" 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 )

Linda accepted the reproach, which was something she did rarely in all her life and most rarely in that summer of 1936 when she was by all odds the prettiest and brightest young woman west of the Allegheny Mountains, and John was surely one of the handsomer and brighter young men around Pittsburgh.

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.

However, in 1936, the geologists John D. Boon and Claude C. Albritton Jr. revisited Bucher's studies and concluded that the craters that he studied were probably formed by impacts.

In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.

* 1936 – John Ringling, American circus owner ( b. 1866 )

Although Caitlin initially continued her relationship with John, she and Thomas began a correspondence and in the second half of 1936 were courting.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

* Planet Plane ( 1936 ) ( as John Beynon ; also known as The Space Machine and Stowaway to Mars )

* 1899 – John Gilbert, American actor ( d. 1936 )

John Claggett Danforth ( born September 5, 1936 ) is a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

* John Alf Brown ( 1881 – 1936 ), Welsh international rugby player

* John Walker ( RAF officer ) ( born 1936 ), former Chief of Defence Intelligence

* 1860 – John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – John Moore, Australian politician

* 1869 – John Heisman, American football player and coach ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – John Danforth, American politician

Of the Western-related European films before 1964, the one attracting most attention is probably Luis Trenker ’ s Der Kaiser von Kalifornia ( 1936 ), about John Sutter.

This archetype has been widely exemplified, notably by such characters as Countess Zaleska in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter, Barnabas Collins in the TV soap opera Dark Shadows, Mick St. John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, Nick Knight in the TV series Forever Knight, Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and Bill Compton in Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

* Secret Agent ( 1936 ) with John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

* John Henderson Lamont ( April 2, 1927 – March 10, 1936 )

** John Joseph McCort, American Roman Catholic prelate ( d. 1936 )

* October 25 – John Heisman, American football coach ( d. 1936 )

United States Senator John McCain was born in 1936 at a small Navy hospital at Coco Solo Naval Air Station.

* 1936 – Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist ( d. 1977 )

* 1936 – Frank Howard, American baseball player

* 1936 – Rita Shane, American soprano

* 1884 – Chandler Egan, American golfer ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player ( d. 1999 )

* 1936 – Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer ( d. 2001 )

* 1936 – Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire

* 1936 – Tommy Ivo, American race car driver

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

* 1936 – Bobby Nichols, American golfer

* 1936 – Frank Serpico, American police officer

* 1936 – Andre Dubus, American writer ( d. 1999 )

* 1936 – The United Auto Workers ( UAW ) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

* 1936 – James Dobson, American evangelist, author, and psychologist, founder of Focus on the Family

* 1936 – Glen Hobbie, American baseball player

In 1936, Whorf was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology at Yale, and he was invited by Franz Boas to serve on the committee of the Society of American Linguistics ( later Linguistic Society of America ).

* Wilt Chamberlain ( 1936 – 1999 ), American basketball player

To clarify American sovereignty, Executive Order 7358 was issued on May 13, 1936.