1936 in the United States

Events from the year 1936 in the United States.

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Decades:
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
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Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January–March

March 1: Hoover Dam completed.

April–June

March: "Migrant Mother", an iconic photo taken by Dorothea Lange

July–September

October–December

Undated

Ongoing

Births

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

  • January 1 – Harry B. Smith, songwriter, librettist and composer (born 1860)
  • January 6 – Louise Bryant, journalist (born 1885)
  • January 9 – John Gilbert, silent film actor (born 1897)
  • January 15 – George Landenberger, U.S. Navy Captain and 23rd Governor of American Samoa (born 1879)
  • January 16 – Albert Fish, serial killer (executed; born 1870)
  • February 3 – Elia Goode Byington, newspaper proprietor, editor, and manager (born 1858)
  • February 8 – Charles Curtis, 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (born 1860)
  • February 9 – John Cutting Berry, physician and missionary (born 1847)
  • February 19 – Billy Mitchell, U.S. general and military aviation pioneer (born 1879)
  • March 4 – Charles F. Watkins, physician (born 1872)
  • March 6 – Rubin Goldmark, pianist, composer and teacher (born 1872)
  • March 11 – Ferdinand Lee Barnett, African American journalist, lawyer and civil rights activist (born 1852)
  • March 18 – W. Herbert Dunton, Western painter (born 1878)
  • April 3 – Richard Hauptmann, carpenter convicted of murder (born 1899 in Germany; executed)
  • April 13 – Howard Thurston, stage magician (born 1869)
  • April 22 – Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, pioneer dentist (born 1866)[12]
  • May 20 – Elmer Fowler Stone, first United States Coast Guard aviator (born 1887)
  • May 29 – Norman Chaney, actor (born 1914)
  • June 11 – Robert E. Howard, pulp fiction and fantasy writer and poet (suicide; born 1906)
  • June 27 – Mike Bernard, ragtime musician (born 1881)
  • July 8 – Thomas Meighan, actor (b. 1879)
  • July 21 – Earle Ovington, aviator, flew first experimental airmail (born 1879)
  • August 8 – Mourning Dove, Native American writer (born 1884)
  • September 14 – Irving Thalberg, film producer, pneumonia, (born 1899)
  • September 26 – Harriet Monroe, literary editor, scholar and critic and patron of the arts (born 1860)
  • October 3 – John Heisman, American football coach (born 1869)
  • October 8
    • Cheiro, astrologer (born 1866 in Ireland)
    • William Henry Stark, businessman (born 1851)
  • October 13 – John H. Hill, African American lawyer and educator (born 1852)
  • October 20 – Anne Sullivan, teacher of Helen Keller (born 1866)
  • November 2 – Nathaniel P. Conrey, politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (born 1860)
  • November 6 – Henry Bourne Joy, business leader (born 1864)
  • November 22 – Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, financier (born 1879)
  • December 8 – Katherine Metzel Debs, wife of American Socialist Eugene V. Debs (born 1867)
  • December 11 – Myron Grimshaw, baseball player (born 1875)
  • December 24 – Irene Fenwick, stage and silent film actress (anorexia; born 1887)

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References

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