" 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 )

Hermeto Pascoal ( born June 22, 1936 ) is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist.

* 2012 – Ronaldo Cunha Lima, Brazilian poet and politician ( b. 1936 )

* 1936 – Tom Zé, Brazilian songwriter, musician, and composer

* The worship of Yemanjá by the fishermen of Bahia, Brazil, is a central element of the 1936 Modernist novel Mar Morto ( Dead Sea ) by the famous Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, himself a native of that state.

* Tom Zé ( born 1936 ), a Brazilian musician

Éder Jofre (; born March 26, 1936 ) is a retired Brazilian professional boxer and former Bantamweight and Featherweight Champion.

The specific name honours the Brazilian paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Price, who discovered it in 1936.

In 1936 obtained a law degree at the Recife Law School in Pernambuco, and in that same year he started teaching French and Portuguese grammar, as well as Brazilian and Portuguese Literature, at the Alagoas State High School in Maceió.

Associação Desportiva Confiança, or Confiança as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Aracaju in Sergipe, founded on May 1, 1936.

* 1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and composer ( d. 1936 )

* 1865 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer and composer ( d. 1980 )

* 1879 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – Patrick Gowers, English composer

* 1936 – Carla Bley, American musician, bandleader, and composer

* 1936 – Ladislav Kupkovic, Slovakian composer

* 1936 – Mike Westbrook, British jazz composer, bandleader and pianist

* 1936 – Katsuhisa Hattori, Japanese composer

* July 29 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer ( d. 1936 )

* February 2 – Heikki Suolahti, Finnish composer ( d. 1936 )

* September 4 – Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer ( d. 1936 )

* July 9 – Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer, musicologist, and conductor ( d. 1936 )

Ladislav Karol Kupkovič ( born March 17, 1936 ) is a Slovak composer and conductor.

The death of several friends and that of another composer, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, followed by a pilgrimage to Rocamadour in 1935, led to a religious reawakening in 1936.

In 1936, Poulenc was profoundly affected by the death of another composer, Pierre-Octave Ferroud.

Albert Ayler ( July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970 ) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.

** Rubin Goldmark, composer ( d. 1936 )

* July 9-Ottorino Respighi, composer ( d. 1936 )

** Bernard van Dieren, composer ( died 1936 )

* August 10-Alexander Glazunov, composer ( d. 1936 )

* June 3-Béla Szabados, composer ( d. 1936 )