1936: The Year in People

What happened in 1936

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.

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Died in 1936

• George V1865–1936 · King of the United Kingdom from 1910 to 1936
• G. K. Chesterton1874–1936 · English author and Christian apologist
• Anne Sullivan1866–1936 · Teacher and companion of Helen Keller
• Bruno Richard Hauptmann1899–1936 · German-American executed for kidnapping and murder
• Charles Curtis1860–1936 · Vice President of the United States from 1929 to 1933
• Billy Mitchell1879–1936 · United States Army general
• Eleftherios Venizelos1864–1936 · Prime Minister of Greece (1910–20; 1928–33)
• Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby1861–1936 · British Field Marshal
• A. E. Housman1859–1936 · English classicist and poet
• Buenaventura Durruti1896–1936 · Spanish anarchist militant
• Ahmet Tevfik Pasha1845–1936 · Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1909, 1918–1919, 1920–1922)
• Alexander Berkman1870–1936 · Russian-American anarchist and writer