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List of events
Events from the year 1936 in the United States .
Incumbents
Federal Government
Events
January–March
March 1: Hoover Dam completed.
April–June
March: "Migrant Mother", an iconic photo taken by Dorothea Lange
July–September
October–December
October 6 – The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants (baseball) , 4 games to 2, to win their 5th World Series Title.
October 11 – Earl Bascom , rodeo 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 29 – The historic Uptown Theater opens in Washington, D.C.
November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1936 : Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Republican Governor of Kansas Alf Landon .
November 12 – In California , the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
November 23 – Life magazine begins publication as a weekly news magazine under the management of Henry Luce .
November 25 – The Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from New York City on its way to the Spanish Civil War .
December 3 – Radio station WQXR is officially founded in New York City .
December 29 – The United Auto Workers begins the Flint Sit-Down Strike in Flint, Michigan .
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
Roger Miller
Alan Alda
January 1 – Don Nehlen , American football player and coach
January 2 – Roger Miller , American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d. 1992 )
January 5
January 6 – Darlene Hard , American professional tennis player
January 7 – G. Robert Blakey , American lawyer and academic
January 9 – Anne Rivers Siddons , American author (d. 2019 )
January 10
January 14 – Clarence Carter , African-American soul musician
January 23
January 27
January 28 – Alan Alda , American actor
January 29 – James Jamerson , American bass guitarist (d. 1983 )
February
Burt Reynolds
Jim Brown
February 1 – Azie Taylor Morton , 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003 )
February 3
February 4
February 6 – J. Howard Marshall III , American businessman
February 8 – Larry Verne , American singer, songwriter (d. 2013 )
February 11 – Burt Reynolds , American actor, director and producer (d. 2018 )
February 14 – Andrew Prine , American actor
February 16 – Carl Icahn , American businessman, investor and philanthropist
February 17 – Jim Brown , African American football player and actor
February 19 – Sam Myers , American musician, songwriter (d. 2006 )
February 20 – Larry Hovis , American actor (d. 2003 )
February 21 – Barbara Jordan , African-American lawyer, politician and Civil Rights campaigner (d. 1996 )
February 22
February 27 – Roger Mahony , American cardinal
February 29 – Alex Rocco , American actor (d. 2015 )
March
Marion Barry
Antonin Scalia
March 5 – Dean Stockwell , American actor
March 6 – Marion Barry , African-American politician and civil rights activist (d. 2014 )
March 7 – Loren Acton , American astronaut
March 8 – Sue Ane Langdon , American actress
March 9
March 11 – Antonin Scalia , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. from 1986 to 2016 (d. 2016 )
March 12 – William Foege , American physician, epidemiologist
March 15 – Howard Greenfield , American songwriter (d. 1986 )
March 16 – Raymond Vahan Damadian , Armenian-American MRI practitioner
March 17
March 24 – Don Covay , American singer, songwriter (d. 2015 )
March 26 – Harry Kalas , American sportscaster (d. 2009 )
March 31
April
Charles Napier
Glen Campbell
Roy Orbison
April 3
April 4 – Kenneth Mars , American actor (d. 2011 )
April 9 – Valerie Solanas , American radical feminist, attempted murderer of Andy Warhol (d. 1988 )
April 10
April 12 – Charles Napier , American actor (d. 2011 )
April 14
April 18 – Tommy Ivo , American actor, drag racer
April 19 – Ruby Johnson , American singer (d. 1999 )
April 20 – Pat Roberts , American politician
April 21
Bob Cleary , American ice hockey player (d. 2015 )
James Dobson , American child psychologist, conservative evangelical political activist
April 22 – Glen Campbell , American musician and actor (d. 2017 )
April 23 – Roy Orbison , American singer, songwriter (d. 1988 )
April 24
April 26 – Doug Sax , American mastering engineer (d. 2015 )
April 29 – Lane Smith , American actor (d. 2005 )
April 30 – Bobby Gregg , American musician (d. 2014 )
May
Bobby Darin
Dennis Hopper
Louis Gossett Jr.
June
Bruce Dern
Kris Kristofferson
June 3 – Larry McMurtry , American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter
June 4 – Bruce Dern , American actor
June 6
June 8
June 11 – Jud Strunk , American singer and comedian (d. 1981 )
June 12 – Marcus Belgrave , American jazz trumpeter (d. 2015 )
June 14 – Renaldo Benson , American R&B singer and songwriter (d. 2005 )
June 15 – William Levada , American cardinal
June 19 – Shirley Goodman , American R&B singer (d. 2005 )
June 20 – Billy Guy , American singer (d. 2002 )
June 22 – Kris Kristofferson , American actor, singer and songwriter
June 26 – Hal Greer , African-American professional basketball player (d. 2018 )
June 27 – Lucille Clifton , American poet, writer, and educator (d. 2010 )
June 28
June 29 – Harmon Killebrew , American baseball player (d. 2011 )
June 30 – Nancy Dussault , American actress and singer
July
Shirley Knight
Larry Cohen
Elizabeth Dole
Buddy Guy
July 1
July 4 – Dick Hyde , American trombonist
July 5 – Shirley Knight , American actress
July 7 – Joseph Renzulli , American educational psychologist
July 9
July 10
July 13 – Albert Ayler , African-American saxophonist, singer and composer (d. 1970 )
July 14
July 15
July 16 – Buddy Merrill , American musician
July 19 – Connie Kurtz , American LGBT rights activist (d. 2018 )
July 20
July 23
July 24
July 26 – Kathryn Hays , American actress
July 27 – J. Robert Hooper , American politician (d. 2008 )
July 29 – Elizabeth Dole , American politician
July 30 – Buddy Guy , African-American blues singer and guitarist
August
Robert Redford
Wilt Chamberlain
John McCain
August 1 – Bradford Bishop , American fugitive
August 7 – Richard L. Tierney , American poet, novelist
August 8
August 11 – Bill Monbouquette , American professional baseball player
August 12 – John Poindexter , American Naval officer, US Chief of Staff
August 16 – Anita Gillette , American actress
August 17
Margaret Hamilton , American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner
Floyd Westerman , Native-American cctor, artist, musician, and political activist
August 18 – Robert Redford , American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist
August 20 – Sam Melville , American actor (d. 1989 )
August 21 – Wilt Chamberlain , African-American basketball player (d. 1999 )
August 22
August 23
August 24
August 26 – Benedict Anderson , American academic (d. 2015 )
August 27 – Joel Kovel , American scholar and author (d. 2018 )
August 28 – Don Denkinger , American professional baseball player
August 29 – John McCain , American politician, U.S. Senator (R -Az. ) (d. 2018 )
September
Buddy Holly
Jim Henson
September 3 – John Olver , American politician
September 5
September 7 – Buddy Holly , American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll (d. 1959 )
September 11 – Charles Dierkop , American actor
September 14
September 19 – Al Oerter , American Olympic athlete (d. 2007 )
September 21 – Dickey Lee , American singer and songwriter
September 22 – Art Metrano , American actor and comedian
September 24 – Jim Henson , American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (The Muppets ) (d. 1990 )
September 25 – Ken Forsse , American inventor, producer and creator of Teddy Ruxpin (d. 2014 )
September 27 – Don Cornelius , African-American television personality (d. 2012 )
September 30 – Jim Sasser , American politician
October
Charlie Daniels
Michael Landon
October 1 – Edward Villella , American danseur and choreographer
October 3 – Steve Reich , American composer
October 7 – Frank Otto , American educator (d. 2017 )
October 8 – Joe M. Haynes , American politician (d. 2018 )
October 11
October 13 – Cliff Gorman , American actor (d. 2002 )
October 14 – Carrie Nye , American actress (d. 2006 )
October 17 – Dave Hobson , American politician
October 19
October 22 – Bobby Seale , African-American political activist
October 24 – David Nelson , American actor, director, and producer (d. 2011 )
October 26 – Shelley Morrison , American actress (d. 2019 )
October 28 – Charlie Daniels , American country musician and singer-songwriter
October 31 – Michael Landon , American actor, director, producer and writer (d. 1991 )
November
Dick Cavett
November 2 – Rose Bird , American judge (d. 1999 )
November 3 – Clifford Curry , American singer (d. 2016 )
November 4 – C. K. Williams , American poet (d. 2015 )
November 5 – Billy Sherrill , American record producer, arranger and songwriter (d. 2015 )
November 9
November 11 – Susan Kohner , American actress
November 14 – Cornell Gunter , American singer (The Coasters and The Flairs ) (d. 1990 )
November 19 – Dick Cavett , American talk show host, television personality
November 20 – Don DeLillo , American author
November 23
November 28 – Gary Hart , American politician, diplomat, and lawyer
December
David Carradine
Héctor Elizondo
Mary Tyler Moore
December 4 – Larry Davis , African-American blues musician (d. 1994 )
December 5 – James Lee Burke , American author
December 6
December 7 – Martha Layne Collins , American businesswoman and politician
December 8 – David Carradine , American actor, director and martial artist (d. 2009 )
December 11 – Tom Fuccello , American actor (d. 1993 )
December 12 – Reggie Young , American musician (d. 2019 )
December 13 – J. C. Martin , American professional baseball player
December 14 – Robert A. Parker , American physicist and astronomer
December 15 – Donald Goines , American novelist (d. 1973 )
December 17 – Rollie Sheldon , American professional baseball player
December 22
December 23
December 28 – Lawrence Schiller , American journalist, film producer, director and screenwriter
December 29
Deaths
January 1 – Harry B. Smith , songwriter, librettist and composer (born 1860 )
January 6 – Louise Bryant , journalist (born 1885 )
January 9 – John Gilbert , silent film actor (born 1899 )
January 15 – George Landenberger , U.S. Navy Captain and 23rd Governor of American Samoa (born 1879 )
January 16 – Albert Fish , serial killer (executed; born 1870 )
February 3 – Elia Goode Byington , newspaper proprietor, editor, and manager (born 1858 )
February 8 – Charles Curtis , 31st Vice President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (born 1860)
February 9 – John Cutting Berry , physician and missionary (born 1847 )
February 19 – Billy Mitchell , U.S. general and military aviation pioneer (born 1879)
March 6 – Rubin Goldmark , pianist, composer and teacher (born 1872 )
March 11 – Ferdinand Lee Barnett , African American journalist, lawyer and civil rights activist (born 1852 )
March 18 – W. Herbert Dunton , Western painter (born 1878 )
April 3 – Richard Hauptmann , carpenter convicted of murder (born 1899 in Germany ; executed)
April 13 – Howard Thurston , stage magician (born 1869 )
June 11 – Robert E. Howard , pulp fiction and fantasy writer and poet (suicide; born 1906 )
June 27 – Mike Bernard , ragtime musician (born 1881 )
August 8 – Mourning Dove , Native American writer (born 1884 )
September 14 – Irving Thalberg , film producer, pneumonia, (born 1899 )
September 26 – Harriet Monroe , literary editor, scholar and critic and patron of the arts (born 1860)
October 3 – John Heisman , American football coach (born 1869)
October 8
October 13 – John H. Hill , African American lawyer and educator (born 1852)
October 20 – Anne Sullivan , teacher of Helen Keller (born 1866 )
November 2 – Nathaniel P. Conrey , politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (born 1860 )
November 22 – Oris Paxton Van Sweringen , financier (born 1879)
December 8 – Katherine Metzel Debs, wife of American Socialist Eugene V. Debs (born 1867)
December 24 – Irene Fenwick , stage and silent film actress (anorexia; born 1887 )
See also
References
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1936 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories