" 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 – 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 )

* 1866 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher, instructor and companion of Helen Keller ( d. 1936 )

* April 14 – Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller ( d. 1936 )

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

One of the earliest documented references to a dance called " Carolina Shag " appears in a Helen Powell Poole article in 1936.

Composer Constant Lambert ( 1936 ) compares Stravinsky's choice of " the drabbest and least significant phrases " in L ' Histoire du Soldat to Gertrude Stein's in " Helen Furr and Georgine Skeene " ( 1922 ), specifically: " veryday they were gay there, they were regularly gay there everyday.

Harold Macmillan was born at 52 Cadogan Place in Chelsea, London, to Maurice Crawford Macmillan ( 1853 – 1936 ), publisher, and Helen ( Nellie ) Artie Tarleton Belles ( 1856 – 1937 ), artist and socialite, from Spencer, Indiana in the United States.

His parents, Helen Dunham ( née Garvey ) and Edward Lee Gorey, divorced in 1936 when he was 11, then remarried in 1952 when he was 27.

She had a featured role as Queenie in Universal Pictures ' 1936 version of Show Boat starring Irene Dunne, and sang a verse of Can't Help Lovin ' Dat Man with Dunne, Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, and the African-American chorus.

* Helen Stephens, 1936 Olympic Champion ( The Fulton Flash )

Introduced by Helen Morgan in the musical Showboat and performed by Miss Morgan in the 1929 and 1936 film versions.

After seeing Helen Hayes star in Victoria Regina at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City in 1936, Wright took an interest in acting and began playing leading roles in school plays.

He married Helen Sweetman on February 21, 1936.

Johanna " Anne " Mansfield Sullivan Macy ( April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936 ), best-known as Anne Sullivan, was an Irish-American teacher best known as the instructor and companion of Helen Keller.

Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy ( Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel ; born 25 December 1936 ) is the youngest granddaughter of King George V and Mary of Teck.

Between 1932 and 1936, Nast's companion was the Vanity Fair writer Helen Brown Norden Lawrenson, author of The Hussy's Handbook ( 1942 ), Latins are Still Lousy Lovers ( 1968 ), and Stranger at the Party ( 1975 ).

The acclaimed 1936 film version featured many who had appeared in the stage show, including Helen Morgan and Irene Dunne.

Guy d ' Hardelot ( August 1858 – January 7, 1936 ) was the pen name of Helen Rhodes ( nee Helen Guy ), a French composer, pianist, and teacher.

Angelina Helen Catherine Cordovano ( June 28, 1936 – November 22, 1988 ), known professionally as Cathy Carr, was an American pop singer.

He then married Helen Coolidge and served as Assistant Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936, with supervision over procurement matters.

His first appearance on Broadway was in Romeo and Juliet opposite Katharine Cornell in 1936, but he made his biggest impact in Shakespeare's Richard II, a production whose unexpected success was the surprise of the 1937 theatre season and allowed Evans to play Hamlet ( 1938 ) ( the first time that the play was performed uncut on the New York stage ), Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 ( 1939 ), Macbeth ( 1941 ) and Malvolio in Twelfth Night ( 1942 ) opposite the Viola of Helen Hayes, all under the direction of Margaret Webster.

Her siblings were John ( 1936 – 1998 ), Robert, and Helen.

Swing Time is a 1936 RKO musical comedy film set mainly in New York City and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields.

Helen also performed in at least 14 movies including Christopher Bean ( 1933 ) with Beulah Bondi and Marie Dressler, Naughty Marietta ( 1935 ) with Nelson Eddy and Frank Morgan, San Francisco ( 1936 ) with Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald, and Small Town Girl ( 1936 ) with Robert Taylor and James Stewart.

Helen Berman ( 6 April 1936 ) is a Dutch-Israeli visual artist.

In 1936, the renowned Abstract Expressionist artist and teacher Hans Hofmann moved his art school from E. 57th Street to 52 West 9th Street.

* 1936 – Sal Buscema, American comic book artist

* 1936 – Dan Inosanto, Filipino-American martial artist

* Athena Tacha ( 1936 –), artist

In 1936 he moved to Tenero-Locarno, in Ticino Canton, Switzerland ; during the following few years the artist often visited Zürich and Basel, where he became a friend of Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, and Fritz Wotruba.

He studied under German artist George Grosz at the Art Students League in 1936 and 1937.

Valerie Jean Solanas ( April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988 ) was an American radical feminist writer who is best known for her assassination attempt on artist Andy Warhol.

Eanger Irving Couse ( 1866 – 1936 ) was an American artist and a founding member and first president of the Taos Society of Artists.

William Herbert " Buck " Dunton ( 28 August 1878 – 18 March 1936 ) was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.

In 1936, Surrealist artist Joseph Cornell, who bought a print of the movie to screen at home, became smitten with the actress, and cut out nearly all the parts that did not include her.

* Harry Watson ( artist ) ( 1871 – 1936 ), English landscape and portrait artist

Jim Henson ( 1936 – 1990 )— artist, puppeteer, film director and producer — created elaborate imaginary worlds filled with unique characters, objects, environments and even languages and cultures.

In 1936, Earl Bascom, an inventor as well as a trained artist, designed and supervised the construction of Mississippi ’ s first permanent rodeo arena in Columbia.

After the National Socialists took power, they suppressed modern art ; in 1936 and 1937, the Nazis condemned Marc as an entarteter Künstler ( degenerate artist ), and ordered that approximately 130 of his works be taken from exhibit in German museums.

* Jon Thompson ( born 1936 ), British artist

His daughter, poet Mary Channing Wister, married artist Andrew Dasburg in 1936.

In 1936 and 1937 Vocalion produced the only recordings of the influential blues artist Robert Johnson ( as part of their on-going field recording of blues, gospel and ' out of town ' jazz groups ).

From 1936 to 1949, Steig was married to educator and artist Elizabeth Mead Steig ( 1909 – 1983 ), sister of anthropologist Margaret Mead, from whom he was later divorced.

* Regular division of the plane, a series of drawings by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which began in 1936.

From 1908 to 1936, William Brown Macdougall, artist, and his wife, the author and translator, Margaret Armour, lived in Loughton.

Originally created by writer / editor R. D. Low and artist Dudley D. Watkins, the strip made its first appearance in the issue dated 8 March 1936.

* January 14-Homer Watson, artist ( died 1936 )