Finney , actor
May 9 - Glenda Jackson , actress and politician
May 12 - Frank Stella , painter
May 14 - Aline Chainé , future First Lady of Canada
May 14 - Bobby Darin , singer (d. 1973 )
May 15 - Anna Maria Alberghetti , actress
May 15 - Paul Zindel , novelist, playwright
May 16 - Karl Lehmann , theologian
May 17 - Dennis Hopper , actor, director
May 28 - Betty Shabazz , civil rights leader and wife of Malcolm X
May 30 - Keir Dullea , actor
June 8 - James Darren , actor, singer
June 22 - Kris Kristofferson , country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar
June 23 - Costas Simitis , later Prime Minister of Greece .
June 26 - Robert Maclennan , British politician
June 28 - Cathy Carr , singer
June 28 - Chuck Howley , American football player
June 29 - Harmon Killebrew , Baseball Hall of Famer
July 6 - Dave Allen , comedian (d. 2005 )
July 23 - Don Drysdale , major league baseball pitcher (d. 1993 )
July 28 - Garfield Sobers , cricketer
August 1 - Yves St. Laurent , fashion designer
August 21 - Wilt Chamberlain , basketball legend (d. 1999 )
August 29 - Inga Artamonova world speed-skating champion (d. 1966 )
September-December
September 2 - Andrew Grove , co-founder and chairman of Intel
September 7 - Buddy Holly , United States singer (d. 1959 )
October 3 - Steve Reich , composer
October 7 - Charles Dutoit , Swiss conductor
October 16 - Andrei Chikatilo , Russian serial killer (d. 1994 )
October 31 - Michael Landon , actor (d. 1991 )
November 12 - Mills Lane , judge, boxing referee
November 20 - Don DeLillo , United States author
November 21 - Dr. Victor Chang , Australian doctor, pioneer in heart transplantation
December 25 - Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent
December 26 - Katharine Dickson Dukakis , wife of Michael Dukakis (or 1937 ).
December 29 - Mary Tyler Moore , actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show , The Mary Tyler Moore Show )
Deaths
January 16 - Albert Fish , serial killer (executed)
January 18 - Rudyard Kipling , British writer (b. 1865 )
January 20 - King George V of the United Kingdom
February 4 - Wilhelm Gustloff , Swiss Nazi Party leader
February 19 - Billy Mitchell , military aviation pioneer
February 26 - Saito Makoto , Japanese prime minister
February 27 -Ivan Pavlov ,behaviorist=>pavlov's dogs
March 16 - Marguerite Durand , French journalist and feminist leader (b. 1864 )
April 3 - Bruno Hauptmann , convicted killer of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
April 8 - Robert Bárány , Nobel Prize winner in medicine
May 18 - Kichizo Ishida , Japanese hotel owner and lover of Sada Abe
June 11 - Robert E. Howard , American fantasy author (suicide}
June 14 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton , English author (b. 1874 )
August 2 - Louis Blériot , French aviation pioneer
August 9 - Lincoln Steffens , American muckraking journalist
August 15 - Grazia Deledda , Italian writer and Nobel Prize laureate
August 19 - Federico García Lorca , Spanish writer (b. 1898 )
October 3 - John Heisman , American football coach (b. 1869 )
December 9 - Arvid Lindman , Prime Minister of Sweden
December 10 - Luigi Pirandello , Italian writer (b. 1867 )
December 10 - Bobby Abel , diminutive Surrey and England batsman (b. 1857 )