" 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 )

Originally intended to serve as a family residence, it was at times vacated to host important guests, such as Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in 1898, and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in 1936.

Himmler was named the chief of all German police ( nominally in that role subordinate to Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick ) on June 17, 1936.

Wilhelm Gustloff ( January 30, 1895-February 4, 1936 ) was the German leader of the NSDAP ( Nazi ) party in Switzerland ; he founded the Swiss branch of the party at Davos in 1932, which organized German citizens living in Switzerland.

Februar 1936: das Attentat auf Wilhelm Gustloff ; in: Roland Aergerter ( Hrsg.

* January 30 – Wilhelm Gustloff, German-born Swiss Nazi party leader ( d. 1936 )

* Kaiser Wilhelm ( baseball ) ( 1874 – 1936 ), early 20th century baseball pitcher

The concept that insulin resistance may be the underlying cause of diabetes mellitus type 2 was first advanced by Prof. Wilhelm Falta and published in Vienna in 1931, and confirmed as contributary by Sir Harold Percival Himsworth of the University College Hospital Medical Centre in London in 1936.

After an unsuccessful attempt to hire the German conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, the English conductor John Barbirolli and the Polish conductor Artur Rodziński were joint replacements for Toscanini in 1936.

* 1934 – 1936 dr Wilhelm Fließbach

* Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence of Wilhelm Reich and A. S. Neill ( 1936 – 1957 ), 1981

Researcher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics during Germany's Third Reich, known for her 1936 publication " Race and Population Policy Tools ", and her studies of heterochromia iridis ( different colored eyes ) using iris specimens from Auschwitz concentration camp victims ( supplied by her colleague, Joseph Mengele ).

* Wilhelm Solf ( 1862 – 1936 ), Scholar, diplomat, jurist and statesman

David Frankfurter ( July 9, 1909 – July 19, 1982 ) was a Croatian Jew known for assassinating Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland.

Februar 1936: das Attentat auf Wilhelm Gustloff ; in: Roland Aergerter ( ed.

* Wilhelm Niepelt ( 1862 – 1936 ), scientist

In their survival effort, the local artisans were aided by professors at the government-sponsored Keramische Fachschule ( Ceramic Technical Training School ), which had been established in Bunzlau in 1898 under the leadership of the Berlin ceramicist Dr. Wilhelm Pukall ( 1860 – 1936 ).

It consisted of 10 German destroyers of the 1934A and 1936 classes ( Georg Thiele, Wolfgang Zenker, Bernd von Arnim, Erich Giese, Erich Koellner, Diether von Roeder, Hans Lüdemann, Hermann Künne, Wilhelm Heidkamp ( flagship ) and Anton Schmitt, commanded by Kommodore Friedrich Bonte.

The psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich drew on Malinowski's studies of the islands in writing his The Invasion of Compulsory Sex Morality and consequently in developing his theory of sex economy in his 1936 work Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf.

* Wilhelm Frick ( 1936 – 1943 )

* 1934 – 1936: Wilhelm Kube, NSDAP ( acting ), Oberpräsident of Brandenburg

* 1903, 1914, 1917, 1926, 1936 by Kaiser Wilhelm II

Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen ( Friedrich Maria Albrecht Wilhelm Karl ; 4 June 1856 – 30 December 1936 ) was a member of the House of Habsburg and the Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I.

* Georg Wilhelm Steller, the pioneer of Alaskan natural history ( 1936 )

* David Frankfurter-Croatian Jew known for assassinating Swiss branch leader of the German NSDAP Wilhelm Gustloff in 1936 in Davos, Switzerland

Gustloff was shot and killed in 1936 by David Frankfurter, a Jewish student incensed by Gustloff's antisemitic activism.

* Matthieu Gillabert, La propagande nazie en Suisse, L ' affaire Gustloff 1936, Lausanne, presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2008

* Matthieu Gillabert, La propagande nazie en Suisse, L ' affaire Gustloff 1936, Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2008

In 1936 Wilhelm Gustloff was assassinated at Davos ; he was the head of the Nazi Party's " Auslands-Organisation " in Switzerland.