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Months in Year 1936: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 134 of 134

Jan 2nd - Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia (b. 1862)
Jan 6th - Charles A Stoneham, pres (NY Giants), dies
Jan 7th - Howard Francis, cricketer (2 Tests S Af v Eng 1898-99, 39 runs), dies
Jan 7th - Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
Jan 9th - John Gilbert, actor (Love, Downstairs), dies at 40
Jan 10th - Charles Wright, cricketer (3 Tests England v South Africa 1895-96), dies
Jan 15th - Henry Forster, cricket (Hants & Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
Jan 16th - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
Jan 17th - Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
Jan 18th - Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70
Jan 20th - George V, King of Britain (1910-36), dies at 70
Jan 20th - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
Jan 22nd - Louis Glass, composer, dies at 71
Jan 23rd - Dame Clara Butt, alto singer (Country of Hope & Glory), dies at 62
Feb 1st - Georgios Kondylis, general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
Feb 3rd - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
Feb 4th - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
Feb 9th - Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
Feb 16th - Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted
Poet Rudyard Kipling (Jan 18th) Feb 17th - Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische), dies at 74
Feb 19th - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
Feb 20th - John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67
Feb 20th - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
Feb 22nd - Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74
Feb 27th - Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86
Feb 27th - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
Feb 28th - Pedro Munoz Seca, La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55
Feb 28th - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
Mar 4th - Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer, dies at 64
Mar 6th - Josef Stransky, composer, dies at 63
Mar 6th - Rubin Goldmark, composer, dies at 63
Mar 16th - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
Mar 18th - Egon Friedell, Austrian journalist (Kleine Portratgalerie), dies at 58
Mar 18th - Eleftherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece
Mar 19th - John Larkin IV, actor/writer (Charlie Chan in Panama), dies at 63
Mar 20th - Durant Clifford Parkin, cricketer (Tests for S Afr 1891-92), dies
Mar 21st - Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, composer (Chopiniana), dies at 70
Mar 30th - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (b. 1895)
Apr 1st - Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61
Apr 2nd - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
Apr 3rd - Bruno Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
Apr 8th - Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
Apr 9th - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
Apr 11th - Mitya Stillman, composer, dies at 44
Apr 13th - Demertzis, Greek premier, dies
Apr 13th - Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
Apr 17th - Charles J M Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch PM (1918-23, 29-33), dies
Apr 18th - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56
Apr 18th - Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82
Apr 23rd - Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889)
Apr 24th - Alphons Diepenbrock, composer, dies at 73
Apr 24th - Bernard van Dieren, composer, dies at 51
Apr 26th - Tammany Young, American actor (b.1886)
Apr 27th - Frederik A Stoett, linguist (Dutch Proverbs), dies at 72
Apr 27th - Karl Pearson, mathematician, dies
Apr 28th - Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies
Apr 29th - Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76
Apr 30th - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
May 6th - Hans Jelmoli, composer, dies at 59
May 8th - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies
May 14th - Edmond HH Allenby, English fieldmarshal in Egypt, dies at 74
May 14th - Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at 71
May 17th - Panagis Tsaldaris, twice Greek prime minister (b. 1868)
May 18th - Alick Maclean, composer, dies at 63
May 25th - Jan Levoslav Bella, composer, dies at 92
Jun 7th - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
Jun 11th - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
Jun 12th - Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies
Jun 12th - Karl Kraus, writer, dies at 62
Jun 14th - Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies
Jun 16th - Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies
Jun 17th - Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies
Playwright & Author Maxim Gorky (Jun 18th) Jun 18th - Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
Jun 19th - John Sharpe, cricketer (1-eyed fast bowler for England 1891-92), dies
Jun 22nd - Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher (b. 1882)
Jun 24th - Nandor Zsolt, composer, dies at 49
Jul 2nd - Harry Northrup, actor (Who's Knocking at My Door), dies at 60
Jul 11th - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
Jul 13th - Izydor Lotto, composer, dies at 91
Jul 13th - Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered at 43
Jul 20th - Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, dies at 75
Jul 20th - Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies
Jul 24th - James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52
Jul 30th - Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72
Aug 4th - Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78
Aug 11th - Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)
Aug 14th - Rainey Bethea, hanged, last US public execution
Aug 15th - Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64
Aug 15th - Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer, dies at 76
Aug 17th - Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery & Foules), dies at 36
Aug 19th - Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38
Aug 22nd - Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99
Aug 25th - Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies
Sep 3rd - Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impressario (b. 1876 or 1877)
Sep 5th - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
Sep 12th - Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70
Sep 14th - Ossip Gabrilovich, composer, dies at 58
Sep 15th - Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69
Sep 16th - Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM), dies
Sep 16th - Karl Buresch, Austrian politician, dies
Sep 17th - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
Sep 19th - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
Sep 26th - Harriet Monroe, US poet (Poet's Life), dies at 75
Oct 1st - Oscar DaCosta, cricketer (WI all-rounder in 5 Tests 30-35), dies at 28
Oct 2nd - G H Simpson-Hayward, cricketer (Eng 1910, great lob bowlers), dies
Oct 3rd - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
Oct 5th - Jan J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship doc/writer (Seaman's Grave), dies at 38
Oct 8th - William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
Oct 8th - Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
Oct 12th - B L T Bosanquet, cricketer (1st great googly bowler, England), dies
Oct 19th - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
Oct 20th - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
Oct 23rd - (Marie) Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Bitter Pill), dies at 80
Oct 25th - Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet, dies at 76
Oct 26th - Bob Dellemijn, Lourdes-ganger/Franco-volunteer, dies in battle at 18
Oct 28th - E G Winkler, writer, dies
Oct 30th - Teddy Wynyard, cricketer (three Tests for England 1896-1906), dies
Nov 3rd - Filip Lazar, composer, dies at 42
Nov 6th - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
Nov 10th - Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
Nov 11th - Edward German, composer, dies at 74
Nov 17th - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
Nov 19th - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle
Nov 20th - Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, Spanish Falange, executed
Nov 22nd - Louis F H Apol, painter/etcher/literary, dies at 86
Dec 2nd - John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
Dec 10th - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69
Dec 10th - Robert Abel, cricketer (744 runs in 13 Tests for Eng 1888-1902), dies
Dec 18th - Andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)
Dec 20th - Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid
Dec 25th - Pierre Maurice, composer, dies at 68
Dec 27th - Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70
Dec 31st - Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72
Dec 31st - William FA Ellison, Irish clergyman/astronomer, dies at 72

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