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Events from the year 1936 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
- Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. (D-Tennessee) (until June 4)
- William B. Bankhead (D-Alabama) (starting June 4)
Events
January–March
- January 4 – Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade.
- January 15 – The first American building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
- February 17 – The first superhero to wear a skin-tight costume and mask, The Phantom, makes his appearance in U.S. newspapers.
- March – German American Bund formed in Buffalo, New York, in support of Nazi Germany to succeed the Friends of New Germany, with German-born American citizen Fritz Julius Kuhn elected as its first leader.
- March 1 – Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
- March 5 – The 8th Academy Awards, hosted by Frank Capra, are presented at Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, with Frank Lloyd's Mutiny on the Bounty winning the Academy Award for Outstanding Production. The film receives the most nominations with eight, while John Ford's The Informer wins the most awards with four, including Best Director for Ford.
- March 17–18 – Pittsburgh Flood of 1936 ("St. 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. The Montreal Maroons and Detroit Red Wings are scoreless until 16½ minutes into the sixth overtime when Mud Bruneteau ends it at 2:25 am.
April–June
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
February
- 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
- February 14 – Andrew Prine, American actor (d. 2022)
- February 16 – Carl Icahn, American businessman, investor and philanthropist
- February 17 – Jim Brown, African American football player and actor (d. 2023)
- February 19 – Sam Myers, American musician, songwriter (d. 2006)
- February 20
- February 21 – Barbara Jordan, African-American lawyer, politician and civil rights campaigner (d. 1996)
- February 22
- February 24 – Carol D'Onofrio, American public health researcher (d. 2020)
- February 27 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal
- February 29 – Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
March
- March 3 – Peter G. Davis, American opera and classical music critic (d. 2021)
- March 5 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (d. 2021)
- March 6 – Marion Barry, African-American politician and civil rights activist (d. 2014)
- March 7 – Loren Acton, American astronaut
- March 8
- 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
- March 16 – Raymond Damadian, Armenian-American MRI practitioner (d, 2022)
- March 17
- March 22 – Edith Grossman, American translator (d. 2023)
- March 24 – Don Covay, American singer, songwriter (d. 2015)
- March 26 – Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (d. 2009)
- March 28 – Bill Gaither, American singer and songwriter
- March 31
April
- April 3
- April 9
- April 10
- April 12 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
- April 14
- April 18
- April 19
- 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 28 – Charles Hill, American diplomat and academic (d. 2021)
- April 29 – Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005)
- April 30
May
- May 1 – Jerry Mander, American author and activist (d. 2023)
- May 2
- May 4 – Eleanor Coppola, American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer (d. 2024)
- May 7 – Jimmy Ruffin, African-American singer (d. 2014)
- May 8 – Clyde Bellecourt, Native American rights organiser (d. 2022)
- May 9
- May 11 – Carla Bley, American jazz musician (d. 2023)
- May 12
- May 14
- May 15
- May 16 – Philippe de Montebello, American museum director
- May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (d. 2010)
- May 22
- May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor (d. 2023)
- May 24 – Harold Budd, American avant-garde composer and poet (d. 2020)
- May 25 – Tom T. Hall, American country singer-songwriter (d. 2021)
- May 27 – Louis Gossett Jr., African-American actor (d. 2024)
- May 29 – Arlene McQuade, American actress (d. 2014)
June
- June 3 – Larry McMurtry, American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter (d. 2021)
- June 4 – Bruce Dern, American screen 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-songwriter (d. 2005)
- June 15 – William Levada, American cardinal (d. 2019)
- June 19 – Shirley Goodman, American R&B singer (d. 2005)
- June 20 – Billy Guy, American singer (d. 2002)
- June 22 – Kris Kristofferson, American actor and country singer-songwriter (d. 2024)
- June 24 – Robert Downey Sr., American film actor and director (d. 2021)
- 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
- July 1
- July 4 – Dick Hyde, American trombonist (d. 2019)
- July 5 – Shirley Knight, American actress (d. 2020)
- July 7 – Joseph Renzulli, American educational psychologist
- July 9
- July 10
- July 11 – Joe Bussard, American record collector (d. 2022)
- July 12 – Frank Ryan, American football player and mathematician (d. 2024)
- July 13 – Albert Ayler, African-American saxophonist, singer and composer (d. 1970)
- July 14
- July 15
- July 16 – Buddy Merrill, American musician (d. 2021)
- July 18 – Jerry Richardson, American businessman and football club owner (d. 2023)
- July 19 – Connie Kurtz, American LGBT rights activist (d. 2018)
- July 20
- July 23
- July 24
- 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
- August 1 – Bradford Bishop, American fugitive
- August 7 – Richard L. Tierney, American poet, novelist (d. 2022)
- August 8
- August 11 – Bill Monbouquette, American baseball player (d. 2015)
- August 12 – John Poindexter, American Naval officer, US Chief of Staff
- August 16 – Anita Gillette, American actress
- August 17
- 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 (d. 2023)
- August 29 – John McCain, American politician, U.S. senator (R-Az.) (d. 2018)
- August 31 – Richard J. Ferris, American business executive (d. 2022)
September
- September 3 – John Olver, American politician (d. 2023)
- September 5
- September 7 – Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll (d. 1959)
- September 11 – Charles Dierkop, American actor (d. 2024)
- September 14
- September 17 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist (d. 2014)
- 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 (d. 2021)
- 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 and host of Soul Train (d. 2012)[7]
- September 30 – Jim Sasser, American politician (d. 2024)
October
- 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 (d. 2024)
- October 19
- October 20 – Joanna Simon, American mezzo-soprano and journalist (d. 2022)
- 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 (d. 2020)
- October 30 – Merri Dee, American television journalist and philanthropist (d. 2022)
- October 31 – Michael Landon, American actor, director, producer and writer (d. 1991)
November
- 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 7 – Al Attles, African-American basketball player and coach (d. 2024)
- November 9
- November 11 – Susan Kohner, American actress
- November 14 mo
- November 19 – Dick Cavett, American talk show host, television personality
- November 20 – Don DeLillo, American author
- November 23 – Steve Landesberg, American actor, director (d. 2010)
- November 24 – Frank Caprio, American judge
- November 27 – Glynn Lunney, American aerospace engineer (d. 2021)
- November 28 – Gary Hart, American politician, diplomat, and lawyer
December
- December 1 – Joel Breman, American epidemiologist (d. 2024)[8]
- December 2 – James C. Scott, political scientist and anthropologist (d. 2024)[9]
- December 3 – Clay Dalrymple, American baseball player
- December 4
- December 5
- 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
- December 13 – J. C. Martin, American professional baseball player
- December 14
- December 15 – Donald Goines, American novelist (d. 1974)
- December 17 – Rollie Sheldon, American professional baseball player
- December 20 – Judy Henske, American singer-songwriter (d. 2022)[12]
- December 21 – Barbara Roberts, American politician
- December 22
- December 23
- December 24 – Dirck Halstead, American photojournalist (d. 2022)[13]
- December 26 – Kitty Dukakis, American author and First Lady of Massachusetts (d. 2025)[14]
- 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 1897)
- 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 4 – Charles F. Watkins, physician (born 1872)
- 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)
- April 22 – Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, pioneer dentist (born 1866)[16]
- May 20 – Elmer Fowler Stone, first United States Coast Guard aviator (born 1887)
- May 29 – Norman Chaney, actor (born 1914)
- June 11 – Robert E. Howard, pulp fiction and fantasy writer and poet (suicide; born 1906)
- June 27 – Mike Bernard, ragtime musician (born 1881)
- July 8 – Thomas Meighan, actor (b. 1879)
- July 21 – Earle Ovington, aviator, flew first experimental airmail (born 1879)
- 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 6 – Henry Bourne Joy, business leader (born 1864)
- November 22 – Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, financier (born 1879)
- December 8 – Katherine Metzel Debs, wife of American Socialist Eugene V. Debs (born 1867)
- December 11 – Myron Grimshaw, baseball player (born 1875)
- December 24 – Irene Fenwick, stage and silent film actress (anorexia; born 1887)
See also
References
- ^ "Milestones of the U.S. Archival Profession and the National Archives, 1800-2011". U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
- ^ "New Deal | Definition, History, Programs, Summary, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
- ^ Former Gonzaga Director of Basketball operations, EWU coach Jerry Krause dies at 87
- ^ Bob Albright, former state House member who represented north Alabama, dead at 87
- ^ "Michael Thomas, Writer and Bête Noire of the Moneyed Class, Dies at 85". Archived from the original on 2021-08-15. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
- ^ "George Heilmeier dies; a principal developer of liquid-crystal display technology". Washington Post. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
- ^ McKinley Jr., James C. (February 1, 2012), "Don Cornelius, ‘Soul Train’ Creator, Is Dead", The New York Times. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
- ^ In Memoriam: 2020 President Joel Breman
- ^ James C. Scott, much referenced anarchist thinker, 1936–2024
- ^ Former IndyCar racer and CART chief steward Wally Dallenbach dies at 87
- ^ Dennis Hevesi (2010-03-08). "Frank Williams, Architect of Skyscrapers, Dies at 73". The New York Times.
- ^ Judy Henske, Influential ‘60s Folk Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 85
- ^ US photographer Dirck Halstead dies at 85
- ^ Kitty Dukakis, former first lady of Massachusetts, dies at 88
- ^ "Mary Tyler Moore obituary". the Guardian. 25 January 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel
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