Abbot Howard " Abbie " Hoffman ( November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989 ) was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party (" Yippies ").

With the assistance of other civic organizations and other leaders, he co-founded the Boy Scouts of the Philippines on October 31, 1936 and became its first national president.

Milton Brown ( September 7, 1903 – April 18, 1936 ) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing.

In 1929 he founded the journal La Vérité, and in March 1936 he and Pierre Frank co-founded the Parti communiste internationaliste, which merged with two other groups to form the Parti ouvrier internationaliste in June of that year.

Bojangles co-founded the New York Black Yankees baseball team in Harlem in 1936 with financier James " Soldier Boy " Semler.

Harold J. Ockenga, notable theologian and co-architect of the ( Neo -) Evangelical movement was the senior pastor from 1936 to 1969, and during this time co-founded Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary with Billy Graham, co-founded Fuller Theological Seminary, the National Association of Evangelicals, War Relief ( which later became World Relief ), and the Christian publication Christianity Today.

First appointed to Libreville from 1931 to 1935, he was transferred to Bangui in 1935 and then to Brazzaville in 1936, where he co-founded a branch of the Mutuelle Gabonaise with a brother of politician Louis Bigmann.

In 1936 Mary Leolin Bowerman, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley and who later co-founded the Save Mount Diablo organization in 1971, recorded the last sighting of Mt.

* 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor ( d. 2011 )

* 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

* 1882 – Red Ames, American baseball player ( d. 1936 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

* 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 – 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.

He also ran as the nominee of the American Labor Party, a union-dominated anti-Tammany left-wing group that supported Franklin D. Roosevelt for president beginning in 1936.

* 1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.

Thalberg and Shearer were on a much needed Labor Day weekend vacation in Monterey, California, in 1936, staying at the same beachfront hotel where they spent their honeymoon.

" The Trotskyists retained a common orientation with the radicalized SP in their opposition to the European war, their preference for industrial unionism and the CIO over the trade unionism of the American Federation of Labor, a commitment to trade union activism, the defense of the Soviet Union as the first workers ' state while at the same time maintaining an antipathy toward the Stalin government, and in their general aims in the 1936 election.

* 1926: Congress passes the Railway Labor Act to settle disputes and avoid strikes ( law amended in 1934 and 1936 ).

Chicago: Labor League for Thomas and Nelson, 1936.

He became later a member of the Socialist Party of America, helped found the American Labor Party in 1936 and was from 1932 till 1966 the leader of the International Ladies ' Garment Workers ' Union.

After serving as Tennessee Commissioner of Labor from 1936 to 1937 Gore was elected as a Democrat to the 76th Congress in 1938, re-elected to the two succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1939 until his resignation on December 4, 1944 to enter the U. S. Army.

* Digitized copies of the Guild Daily, published by striking P-I employees in 1936, from the Labor Press Project.

Alexey Grigoryevich Stakhanov (; 3 January 1906 – 5 November 1977 ) was a miner in the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1970 ), and a member of the CPSU ( 1936 ).

* American Labor Party, 1936

He was also active in the Chicago Federation of Labor during 1936 and 1937.

Hillman and Dubinsky founded the American Labor Party in 1936, an ostensibly independent party that served as a halfway house for Socialists and other leftists who wanted to support FDR's reelection but were not prepared to join the Democratic Party, with its alliance with the most reactionary white elites in the South.

* Oscar Straus ( politician ) ( 1850 – 1936 ), United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor from 1906 to 1909

Dubinsky and Sidney Hillman, leader of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, helped found the American Labor Party in 1936.

In the specific case of Louisiana, its legislators rejected the Child Labor Amendment three times, first in 1924, again a decade later in 1934, and lastly in 1936.

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala ( January 23, 1903 – April 9, 1948 ) was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister ( 1940 ) and Labor Minister ( 1943 – 1944 ), mayor of Bogotá ( 1936 ) and one of the most charismatic leaders of the Liberal Party.

When the American Federation of Labor ejected the unions which composed the Committee for Industrial Organization ( CIO ) in 1936, Murray supported Lewis ' decision to form a new labor organization.

Victor Howard Metcalf ( October 10, 1853 – February 20, 1936 ) was an American politician ; he served in President Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet an Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and then as Secretary of the Navy.

The American Labor Party was a political party in the United States established in 1936 which was active almost exclusively in the state of New York.

Women surrounded by posters in English and Yiddish supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert H. Lehman, and the American Labor Party teach other women how to vote, 1936.

On April 1, 1936, Sidney Hillman, John L. Lewis, and other officials of the unions of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations established Labor's Non-Partisan League ( LNPL ), an organization akin to the modern political action committee, designed to channel money and manpower to the campaigns of Roosevelt and others standing strongly for the declared interests of organized labor.

Those workers are covered by the Railway Labor Act, first passed in 1926, then amended in 1936 to cover airline employees.