" 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 )

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

He starred in twelve B-movie Westerns for Grand National, including Headin ' For The Rio Grande ( 1936 ), and Trouble In Texas ( 1937 ) co-starring Rita Hayworth ( then known as Rita Cansino ).

She was scheduled to make her American film debut in A Message to Garcia ( 1936 ), playing a Spanish girl, but was replaced by Rita Hayworth.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

There was a brief return to a live revue format in 1936, when Broadway producer Nils Granlund staged a series of variety shows beginning with " Broadway Heat Wave " featuring female orchestra leader Rita Rio.

Martin married Rita Habicht, who had lost her first husband in the Great War, in 1926 ; their son, Carl, was born in 1936.

* Satan Met a Lady ( 1936 ), a light-comedy adaptation starring Bette Davis and Warren William, with Sam Spade becoming " Ted Shane ".

* McKenna, James A .; Leslie, Shane ; and Simon, Howard ( 1936 ) " Story of the Lost Canyon Diggings ", in Black Range Tales: chronicling sixty years of life and adventure in the Southwest Wilson-Erickson, Inc., New York ;

For the 1936 comedy Satan Met a Lady, the central character was renamed Ted Shane and was played by Warren William.

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

* 1936 – Frank Howard, American baseball player

* 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 – John McCain, American politician

* 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.