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·       1936

·       1937

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·       1939

 

1936 by topic

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1936 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar

1936
MCMXXXVI

Ab urbe condita

2689

Armenian calendar

1385
ԹՎ ՌՅՁԵ

Assyrian calendar

6686

Bahá'í calendar

92–93

Balinese saka calendar

1857–1858

Bengali calendar

1343

Berber calendar

2886

British Regnal year

26 Geo. 5 – 1 Edw. 8 – 1 Geo. 6

Buddhist calendar

2480

Burmese calendar

1298

Byzantine calendar

7444–7445

Chinese calendar

乙亥 (Wood Pig)
4632 or 4572
    — to —
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4633 or 4573

Coptic calendar

1652–1653

Discordian calendar

3102

Ethiopian calendar

1928–1929

Hebrew calendar

5696–5697

Hindu calendars

 - Vikram Samvat

1992–1993

 - Shaka Samvat

1857–1858

 - Kali Yuga

5036–5037

Holocene calendar

11936

Igbo calendar

936–937

Iranian calendar

1314–1315

Islamic calendar

1354–1355

Japanese calendar

Shōwa 11
(昭和11年)

Javanese calendar

1866–1867

Juche calendar

25

Julian calendar

Gregorian minus 13 days

Korean calendar

4269

Minguo calendar

ROC 25
民國25

Nanakshahi calendar

468

Thai solar calendar

2478–2479

Tibetan calendar

阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
2062 or 1681 or 909
    — to —
阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
2063 or 1682 or 910

 

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1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1936th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 936th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1930s decade.

Contents

·       1Events

·       2Births

·       3Deaths

·       4Nobel Prizes

·       5References

·       6External links

Events[edit]

January[edit]

Main article: January 1936

·       January 4 – England celebrates its first ever win over the All Blacks in rugby union, in particular the two famous tries by "The Prince" HH Alexander Obolensky.

·       January 11 – I Wanna Play House marks the first Warner Bros. cartoon with "target"

·       January 16 – Serial killer Albert Fish is executed in Sing Sing Prison.

·       January 20 – King George V of the United Kingdom dies. His eldest son succeeds to the throne, becoming Edward VIII. The title Prince of Wales is not used for another 22 years.

·       January 31 – The Green Hornet radio show debuts.

February[edit]

Main article: February 1936

·       February – John Maynard Keynes's book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is published in the UK.

·       February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.

·       February 5 – Japanese Baseball League, a first professional baseball league in Asia, founded. (as predecessor of Nippon Professional Baseball)[citation needed]

·       February 6 – The IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

·       February 1019 – Second Italo-Ethiopian WarBattle of Amba Aradam in Ethiopia, ending in a decisive tactical victory for Italian forces, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire.

·       February 17

·       The first superhero to wear a skin-tight costume and mask, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in U.S. newspapers.

·       Ansett Australia is founded by Reg Ansett.

·       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.

·       February 29 – Emperor Hirohito orders the Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices; 19 of them are executed in July.

March[edit]

Main article: March 1936

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March 1Hoover Dam is completed

·       March 1 – Construction of Hoover Dam is completed in the United States.

·       March 7 – In violation of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno TreatiesNazi Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.[1][2]Hitler and other Nazis admit that the French army alone could have destroyed the Wehrmacht.[3]

·       March 9 – Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada steps down as Prime Minister of Japan and is replaced by radical militarist Kōki Hirota.

·       March 1718 – Pittsburgh Flood of 1936 ("Saint Patrick's Day Flood"): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suffers the worst flooding in its history.

·       March 26 – The longest game in the history of the National Hockey League is played when the Montreal Maroons and Detroit Red Wings go scoreless until 16 and a half minutes into the sixth OT when Mud Bruneteau ends it at 2:25 in the morning.

April[edit]

Main article: April 1936

·       April 3 – Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder in 1932, is executed by electrocutionin New Jersey State Prison.

·       April 5 – A tornado hits Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 216 and injuring over 700 (the 4th deadliest tornado in U.S. history).

·       April 6 – Two tornadoes strike Gainesville, Georgia. The smaller tornado hits north Gainesville, the stronger tornado the west side of town. 203 die and 1,600 are injured in the 5th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

·       April 11 – Billy Butlin opens his first Butlins holiday campButlins Skegness, in Skegness (Ingoldmells), Lincolnshire, England.[4] It is officially opened by Amy Johnson of Hull (the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia).

·       April 15 – The Tulkarm shooting begins the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the British government and opposition to Jewish immigration.

May[edit]

Main article: May 1936

·       May 2 – Peter and the Wolf, a Russian fairy tale of Sergei Prokofiev's composition, debuts at the Nezlobin Theater in Moscow, Soviet Union.

·       May 5 – "March of the Iron Will": Italian forces occupy Addis Ababa unopposed.

·       May 7 – Italy annexes Ethiopia.

·       May 9 – Italian East Africa is formed from the Italian territories of EritreaEthiopia, and Italian Somaliland.

·       May 12 – The Santa Fe railroad in the United States inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief passenger train between Chicago and Los Angeles.

·       May 25 – The Remington Rand strike of 1936–37 begins, spawning the notorious "Mohawk Valley formula", a corporate plan for strikebreaking.

·       May 27

·       The first flight by the Irish airline Aer Lingus takes place.

·       British luxury liner RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic.

·       May 28 – Alan Turing submits his paper "On Computable Numbers" to the London Mathematical Society for publication, introducing the concept of the "Turing machine". Its formal publication is on November 12.

June[edit]

Main article: June 1936

·       June

·       major heat wave strikes North America; high temperature records are set and thousands die.

·       The first production model PCC streetcar, built by St. Louis Car Company, is placed in service by Pittsburgh Railways.

·       June 7

·       The general strike in France is ended by the Matignon Agreements.

·       The Steel Workers Organizing Committee is founded in the United States.

·       June 10 – Margaret Mitchell's epic historical romance Gone with the Wind is first published in the United States.

·       June 15 – An army ammunition depot explosion kills 60 in MännikuEstonia.

·       June 19 – Max Schmeling knocks out Joe Louis in the 12th round of their heavyweight boxing match at Yankee Stadium in New York City.

·       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 (BondeförbundetAxel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, whom also becomes Minister of Agriculture.

·       June 26 – Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first fully controllable helicopter, makes its maiden flight.

·       June 29 – United States Maritime Commission is formed.

July[edit]

Main article: July 1936

·       July 11 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic – the bridge was renamed Robert F. Kennedy Bridge in 2008.

·       July 13 – 14 – Peak of July 1936 heat wave: The U.S. states of WisconsinMichigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature. At Mio in northern Michigan, it soars to 113 °F (45 °C).

·       July 17 – The Spanish Army of Africa launches a coup d'état against the Second Spanish Republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War.

·       July 20 – 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.

August[edit]

Main article: August 1936

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1936 Summer Olympics

·       August 1 – The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history. Note that John Logie Baird had previously broadcast the Derby horse race in Britain in 1931.

·       August 3 – African-American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash at the Berlin Olympics.

·       August 4 – A self-coup is staged by Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas, marking the beginning of the authoritarian 4th of August Regime, which would go on to rule Greece until the Axis occupation of Greece in 1941.

·       August 14

·       Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the last public execution in the United States

·       1936 Summer Olympics: The United States men's national basketball team wins the first Olympic basketball tournament in the final game over Canada, 19–8.

·       August 19 – The first of the Moscow Trials begins in the Soviet Union.

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

·       August 30

·       Ernest Nash flees Germany for Rome.

·       President Franklin D. Roosevelt attends the dedication of Thomas Jefferson's head at Mount Rushmore.

September[edit]

Main article: September 1936

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September 7: Extinction of Thylacine.

·       September 45 – 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 WarRobert Capa's photograph The Falling Soldier is taken.

·       September 7

·       The last known thylacine ("Tasmanian tiger"), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

·       Buddy Holly is born.

·       September 9

·       1936 Naval Revolt (Portugal): The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dãomutiny 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 Spanish Republic.[5]

·       The Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence is signed.

·       September 10 – The first World Speedway Championship is held at Wembley Stadium in London, England. It is won by Australian Lionel Van Praag, with Englishman Eric Langton second and Australian Bluey Wilkinson third.

·       September 12 – The Walt Disney animated short Donald and Pluto is released. It is the only installment of the Mickey Mouse series where Mickey Mouse does not appear.

·       September 14 - Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza

·       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 to his death from a heart attack in 1946.

October[edit]

Main article: October 1936

·       October – Start of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge 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 11 – Earl Bascomrodeo cowboy and artist, designs and builds Mississippi's first permanent rodeo arena at Columbia, Mississippi.

·       October 19 – H.R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, wins a race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights, beating Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times. The flight takes 18½ days.

·       October 25 – Rome-Berlin Axis is formed.

·       October 29 – The historic Uptown Theater (Washington, D.C.) opens.

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Family during the Great Depression, Oklahoma, 1936

November[edit]

Main article: November 1936

·       November 2

·       The BBC launches the world's first regular (then) high-definition television service.

·       The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) begins radio in Canada.

·       November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1936Franklin 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, Japan, results in at least 375 deaths.

·       November 23 – This is the cover date of the first issue of Life, a weekly news magazine in the United States under the management of Henry Luce.

·       November 25 – The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan.

·       November 30 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition).

December[edit]

Main article: December 1936

·       December 1 – Hitler mandates that all German boys aged 10 to 18 join the Hitler Youth paramilitary organization.

·       December 3 – Radio station WQXR is officially founded in New York City.

·       December 5 – 1936 Soviet Constitution, promulgated by Stalin, is adopted in the Soviet Union. The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic is dissolved and ArmeniaAzerbaijan, and Georgia become full Republics of the Soviet Union.

·       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 YorkThe 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 abdicated King Edward VIII, now HRH Prince Edward, makes a broadcast to the nation explaining his decision to abdicate. He leaves the country for Austria.

·       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 23 - Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

·       December 24 – Release of the film Natalka Poltavka in Ukraine, the first filmed Russian opera.

·       December 26 – The Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from New York City on its way to the Spanish Civil War.

·       December 30 – The United Auto Workers begins the Flint Sit-Down Strike in Flint, Michigan.

Date unknown[edit]

·       West China Famine: five million die.

·       Ipswich Town Football Club turns professional.

·       The YMCA Youth and Government program is founded in Albany, New York.

·       Mordecai Ham begins his radio ministry.

·       Stress is first recognised as a medical condition.

·       Polaroid sunglasses and Ambre Solaire sunblock both first marketed.

·       Cocoa production in the Gold Coast reaches 305,000 tons.

Births[edit]

January[edit]

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Julio María Sanguinetti

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Émile Lahoud

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Troy Donahue

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Alan Alda

·       January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)

·       January 5

·       Florence King, American writer (d. 2016)

·       Daryl Robertson, American baseball player (d. 2018)

·       January 6

·       Nida Blanca, Filipina actress (d. 2001)

·       Julio María Sanguinetti, 2-time President of Uruguay

·       January 10

·       Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)

·       Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist, author and actor (d. 1997)

·       Robert Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate

·       January 11 – Eva Hesse, American artist (d. 1970)

·       January 12

·       Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, British engineering construction executive (d. 2018)

·       Émile Lahoud, 15th President of Lebanon

·       January 14 – Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (d. 1999)

·       January 16 – Tinus Bosselaar, Dutch footballer (d. 2018)

·       January 17 – Princess Mathilde of Saxony, German royal princess (d. 2018)

·       January 19

·       Ron Newman, British-American soccer player and manager (d. 2018)

·       Ziaur Rahman, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)

·       January 20 – The Honourable Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Princess Diana (d. 2004)

·       January 22 – Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)

·       January 23

·       Arlene Golonka, American actress

·       Brian Howe, Australian politician

·       Jerry Kramer, American football player

·       January 27

·       Barry Barish, American gravitational physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

·       Troy Donahue, American screen actor (d. 2001)

·       January 28

·       Waldyr Boccardo, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2018)

·       Alan Alda, American actor

·       Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer

·       January 29

·       Patrick Caulfield, English artist (d. 2005)

·       James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)

February[edit]

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Burt Reynolds

·       February 3

·       Jim Marshall, American photographer (d. 2010)

·       Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (d. 1984)

·       February 4

·       David Brenner, American comedian (d. 2014)

·       Gary Conway, American actor

·       February 6

·       Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2009)

·       Rubén Amaro Sr., Mexican professional baseball player (d. 2017)

·       February 8

·       Larry Verne, American singer and songwriter (d. 2013)

·       Francis Sejersted, Norwegian history professor (d. 2015)

·       February 9

·       Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country/folk singer (d. 2013)

·       Clive Swift, British actor

·       February 11 – Burt Reynolds, American actor (d. 2018)

·       February 12 – Shawkat Ali, Bangladeshi writer (d. 2018)

·       February 14

·       Andrew Prine, American actor

·       Anna GermanPolish singer (d. 1982)

·       February 17 – Jim Brown, African-American football player

·       February 18 – Ab McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018)

·       February 19 – Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (d. 2006)

·       February 20

·       Larry Hovis, American actor (Hogan's Heroes) (d. 2003)

·       Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese professional baseball player and coach

·       February 22 – Elizabeth MacRae, American actress

·       February 24

·       Lance Reventlow, English playboy, entrepreneur, and race car driver (d. 1972)

·       Luis Aguilé, Argentine singer (d. 2009)

·       February 26 – Adem Demaçi, Albanian politician and writer (d. 2018)

·       February 27 – Roger Cardinal Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles

·       February 29 – Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)

March[edit]

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Sepp Blatter

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F. W. De Klerk

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Ursula Andress

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Mario Vargas Llosa

·       March 2 – Alan Scott, blacksmith and brick oven constructor (d. 2009)

·       March 4

·       Kim Yong-chun, North Korean soldier and politician (d. 2018)

·       Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d. 1968)

·       Aribert Reimann, German composer

·       March 5

·       Canaan Banana, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)

·       Dean Stockwell, American actor

·       March 6

·       Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C. (d. 2014)

·       Choummaly Sayasone, 5th President of Laos

·       Elmira Zherzdeva, Soviet singer and voice actress

·       March 7

·       Antonio Mercero, Spanish director (d. 2018)

·       Loren Acton, American astronaut

·       Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (d. 2015)

·       March 8 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress

·       March 9

·       Mickey Gilley, American musician

·       Marty Ingels, American actor and agent (d. 2015)

·       Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)

·       March 10 – Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA

·       March 11 – Antonin ScaliaAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2016)

·       March 12 – William Foege, American physician and epidemiologist

·       March 15 – Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)

·       March 16

·       Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American MRI practitioner

·       Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress (d. 2006)

·       March 17 – Patty Maloney, American actress

·       March 18 – F. W. de Klerk, 10th President of South Africa (1989–94); 7th and last head of state of South Africa under the apartheid era.

·       March 19

·       Ursula Andress, Swiss actress

·       Uri Aviram, Israeli university professor

·       March 20 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican musician

·       March 21 – Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei, Iranian politician (d. 2018)

·       March 24 – Don Covay, American singer and songwriter (d. 2015)

·       March 26 – Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (d. 2009)

·       March 27 – Banwari Lal Joshi, Indian politician (d. 2017)

·       March 28 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and Nobel Prize laureate

·       March 31 – Marge Piercy, American poet and activist

April[edit]

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Roy Orbison

·       April 1

·       Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, 2-time President of Switzerland (d. 1998)

·       Dhiraj Choudhury, Indian painter (d. 2018)

·       April 3 – Louie Beltran, Filipino columnist (d. 1994)

·       April 9

·       Valerie Solanas, American feminist and writer who attempted to kill Andy Warhol (d. 1988)

·       Ferdinando Imposimato, Italian judge (d. 2018)

·       April 10

·       John Howell, British long jumper

·       John Madden, American football coach and television sportscaster

·       Bobby Smith, American singer and songwriter (d. 2013)

·       April 12 – Charles Napier, American 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 – Pen Sovan, Cambodian politician (d. 2016)

·       April 17 – Jiří Grygar, Czech astronomer

·       April 18 – "TV" Tommy Ivo, American actor and drag racer

·       April 20 – Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (d. 1989)

·       April 21 – James Dobson, American child psychologist and conservative political activist (Focus On The Family)

·       April 22

·       Glen Campbell, American singer and actor (d. 2017)

·       Dieter Kronzucker, German journalist and television presenter

·       April 23 – Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter (d. 1988)

·       April 24

·       Glen Hobbie, American baseball player (d. 2013)

·       Akwasi Afrifa, 3rd Head of state of Ghana (d. 1979)

·       Jill Ireland, English actress (d. 1990)

·       Jim Rountree, American CFL football player (d. 2013)

·       April 28 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi political (d. 2015)

May[edit]

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Bobby Darin

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Dennis Hopper

·       May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (d. 2006)

·       May 2

·       Norma Aleandro, Argentinian actress

·       Sam DeLuca, American football offensive lineman and sports broadcaster (d. 2011)

·       Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey), British singer

·       Perdita Huston, American journalist (d. 2001)

·       May 4 – El Cordobés (born Manuel Benítez Pérez), Spanish matador

·       May 7 – Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (d. 2014)

·       May 9

·       Terry Downes, English middleweight boxer (d. 2017)

·       Albert Finney, English actor

·       Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician

·       May 12

·       Guillermo Endara, 32nd President of Panama (1989–1994) (d. 2009)

·       Tom Snyder, American talk show host (Tomorrow) (d. 2007)

·       Frank Stella, American minimalist painter

·       May 13 – Rafael Campos, Dominican actor (d. 1985)

·       May 14

·       Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)

·       Dick Howser, American baseball shortstop/manager (d. 1987)

·       May 15

·       Wavy Gravy, American anti-war activist

·       Paul Zindel, American writer (d. 2003)

·       May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (d. 2010)

·       May 20 – Antanas Vaupšas, Lithuanian athlete (d. 2017)

·       May 21 – Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)

·       May 23 – Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer

·       May 25 – Tom T. Hall, American country singer

June[edit]

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Volodymyr Holubnychy

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Bruce Dern

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Denny Hulme

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Ronald Venetiaan

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Kris Kristofferson

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B. J. Habibie

·       June 2 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet Olympic athlete

·       June 3 – Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 2017)

·       June 4 – Bruce Dern, American actor

·       June 8 – James Darren, American actor and singer

·       June 12 – Marcus Belgrave, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2015)

·       June 17 – Ken Loach, British director

·       June 18

·       Barack Obama Sr., father of US President Barack Obama (d. 1982)

·       Ronald VenetiaanPresident of Suriname

·       Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (d. 1992)

·       Larry Hennig, American professional wrestler (d. 2018)

·       Dick Wimmer, American novelist (d. 2011)

·       June 19 – Takeshi Aono, Japanese voice actor (d. 2012)

·       June 20 – Harold E. Puthoff, American physicist

·       June 21

·       Bep Ipenburg, Dutch artistic gymnast

·       Hans Köhler, German swimmer

·       Georgios Pangalos, Greek sports shooter

·       Joseph Gosnell, Nisga'a statesman

·       June 22

·       Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist

·       Derek Porter, English footballer

·       Dick Huddart, English-Australian professional rugby league footballer

·       Ferran Olivella, Spanish footballer

·       Jim Bronstad, American Major League Baseball player

·       Kris Kristofferson, American actor, singer-songwriter

·       June 23

·       Gordon Lewis, Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer

·       Jim Halligan, American politician

·       Richard Johnstone, New Zealand track and road cyclist

·       Gianfranco Leoncini, Italian footballer

·       June 24

·       Sumith Liyanage, Ceylonese sportsman

·       Robert Downey Sr., American actor, filmmaker and father of actor Robert Downey Jr

·       Tony Brown, English cricketer and administrator

·       June 25

·       B. J. Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia

·       Gloria Vaughn, American politician

·       Bert Hölldobler, German sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist

·       Leo John, Trinidadian cricketer

·       June 26

·       Hal Greer, American professional basketball player (d. 2018)

·       Herbert Obst, Canadian fencer

·       Lee Ming-liang, Taiwanese geneticist

·       Jerry Armstrong, American amateur boxer

·       Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (d. 2015)

·       June 27

·       Geneviève Fontanel, French stage and film actress

·       Tadanori Yokoo, Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter

·       Joe Doyle, Irish politician (d. 2009)

·       June 28

·       Walter Köstner, German fencer

·       Malcolm Harding, English-born Canadian Anglican Bishop

·       Chuck Howley, American football player

·       June 29

·       David Jenkins, American figure skater

·       Leon O. Chua, American electrical engineer and computer scientist

·       Willie Jones, American basketball player

·       Kigeli V, last king of Rwanda (d. 2016)

·       Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (d. 2011)

·       Eddie Mabo, Australian Indigenous rights activist (d. 1992)

·       June 30

·       Malcolm Hickman, English cricketer

·       Nancy Dussault, American singer and actress

·       Alan Hamel, Canadian entertainer, producer and television host

·       Barry Gration, senior officer in the Royal Australian Air Force

·       Assia Djebar, Algerian writer (d. 2015)

July[edit]

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·       July 1

·       Ron Masak, American actor

·       Mihir Rakshit, Indian economist

·       E. Ponnuswamy, Indian politician

·       Antonio Salines, Italian actor and director

·       July 2

·       Eusebio Escobar, Colombian footballer

·       Rex Gildo, German singer (d. 1999)

·       July 3 – Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, British barrister and politician

·       July 5

·       Sir Frederick Ballantyne, Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

·       Shirley Knight, American actress

·       Sir James Mirrlees, Scottish-born economist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (d. 2018)

·       July 6 – Abidullah Ghazi, Indian-American author, educator and poet

·       July 7

·       Hammoudi Al-Harithi, Iraqi actor

·       Joseph Renzulli, American educational psychologist

·       Anatoly Kirov, Soviet wrestler

·       July 8

·       Johan Du Preez, Rhodesian-Zimbabwean sprinter

·       John Herstad, Norwegian historian

·       Kazuhiro Tanaka, Japanese modern pentathlete

·       Tony Warren, English television screenwriter (d. 2016)

·       July 9

·       André Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player

·       Richard Wilson, Scottish actor and director

·       July 10

·       Herbert Boyer, Biotechnology entrepreneur

·       Tunne Kelam, Estonian politician

·       July 11 – John Stride, English actor

·       July 13 – Sandor Stern, Canadian writer, director and film producer

·       July 14

·       Marisa Allasio, Italian actress

·       Pema Chödrön, American Tibetan Buddhist

·       July 15 – George Voinovich, American politician; United States Senator (R-OH) (d. 2016)

·       July 16

·       Miria Obote, former First Lady of Uganda

·       Venkataraman Subramanya, Indian cricketer

·       Leo Sterckx, Belgian cyclist

·       Mary Parkinson, British journalist and television presenter

·       Yasuo Fukuda, 58th Prime Minister of Japan

·       Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show)

·       July 18 – Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player

·       July 20 – Barbara Mikulski, American politician; U.S. Senate (D-Md.)

·       July 22 – Klaus Bresser, German journalist and television presenter

·       July 23

·       Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)

·       Anthony KennedyAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

·       July 24

·       Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian

·       Mark Goddard, American actor and teacher

·       July 26

·       Mary Millar, British actress and singer (d. 1998)

·       R. Neelakantan, Indian actor (d. 2018)

·       July 28 – Russ Jackson, Canadian football player

·       July 29 – Elizabeth Dole, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Nc.)

·       July 30

·       Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer

·       Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (d. 2001)

·       July 31 – James R. Jordan Sr., father of basketball superstar Michael Jordan (d. 1993)

August[edit]

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Robert Redford

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Wilt Chamberlain

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John McCain

·       August 1

·       Bradford Bishop, American fugitive

·       Donald Neilson, British serial killer (d. 2011)

·       Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-born French fashion designer (d. 2008)

·       August 4 – Joaquim Roriz, Brazilian politician (d. 2018)

·       August 6 – Robert Gnaizda, lawyer and social justice advocate

·       August 8 – Frank Howard, American baseball player

·       August 11 – Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (d. 1999)

·       August 12

·       Kjell Grede, Swedish film director (d. 2017)

·       André KolingbaPresident of Central African Republic (d. 2010)

·       Ellis Burton, American professional baseball player (d. 2013)

·       Tom McAvoy, American baseball player (d. 2011)

·       August 17 – Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner

·       August 18 – 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 24 – Kenny Guinn, American politician (d. 2010)

·       August 25 – Giridharilal Kedia, Former Working President of KVK (d. 2009)

·       August 26 – Benedict Anderson, American academic (d. 2015)

·       August 27 – Lien Chanpolitician in Taiwan

·       August 28 – Bert Schneider, Austrian road racer (d. 2009)

·       August 29 – John McCain, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Az.) since 1987, and 2008 Republican Presidential nominee (d. 2018)

·       August 31

·       Fabrizia Ramondino, Italian author (d. 2008)

·       Igor Zhukov, Russian pianist (d. 2018)

September[edit]

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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

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Buddy Holly

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Jim Henson

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Silvio Berlusconi

·       September 1

·       Valery Legasov, Soviet inorganic chemist (d. 1988)

·       Roderick Thorp, American novelist (d. 1999)

·       September 2

·       Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American businessman, engineer and author (d. 2016)

·       Károly KrajczárHungarian Slovene teacher, writer and collector

·       September 3 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia

·       September 4 – Kamuta Latasi, 4th Prime Minister of Tuvalu

·       September 5

·       Alcee Hastings, American politician, U.S. Representative of Florida’s 20th district

·       Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player

·       September 7

·       Buddy Holly, American rock and roll singer (d. 1959)

·       Bruce Gray, Puerto Rican-Canadian actor (d. 2017)

·       September 10 – Michael Hartshorn, British-New Zealand organic chemist (d. 2017)

·       September 11 – Charles Dierkop, American actor

·       September 14 – Walter Koenig, American actor, better known for his role in Star Trek: The Original Series.

·       September 18 – Big Tom, Irish country music singer (d. 2018)

·       September 19

·       Anna Karen, British actress

·       Al Oerter, American Olympic athlete (d. 2007)

·       September 20 – Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican football player (d. 2012)

·       September 21 – Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow

·       September 23 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Perú (d. 2006)

·       September 24 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (d. 1990)

·       September 25

·       Pierre Carniti, Italian politician and trade unionist (d. 2018)

·       Ken Forsse, American inventor and producer, creator of Teddy Ruxpin (d. 2014)

·       Moussa TraoréPresident of Mali

·       September 26 – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2018)

·       September 27

·       Don Cornelius, African-American television personality (d. 2012)

·       Joselo, Venezuelan actor and comedian (d. 2013)

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

October[edit]

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Brian Blessed

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Bill Wyman

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Michael Landon

·       October 1

·       Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)

·       Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran, Sri Lankan writer, art & literary critic, journalist and radio & TV personality.

·       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)

·       Frank Otto, American educator (d. 2017)

·       October 8

·       Joe M. Haynes, American politician (d. 2018)

·       Rogelio Guerra, Mexican actor (d. 2018)

·       October 9 – Brian Blessed, English actor

·       October 10 – Gerhard Ertl, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

·       October 11 – Larry Staverman, American professional basketball player and coach (d. 2007)

·       October 13 – Christine Nöstlinger, Austrian writer

·       October 14 – Carrie Nye, American actress (d. 2006)

·       October 17 – Dolores Mantez, British actress (d. 2012)

·       October 19

·       James Bevel, American civil rights activist (d. 2008)

·       Tony Lo Bianco, American actor

·       October 24

·       David Nelson, American actor and singer (d. 2011)

·       Bill Wyman, British musician (The Rolling Stones)

·       October 25

·       Martin Gilbert, British historian (d. 2015)

·       Masako Nozawa, Japanese voice actress

·       October 26

·       Shelley Morrison, American actress

·       Etelka Kenéz Heka, Hungarian writer, poet, singer

·       October 29 – Akiko Kojima, Japanese model

·       October 30 – Polina Astakhova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2005)

·       October 31 – Michael Landon, American actor and director (d. 1991)

November[edit]

·       November 2 – Rose Bird, American judge (d. 1999)

·       November 3 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player

·       November 4 – C. K. Williams, American poet

·       November 5

·       Ivan Stambolić, Serbian politician (d. 2000)

·       Uwe Seeler, German football player and manager

·       Billy Sherrill, American record producer, arranger and songwriter (d. 2015)

·       November 8 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014)

·       November 9 – Teddy Infuhr, American child actor (d. 2007)

·       November 11 – Susan Kohner, American actress

·       November 15 – Wolf Biermann, German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident

·       November 16 – Elyas Omar, Malaysian politician (d. 2018)

·       November 17 – Lazarus Salii, 3rd President of Palau (d. 1988)

·       November 19 – Dick Cavett, American talk show host and television personality

·       November 20 – Don DeLillo, American author

·       November 23

·       Robert Barnard, British writer, critic and lecturer (d. 2013)

·       Steve Landesberg, American actor and director (d. 2010)

·       November 27

·       Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)

·       Joel Barcellos, Brazilian actor (d. 2018)

December[edit]

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David Carradine

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Pope Francis

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Mary Tyler Moore

·       December 2 – Hebe Uhart, Argentine writer (d. 2018)

·       December 5 – James Lee Burke, American writer

·       December 6 – Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist

·       December 8

·       David Carradine, American actor, director, martial artist (d. 2009)

·       Michael Hobson, American publisher

·       December 10 – Minoru Murayama, Japanese baseball pitcher (d. 1998)

·       December 11 – Tom Fuccello, American actor (d. 1993)

·       December 12 – Iolanda Balaș, Romanian high jumper (d. 2016)

·       December 15 – Donald Goines, American novelist (d. 1973)

·       December 17

·       Pope Francis

·       Tommy Banks, Canadian jazz pianist, composer and politician (d. 2018)

·       Klaus Kinkel, German politician

·       December 20 – Niki Bettendorf, Luxembourgian politician (d. 2018)

·       December 22

·       James Burke, British broadcaster, science historian, author and television producer

·       Héctor Elizondo, American actor

·       December 23 – James Stacy, American actor (d. 2016)

·       December 25 – Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, British aristocrat and socialite; youngest granddaughter of King George Vand Queen Mary

·       December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, producer, diabetes awareness activist (d. 2017)

·       December 31

·       Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer

·       Szilveszter E. Vizi, Hungarian physician, neuroscientist and pharmacologist

Date unknown[edit]

·       Aliou Mahamidou, 3rd Prime Minister of Niger (d. 1996)

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

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Rudyard Kipling

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King George V of the United Kingdom

·       January 1 – Harry B. Smith, American composer (b. 1860)

·       January 4 – James Churchward, British writer (b. 1851)

·       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, former Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)

·       George LandenbergerUnited States Navy Captain and the 23rd Governor of American Samoa (b. 1879)

·       January 16 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (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 and guitarist (b. 1911)

·       January 24

·       Harry T. Morey, American actor (b. 1873)

·       Harry Peach, British furniture manufacturer and social campaigner (b. 1874)

·       January 28 – Richard Loeb, American murderer (b. 1905)

February[edit]

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Charles Curtis

·       February 3 – Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, 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 Curtis31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)

·       February 19 – Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879)

·       February 20 – 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 and military leader

·       February 28 – Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)

March[edit]

·       March 11 – David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, British admiral (b. 1871)

·       March 13 – Francis Bell, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1851)

·       March 16

·       Dace Akmentiņa, Latvian actress (b. 1858)

·       Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist leader (b. 1864)

·       March 18 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek Statesman, several times Prime Minister (b. 1864)

·       March 21 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1865)

·       March 23 – Oscar Asche, Australian actor (b. 1871)

·       March 28 – Archibald Garrod, English physician (b. 1857)

April[edit]

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King Fuad I of Egypt

·       April 2 – Alberico Albricci, Italian general (b. 1864)

·       April 3 – Bruno 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 18 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer, musicologist, and conductor (b. 1879)

·       April 23 – Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889)

·       April 26 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)

·       April 28 – Fuad I of Egypt, King of Egypt (b. 1868)

·       April 30 – Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)

May[edit]

·       May 2 – Ivan Alexandrov, Russian engineer (b. 1875)

·       May 4 – Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general (b. 1844)

·       May 8 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (b. 1880)

·       May 14 – Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, British soldier and administrator (b. 1861)

·       May 16 – Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and senator (b. 1860)

·       May 17 – Panagis Tsaldaris, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1868)

·       May 20 – Elmer Fowler Stone, American aviator, the first United States Coast Guard aviator (b. 1887)

·       May 29 – Norman Chaney, American actor (b. 1914)

June[edit]

·       June 3 – Walther Wever, German general and Luftwaffe commander (b. 1887)

·       June 11 – Robert E. Howard, American author (suicide) (b. 1906)

·       June 12 – Karl Krays, Austrian writer and 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, 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 and physicist (b. 1882)

·       June 25 – Colin Clive, American actor (b. 1900)

·       June 28 – Alexander Berkman, Russian anarchist (b. 1870)

·       June 29 – János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and writer (b. 1872)

July[edit]

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Georg Michaelis

·       July 1 – Hovhannes Abelian, Armenian actor (b. 1865)

·       July 8 – Thomas Meighan, American actor (b. 1879)

·       July 11 – James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)

·       July 12 – Auguste Adib Pacha, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1860)

·       July 13 – José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician (b. 1893)

·       July 16 – Alan Crosland, American film director (b. 1894)

·       July 20 – José Sanjurjo, Spanish general (b. 1872)

·       July 24 – Georg Michaelis, 6th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1857)

·       July 25 – Heinrich Rickert, German philosopher (b. 1863)

August[edit]

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Louis Bleriot

·       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 and religious woman (b. 1903)

·       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)

·       Hugh Patrick Lygon, English aristocrat (b. 1904)

·       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 and Falangist politician (executed) (b. 1897)

·       August 25

·       Ivan Nikitich SmirnovCommunist Party activist (b. 1881)

·       Lev Kamenev, Soviet politician (b. 1883)

·       Grigory Zinoviev, Soviet politician (b. 1883)

September[edit]

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Karl Buresch

·       September 6 – Víctor Pradera Larumbe, Spanish political theorist (executed) (b. 1872)

·       September 7 – Kenneth Robert Balfour, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1863)

·       September 14 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)

·       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 and martyr (executed) (b. 1897)

·       Antoine Meillet, French linguist (b. 1866)

·       September 24 – József Klekl, Slovene writer and journalist (b. 1879)

·       September 25 – William Sims, American admiral (b. 1858)

·       September 30 – Friedrich Sixt von Armin, German general (b. 1851)

October[edit]

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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 19 – Lu Xun, a 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[edit]

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John Bowers

·       November 2 – Martin Lowry, English physical chemist (b. 1874)

·       November 7 – Chic Sale, American vaudevillian (b. 1885)

·       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 (b. 1903)

·       November 25 – Andrew Harper, Scottish–Australian biblical scholar and teacher (b. 1844)

·       November 27 – Edward Bach, British physician, homeopath and bacteriologist (b. 1886)

December[edit]

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Arvid Lindman

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Luigi Pirandello

·       December 7 – Jean Mermoz, French aviator (b. 1901)

·       December 9

·       Juan de la Cierva, Spanish civil engineer, aviator, 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 writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)

·       December 11 – Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (b. 1875)

·       December 18 – Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, Spanish engineer and mathematician (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 27 – Hans von Seeckt, German general (b. 1866)

·       December 29 – Lucy, Lady Houston, British philanthropist (b. 1857)

·       December 31 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer (b. 1864)

Nobel Prizes[edit]

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·       Physics – Victor F. HessCarl D. Anderson

·       Chemistry – Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye

·       Physiology or Medicine – Sir Henry Hallett DaleOtto Loewi

·       Literature – Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

·       Peace – Carlos Saavedra Lamas

References[edit]

1.     ^ Davies, R. W. (2014). The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 6: The Years of Progress: The Soviet Economy, 1934-1936. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 275.

2.     ^ Taylor, A. J. P. (2001). English History 1914-1945. Oxford University Press. p. 386.

3.     ^ Shirer, William L.Rosenbaum, Ron (1960). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. Simon & Schuster. p. 293.

4.     ^ "Skegness". Butlins Memories. Archived from the original on 2010-07-01. Retrieved 2010-06-29.

5.     ^ "Portuguese Mutiny: Why it Failed". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1936-10-02. p. 17.

External links[edit]

·       https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg/21px-Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg1930s portal

·       1936 WWII Timeline

·       The 1930s Timeline: 1936 – from American Studies Programs at the University of Virginia