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1936 August 2019 1936 border:none;b 3/3 Guerra Civil. Tomo II (2).jpg Berliinin olympialaiset.jpg Death and state funeral of George V.jpg German troops march into Köln, 1936 (cropped).jpg Anti-Comintern Pact signing 1936.jpg Lt Nibu Masatada Rebels Feb 26 Incident 1936 (cropped).png 350 From top to bottom, left to right: The Spanish Civil War begins as Franco’s Nationalists rise against the Republicans; At the 1936 Summer Olympics, Jesse Owens wins four gold medals, defying Nazi racial ideology; The death and state funeral of George V shocks Britain, followed by the Abdication of Edward VIII; The Remilitarisation of the Rhineland violates the Treaty of Versailles, emboldening Hitler; The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan against the Soviet Union; The February 26 incident, a failed coup attempt in Japan, leads to political purges. 1936 1936 2 Events January–February January 1936 February 1936 January 8 – Reza Shah of Iran issues the Kashf-e hijab which bans all Islamic veils such as the hijab, in addition to many types of male traditional clothing January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House.Philip Ziegler 1991 King Edward VIII: The official biography Alfred A. Knopf 245 0-394-57730-2 January 28 – State funeral of George V of the United Kingdom. After a procession through London, he is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Royal Burials in the Chapel since 1805 College of St George 2017 2018-05-19 https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/about-st-georges/royal-connection/royal-burials/royal-burials-chapel-since-1805/ February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. February 5 – Modern Times, widely considered one of the greatest films ever, premieres in New York City. February 6 – The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 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: The left-wing Popular Front coalition takes a majority. February 26 – February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, Niniroku Jiken): The Imperial Way Faction engineers a failed coup against the Japanese government; some politicians are killed. March–April March 1936 April 1936 thumb|220px|right| March 1: Hoover Dam is completed March 1 – Construction of Hoover Dam is completed in the United States.Hoover Dam https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/faqs/damfaqs.html March 7 – In violation of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Treaties, Nazi Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.R. W. Davies The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 6: The Years of Progress: The Soviet Economy, 1934–1936 https://books.google.com/books?id=iM9CBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA275 2014 Palgrave Macmillan 275 978-1-137-36257-5A. J. P. Taylor A. J. P. Taylor English History 1914–1945 https://books.google.com/books?id=l4CbmiuJe50C&pg=PA386 2001 Oxford University Press 386 978-0-19-280140-1 Hitler and other Nazis later admit that the French army alone could have destroyed the Wehrmacht.Shirer, William L. Ron Rosenbaum Rosenbaum, Ron The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany https://books.google.com/books?id=6QngAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA293 1960 Simon & Schuster 293 William L. Shirer 978-1-4516-5168-3 March 9 – Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada steps down as Prime Minister of Japan and is replaced by radical militarist Kōki Hirota.F. J. Bradley He Gave the Order: The Life and Times of Admiral Osami Nagano Merriam Press 2015 9781576383711 36 March 15 – Austrian Josef Bradl sets the men's world record ski jump at 101.5 metres (333 ft) on Bloudkova velikanka hill in Planica and becomes the first man in history to stand jump over one hundred metres.Planica -- 101 m! (actually 101.5 metres, no space for 4th number), p.1 http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-DCEVC0OW/d74f87fd-3471-4f0f-bb8d-1f7198838eac/PDF 16 March 1936 Jutro (Monday edition) slSmuške tekme na Planici brez Norvežanov http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-5W446XKT/8033e7f5-dec6-4ca9-a1f4-692f65551c22/PDF 16 March 1936 Ponedeljski Slovenec slJosef Bradl 101.5 m Planica 1936 (Norwegian Commentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLSI0OmDeyM https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/LLSI0OmDeyM 2021-12-11 live YouTube 15 March 1936The result scoreboard at that time had place only for three numbers, as organizing committee wasn't really prepared for one hundred metres barrier to be broken. Newspapers Jutro and Slovenec publish 101 metres on the next day and news spread fast around the world. Many decades took to publish real measured 101.5 metres distance, engraved in his original trophy from Planica (Salzburger Landesskimuseum). "nb" April 5 – A tornado hits Tupelo, Mississippi, United States, killing 216 people and injuring over 700 (the 4th deadliest tornado in U.S. history). April 15 – The Tulkarm shooting, followed by Jewish retaliation, begins the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against British administration, and stokes opposition to Jewish immigration.Kelly Matthew 2017 The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire Oakland, California University of California Press 12 978-0-520-29149-2 May–June May 1936 June 1936 May 5 – March of the Iron Will: Italian forces occupy Addis Ababa unopposed.A. J. Barker Rape of Ethiopia, 1936 Ballantine Books 1971 New York 978-0-345-02462-6 108 May 9 – Speaking in Rome, Benito Mussolini announces the foundation of the empire, as Italian East Africa is formed from the Italian territories of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland.Italian East Africa Italian Colonies in Africa, Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, & Definition Britannica https://www.britannica.com/place/Italian-East-Africa 2025-09-22 www.britannica.com en May 25 – The Remington Rand strike of 1936–37 begins, spawning the notorious Mohawk Valley formula, a corporate plan for strikebreaking. May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers", proving the undecidability of the Halting problem and the decision problem for logic. Computer scientist Avi Wigderson called this paper "easily the most influential math paper in history".15 Mathematics and Computation Avi Wigderson Princeton University Press 2019 978-0-691-18913-0 June 19 Per Albin Hansson 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. The total solar eclipse of June 19, 1936 is visible in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Japan. It is part of Solar Saros 126; Gamma is a value of 0.53889. June 26 – Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, makes its maiden flight. July–August July 1936 August 1936 thumb|right|July 17: Republican soldiers and Assault Guards during the July 1936 uprising in Barcelona, Spain July 4 – First publication recognizing stress as a biological condition.A Syndrome Produced by Diverse Nocuous Agents Hans Selye Hans Selye Nature 138 3479 1936 32 http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/10/2/230a 2020-02-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20080107091947/http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/10/2/230a January 7, 2008 10.1038/138032a0 1936Natur.138...32S 4014154 free"Stress" is 80 Years Old: From Hans Selye Original Paper in 1936 to Recent Advances in GI Ulceration Szabo, S. Yoshida, M. Filakovszky, J. Juhasz, G. Current Pharmaceutical Design 2017 23 27 4029–4041 10.2174/1381612823666170622110046 28641541 https://escholarship.org/content/qt441957nq/qt441957nq.pdf?t=pewjsu July 17 – The Spanish Army of Africa launches a coup d'état against the Republican Second Spanish Republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War. July 19 – The first of hundreds of concentration camps open in Francoist Spain in the Alcazaba of Zeluán. July 20 – The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits is signed in Montreux, allowing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime. July 24 – Carmelite Martyrs of Guadalajara: 3 nuns are shot dead by the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War).http://www.abbaye-saint-benoit.ch/hagiographie/fiches/fg016.htm 3 Carmélites martyres de Guadalajara (Espagne) (1936) https://web.archive.org/web/20110606171828/http://www.abbaye-saint-benoit.ch/hagiographie/fiches/fg016.htm 2011-06-06 abbaye-saint-benoit.ch 2011-06-06 August 1 – The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of an international sports event in world history (John Logie Baird had broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931).Large David Clay Nazi Games The Olympics of 1936 2007 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 978-0-393-05884-0 registration https://archive.org/details/nazigamesolympic00larg August 3 – 1936 Summer Olympics: 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, which will rule Greece until the Axis occupation of Greece in 1941. August 14 – 1936 Summer Olympics: The Junior Varsity Rowing Crew from the University of Washington surprises the world listening on radio when they come from behind to win Olympic Gold.The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics https://read.amazon.com/kp/kshare?ref_=r_sa_glf_b_0_hdrw_ss_AAu4AAA&asin=B00AEBETU2&id=kxwt5xt6bbfz3gz7iqwt2nevdm&amazonDeviceType=A2CLFWBIMVSE9N 2024-01-08 read.amazon.com August 26 – The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 is signed. September–October September 1936 October 1936 thumb|220px|right| September 7: Extinction of Thylacine. 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 is taken. September 7 – The last known thylacine ("Tasmanian tiger")https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-06/benjamin-thylacine-tasmanian-tiger-naming-myth-persists/101734442 How a fake news account of the last thylacine just won't die December 5, 2022 www.abc.net.audies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. September 9 1936 Naval Revolt (Portugal): The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutiny while anchored in Lisbon Harbour. Opposed to the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup in Spain, they declare their solidarity with the Second Spanish Republic.https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17281307 Portuguese Mutiny: Why it Failed The Sydney Morning Herald 1936-10-02 17 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.Bott Richard The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4 1980 97–98 Stanley Paul & Co Ltd 0-09-141751-1 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.Foss Katherine A. Remote learning isn't new: Radio instruction in the 1937 polio epidemic https://theconversation.com/remote-learning-isnt-new-radio-instruction-in-the-1937-polio-epidemic-143797 The Conversation 16 August 2021 en 5 October 2020 September 28 – 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 returns as Prime Minister, staying in office until his death from a heart attack in 1946. October Joseph Stalin's Great Purge begins in the Soviet Union. The Viking Age craftsman's 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 18½ days. October 25 – The Italo-German protocol of 23 October 1936 is signed, resulting in the creation of the Axis.D. C. Watt The Rome–Berlin Axis, 1936–1940: Myth and Reality The Review of Politics 22 4 1960 519–5431405794 November–December November 1936 December 1936 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 12 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic. November 19 and 20 – Buenaventura Durruti, a major Spanish anarchist, is fatally shot in Madrid, dying the following day. November 20 – A levee failure and continued massive rain at the Mitsubishi Osarizawa mine, Kazuno, northeastern Akita, Japan, results in at least 375 deaths. November 23 – Cover date of the first issue of 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 5 – The 1936 Soviet Constitution, 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. December 7 – Streptococcous meningitis (a condition previously 99% fatal) is successfully treated for the first time with a sulfonamide.http://www.musicandhistory.com/music-and-history-by-the-year/197-1936.html 1936 MusicAndHistory 2015-08-16 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20130610051422/http://musicandhistory.com/music-and-history-by-the-year/197-1936.html 2013-06-10 December 10 – Edward VIII abdication crisis: King Edward VIII 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. The former 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 Ukrainian opera, Natalka Poltavka, is released in Ukraine. Date unknown West China Famine: An estimated five million people die.Irving Wallace Book of Lists People Almanac https://books.google.com/books?id=w3CJ1Vo_xwwC April 1982 Bantam Books 978-0-553-14642-4 97 Nestlé introduce the white chocolate Milkybar (called Galak in Continental Europe and elsewhere).Milkybar https://www.nestle.com/brands/allbrands/milkybar 2020-12-29 Nestlé Global en Births births January thumb|100px|Julio María Sanguinetti thumb|100px|Émile Lahoud 100px|thumb|Alan Alda thumb|100px|Roger Miller January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician and actor (d. 1992)The Annual Obituary St. Martin's 1992 563 January 6 Darlene Hard, American tennis player (d. 2021) Alejandro Maldonado, 37th President of Guatemala Julio María Sanguinetti, 2-time President of Uruguay January 8 – Robert May, Australian scientist (d. 2020)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/science/robert-may-dead.html 12 May 2020 12 May 2020 Robert May, an Uncontainable 'Big Picture' Scientist, Dies at 84 The New York Times January 10 Stephen E. 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De Klerk thumb|100px|Ursula Andress thumb|100px|Mario Vargas Llosa March 4 Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d. 1968) Kim Yong-chun, North Korean soldier, politician (d. 2018) Aribert Reimann, German composer (d. 2024) March 5 Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/canaan-banana-37511.html Canaan Banana Hopkinson Ben 24 November 2003 The Independent 18 July 2018 en-GB Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)Dean Stockwell obituary The Times en https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/dean-stockwell-obituary-75rbt6wbf 2021-11-11 0140-0460 March 6 Marion Barry, African-American civil rights activist and politician (d. 2014) Choummaly Sayasone, 5th President of Laos March 7 Loren Acton, American astronaut Galen Cisco, American baseball player Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (d. 2015) March 9 – Mickey Gilley, American country singer (d. 2022) March 10 – Sepp Blatter, Swiss sports administrator, president of FIFA March 11 Harald zur Hausen, German virologist (d. 2023) Takis Mousafiris, Greek composer and songwriter (d. 2021)https://zosimaia.gr/%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CF%8C%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD-%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%B7-%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AF%CF%81%CE%B7/ Αποχαιρετισμός στον Τάκη Μουσαφίρη Zosimaia School 11 March 2021 el Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2016) March 17 – Ken Mattingly, American astronaut (d. 2023) March 18 – F. 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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 June 27 Geneviève Fontanel, French stage, film actress (d. 2018) Joe Doyle, Irish politician (d. 2009) June 29 David Jenkins, American figure skater Eddie Mabo, Australian Indigenous rights activist (d. 1992) Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, last king of Rwanda (d. 2016) June 30 Assia Djebar, Algerian writer (d. 2015) Nancy Dussault, American actress and singer July thumb|100px|Shirley Knight thumb|100px|Yasuo Fukuda thumb|100px|Buddy Guy July 1 – Antonio Salines, Italian actor and director (d. 2021) July 4 – 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)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/theater/shirley-knight-dead.html Shirley Knight, Tony- and Emmy-Winning Actress, Dies at 83 New York Times 1 December 2025 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 (d. 2024) Anatoly Kirov, Soviet wrestler Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980) July 8 – Johan Du Preez, Rhodesian-Zimbabwean sprinter July 16 Yasuo Fukuda, 58th Prime Minister of Japan Sanford Lieberson, American film producer Miria Obote, First Lady of Uganda Leo Sterckx, Belgian cyclist (d. 2023) Venkataraman Subramanya, Indian cricketer July 20 – Barbara Mikulski, US Senator July 26 John Farris, American fiction writer Neelu, Indian actor (d. 2018) July 28 – Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer (d. 2026)Hoult Nick 2026-07-17 Sir Garfield Sobers dies aged 89 – farewell to the most talented cricketer ever https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026/07/17/sir-garfield-sobers-died-farewell-most-talented-cricketer/ 2026-07-17 The Daily Telegraph London https://ghostarchive.org/archive/F5VSo 2026-07-17 live subscription July 29 – Elizabeth Dole, US Senator July 30 Buddy Guy, African-American blues singer and guitarist Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz, Spanish royal (d. 2020) July 31 – Jorge Sanjinés, Bolivian film director and screenwriter August thumb|100px|Robert Redford thumb|100px|Wilt Chamberlain August 1 Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-born French fashion designer (d. 2008) Chadlia Farhat Essebsi, Tunisian consort, 5th First Lady of Tunisia (d. 2019) August 3 – Edward Petherbridge, British actor August 12 Kjell Grede, Swedish film director (d. 2017) André Kolingba, President of Central African Republic (d. 2010) John Poindexter, American political figure August 15 – Pat Priest, American actress August 16 – Anita Gillette, American actress August 17 – Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer and business owner (d. 2026) August 18 – Robert Redford, American actor and film director (d. 2025)Monitor Entertainment Weekly Aug 17–24, 2012 1220/1221 28 August 21 – 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 Working President of KVK (d. 2009) August 26 – Benedict Anderson, American academic (d. 2015) August 27 – Lien Chan, Taiwanese politician August 28 – Bert Schneider, Austrian road racer (d. 2009) August 29 – John McCain, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Az.) (d. 2018) August 31 – Fabrizia Ramondino, Italian author (d. 2008) September thumb|100px|Zine El Abidine Ben Ali thumb|100px|Buddy Holly thumb|142x142px|Silvio Berlusconi 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 – Kamuta Latasi, 4th Prime Minister of Tuvalu September 5 – John Danforth, US Senator Missouri September 7 Buddy Holly, American rock-and-roll singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1959) Jorge Porcel, Argentine-American actor (d. 2006) September 9 – Jerrold Immel, American television music composer September 10 – Jörgen Persson, Swedish cinematographer September 14 – Walter Koenig, American actor (Star Trek: The Original Series) September 15 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (d. 2020) September 18 – Ruth Hesse, German mezzo-soprano (d. 2024) September 19 – Al Oerter, American Olympic athlete (d. 2007) September 21 Dickey Lee, American musician Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (d. 2019) September 23 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Peru (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 – Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (d. 2018) September 29 – Silvio Berlusconi, 50th Prime Minister of Italy, media entrepreneur (d. 2023) October thumb|100px|Václav Havel thumb|100px|Michael Landon October 1 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958) October 2 – Gwen Marston, American quilter and writer (d. 2019)Gwendolyn Marston Obituary (1936 - 2019) https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/gwendolyn-marston-obituary?pid=192636218 2025-08-02 Legacy.com 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 laureate October 11 – Tom Zé, Brazilian Tropicália singer-songwriter October 13 – Christine Nöstlinger, Austrian writer (d. 2018) October 16 – Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet serial killer (d. 1994)Biography - Andrei Chikatilo: The Rostov Ripper on Crime and Investigation Network http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/andre-chikatilo-the-rostov-ripper/biography.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100130063046/http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/andre-chikatilo-the-rostov-ripper/biography.html 2010-01-30 www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk October 18 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (d. 2019) October 19 James Bevel, American civil rights movement strategist and leader (d. 2008) Tony Lo Bianco, American actor (d. 2024) October 22 – Bobby Seale, American political activist October 24 – Bill Wyman, English rock guitarist October 25 – Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress and voice actress October 26 – Etelka Kenéz Heka, Hungarian writer, poet, singer (d. 2024) October 28 – Charlie Daniels, American country singer-songwriter (d. 2020) October 30 Polina Astakhova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2005) Luciano Tovoli, Italian cinematographer and filmmaker Dick Vermeil, American former football coach October 31 – Michael Landon, American actor, director, producer and writer (d. 1991) November thumb|100px|Didier Ratsiraka thumb|100px|Don Cherry November 3 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player November 4 Didier Ratsiraka, 3rd President of Madagascar (d. 2021)Jeannot Rasoloarison Didier Ratsiraka, héraut de la souveraineté malgache, est décédé https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2021/03/31/didier-ratsiraka-heraut-de-la-souverainete-malgache-est-decede_6075151_3212.html Le Monde 2021-03-31 2021-04-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20210331180725/https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2021/03/31/didier-ratsiraka-heraut-de-la-souverainete-malgache-est-decede_6075151_3212.html 31 March 2021 live C. 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Petersen, Norwegian-born American NOAA Commissioned Corps admiral (d. 2024) 2024 OBITUARY Sigmund Rorgard Petersen November 22, 1936 – January 24, 2024: RADM Sigmund Rorgard Petersen, NOAA Corps Ret. https://neptunesociety.com/obituaries/lynnwood-wa/sigmund-petersen-11650117 neptunesociety.com Neptune Society 24 June 2025 February 24, 2024 Sigmund Rorgard Petersen, Everett, Washington, 1936 - 2024 https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/sigmund-petersen-obituary?pid=206414169 legacy.com 24 June 2025 2024 Sigmund Rorgard Petersen 1936 - 2024 https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/heraldnet/name/sigmund-petersen-obituary?id=54459637 HeraldNet.com via legacy.com Everett, Washington The Daily Herald 24 June 2025 November 23 – Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d. 1988) November 29 – Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (d. 2006) November 30 Eric Walter Elst, Belgian astronomer (d. 2022) Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist (d. 1989) December thumb|100px|Aga Khan IV thumb|100px|Pope Francis thumb|100px|Mary Tyler Moore December 3 – Alfred Uhry. American playwright and screenwriter December 4 – América Alonso, Venezuelan actress (d. 2022)2022-05-15 Murió la actriz América Alonso, ícono de las telenovelas venezolanas https://eldiario.com/2022/05/15/murio-actriz-america-alonso/ 2022-05-16 El Diario December 5 – James Lee Burke, American novelist December 6 – David Ossman, American writer and comedian December 6 - Kenneth Copeland, Minister December 7 – Martha Layne Collins, American businesswoman and politician (d. 2025)Judith A. Leavitt American Women Managers and Administrators https://books.google.com/books?id=Jk_uzzu36rgC&pg=PA48 1985 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-23748-5 48 December 8 – David Carradine, American actor, director and martial artist (d. 2009) December 9 – A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli writer (d. 2022)2022-06-15 AB Yehoshua obituary https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/15/ab-yehoshua-obituary 2022-06-18 The Guardian en December 11 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch politician and diplomat (d. 2025) December 12 Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper (d. 2016) Alain Cornu, French footballer December 13 – Prince Karim Al-Husseini, Aga Khan IV, Swiss-born 49th imam of Nizari Isma'ilis, businessman, philanthropist and racehorse owner (d. 2025)Leake Natasha 13 December 2022 Remembering the Aga Khan: The extraordinary life story of the world's most well-connected royal, who was a close friend of the late Queen Elizabeth https://www.tatler.com/article/aga-khan-life-story-king-charles 6 February 2025 Tatler 9 February 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250209135424/https://www.tatler.com/article/aga-khan-life-story-king-charles live December 14 – Robert A. Parker, American physicist, astronomer and astronaut December 15 – Walon Green, American documentary film director and screenwriter December 17 Pope FrancisMario I. Aguilar Pope Francis: His Life and Thought https://books.google.com/books?id=gqPFAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 29 May 2014 The Lutterworth Press 978-0-7188-9342-2 9 (d. 2025) Klaus Kinkel, German politician (d. 2019) Tommy Steele, British entertainerThe Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music Colin Larkin Colin Larkin (writer) Virgin Books 1997 Concise 1-85227-745-9 1133/4 December 20 – Niki Bettendorf, Luxembourgish politician (d. 2018) December 21 – Barbara Roberts, American politician December 22 – Héctor Elizondo, American actor December 23 La Lupe, Cuban singer (d. 1992)Vicki Ruíz Virginia Sánchez Korrol Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=HF4YAQAAIAAJ 2006 Indiana University Press 978-0-253-34683-4 363 Bobby Ross, American football coach December 25 Princess Alexandra of Kent, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, member of the British royal family34354 28 December 1936 8413 Ismail Merchant, Indian film director and producer (d. 2005)Obituary: Ismail Merchant https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1490737/Ismail-Merchant.html 17 February 2018 The Telegraph 26 May 2005 December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, producer and diabetes awareness activist (d. 2017)Mary Tyler Moore obituary https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jan/25/mary-tyler-moore-obituary The Guardian 8 November 2021 en 25 January 2017 December 31 Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singerJoseph Murrells The Book of Golden Discs https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr registration 1978 Barrie and Jenkins 978-0-214-20480-7 177 Bari Wood, American writer Deaths deaths January thumb|110px|Louise Bryant thumb|110px|Rudyard Kipling thumb|110px|King George V of the United Kingdom 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, American actor (b. 1897) January 15 Henry Foster, British Conservative Party politician, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866) George Landenberger, United States Navy 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 laureate (b. 1865) January 20 – King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865) January 23 – 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 thumb|110px|Charles Curtis February 3 – Sophie, Princess of Albania, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885) February 4 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi Party (b. 1895) February 8 – Charles Curtis, 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 – 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 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)Pyper Jaclyn A. Jean Patou: A Fashionable Life West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 2014 21 1 131 10.1086/677874 March 9 – Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian monk and yogi (b. 1855) March 12 David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, British admiral (b. 1871) Sir David Campbell, British army general and Governor of Malta (b. 1869) March 13 – 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 – Sir Archibald Garrod, English physician (b. 1857) March 29 – Eugène Marais, South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer (b. 1871)https://manwithoutqualities.com/2012/05/01/the-tragic-life-of-eugene-marais/ The tragic life of Eugène Marais May 1, 2012 April thumb|110px|King Fuad I of Egypt April 2 – Alberico Albricci, Italian general (b. 1864) April 3 – Richard Hauptmann, German killer of 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)Panni, Wazed Ali Khan Mir Shamsur Rahman 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) May 16 – Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general, senator (b. 1860) May 17 – Panagis Tsaldaris, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1868) May 24 – Khazʽal Ibn Jabir, Iranian sheikh (b. 1863) May 29 – Norman Chaney, American actor (b. 1914) June thumb|110px|Maxim Gorky June 4 – Yvette Amice, French mathematician (d. 1993) June 11 – Robert E. Howard, American pulp fiction writer (suicide) (b. 1906) June 12 M. R. James, English medievalist scholar and author (b. 1862) Karl Kraus, 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 – 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 thumb|110px|Georg Michaelis 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 (b. 1901) July 13 Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese critic of the French colonial empire in Africa (b. 1887)https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/4271 Kojo Touvalou Houénou: An Assessment Melvyn Stokes August 1, 2009 Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines. American Studies Journal 1 journals.openedition.org 10.4000/transatlantica.4271 free José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician (assassinated) (b. 1893) July 16 – Alan Crosland, American film director (b. 1894) July 23 – Anna Abrikosova, Soviet Roman Catholic religious sister and servant of God (b. 1882)https://biographies.library.nd.edu/catalog/biography-0004 Biography of Servant of God, Anna Ivanovna Abrikosova (Mother Catherine of Siena, OP) // Book of Remembrance: Biographies of Catholic Clergy and Laity Repressed in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1918 to 1953 biographies.library.nd.edu July 24 Georg Michaelis, 6th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1857) Sir Arnold Theiler, South African veterinary scientist (b. 1867)https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=2807 S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science www.s2a3.org.za July 25 – Heinrich Rickert, German philosopher (b. 1863) August thumb|110px|Louis Bleriot thumb|110px|Grazia Deledda August 1 – Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872) August 9 – Lincoln Steffens, American journalist (b. 1866) August 12 – Manuel Goded, Spanish general (executed) (b. 1882) August 15 – Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871) August 19 Federico García Lorca, Spanish writer (assassinated) (b. 1898) Oscar von Sydow, 18th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1873) August 22 – 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, Soviet Communist Party activist (b. 1881) Lev Kamenev, Soviet politician (b. 1883) Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician (b. 1883) September thumb|110px|Karl Buresch September 6 – Víctor Pradera Larumbe, Spanish political theorist (executed) (b. 1872) September 7 – Kenneth Balfour, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1863) September 9 – Jerrold Immel, American television music composer September 14 Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899) 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 – William Sims, American admiral (b. 1858) September 30 – Friedrich Sixt von Armin, German general (b. 1851) October thumb|110px|Juho Sunila 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 10 - Abul Kasem, Bengali politician (b. 1872)Kasem, Abul Umar, Badruddin October 12 Félix Julien, French footballer (b. 1884) Shuja ul-Mulk, Indian ruler (b. 1881) October 16 – Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British novelist (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 (assassinated) (b. 1875) November 110px|thumb|John Bowers 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 – Sir Edward German, English composer (b. 1862)Nicolas Slonimsky Music Since 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=4DNhfCCel3wC 1949 Coleman-Ross Company 417 November 17 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 (executed) (b. 1903) November 24 – Mateo García de los Reyes, Spanish admiral and minister of the navy, organizer and first chief of the Spanish Navy submarine force (executed) (b. 1872)https://todoavante.es/index.php?title=Garcia_de_los_Reyes,_Mateo_Biografia Mateo García de los Reyes Mateo García de los Reyes Biography 22 December 2023 todoavante.es 24 August 2026 es November 25 – Andrew Harper, Scottish–Australian biblical scholar, teacher (b. 1844) November 27 – Edward Bach, British physician, homeopath and bacteriologist (b. 1886) December thumb|110px|Arvid Lindman thumb|110px|Luigi Pirandello thumb|110px|Leonardo Torres Quevedo December 7 – Jean Mermoz, French aviator (b. 1901) December 9 Juan de la Cierva, Spanish civil engineer, aviator and aeronautical engineer, 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 dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) December 18 – Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Spanish engineer, a pioneer of computing and radio control, inventor of El Ajedrecista (The Chess Player) (b. 1852) December 23, William Henry Harrison, English cricketer (b. 1866) December 24 – Irene Fenwick, American actress (b. 1887) December 25 – Carl Stumpf, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1848) December 26 – Percival G. Baldwin, American politician and businessman (b. 1880) December 27 – Hans von Seeckt, German general (b. 1866)Bongard David Seeckt, Hans von The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography Trevor Dupuy Curt Johnson David Bongard New York HarperCollins 1992 670–671 December 29 – Lucy, Lady Houston, British philanthropist (b. 1857) December 31 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer (b. 1864) Nobel Prizes right|100px Physics – Victor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson Chemistry – Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye Physiology or Medicine – Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi Literature – Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Peace – Carlos Saavedra Lamas Note nb 100em References External links Headlining America 1937 ed Fank Luther Mott reprints the best American newspaper stories of 1935–1936. 1936 WWII Timeline The 1930s Timeline: 1936 – from American Studies Programs at the University of Virginia Category:Leap years in the Gregorian calendar