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* January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d. 1992)
* January 6
** Darlene Hard, American tennis player (d. 2021)
** Alejandro Maldonado, Guatemalan politician
** Julio María Sanguinetti, 2-time President of Uruguay
* January 8 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Robert May, Australian scientist (d. 2020)
* January 10
** Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and biographer (d. 2002)
** Robert Woodrow Wilson, Robert Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, and Nobel Prize, Nobel laureate
* January 11 – Eva Hesse, American artist (d. 1970)
* January 12 – Émile Lahoud, 15th President of Lebanon
* January 14 – Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (d. 1999)
* January 19 – Ziaur Rahman, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
* January 22
** Alan J. Heeger, American physicist
** Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
* January 25 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
* January 27
** Barry Barish, American gravitational physicist, Nobel laureate
** Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
** Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist
*
* February 3 – Bob Simpson (cricketer), Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer
*
* March 4
** Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d. 1968)
** Kim Yong-chun, North Korean soldier, politician (d. 2018)
** Aribert Reimann, German composer
* March 5
** Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
** Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)
* March 6
** Marion Barry, African-American civil rights activist and politician (d. 2014)
** Choummaly Sayasone, 5th President of Laos
*
* April 1
** Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 2-time President of Switzerland (d. 1998)
** Leo Posada, Cuban baseball player (d. 2022)
* 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)
** Ferdinando Imposimato, Italian judge (d. 2018)
* April 12 – Charles Napier (actor), Charles Napier, American character actor (d. 2011)
* April 13 – Choi In-hun, South Korean writer (d. 2018)
* April 14 – Dilbagh Singh Kler, Malaysian Olympic athlete (d. 2012)
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* May 1 – Straub-Huillet, Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (d. 2006)
* May 2
** Norma Aleandro, Argentinian actress
** Engelbert Humperdinck (singer), Engelbert Humperdinck (b. Arnold George Dorsey), British singer
* May 4 – El Cordobés, Spanish matador
* May 5 – Trần Đức Lương, 5th President of Vietnam
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*June 2 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
*June 3 – Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2017)
*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. 2013)
* June 15 – William Levada, American cardinal (d. 2019)
*June 17 – Ken Loach, British film director
*June 18
**Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1992)
**Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist (d. 1982)
* June 19 – Takeshi Aono, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
*June 22
**Kris Kristofferson, American actor, singer and songwriter
**Izatullo Khayoyev, 1st Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015)
**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. 2019)
* June 26
**Hal Greer, African-American professional basketball player (d. 2018)
**Lee Ming-liang, Taiwanese geneticist
**Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
*June 27
**Geneviève Fontanel, French stage, film actress (d. 2018)
**Joe Doyle (politician), Joe Doyle, Irish politician (d. 2009)
*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. 1992)
**Kigeli V of Rwanda, last king of Rwanda (d. 2016)
*June 30 – Assia Djebar, Algerian writer (d. 2015)
* July 1
** Mihir Rakshit, Indian economist
** E. Ponnuswamy, Indian politician
** Antonio Salines, Italian actor and director (d. 2021)
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* 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. 2019)
* August 4 – Joaquim Roriz, Brazilian politician (d. 2018)
*August 12
**Kjell Grede, Swedish film director (d. 2017)
**André Kolingba, President of Central African Republic (d. 2010)
*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. 1999)
**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. 2009)
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* September 1 – Valery Legasov, Soviet inorganic chemist (d. 1988)
* September 2 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American businessman, engineer and author (d. 2016)
* September 3 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (d. 2019)
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* 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. 2011)
* October 6 – Lin Yu-lin, Taiwanese billionaire real estate developer (d. 2018)
* October 7 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian entertainer (d. 1992)
* October 8 – Rogelio Guerra, Mexican actor (d. 2018)
* 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. 2018)
* October 18 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (d. 2019)
* October 19 – James Bevel, Civil Rights Movement strategist
* 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. 2019)
* October 28 – Charlie Daniels, American country singer, and songwriter (d. 2020)
* October 30 – Polina Astakhova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2005)
* October 31 – Michael Landon, American actor, director, producer and writer (d. 1991)
* November 3 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
* November 4 – Didier Ratsiraka, 3rd President of Madagascar (d. 2021)
* November 5
** Ivan Stambolić, Serbian politician (d. 2000)
** Uwe Seeler, German football player and manager (d. 2022)
* November 8 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014)
* November 9
** Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
** Stephanie Rothman, American film director
* November 11 – Susan Kohner, American actress
* November 17
** Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d. 1988)
** 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. 2013)
** Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d. 1988)
** Steve Landesberg, actor and comedian (d. 2010)
* November 30 – Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist (d. 1989)
*December 4 – América Alonso, Venezuelan actress (d. 2022)
*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. 2009)
*December 9 – A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli writer (d. 2022)
*December 11 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch politician and diplomat
*December 12
**Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper (d. 2016)
**Reggie Young, American musician and guitarist (d. 2019)
*December 14 – Robert A. Parker, American physicist, astronomer, and astronaut
*December 17
**Pope Francis, Argentine-born Catholic Pontiff
**Klaus Kinkel, German politician (d. 2019)
**Tommy Steele, British entertainer
*December 20 – Niki Bettendorf, Luxembourgian politician (d. 2018)
*December 21 – Barbara Roberts, American politician
*December 22 – Héctor Elizondo, American actor
*December 23
**La Lupe, Cuban singer (d. 1992)
**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. 2017)
**Peep Jänes, Peep Janes, Estonian architect
**Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
*December 31 – Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer
* January 1 – Harry B. Smith, American composer (b. 1860)
* January 5 – Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Spanish writer (b. 1866)
* January 6 – 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)
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* February 3 – Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William, Prince of Albania, William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
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* 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)
* April 23 – 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)
* 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 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)
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* 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)
* 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 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 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
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
Events
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 & ...
– George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
Born during the reign of his grandmother ...
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 1 ...
.
* January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession ...
– Britain's King George V state funeral takes place in London and Windsor. He is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...
* 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 quarrelling ...
– Radium
Radium is a chemical element with the symbol Ra and atomic number 88. It is the sixth element in group 2 of the periodic table, also known as the alkaline earth metals. Pure radium is silvery-white, but it readily reacts with nitrogen (rat ...
E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive
Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A material containing unstable nuclei is consi ...
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 ...
– 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 Ob ...
, Germany.
* February 10
Events Pre-1600
*1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparki ...
– 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression which was fought between Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Italy and Ethiopian Empire, Ethiopia from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethio ...
: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire
The Ethiopian Empire (), also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or just simply known as Ethiopia (; Amharic and Tigrinya: ኢትዮጵያ , , Oromo: Itoophiyaa, Somali: Itoobiya, Afar: ''Itiyoophiyaa''), was an empire that historica ...
.
* February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of K ...
– 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front
A popular front is "any coalition of working-class and middle-class parties", including liberal and social democratic ones, "united for the defense of democratic forms" against "a presumed Fascist assault".
More generally, it is "a coalition ...
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 ...
– 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
Events Pre-1600
* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Dioclet ...
– 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 S ...
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 Co ...
– In violation of the Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles (french: Traité de Versailles; german: Versailler Vertrag, ) was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1 ...
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 a ...
, Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...
reoccupies the Rhineland. Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
and other Nazis later admit that the French army alone could have destroyed the Wehrmacht
The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the ''Heer'' (army), the '' Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmacht''" replaced the previo ...
.
* March 9
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
*1226 &ndas ...
– Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada
was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, politician and Prime Minister of Japan from 1934 to 1936.
Biography
Early life
Okada was born on 20 January 1868, in Fukui Prefecture, the son of a samurai of the Fukui Domain. He attended the 1 ...
steps down as Prime Minister of Japan
The prime minister of Japan ( Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: ''Naikaku Sōri-Daijin'') is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its Ministers of S ...
, and is replaced by radical militarist Kōki Hirota
was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1936 to 1937. Originally his name was . He was executed for war crimes committed during the Second Sino-Japanese War at the Tokyo Trials.
Early life
Hirota w ...
.
* March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
* 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 &ndash ...
– Austrian ski jumper Josef Bradl
Josef "Sepp" / "Bubi" Bradl (8 January 1918 – 3 March 1982) was an Austrian ski jumper who competed during the 1930s and 1950s. He was born in Wasserburg am Inn, Bavaria.
Career
on 15 March 1936, he became the first man in history to stan ...
set the world record at 101.5 metres (333 ft) on Bloudkova velikanka hill in Planica
Planica () is an Alpine valley in northwestern Slovenia, extending south from the border village of Rateče, not far from another well-known ski resort, Kranjska Gora. Further south, the valley extends into the Tamar Valley, a popular hiking ...
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 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 ...
, killing 216 people and injuring over 700 (the 4th deadliest tornado in U.S. history).
* April 15
Events Pre-1600
* 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...
– 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
The March of the Iron Will () was an Italian Fascist propaganda event staged from 26 April to 5 May 1936, during the final days of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Its goal was to capture the Ethiopian capital in a show of force. A ...
'': Italian forces occupy Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...
unopposed.
* May 7
Events Pre-1600
* 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
* 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I imm ...
– Italy annexes Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
.
* May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
* 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally r ...
– Italian East Africa
Italian East Africa ( it, Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 through the merger of Italian Somalia, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire, conquered in the S ...
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 Ethiopi ...
, Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
, and Italian Somaliland
Italian Somalia ( it, Somalia Italiana; ar, الصومال الإيطالي, Al-Sumal Al-Italiy; so, Dhulka Talyaaniga ee Soomaalida), was a protectorate and later colony of the Kingdom of Italy in present-day Somalia. Ruled in the 19th centu ...
.
* May 12
Events Pre-1600
* 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
* 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang d ...
– The Santa Fe railroad in the United States inaugurates the all-Pullman '' Super Chief'' passenger train, between Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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and Los Angeles
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.
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– The Remington Rand strike of 1936–37
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Organizations
* Remington Arms, American firearms manufacturer
* Remington Rand, American computer manufacturer
* Remington Products, American manufacturer of shavers and haircare products
* Remington College, American ...
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 st ...
.
* 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
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on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic.
* June 15 – An army ammunition depot explosion kills 63 people in Männiku, Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, an ...
.
* June 19 – Max Schmeling
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knocks out Joe Louis
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in the 12th round of their heavyweight
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Boxing Professional
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boxing
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match, at Yankee Stadium
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Opened in April 2009, the stadium replaced the orig ...
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-liv ...
resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden
The prime minister ( sv, statsminister ; literally translating to "Minister of State") is the head of government of Sweden. The prime minister and their cabinet (the government) exercise executive authority in the Kingdom of Sweden and are su ...
, 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
Saros cycle series 126 for solar eclipse
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; Gamma
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is a value of 0.53889.
* June 26 – Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter
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, makes its maiden flight.
July–August
*July 4
Events Pre-1600
*362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
* 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed ...
– First publication recognizing stress
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* Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition
* Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word, or to a word in a phrase ...
as a biological condition.
* July 17 – The Spanish Army of Africa launches a ''coup d'état'' against the Second Spanish Republic
The Spanish Republic (), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (), was the form of government in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, after the deposition of King Alfonso XIII, and was dissolved on 1 ...
, beginning the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlism, Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebeli ...
.
* July 20
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
– The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits
The (Montreux) Convention regarding the Regime of the Straits, often known simply as the Montreux Convention, is an international agreement governing the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits in Turkey. Signed on 20 July 1936 at the Montreux Palace ...
is signed in Montreux
Montreux (, , ; frp, Montrolx) is a Swiss municipality and town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps. It belongs to the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, and has a population of approxima ...
, allowing Turkey
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to fortify the Dardanelles
The Dardanelles (; tr, Çanakkale Boğazı, lit=Strait of Çanakkale, el, Δαρδανέλλια, translit=Dardanéllia), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli from the Gallipoli peninsula or from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (; ...
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
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open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of an international sports event in world history (John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird FRSE (; 13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly dem ...
had previously broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931).
* August 3 – 1936 Summer Olympics
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: African-American
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athlete Jesse Owens
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lif ...
wins the 100-meter dash.
* August 4 – A self-coup is staged by Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas
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, marking the beginning of the authoritarian 4th of August Regime
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, 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 E ...
.
* August 26
Events Pre-1600
* 683 – Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah.
*1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most ...
– The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 is signed.
September–October
*September 4
Events Pre-1600
* 476 – Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
* 626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne ove ...
– 5 – English-born aviator Beryl Markham
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becomes the first woman to make an east-to-west solo transatlantic flight
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, from Abingdon-on-Thames
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, England, to Baleine, Nova Scotia.
* September 5 – Spanish Civil War
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: Robert Capa
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's photograph ''The Falling Soldier
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'' is taken.
* September 7 – The last known thylacine
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("Tasmanian tiger"), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania
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* September 9
** 1936 Naval Revolt (Portugal): The crews of Portuguese Navy
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frigate NRP ''Afonso de Albuquerque'' and destroyer ''Dão'' mutiny while anchored in Lisbon Harbour. Opposed to the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco
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's coup in Spain, they declare their solidarity with the Second Spanish Republic
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.
**The Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence is signed.
* September 10 – The first World Speedway Championship
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is held at Wembley Stadium
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in London, England. It is won by Australian Lionel Van Praag
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, with Englishman Eric Langton second and Australian Bluey Wilkinson third.
* September 13
Events Pre-1600
* 585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.
* 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hi ...
, in response to a polio
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outbreak, Chicago Public Schools
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...
launches a distance education program which constitutes the first large-scale use of radio broadcasts to facilitate distance education
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* 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 Hippolytu ...
– 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 Per Albin Hansson
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returns as Prime Minister, staying in office until his death from a heart attack in 1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 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 four occupation zones.
* January 10
** The ...
.
* October
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** Joseph Stalin's Great Purge begins in the Soviet Union.
** The Mästermyr chest is discovered in the Mästermyr mire (after which it is later named), west of Hemse, on the island of Gotland, 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 of the ''New York Journal'' and Leo Kieran of ''The New York Times''. The flight takes 18 days.
* October 25 – The Rome-Berlin Axis 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: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term, in a landslide victory over Kansas Governor Alf Landon; farmers support Roosevelt. * November 9 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness 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 Osarizawa mine, Kazuno, northeastern Akita Prefecture, Akita, Japan, results in at least 375 deaths. * November 23 – Cover date of the first issue of ''Life (magazine), Life'', a weekly news magazine launched in the United States under the management of Henry Luce. * 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. * December 3 – Radio station WFME (AM), WQXR is officially founded in New York City. * December 5 – The 1936 Soviet Constitution, promulgated by Stalin, is adopted in the Soviet Union. The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic is dissolved, and Armenian SSR, Armenia, Azerbaijan SSR, Azerbaijan, and Georgian SSR, Georgia become full Republics of the Soviet Union. * December 7 – Streptococcous meningitis (a condition previously 99% fatal) is successfully treated for the first time with a Sulfonamide (medicine), sulfonamide. * December 10 – Edward VIII abdication crisis: KingEdward 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 1 ...
of the United Kingdom signs an instrument of abdication at Fort Belvedere, Surrey in the presence of his three brothers, George VI, The Duke of York, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, The Duke of Gloucester and Prince George, Duke of Kent, 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 George VI, King George VI. 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, 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 of the Republic of China is kidnapped by Marshal Zhang Xueliang.
* December 24 – The first filmed Russian opera, ''Natalka Poltavka (opera), Natalka Poltavka'', is released in Ukraine.
Date unknown
* West China Famine: An estimated five million people die. * Nestlé introduce the white chocolate Milkybar (called Galak in Continental Europe and elsewhere).Births
January
* January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d. 1992)
* January 6
** Darlene Hard, American tennis player (d. 2021)
** Alejandro Maldonado, Guatemalan politician
** Julio María Sanguinetti, 2-time President of Uruguay
* January 8 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Robert May, Australian scientist (d. 2020)
* January 10
** Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and biographer (d. 2002)
** Robert Woodrow Wilson, Robert Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, and Nobel Prize, Nobel laureate
* January 11 – Eva Hesse, American artist (d. 1970)
* January 12 – Émile Lahoud, 15th President of Lebanon
* January 14 – Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (d. 1999)
* January 19 – Ziaur Rahman, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
* January 22
** Alan J. Heeger, American physicist
** Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
* January 25 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
* January 27
** Barry Barish, American gravitational physicist, Nobel laureate
** Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
** Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist
* January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession ...
** Waldyr Boccardo, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2018)
** Alan Alda, American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and author
** Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
February
* February 3 – Bob Simpson (cricketer), Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer
* 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 quarrelling ...
– David Brenner, American actor and comedian (d. 2014)
* 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 ...
** Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player, coach (d. 2009)
** Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
* February 9 – Clive Swift, British actor (d. 2019)
* February 11 – Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (d. 2018)
* February 14 – Anna German, Poland, Polish singer (d. 1982)
* February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of K ...
– Carl Icahn, American businessman, investor and philanthropist
* February 17 – Jim Brown, African-American football player and actor
* February 21 – Barbara Jordan, African-American lawyer, educator, politician and civil rights activist (d. 1996)
* February 24 — Carol D'Onofrio, American public health researcher (d. 2020)
* 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 ...
– Adem Demaçi, Albanian politician, writer (d. 2018)
* February 29
** Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
** Jack Lousma, American astronaut and politician
** Henri Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2020)
March
* March 4
** Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d. 1968)
** Kim Yong-chun, North Korean soldier, politician (d. 2018)
** Aribert Reimann, German composer
* March 5
** Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
** Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)
* March 6
** Marion Barry, African-American civil rights activist and politician (d. 2014)
** Choummaly Sayasone, 5th President of Laos
* 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 Co ...
** Loren Acton, American astronaut
** Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (d. 2015)
* March 9
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
*1226 &ndas ...
– Mickey Gilley, American country singer (d. 2022)
* March 10 – Sepp Blatter, Swiss sports administrator, president of FIFA
* March 11
** Harald zur Hausen, German virologist
** Takis Mousafiris, Greek composer and songwriter
** Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2016)
* March 13 – Mónica Miguel, Mexican actress, director and singer (d. 2020)
* March 17 – Ken Mattingly, American astronaut
* March 18 – F. W. de Klerk, 7th and last State President of South Africa (d. 2021)
* March 19
** Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
** Uri Aviram, Israeli university professor
* March 20 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican musician (d. 2021)
* March 21 – Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei, Iranian politician (d. 2018)
* March 27 – Banwari Lal Joshi, Indian politician (d. 2017)
* March 28
** Bill Gaither (gospel singer), Bill Gaither, American musician
** Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate
** Amancio Ortega, Amancio Ortega Gaona, Spanish business tycoon
April
* April 1
** Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 2-time President of Switzerland (d. 1998)
** Leo Posada, Cuban baseball player (d. 2022)
* 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)
** Ferdinando Imposimato, Italian judge (d. 2018)
* April 12 – Charles Napier (actor), Charles Napier, American character actor (d. 2011)
* April 13 – Choi In-hun, South Korean writer (d. 2018)
* April 14 – Dilbagh Singh Kler, Malaysian Olympic athlete (d. 2012)
* April 15
Events Pre-1600
* 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...
** Pen Sovan, Cambodian politician (d. 2016)
** Raymond Poulidor, French road-bicycle racer（d. 2019）
* April 17 – Urs Wild, Swiss chemist
* April 20 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (d. 1989)
* April 22 – Glen Campbell, American singer and actor (d. 2017)
* April 23 – Roy Orbison, American singer, songwriter (''Pretty Woman'') (d. 1988)
* April 24
** Akwasi Afrifa, 3rd Head of State of Ghana (d. 1979)
** Jill Ireland, English actress (d. 1990)
* April 28 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (d. 2015)
* April 29 – Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, British financier and aristocrat
May
* May 1 – Straub-Huillet, Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (d. 2006)
* May 2
** Norma Aleandro, Argentinian actress
** Engelbert Humperdinck (singer), 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
Events Pre-1600
* 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
* 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I imm ...
– Jimmy Ruffin, African-American singer (d. 2014)
* May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
* 1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally r ...
** Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
** Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
* May 12
Events Pre-1600
* 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
* 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang d ...
** Klaus Doldinger, German musician
** Guillermo Endara, 32nd President of Panama (1989–1994) (d. 2009)
* May 13 – Rafael Campos, Dominican actor (d. 1985)
* May 14 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
* May 16
** Philippe de Montebello, art exhibitionist
** Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal (d. 2018)
* May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (d. 2010)
* May 20
** Nickey Iyambo, Namibian politician, 1st Vice-President of Namibia (d. 2019)
** Antanas Vaupšas, Lithuanian athlete (d. 2017)
* May 21 – Günter Blobel, German-American biologist, academic and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
* May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– Tom T. Hall, American country singer-songwriter (d. 2021)
* 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 ...
– Louis Gossett Jr., African-American actor
June
*June 2 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
*June 3 – Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2017)
*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. 2013)
* June 15 – William Levada, American cardinal (d. 2019)
*June 17 – Ken Loach, British film director
*June 18
**Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1992)
**Barack Obama Sr., Kenyan economist (d. 1982)
* June 19 – Takeshi Aono, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
*June 22
**Kris Kristofferson, American actor, singer and songwriter
**Izatullo Khayoyev, 1st Prime Minister of Tajikistan (d. 2015)
**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. 2019)
* June 26
**Hal Greer, African-American professional basketball player (d. 2018)
**Lee Ming-liang, Taiwanese geneticist
**Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)
*June 27
**Geneviève Fontanel, French stage, film actress (d. 2018)
**Joe Doyle (politician), Joe Doyle, Irish politician (d. 2009)
*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. 1992)
**Kigeli V of Rwanda, last king of Rwanda (d. 2016)
*June 30 – Assia Djebar, Algerian writer (d. 2015)
July
* July 1
** Mihir Rakshit, Indian economist
** E. Ponnuswamy, Indian politician
** Antonio Salines, Italian actor and director (d. 2021)
* July 4
Events Pre-1600
*362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
* 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed ...
– Günter Vetter, Austrian politician (d. 2022)
* July 5
** Sir Frederick Ballantyne, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (d. 2020)
** Shirley Knight, American actress (d. 2020)
** Sir James Mirrlees, Scottish-born economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (d. 2018)
* 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
The prime minister of Japan ( Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: ''Naikaku Sōri-Daijin'') is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its Ministers of S ...
* July 18 – Ted Harris (ice hockey), Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
* July 26 – Neelu, Indian actor (d. 2018)
* July 30
** Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Spanish royal (d. 2020)
** 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. 2019)
* August 4 – Joaquim Roriz, Brazilian politician (d. 2018)
*August 12
**Kjell Grede, Swedish film director (d. 2017)
**André Kolingba, President of Central African Republic (d. 2010)
*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. 1999)
**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. 2009)
*August 26
Events Pre-1600
* 683 – Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah.
*1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most ...
– Benedict Anderson, American academic (d. 2015)
*August 27 – Lien Chan, Taiwanese politician
*August 28 – Bert Schneider (motorcyclist), Bert Schneider, Austrian road racer (d. 2009)
*August 29 – John McCain, American politician, U.S. Senate, U.S. Senator (Republican Party (United States), R-Arizona, Az.) (d. 2018)
*August 31 – Fabrizia Ramondino, Italian author (d. 2008)
September
* September 1 – Valery Legasov, Soviet inorganic chemist (d. 1988)
* September 2 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American businessman, engineer and author (d. 2016)
* September 3 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (d. 2019)
* September 4
Events Pre-1600
* 476 – Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
* 626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne ove ...
** Kamuta Latasi, 4th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
** Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Japanese sport shooter (d. 2019)
* September 7
** Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican/Canadian actor (d. 2017)
** Buddy Holly, American rock-and-roll singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 1959)
** Jorge Porcel, Argentine-American actor (d. 2006)
* September 14 – Walter Koenig, American actor (''Star Trek: The Original Series'')
* September 15 – Ashley Cooper (tennis), Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (d. 2020)
* September 19 – Al Oerter, American Olympic athlete (d. 2007)
* September 21 – Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (d. 2019)
* September 23 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Perú (d. 2006)
* September 24 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (''The Muppets'') (d. 1990)
* September 25 – Moussa Traoré, President of Mali (d. 2020)
* September 26 – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2018)
* September 27 – Joselo, Venezuelan actor, comedian (d. 2013)
* 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 Hippolytu ...
– Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (d. 2018)
* 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. 2011)
* October 6 – Lin Yu-lin, Taiwanese billionaire real estate developer (d. 2018)
* October 7 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian entertainer (d. 1992)
* October 8 – Rogelio Guerra, Mexican actor (d. 2018)
* 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. 2018)
* October 18 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (d. 2019)
* October 19 – James Bevel, Civil Rights Movement strategist
* 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. 2019)
* October 28 – Charlie Daniels, American country singer, and songwriter (d. 2020)
* 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. 2021)
* November 5
** Ivan Stambolić, Serbian politician (d. 2000)
** Uwe Seeler, German football player and manager (d. 2022)
* November 8 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014)
* November 9
** Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
** Stephanie Rothman, American film director
* November 11 – Susan Kohner, American actress
* November 17
** Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d. 1988)
** 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. 2013)
** Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d. 1988)
** Steve Landesberg, actor and comedian (d. 2010)
* November 30 – Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist (d. 1989)
December
*December 4 – América Alonso, Venezuelan actress (d. 2022)
*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. 2009)
*December 9 – A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli writer (d. 2022)
*December 11 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch politician and diplomat
*December 12
**Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper (d. 2016)
**Reggie Young, American musician and guitarist (d. 2019)
*December 14 – Robert A. Parker, American physicist, astronomer, and astronaut
*December 17
**Pope Francis, Argentine-born Catholic Pontiff
**Klaus Kinkel, German politician (d. 2019)
**Tommy Steele, British entertainer
*December 20 – Niki Bettendorf, Luxembourgian politician (d. 2018)
*December 21 – Barbara Roberts, American politician
*December 22 – Héctor Elizondo, American actor
*December 23
**La Lupe, Cuban singer (d. 1992)
**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. 2017)
**Peep Jänes, Peep Janes, Estonian architect
**Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
*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)
* January 6 – 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)
* 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 & ...
– 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
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession ...
– Richard Loeb, American murderer (b. 1905)
February
* February 3 – Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William, Prince of Albania, William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
* 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 quarrelling ...
– 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)
* 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 ...
– in the " February 26 Incident":
** Takahashi Korekiyo, 11th Prime Minister of Japan
The prime minister of Japan ( Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: ''Naikaku Sōri-Daijin'') is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its Ministers of S ...
(b. 1854)
** Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral, 19th Prime Minister of Japan
The prime minister of Japan ( Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: ''Naikaku Sōri-Daijin'') is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its Ministers of S ...
(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
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
*1226 &ndas ...
– 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)
* March 21 – 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)
* April 23 – 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
Events Pre-1600
* 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
* 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang d ...
- Hu Hanmin, Chinese politician (b. 1879)
* May 14 – Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, British soldier, administrator (b. 1861)
* May 16 – 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
* 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
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
– 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) *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 Hippolytu ...
– 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
The prime minister ( sv, statsminister ; literally translating to "Minister of State") is the head of government of Sweden. The prime minister and their cabinet (the government) exercise executive authority in the Kingdom of Sweden and are su ...
(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 LamasNote
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