" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

* 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.

* 1936 – Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli artist

* 1869 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and set designer ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician, scholar, and author

* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

* 1936 – Julián Javier, American baseball player

* 1936 – Patrick Tse, Hong Kong director

In 1936 – 37 Bradman succeeded Woodfull as Australian captain.

* 1882 – Red Ames, American baseball player ( d. 1936 )

* 1887 – Tommy Ward, South African cricketer ( d. 1936 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

* 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, English biologist ( d. 2000 )

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

* 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

Charles Hardin Holley ( September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959 ), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Pauline ( Drake ) Holley.

* 1936 – Charles Harding Firth, British historian ( b. 1857 )

( 1936 ) and his Ph. D. ( 1943 ) in political science, from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Harold Lasswell and Charles Edward Merriam.

* 1860 – Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor

* 1857 – Charles Harding Firth, British historian ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor

* 1866 – Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1936 )

The explorer Charles Sturt, who visited the region from 1844 – 1846, was the first European to see the desert, but it was not until 1936 that Ted Colson became the first white person to cross it in its entirety.

* 1936 – 1939 Charles Galton Darwin

* Les Bas-Fonds / The Lower Depths, 1936 ( screenplay based on Gorky's play )-Film produced by Films Albatros, screenplay Yevgeni Zamyatin ( as E. Zamiatine ), Jacques Companéez, Jean Renoir, Charles Spaak, dir.

** Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1936 )

** Charles F. Watkins, American physician ( d. 1936 )

** Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States ( d. 1936 )

** Charles E. Cox, American lawyer and 55th Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court ( d. 1936 )

** Charles Napier, American actor ( b. 1936 )

* Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime ( Charles XII )( 1931 – 1936 )

* Sir Albert Charles Seward ( 1915 – 1936 )

* Charles Nicolle ( 1866 – 1936 ), bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine

* Charles Murray, Lord Murray ( 1866 – 1936 ), Scottish Tory politician, lawyer and judge

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. ( born August 18, 1936 ), better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival.

* Charles Napier ( actor ) ( 1936 – 2011 ), American actor

Charles L. Napier ( April 12, 1936 – October 5, 2011 ) was an American actor, known for his portrayals of square-jawed tough guys and military types.

In the mid-1930s, he made several musical films in England, and at the premiere of her film Mimi in April 1935, he met the English actress Diana Napier ( 1905 – 1982 ); they were married on 20 June 1936, only after protracted legal proceedings to secure an Austrian divorce from Vanconti.

Napier appeared in three of his British films: Heart's Desire ( 1935 ), Land Without Music and Pagliacci ( both 1936 ).

Richard Napier Luce, Baron Luce, ( born 14 October 1936 ) was Lord Chamberlain to HM The Queen from 2000 to 2006, and was previously Governor of Gibraltar and a Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) and Government Minister.