" 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

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

* 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 )

The laborious negotiations called in Buenos Aires by Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas yielded him Latin America's first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1936 and a formal peace treaty in July 1938.

* Alexander Watson Hutton ( 10 June 1853 – 9 March 1936 ) was a Scottish teacher and sportsman and is considered the Father of Argentine football.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas ( November 1, 1878 – May 5, 1959 ) was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

He led the Argentine League for the Rights of Man, the nation's first recorded human rights organization, upon its founding in 1936, and in December, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt while addressing a crowd.

Born in Steubenville, Ohio, a son of Peter and Elizabeth McCauley Perrine, and a descendant of Daniel Perrin, " The Huguenot ", he worked at Lick Observatory from 1893 to 1909 and then was director of the Argentine National Observatory ( today, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba ) in Argentina from 1909 until 1936.

* Alexander Watson Hutton ( b. June 10, 1853 d. March 9, 1936 )-Founder of Argentine Soccer.

Harold appeared in more than 50 feature films, including The Big Broadcast ( 1936 ), Down Argentine Way ( 1940 ), Tin Pan Alley ( 1940 ), and Sun Valley Serenade ( 1941 ) which features the show stopping Chattanooga Choo Choo tap dance number performed by Harold, Fayard, and Dorothy Dandridge.

At the outset of the Spanish Civil War, in 1936, Azorín fled to Paris, where he continued his literary career writing for the Argentine newspaper La Nación.

Norma Aleandro Robledo ( born May 2, 1936 ) is an Argentine actress and screenwriter, born in Buenos Aires to Pedro Aleandro and María Luisa Robledo, both actors.

* La Argentina, the stage name of Antonia Mercé y Luque ( 1890 – 1936 ), an Argentine flamenco dancer

Alejandra Pizarnik ( April 29, 1936 – September 25, 1972 ) was an Argentine poet.

The Argentine Olympic polo team in 1936.

In spring 1936, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara ( b. 1913 ), a 22 year old blonde-haired, blue-eyed dancer of Irish descent.

* 1936 – Obo Addy, Ghanaian drummer and dancer ( d. 2012 )

* 1936 – Rita Cadillac, French dancer, singer, and actress ( d. 1995 )

* 1936 – Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer

* September 14 – Juliet Prowse, American dancer and actress ( b. 1936 )

** Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, dancer, impressionist and TV presenter ( b. 1936 )

* Katherine Dunham-African-American dancer, and anthropologist, originally a ballet dancer she founded her first company Ballet Negre in 1936 and later the Katherine Dunham Dance Company based in Chicago, Illinois.

Antonia Mercé y Luque ( September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936 ), stage name La Argentina, was a dancer known for her creation of the neoclassical style of Spanish dance as a theatrical art.

* Ben Stevenson ( born 1936 ), British ballet dancer and director

After touring New England in a theatre troupe as a substitute dancer, his acting career began in earnest in the Broadway revue New Faces of 1936.

Obo Addy ( January 15, 1936 – September 13, 2012 ) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as worldbeat to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s.

She started her career as a dancer in the Helsingør Revue in 1936 and had her debut as a singer in 1938, when she was also broadcast on radio for the first time.

In 1936, he was invited by Leonard Knight Elmhirst, who had earlier assisted Rabindranath Tagore in building Sriniketan, close to Shanti Niketan, to visit Dartington Hall, Totnes, Doven for a six-month residency, with his troupe and lead dancer, Simkie.

Juliet Anne Prowse ( September 25, 1936 – September 14, 1996 ) was an Anglo-Indian dancer, whose four-decade career included stage, television and film.

Ruta Lee ( born May 30, 1936 ) is a Canadian-born actress and dancer who appeared as one of the brides in the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

* Marge Champion, dancer / choreographer ( 1936 )

* Obo Addy ( 1936 – 2012 ), Ghanaian drummer and dancer

Trisha Brown ( 25 November 1936, Aberdeen, Washington, U. S .) is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer.

Besides being an accomplished thief, she holds many jobs such as an harem dancer ( 1753 ), acrobat, tightwire artist, bank robber, teacher, antique dealer, nightclub singer ( 1936 ) and casino owner ( 1888 ).