" 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 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

It was Grierson who coined the term " documentary " to describe a non-fiction film, and he produced the movement's most celebrated film of the 1930s, Night Mail ( 1936 ), written and directed by Basil Wright and Harry Watt, and incorporating the poem by W. H. Auden.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

* F. W. Hilles, The Literary Career of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1936 ).

* 1975 – Richard W. DeKorte, American politician ( b. 1936 )

The book also claims that in a 1936 letter to Bennett, A. W. Reid, a Conservative organizer, estimated that Conservative Party members gave Arcand a total of $ 27, 000 ( the modern equivalent $ 359, 284 ).

Some, however, dealt with professional spies as in Hitchcock's Secret Agent ( 1936 ), based on W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden stories.

The American neurologist and psychiatrist Walter Freeman, who had also attended the London Congress of Neurology in 1935, was intrigued by Moniz's work, and with the help of his close friend, neurosurgeon James W. Watts, he performed the first prefrontal leucotomy in the United States in 1936 at the hospital of George Washington University in Washington.

In 1936, Major F. W. Immans was ordered to set up a parachute school at Stendal ( Borstel ), and was allocated a number of Junkers Ju 52 aircraft to train on.

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

In 1936, twin brothers Cleo and Leo Stater bought the W. A. Davis Market and started a new way of grocery shopping in the Inland Empire.

* W. Scott Heywood ( 1872 – 1950 ), member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1932 – 1936, author of homestead exemption ; discovered oil in Jeff Davis Parish in 1901

* Robert W. Lucky ( born 1936 ), engineer.

Sinclairville was the birthplace of New Deal theoretician Rexford Tugwell ( 1891 – 1979 ), and of Charles W. Dorsett ( 1850 – 1936 ), Swedenborgian and Prohibition Party leader, whose wife, Martha Angle Dorsett ( 1851 – 1918 ) was the first woman attorney in Minnesota.

In 1936, the Glen Alden Coal Co., successor to the DL & W, operated the Woodward and produced 858, 711 tons of coal.

In 1936, he took over the Arnold Traffic Store, which had been a general store, a meeting place, a temporary church, an office, an amateur playhouse and a nightclub became W. R. Gott ’ s Furniture Store.

* W. D. Hamilton ( 1936 – 2000 ), British evolutionary biologist and geneticist

H. W. Wilson Company, New York, 1936.

" British Authors of the Nineteenth Century H. W. Wilson Company, New York, 1936.

* B W Aston ( 1936 – 2010 ), historian

Chaplin maintained his involvement with the I. W. W., serving in Chicago as editor of its newspaper, the Industrial Worker, from 1932 to 1936.

In 1936, the company was incorporated as W. R. Pashley Ltd and moved to a larger new factory ( over 30, 000 square feet ) in Chester Street, Aston.

Mary Elizabeth Alexander " Liddy " Hanford Dole ( born July 29, 1936 ) is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidential administrations, as well as as a United States Senator.

* George W. Wickersham ( 1923 – 1936 )

In 1936 he accepted the leadership of the Berlin Kulturbund.

In 1936 he decided to migrate to America.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us.

This tax was discontinued in 1936.

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.

Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter.

in February 1936.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

( This building was in fact built in 1936, decades later than Poirot fictionally moved in.

* Thomas Patten from Dooega died fighting Francisco Franco's fascist forces during the Siege of Madrid in December 1936.

The TSFSR dissolved in 1936 and Armenia became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union known as the Armenian SSR.