Events from the year 1936 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal Government
Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
- 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 – 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
- 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 – Marge Piercy, American poet, activist
April
- 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
June
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- October 28 – Charlie Daniels, American country musician and singer-songwriter
- 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 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 – Steve Landesberg, American actor, director (d. 2010)
- November 28 – Gary Hart, American politician, diplomat, and lawyer
December
- December 4
- 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 8 – Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (born 1860)
- 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 7 Frankies Birthday
- 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 20 – Anne Sullivan, teacher of Helen Keller (born 1866)
- November 22 – Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, financier (born 1879)
- December 24 – Irene Fenwick, stage and silent film actress (anorexia; born 1887)
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