" 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 )

* 1864 – Marguerite Durand, French suffragette ( d. 1936 )

* January 24 – Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader ( d. 1936 )

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon ( 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002 ) was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

With her debut in talkies only moderately successful, she acted on the stage for the most part in the 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in roles as varied as Ophelia in Guthrie McClintic's landmark 1936 production of Hamlet ( with John Gielgud and Judith Anderson ) and Marguerite in a limited run of La Dame aux Camélias.

* Fires ( book ), a 1936 book by Marguerite Yourcenar

3568 ASCII is a small main belt asteroid discovered by Marguerite Laugier on October 17, 1936.

Marguerite Durand ( January 24, 1864 – March 16, 1936 ) was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette.

* The Walking Dead ( 1936 film ), an American horror film starring Boris Karloff and Marguerite Churchill

Dugdale married Nancy, daughter of Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet, and Marguerite ( née Miles ) in 1936.

* Putnam, Samuel, Marguerite of Navarre, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1936.

* January 24-Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader ( died 1936 )

* 1936 – Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist

* 1901 – Jean Mermoz, French pilot ( d. 1936 )

* Rose Dione ( 1875 – 1936 ), French actress

This syndrome was described by Charlotte Dravet, French psychiatrist and epileptologist ( born July 14, 1936 ).

In 1936, Romanian physicist Horia Hulubei and his French colleague Yvette Cauchois also analyzed pollucite, this time using their high-resolution X-ray apparatus.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

* 1872 – Louis Blériot, French aviator, inventor, and engineer ( d. 1936 )

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

* 1867 – Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French scientist and medical doctor ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author ( d. 1997 )

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

* 1890 – Roger Salengro, French politician ( d. 1936 )

* 1860 – Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general ( d. 1936 )

* 1836 – Juliette Adam, French writer ( d. 1936 )

* 1850 – Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist ( d. 1936 )

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

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

* February 24 – Suzanne Bianchetti, French actress ( d. 1936 )

* July 1 – Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer ( d. 1936 )