Events

Poor mother and children, Oklahoma, 1936 by Dorothea Lange

January–February

January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. * 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. * 1156 &ndas ...

– George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King

Edward VIII Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India from 20 January 19 ...

. * January 28 – Britain's King George V state funeral takes place in London and Windsor. He is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle *

February 4 Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...

– Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. *

February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...

– The IV Olympic Winter Games open in

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the O ...

, Germany. * February 10– 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 –

1936 Spanish general election Legislative elections were held in Spain on 16 February 1936. At stake were all 473 seats in the unicameral Cortes Generales. The winners of the 1936 elections were the Popular Front, a left-wing coalition of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ...

: The left-wing Popular Front coalition takes a majority. *

February 26 Events Pre-1600 *747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events. * 364 – Valentinian I is p ...

– February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, ''Niniroku Jiken''): The

Imperial Way Faction The ''Kōdōha'' or was a political faction in the Imperial Japanese Army active in the 1920s and 1930s. The ''Kōdōha'' sought to establish a military government that promoted totalitarian, militaristic and aggressive expansionistic ideals, ...

engineers a failed coup against the Japanese government; some politicians are killed.

March–April

* March 1 – Construction of

Hoover Dam Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on Se ...

is completed in the United States. *

March 7 Events Pre-1600 * 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. * 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...

– In violation of the Treaty of Versailles and

Locarno Treaties The Locarno Treaties were seven agreements negotiated at Locarno, Switzerland, during 5 to 16 October 1925 and formally signed in London on 1 December, in which the First World War Western European Allied powers and the new states of Central an ...

, Nazi Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. Hitler and other Nazis later admit that the French army alone could have destroyed the Wehrmacht. * March 9 – Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada steps down as Prime Minister of Japan, and is replaced by radical militarist Kōki Hirota. * March 15 – Austrian ski jumper Josef Bradl set the world record at 101.5 metres (333 ft) on Bloudkova velikanka hill in Planica and became the first man in history, to stand jump over one hundred metres. *

April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...

– A tornado hits

Tupelo, Mississippi Tupelo () is a city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, United States. With an estimated population of 38,300, Tupelo is the sixth-largest city in Mississippi and is considered a commercial, industrial, and cultural hub of North M ...

, killing 216 people and injuring over 700 (the 4th deadliest tornado in U.S. history). * April 15 – The Tulkarm shooting begins the

1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine The 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, later known as The Great Revolt (''al-Thawra al- Kubra'') or The Great Palestinian Revolt (''Thawrat Filastin al-Kubra''), was a popular nationalist uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine a ...

against the British government, and opposition to Jewish immigration.

May–June

* May 5 – '' March of the Iron Will'': Italian forces occupy Addis Ababa unopposed. * May 7 – Italy annexes Ethiopia. * May 9 – Italian East Africa is formed from the Italian territories of

Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...

, Ethiopia, and Italian Somaliland. * May 12 – The Santa Fe railroad in the United States inaugurates the all-Pullman '' Super Chief'' passenger train, between Chicago and Los Angeles. * May 25 – The Remington Rand strike of 1936–37 begins, spawning the notorious '' Mohawk Valley formula'', a corporate plan for

strikebreaking A strikebreaker (sometimes called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite a strike. Strikebreakers are usually individuals who were not employed by the company before the trade union dispute but hired after or during the str ...

. *

May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...

– British luxury liner leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic. * June 15 – An army ammunition depot explosion kills 63 people in Männiku, Estonia. * June 19 –

Max Schmeling Maximilian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (, ; 28 September 1905 – 2 February 2005) was a German boxing, boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in 1936 and 1938 were worldwide cul ...

knocks out

Joe Louis Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Louis is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time. He rei ...

in the 12th round of their

heavyweight Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling. Boxing Professional Boxers who weigh over are considered heavyweights by 3 of the 4 major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the Wo ...

boxing match, at Yankee Stadium in New York City. * June 19 –

Per Albin Hansson Per Albin Hansson (28 October 1885 – 6 October 1946) was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived ...

resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden, over the issue of defence policy. He is replaced by the leader of the Farmer's League (''Bondeförbundet'') Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, who also becomes Minister of Agriculture. * June 19 – The total solar eclipse of June 19, 1936 is visible in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Japan. It is part of Solar Saros 126;

Gamma Gamma (uppercase , lowercase ; ''gámma'') is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. In Ancient Greek, the letter gamma represented a voiced velar stop . In Modern Greek, this letter re ...

is a value of 0.53889. * June 26 – Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, makes its maiden flight.

July–August

* July 4 – First publication recognizing stress as a biological condition. * July 17 – The Spanish Army of Africa launches a ''coup d'état'' against the Second Spanish Republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War. * July 20 – The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits is signed in Montreux, allowing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and the

Bosphorus The Bosporus Strait (; grc, Βόσπορος ; tr, İstanbul Boğazı 'Istanbul strait', colloquially ''Boğaz'') or Bosphorus Strait is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul in northwestern Tu ...

, but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime. * August 1 – The

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of an international sports event in world history ( John Logie Baird had previously broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931). * August 3 –

: African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash. * August 4 – A self-coup is staged by Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas, marking the beginning of the authoritarian

4th of August Regime The 4th of August Regime ( el, Καθεστώς της 4ης Αυγούστου, Kathestós tis tetártis Avgoústou), commonly also known as the Metaxas regime (, ''Kathestós Metaxá''), was a totalitarian regime under the leadership of Gener ...

, which will rule Greece until the Axis occupation of Greece in

1941 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...

. * August 26 – The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 is signed.

September–October

* September 4– 5 – English-born aviator 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 5 – Spanish Civil War: Robert Capa's photograph ''

The Falling Soldier ''The Falling Soldier'' (full title: ''Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936'') is a black and white photograph by Robert Capa, claimed to have been taken on Saturday, September 5, 1936. It was said to depi ...

'' is taken. * September 7 – The last known thylacine ("Tasmanian tiger"), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. * September 9 **

1936 Naval Revolt (Portugal) The 1936 Naval Revolt ( pt, Revolta dos Marinheiros de 1936 lit. 1936 Sailors' Revolt) or Tagus boats mutiny (''Motim dos Barcos do Tejo'') was a mutiny in Portugal that occurred on 8 September 1936 aboard the aviso and destroyer . It was organi ...

: The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP ''Afonso de Albuquerque'' and destroyer ''Dão'' mutiny while anchored in Lisbon Harbour. Opposed to the

Salazar dictatorship The ''Estado Novo'' (, lit. "New State") was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from the ''Ditadura Nacional'' ("National Dictatorship") formed after the ''coup d'état'' of 28 May 1926 against the democratic but ...

's support of General Franco's coup in Spain, they declare their solidarity with the Second Spanish Republic. **The Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence is signed. * September 10 – The first World Speedway Championship is held at Wembley Stadium in London, England. It is won by Australian Lionel Van Praag, with Englishman Eric Langton second and Australian Bluey Wilkinson third. * September 13, in response to a polio outbreak, Chicago Public Schools launches a distance education program which constitutes the first large-scale use of radio broadcasts to facilitate distance education *

September 28 Events Pre-1600 *48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII. * 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...

– After the election to the Swedish Riksdag's second chamber, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp and his "Holiday Cabinet" ("''Semesterregeringen''") resign (though he remains as Minister of Agriculture) and

returns as Prime Minister, staying in office until his death from a heart attack in

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

. * October ** Joseph Stalin's Great Purge begins in the Soviet Union. ** The

Mästermyr chest The Mästermyr chest is a Viking Age (793–1066) tool chest found in the Mästermyr mire west of Hemse on the island of Gotland, Sweden. It is the largest tool find from that era in Europe. History During the Viking Age the area where Mästerm ...

is discovered in the Mästermyr mire (after which it is later named), west of Hemse, on the island of

Gotland Gotland (, ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the ...

, Sweden. * 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

Dorothy Kilgallen Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started her career shortly before her 18th birth ...

of the '' New York Journal'' and Leo Kieran of '' The New York Times''. The flight takes 18 days. * October 25 – The

Rome-Berlin Axis The Axis powers, ; it, Potenze dell'Asse ; ja, 枢軸国 ''Sūjikukoku'', group=nb originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Na ...

is formed.

November–December

* November 2 ** The BBC launches the world's first regular television service in high-definition (according to contemporary standards). ** The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) begins radio in Canada. * November 3 –

1936 United States presidential election The 1936 United States presidential election was the 38th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Gover ...

: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term, in a landslide victory over Kansas Governor Alf Landon; farmers support Roosevelt. *

November 9 Events Pre-1600 * 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery. * 1277 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement f ...

– American fashion designer

Ruth Harkness Ruth Elizabeth Harkness (21 September 1900 - 20 July 1947) was an American fashion designer and socialite who traveled to China in 1936 and brought out the first live giant panda to the United States - not in a cage or on a leash, but wrapped in h ...

encounters and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan, China; it becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States. * 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 The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries. Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group historically descended from the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company which existed from 1870 ...

Osarizawa mine, Kazuno, northeastern Akita, Japan, results in at least 375 deaths. * November 23 –

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of the first issue of '' Life'', a weekly news magazine launched in the United States under the management of

Henry Luce Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded ''Time'', ''Life'', ''Fortune'', and ''Sports Illustrated'' magazine. He has been called "the most influential private citizen in the America ...

. * November 25 – The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan. * November 30 – A spectacular fire destroys The Crystal Palace in London, originally built for the 1851

Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the temporary The Crystal Palace, structure in which it was held), was an International Exhib ...

. * December 3 – Radio station WQXR is officially founded in New York City. * December 5 – The

1936 Soviet Constitution Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King ...

, promulgated by Stalin, is adopted in the Soviet Union. The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic is dissolved, and Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia become full

Republics of the Soviet Union The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics ( rus, Сою́зные Респу́блики, r=Soyúznye Respúbliki) were National delimitation in the Soviet Union, national-based administrative units of ...

. * December 7 – Streptococcous

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(a condition previously 99% fatal) is successfully treated for the first time with a

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. * December 10 – Edward VIII abdication crisis: King

of the United Kingdom signs an instrument of abdication at Fort Belvedere, Surrey in the presence of his three brothers, The Duke of York, The Duke of Gloucester and The Duke of Kent. * December 11 ** Edward VIII abdication crisis: The British Parliament passes His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 on behalf of the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The King performs his last act as sovereign by giving Royal Assent to the Act, and his brother Prince Albert, Duke of York, becomes King, reigning as

King George VI George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of Ind ...

. The abdicated King, now HRH Prince Edward, makes a broadcast to the nation explaining his decision to abdicate, and leaves the country for Austria. ** Taking the opportunity to free itself further from ties to the United Kingdom, the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State passes the Constitution (Amendment No. 27) Act 1936, removing most powers from the office of

Governor-General of the Irish Free State The Governor-General of the Irish Free State ( ga, Seanascal Shaorstát Éireann) was the official representative of the sovereign of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1936. By convention, the office was largely ceremonial. Nonetheless, it wa ...

, and the Executive Authority (External Relations) Act 1936 (signed into law December 12), assenting to the abdication and restricting the power of the monarch in relation to Ireland to international affairs. * December 12 – Xi'an Incident: Generalissimo

Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary, and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 ...

of the Republic of China is kidnapped by Marshal Zhang Xueliang. * December 24 – The first filmed Russian opera, ''

Natalka Poltavka ''Natalka Poltavka'' ( uk, Наталка Полтавка, ) is a Ukrainian play written by Ivan Kotlyarevsky. The Opera in 2 acts, ''Natalka Poltavka'', was the last scheduled performance by The Kyiv Opera Company at the National Opera House o ...

'', is released in Ukraine.

Date unknown

* West China

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: An estimated five million people die. * Nestlé introduce the white chocolate Milkybar (called Galak in Continental Europe and elsewhere).

Births

January

January 2 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. * 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empi ...

–

Roger Miller Roger Dean Miller Sr. (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer-songwriter, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping Country music, country and pop hits "King of the Road (song), Ki ...

, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d.

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

) *

January 6 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eve ...

** Darlene Hard, American tennis player (d.

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

) ** Alejandro Maldonado, Guatemalan politician ** Julio María Sanguinetti, 2-time President of Uruguay *

January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying. * 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...

– Robert May, Australian scientist (d.

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

) *

January 10 Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. * 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...

Stephen E. Ambrose Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, most noted for his biographies of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Or ...

, American historian and biographer (d.

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

) ** Robert Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, and

Nobel Nobel often refers to: *Nobel Prize, awarded annually since 1901, from the bequest of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel Nobel may also refer to: Companies *AkzoNobel, the result of the merger between Akzo and Nobel Industries in 1994 *Branobel, or ...

laureate * January 11 – Eva Hesse, American artist (d.

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...

) * January 12 – Émile Lahoud, 15th President of Lebanon *

January 14 Events Pre-1600 *1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 *1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...

– Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (d.

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

) * January 19 – Ziaur Rahman, 7th President of Bangladesh (d.

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

) *

January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (''Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. * 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vi ...

Alan J. Heeger Alan Jay Heeger (born January 22, 1936) is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry. Heegar was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for co-founding the field of conducting polymers an ...

, American physicist ** Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d.

) *

January 25 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate. * 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...

–

Diana Hyland Diana Hyland (born Diane Gentner; January 25, 1936 – March 27, 1977) was an American stage, film and television actress. Early years Hyland was born Diane Gentner to John Theodore and Mary (Gorman) Gentner in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. S ...

, American actress (d.

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...

) *

January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...

** Barry Barish, American gravitational physicist, Nobel laureate ** Troy Donahue, American actor (d.

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

) **

Samuel C. C. Ting Samuel Chao Chung Ting (, born January 27, 1936) is a Chinese-American physicist who, with Burton Richter, received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. More recently he has been the principal investigator in res ...

, American physicist * January 28 ** Waldyr Boccardo, Brazilian basketball player (d.

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

) ** Alan Alda, American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and author ** Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer

February

Jim Brown at LBJ Foundation 2014 (cropped)

February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. *1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – ...

– Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer *

– David Brenner, American actor and comedian (d.

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

) *

** Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player, coach (d.

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

) **

Stompin' Tom Connors Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 – March 6, 2013) was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has rele ...

, Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter (d.

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

) * February 9 – Clive Swift, British actor (d.

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

) *

February 11 Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...

–

Burt Reynolds Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, 1936 – September 6, 2018) was an American actor, considered a sex symbol and icon of 1970s American popular culture. Reynolds first rose to prominence when he starred in television series such as ' ...

, American actor, director and producer (d.

) *

February 14 Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. * 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...

– Anna German, Polish singer (d.

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...

) * February 16 – Carl Icahn, American businessman, investor and philanthropist *

February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...

–

Jim Brown James Nathaniel Brown (born February 17, 1936) is a former American football player, sports analyst and actor. He played as a fullback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) from 1957 through 1965. Considered to be one ...

, African-American football player and actor * February 21 – Barbara Jordan, African-American lawyer, educator, politician and civil rights activist (d.

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

) *

February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * 13 ...

—

Carol D'Onofrio Carol D'Onofrio (February 24, 1936 – April 14, 2020) was an American public health researcher who was Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, School of Public Health. Her career focused ...

, American public health researcher (d.

) *

– Adem Demaçi, Albanian politician, writer (d.

) * February 29 **

Alex Rocco Alex Rocco (born Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr.; February 29, 1936 – July 18, 2015) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive, gravelly voice, he was often cast as villains, including Moe Greene in ''The Godfather'' (1972) and his Pr ...

, American actor (d.

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

) ** Jack Lousma, American astronaut and politician ** Henri Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d.

)

March

* March 4 **

Jim Clark James Clark Jr. OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British Formula One racing driver from Scotland, who won two World Championships, in 1963 and 1965. A versatile driver, he competed in sports cars, touring cars and in the Indianapol ...

, Scottish race car driver (d.

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

) ** Kim Yong-chun, North Korean soldier, politician (d.

) ** Aribert Reimann, German composer *

March 5 Events Pre-1600 * 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. * 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...

** Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d.

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

) ** Dean Stockwell, American actor (d.

) * March 6 ** Marion Barry, African-American civil rights activist and politician (d.

) ** Choummaly Sayasone, 5th President of Laos *

** Loren Acton, American astronaut ** Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (d.

) * March 9 – Mickey Gilley, American country singer (d.

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...

) * March 10 –

Sepp Blatter Joseph "Sepp" Blatter (born Josef Blatter; 10 March 1936) is a Swiss former football administrator who served as the eighth President of FIFA from 1998 to 2015. He has been banned from participating in FIFA activities since 2015 as a result of ...

, Swiss sports administrator, president of

FIFA FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...

* March 11 **

Harald zur Hausen Harald zur Hausen NAS EASA APS (; born 11 March 1936) is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cervical cancer and discovered the role of papilloma viruses in cervical cancer, for which he received the Nobel ...

, German virologist **

Takis Mousafiris Takis Mousafiris ( el, Τάκης Μουσαφίρης; 1936 – 11 March 2021) was a Greek composer, lyricist and songwriter. He collaborated with several notable Greek singers such as Stratos Dionysiou, Dimitris Mitropanos, Rita Sakellar ...

, Greek composer and songwriter **

Antonin Scalia Antonin Gregory Scalia (; March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectu ...

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is any member of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the chief justice of the United States. The number of associate justices is eight, as set by the Judiciary Act of 18 ...

(d.

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

) * March 13 – Mónica Miguel, Mexican actress, director and singer (d.

) * March 17 – Ken Mattingly, American astronaut * March 18 –

F. W. de Klerk Frederik Willem de Klerk (, , 18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996 in the democratic government. As South A ...

, 7th and last

State President of South Africa The State President of the Republic of South Africa ( af, Staatspresident) was the head of state of South Africa from 1961 to 1994. The office was established when the country became a republic on 31 May 1961, albeit, outside the Commonweal ...

(d.

) * March 19 ** Ursula Andress, Swiss actress **

Uri Aviram Uri Aviram ( he, אורי אבירם; born March 19, 1936 in Haifa) is Zena Harman Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In January 2016 he was appointed as the Dean of the School of social and community Science ...

, Israeli university professor * March 20 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican musician (d.

) *

March 21 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...

–

Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei Shirazi ( fa, سید مهدی طباطبایی شیرازی, March 21, 1936 — May 17, 2018) was an Iranian Shia cleric and conservative politician who served as member of the Parliament of Iran from 2004 to 2008, repr ...

, Iranian politician (d.

) * March 27 – Banwari Lal Joshi, Indian politician (d.

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

) * March 28 ** Bill Gaither, American musician ** Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate ** Amancio Ortega Gaona, Spanish business tycoon

April

* April 1 ** Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 2-time President of Switzerland (d.

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

) **

Leo Posada Leopoldo Jesús Posada Hernández Jr. (April 1, 1936 – June 23, 2022) was a Cuban baseball player. He played for the Kansas City Athletics of Major League Baseball from 1960 through 1962. After his retirement as a player, Posada served as a ...

, Cuban baseball player (d.

) * April 7 – Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav princess, Serbian princess, Serbian presidential candidate * April 9 ** Valerie Solanas, American feminist writer who attempted to kill Andy Warhol (d.

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

) **

Ferdinando Imposimato Ferdinando Imposimato (9 April 1936 – 2 January 2018) was an Italian magistrate and the honorary president of the Supreme Court of Italy. Biography Imposimato was born at Maddaloni, in the province of Caserta, in 1936. He graduated in law at th ...

, Italian judge (d.

) * April 12 – Charles Napier, American character actor (d.

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

) *

April 13 Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1601–1900 *1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...

–

Choi In-hun Choi In-hoon (; 13 April 1936 – 23 July 2018) was a South Korean novelist and professor of creative writing at Seoul Institute of the Arts from 1977 to 2001. He is well-known for his 1960 novel ''The Square'', which depicts "the troubled life ...

, South Korean writer (d.

) * April 14 –

Dilbagh Singh Kler Dilbagh Singh Kler (14 April 1936 – 18 October 2012) was a Malaysian middle-distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 m ...

, Malaysian Olympic athlete (d.

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

) * April 15 ** Pen Sovan, Cambodian politician (d.

) ** Raymond Poulidor, French road-bicycle racer（d.

） * April 17 – Urs Wild, Swiss chemist * April 20 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (d.

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

) * April 22 – Glen Campbell, American singer and actor (d.

) *

April 23 Events Pre-1600 * 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. * 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...

–

Roy Orbison Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. His music was described by critics as ...

, American singer, songwriter (''

Pretty Woman ''Pretty Woman'' is a 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, from a screenplay by J. F. Lawton. The film stars Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, and features Héctor Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy (in his final performance), La ...

'') (d.

) * April 24 ** Akwasi Afrifa, 3rd Head of State of Ghana (d.

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

) ** Jill Ireland, English actress (d.

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

) * April 28 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (d.

) * April 29 – Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, British financier and aristocrat

May

* May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (d.

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

) * May 2 ** Norma Aleandro, Argentinian actress ** Engelbert Humperdinck (b. Arnold George Dorsey), British singer * May 4 – El Cordobés, Spanish matador * May 5 – Trần Đức Lương, 5th President of Vietnam * May 7 – Jimmy Ruffin, African-American singer (d.

) * May 9 **

Albert Finney Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s, debuting with '' The Entertainer'' (1960) ...

, English actor (d.

) ** Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician * May 12 ** Klaus Doldinger, German musician ** Guillermo Endara, 32nd President of Panama (1989–1994) (d.

) * May 13 – Rafael Campos, Dominican actor (d.

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

) * May 14 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d.

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...

) *

May 16 Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. *1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. * 1364 ...

** Philippe de Montebello, art exhibitionist ** Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal (d.

) * May 17 –

Dennis Hopper Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and photographer. He attended the Actors Studio, made his first television appearance in 1954, and soon after appeared in ''Giant'' (1956). In the next ten years ...

, American actor and director (d.

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

) * May 20 **

Nickey Iyambo Nickey Iyambo (20 May 1936 – 19 May 2019) was a Namibian politician and physician who served as the first Vice President of Namibia. A member of SWAPO, Iyambo was a member of the Cabinet of Namibia since independence in March 1990. He was ...

, Namibian politician, 1st Vice-President of Namibia (d.

) ** Antanas Vaupšas, Lithuanian athlete (d.

) * May 21 – Günter Blobel, German-American biologist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (d.

) * May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor * May 25 – Tom T. Hall, American country singer-songwriter (d.

) *

– Louis Gossett Jr., African-American actor

June

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*June 2 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet Olympic athlete (d.

) *June 3 – Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby union player (d.

) *June 4 **Bruce Dern, American actor **Nutan, Nutan Samarth, Indian actress (d. 1991) *June 8 **James Darren, American actor and singer **Kenneth G. Wilson, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (d.

) * June 15 – William Levada, American cardinal (d.

) *June 17 – Ken Loach, British film director *June 18 **Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (d.

) **Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist (d.

) * June 19 – Takeshi Aono, Japanese actor (d.

) *June 22 **Kris Kristofferson, American actor, singer and songwriter **Izatullo Khayoyev, 1st Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d.

) **Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer **Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist *June 23 – Costas Simitis, Greek politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece *June 25 – B. J. Habibie, Indonesian politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (d.

) * June 26 **Hal Greer, African-American professional basketball player (d.

) **Lee Ming-liang, Taiwanese geneticist **Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d.

) *June 27 **Geneviève Fontanel, French stage, film actress (d.

) **Joe Doyle (politician), Joe Doyle, Irish politician (d.

) *June 28 – Leon O. Chua, American electrical engineer and computer scientist *June 29 **David Jenkins (figure skater), David Jenkins, American figure skater **Eddie Mabo, Australian Indigenous rights activist (d.

) **Kigeli V of Rwanda, last king of Rwanda (d.

) *June 30 – Assia Djebar, Algerian writer (d.

)

July

* July 1 ** Mihir Rakshit, Indian economist ** E. Ponnuswamy, Indian politician ** Antonio Salines, Italian actor and director (d.

) * July 4 – Günter Vetter, Austrian politician (d.

) * July 5 ** Sir Frederick Ballantyne, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (d.

) ** Shirley Knight, American actress (d.

) ** Sir James Mirrlees, Scottish-born economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (d.

) * July 7 **Hammoudi Al-Harithi, Iraqi actor ** Anatoly Kirov, Soviet wrestler * July 8 – Johan Du Preez, Rhodesian-Zimbabwean sprinter * July 14 – Marisa Allasio, Italian actress * July 16 ** Miria Obote, former First Lady of Uganda ** Venkataraman Subramanya, Indian cricketer ** Leo Sterckx, Belgian cyclist ** Yasuo Fukuda, 58th Prime Minister of Japan * July 18 – Ted Harris (ice hockey), Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player * July 26 – Neelu, Indian actor (d.

) * July 30 ** Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Spanish royal (d.

) ** Buddy Guy, African-American blues singer and guitarist

August

* August 1 **Yves Saint Laurent (designer), Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-born French fashion designer (d. 2008) **Chadlia Fahrat Essebsi, Tunisian consort, 5th First Lady of Tunisia (d.

) * August 4 – Joaquim Roriz, Brazilian politician (d.

) *August 12 **Kjell Grede, Swedish film director (d.

) **André Kolingba, President of Central African Republic (d.

) *August 17 – Margaret Hamilton (scientist), Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner *August 18 **Hifikepunye Pohamba, 2nd President of Namibia **Robert Redford, American actor and film director *August 21 **Wilt Chamberlain, African-American basketball player (d.

) **Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia, (d. 2008) *August 23 – Rudy Lewis, American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1964) *August 25 – Giridharilal Kedia, Indian former Working President of KVK (d.

) * August 26 – Benedict Anderson, American academic (d.

) *August 27 – Lien Chan, Taiwanese politician *August 28 – Bert Schneider (motorcyclist), Bert Schneider, Austrian road racer (d.

) *August 29 – John McCain, American politician, U.S. Senate, U.S. Senator (Republican Party (United States), R-Arizona, Az.) (d.

) *August 31 – Fabrizia Ramondino, Italian author (d. 2008)

September

* September 1 – Valery Legasov, Soviet inorganic chemist (d.

) * September 2 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American businessman, engineer and author (d.

) * September 3 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (d.

) * September 4 ** Kamuta Latasi, 4th Prime Minister of Tuvalu ** Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Japanese sport shooter (d.

) * September 7 ** Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican/Canadian actor (d.

) ** Buddy Holly, American rock-and-roll singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 1959) ** Jorge Porcel, Argentine-American actor (d.

) * September 14 – Walter Koenig, American actor (''Star Trek: The Original Series'') * September 15 – Ashley Cooper (tennis), Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (d.

) * September 19 – Al Oerter, American Olympic athlete (d. 2007) * September 21 – Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (d.

) * September 23 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Perú (d.

) * September 24 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (''The Muppets'') (d.

) * September 25 – Moussa Traoré, President of Mali (d.

) * September 26 – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist (d.

) * September 27 – Joselo, Venezuelan actor, comedian (d.

) *

– Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (d.

) * September 29 – Silvio Berlusconi, 50th Prime Minister of Italy, media entrepreneur

October

* October 1 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958) * October 3 – Steve Reich, American composer * October 5 – Václav Havel, Czech playwright, writer and politician, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (d.

) * October 6 – Lin Yu-lin, Taiwanese billionaire real estate developer (d.

) * October 7 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian entertainer (d.

) * October 8 – Rogelio Guerra, Mexican actor (d.

) * October 9 – Brian Blessed, English actor * October 10 – Gerhard Ertl, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel laureate * October 13 – Christine Nöstlinger, Austrian writer (d.

) * October 18 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (d.

) * October 19 – James Bevel, Civil Rights Movement strategist Rev

* October 22 – Bobby Seale, American political activist * October 24 – Bill Wyman, British musician * October 25 – Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress and voice actress * October 26 ** Etelka Kenéz Heka, Hungarian writer, poet, singer ** Shelley Morrison, American actress (d.

) * October 28 – Charlie Daniels, American country singer, and songwriter (d.

) * October 30 – Polina Astakhova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2005) * October 31 – Michael Landon, American actor, director, producer and writer (d. 1991)

November

* November 3 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player * November 4 – Didier Ratsiraka, 3rd President of Madagascar (d.

) * November 5 ** Ivan Stambolić, Serbian politician (d. 2000) ** Uwe Seeler, German football player and manager (d.

) * November 8 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d.

) *

** Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (d.

) ** Stephanie Rothman, American film director * November 11 – Susan Kohner, American actress * November 17 ** Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d.

) ** Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005) * November 19 – Dick Cavett, American talk show host, television personality * November 20 – Don DeLillo, American author * November 22 – John Bird (actor), John Bird, British satirist, actor and comedian * November 23 ** Robert Barnard, English writer (d.

) ** Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d.

) ** Steve Landesberg, actor and comedian (d.

) * November 30 – Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist (d.

)

December

*December 4 – América Alonso, Venezuelan actress (d.

) * December 5 – James Lee Burke, American author * December 7 – Martha Layne Collins, American businesswoman and politician *December 8 – David Carradine, American actor, director and martial artist (d.

) *December 9 – A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli writer (d.

) * December 11 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch politician and diplomat * December 12 **Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper (d.

) **Reggie Young, American musician and guitarist (d.

) *December 14 – Robert A. Parker, American physicist, astronomer, and astronaut *December 17 **Pope Francis, Argentine-born Catholic Pontiff **Klaus Kinkel, German politician (d.

) **Tommy Steele, British entertainer *December 20 – Niki Bettendorf, Luxembourgian politician (d.

) *December 21 – Barbara Roberts, American politician *December 22 – Héctor Elizondo, American actor *December 23 **La Lupe, Cuban singer (d.

) **Frederic Forrest, American actor *December 25 **Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy **Ismail Merchant, Indian film director and producer (d. 2005) *December 27 – Alex Miller (writer), Alex Miller, Australian novelist *December 29 **Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, producer and diabetes awareness activist (d.

) **Peep Jänes, Peep Janes, Estonian architect **Ray Nitschke, American football player (d.

) *December 31 – Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer

Deaths

January

* January 1 – Harry B. Smith, American composer (b. 1860) * January 5 – Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Spanish writer (b. 1866) *

– Louise Bryant, American journalist (b. 1885) * January 9 – John Gilbert (actor), John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1897) * January 15 ** Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, Henry Foster, British Conservative Party politician, former Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866) ** George Landenberger, United States Navy Captain (USN), Captain, 23rd Governor of American Samoa (b. 1879) * January 16 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1870) * January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) *

– King George V, George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865) * January 23 – Mills Brothers, John Mills Jr., "Mills Brothers" basso, guitarist (b. 1911) * January 24 **Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873) **Harry Peach, British furniture manufacturer, social campaigner (b. 1874) * January 28 – Richard Loeb, American murderer (b. 1905)

February

– Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William, Prince of Albania, William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885) *

– Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi Party (b. 1895) * February 8 – Charles Curtis, List of Vice Presidents of the United States, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860) * February 19 – Billy Mitchell, American general, military aviation pioneer (b. 1879) * February 20 ** Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879) ** Georges Vacher de Lapouge, French anthropologist (b. 1854) * February 23 – William Adamson, British Labour politician (b. 1863) *

– in the " February 26 Incident": ** Takahashi Korekiyo, 11th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1854) ** Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral, 19th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1858) * February 27 ** Ivan Pavlov, Russian psychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849) ** Mulugeta Yeggazu, Ethiopian government official, military leader **Fred Haines, American film director and screenwriter * February 28 – Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)

March

* March 8 – Jean Patou, French fashion designer (b. 1880) * March 9 – Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian monk and yogi (b. 1855) * March 12 ** David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, British admiral (b. 1871) ** David Campbell (British Army officer), Sir David Campbell, British army general and Governor of Malta (b. 1869) * March 13 – Francis Bell (New Zealand politician), Sir Francis Bell, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851) * March 16 ** Dace Akmentiņa, Latvian actress (b. 1858) ** Marguerite Durand, French journalist, feminist leader (b. 1864) * March 18 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek statesman, several times Prime Minister (b. 1864) * March 20 – Herman P. Faris, American temperance movement leader (b. 1858) *

– Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, conductor (b. 1865) * March 23 – Oscar Asche, Australian actor (b. 1871) * March 28 – Archibald Garrod, Sir Archibald Garrod, English physician (b. 1857) * March 29 – Eugène Marais, South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer (b. 1871)

April

* April 2 – Alberico Albricci, Italian general (b. 1864) * April 3 – Richard Hauptmann, German killer of Lindbergh kidnapping, Charles Lindbergh Jr. (executed) (b. 1899) * April 6 – Edmund Breese, American actor (b. 1871) * April 7 – Marilyn Miller, American actress (b. 1898) * April 8 – Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1876) * April 9 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist, economist and philosopher (b. 1855) * April 18 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer, musicologist, and conductor (b. 1879) *

– Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889) * April 25 – Wajed Ali Khan Panni, Bengali aristocrat and philanthropist (b. 1871) * April 26 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886) * April 28 – King Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868) * April 30 – A. E. Housman, English poet (b. 1859)

May

* May 2 – Ivan Alexandrov, Russian engineer (b. 1875) * May 4 – Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general (b. 1844) * May 5 – Marianne Hainisch, Austrian women's rights activist (b. 1839) * May 8 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (b. 1880) * May 12 - Hu Hanmin, Chinese politician (b. 1879) * May 14 – Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, British soldier, administrator (b. 1861) *

– Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general, senator (b. 1860) * May 17 – Panagis Tsaldaris, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1868) * May 20 – Elmer Fowler Stone, American aviator, first United States Coast Guard aviator (b. 1887) * May 24 – Khaz'al Khan Ibn Haji Jabir Khan, Iranian emir (b. 1863) * May 29 – Norman Chaney, American actor (b. 1914)

June

* June 3 – Walther Wever (general), Walther Wever, German general, ''Luftwaffe'' commander (b. 1887) * June 11 – Robert E. Howard, American author (suicide) (b. 1906) * June 12 – Karl Kraus (writer), Karl Krays, Austrian writer, journalist (b. 1874) * June 14 – G. K. Chesterton, English author (b. 1874) * June 17 – Henry B. Walthall, American actor (b. 1878) * June 18 – Maxim Gorky, Russian writer (b. 1868) * June 19 – William Hall-Jones, Sir William Hall-Jones, English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851) * June 22 ** Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, American pioneer dentist (b. 1866) ** Moritz Schlick, German philosopher, physicist (b. 1882) * June 28 – Alexander Berkman, Russian anarchist (b. 1870)

July

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* July 1 – Hovhannes Abelian, Armenian actor (b. 1865) * July 8 – Thomas Meighan, American actor (b. 1879) * July 9 – Auguste Adib Pacha, two-time prime minister of Lebanon (b. 1859) * July 11 – James Murray (American actor), James Murray, American actor (b. 1901) * July 13 – José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician (b. 1893) * July 16 – Alan Crosland, American film director (b. 1894) * July 20 – José Sanjurjo, Spanish general (b. 1872) * July 23 – Anna Abrikosova, Soviet Roman Catholic religious sister and servant of God (b. 1882) * July 24 ** Georg Michaelis, 6th Chancellor of Germany (German Reich), Chancellor of Germany (b. 1857) ** Arnold Theiler, Sir Arnold Theiler, South African veterinary scientist (b. 1867) * July 25 – Heinrich Rickert, German philosopher (b. 1863)

August

* August 1 – Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872) * August 9 – Lincoln Steffens, American journalist (b. 1866) * August 12 ** Blessed Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina, Spanish teacher, religious woman (b. 1903) ** Manuel Goded, Spanish general (executed) (b. 1882) * August 15 – Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) * August 19 ** Federico García Lorca, Spanish writer (assassinated) (b. 1898) ** Hugh Patrick Lygon, English aristocrat (b. 1904) ** Oscar von Sydow, 18th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1873) * August 22 – José María Hinojosa Lasarte, José María Hinojosa, Spanish poet (assassinated) (b. 1904) * August 23 – Julio Ruiz de Alda, Spanish aviator, Falangist politician (executed) (b. 1897) * August 25 ** Ivan Nikitich Smirnov, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Soviet Communist Party activist (b. 1881) ** Lev Kamenev, Soviet politician (b. 1883) ** Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician (b. 1883)

September

* September 6 – Víctor Pradera Larumbe, Spanish political theorist (executed) (b. 1872) * September 7 – Kenneth Balfour, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1863) * September 14 ** Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899) * September 14 – Raoul Villain, French assassin (b. 1885) * September 16 – Karl Buresch, 9th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1878) * September 17 – Henri Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist (Le Chatelier's principle) (b. 1850) * September 19 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860) * September 21 ** Amalia Abad Casasempere, Spanish Roman Catholic laywoman, martyr (executed) (b. 1897) ** Antoine Meillet, French linguist (b. 1866) *

– William Sims, American admiral (b. 1858) * September 30 – Friedrich Sixt von Armin, German general (b. 1851)

October

* October 2 – Juho Sunila, 2-time Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1875) * October 3 – John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869) * October 6 – Gyula Gömbös, 30th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1886) * October 8 ** Cheiro, Irish astrologer (b. 1866) ** William Henry Stark, American businessman (b. 1851) * October 12 – Shuja ul-Mulk, Indian ruler (b. 1881) * October 16 – Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859) * October 19 – Lu Xun, leading figure of modern Chinese literature (b. 1881) * October 20 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher of Helen Keller (b. 1866) * October 26 – Rodney Heath, Australian tennis player (b. 1884) * October 29 – Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish writer (b. 1875)

November

* November 2 – Martin Lowry, English physical chemist (b. 1874) * November 7 ** Walter L. Finn, American physician and politician (b. 1875) ** Charles "Chic" Sale, American vaudevillian (b. 1885) * November 11 – Edward German, Sir Edward German, English composer (b. 1862) * November 17 ** John Bowers (actor), John Bowers, American actor (b. 1885) ** Alexandros Papanastasiou, 2-time prime minister of Greece (b. 1876) * November 20 ** Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896) ** José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish fascist politician (b. 1903) * November 25 – Andrew Harper, Scottish–Australian biblical scholar, teacher (b. 1844) * November 27 – Edward Bach, British physician, homeopath and bacteriologist (b. 1886)

December

* December 7 – Jean Mermoz, French aviator (b. 1901) * December 9 ** Juan de la Cierva, Spanish civil engineer, aviator, aeronautical engineer and inventor of the autogyro (b. 1895) ** Arvid Lindman, 12th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1862) ** Lottie Pickford, Canadian actress (b. 1895) * December 10 ** Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857) ** Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) * December 18 – Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Spanish engineer, mathematician (b. 1852) * December 23 – William Henry Harrison (cricketer), William Henry Harrison, English cricketer (b. 1866) * December 24 – Irene Fenwick, American actress (b. 1887) * December 25 – Carl Stumpf, German philosopher, psychologist (b. 1848) * December 26 – Percival G. Baldwin, American politician and businessman (b. 1880) * December 27 – Mehmet Akif Ersoy, poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the İstiklal Marşı, Turkish National Anthem (b. 1873) * December 29 – Lucy, Lady Houston, British philanthropist (b. 1857) * December 31 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer (b. 1864)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Victor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Peter Debye, Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Eugene Gladstone O'Neill * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Note

References

External links

Headling America 1937
reprints the best American newspaper stories of 1935–1936.

– from American Studies Programs at the University of Virginia {{DEFAULTSORT:1936 1936, Leap years in the Gregorian calendar