1936

1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar.

1936 in other 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	乙亥年 (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年
Nanakshahi calendar	468
Thai solar calendar	2478–2479
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 2062 or 1681 or 909     — to — མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 2063 or 1682 or 910

Births

• January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
• January 28 – Alan Alda, American actor
• March 9 – Mickey Gilley, American singer, Nightclub owner (d. 2022)
• March 26 - Giora Feidman, Israeli clarinetist
• May 7 – Tony O'Reilly, Irish billionaire (d. 2024)
• May 16 - Edmond Classen, Dutch actor (d. 2014)
• May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor (d. 2010)
• June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress (d. 2022)
• July 10 - Lois Lilienstein, Canadian singer and musician (Sharon, Lois & Bram) (d. 2015)
• December 22 – Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
• September 21 – Yury Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow (d. 2019)
• October 10 – Gerhard Ertl, German physicist, Nobel prize winner (chemistry)
• December 17 – Pope Francis, former pope of the Catholic Church (d. 2025)

Deaths

• January 16 - Albert Fish (executed by electrocution)
• January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer
• March 9 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru

Events

• January 15 – The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
• January 16 – Serial killer Albert Fish is executed in Sing Sing.
• January 20 – Death of George V of the United Kingdom. His son Edward VIII succeeds him as King of the United Kingdom, King of Ireland and Emperor of India.
• January 24 – Albert Serraut's government begins in France.
• January 31 – The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
• February 4 – Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
• February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympic Games opens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
• February 10-15 – Italian troops defeat Abyssinian army in Enderta.
• From February 14, 1936, to March 1, 1945, AG Weser launched a total of 162 U-boats.
• February 19 – Manuel Aznar's government begins in Spain.
• February 26 – 1400 Japanese soldiers invade government offices in Tokyo. They demand arrest of general Kazushige Ugaki and that general Sadao Araki made head of the Kwantung Army and death of the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, the minister of Finance and Inspector General of Military Education.
• February 29 – Emperor Hirohito orders the Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices – 19 of them are executed in July.
• Summer – The central and southern United States are hit by a major heat wave.
• September 7 – The last known thylacine ("Tasmanian tiger"), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
• December 11 – King Edward VIII gives up his throne to marry the woman he loves.

Movies released

• After the Thin Man

Hit songs

• "The Way You Look Tonight" – by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern, from the movie Swing Time, won the Academy Award for the best song.

Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Henry Hallett Dale, and Otto Loewi.