Historical figures in 1936

The atlas holds 75 people and 137 moments here, in 1936. The most recorded lives are Charlie Chaplin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Haile Selassie. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.

Notable people

  1. Adolf Hitler

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), became German…

  2. Ahmed Sékou Touré

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Guinean nationalist, trade-union leader, and Guinea’s first president, serving from independence in 1958 until his death in 1984.…

  3. Alan Turing

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…

  4. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…

  5. Alexei Leonov

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, aviator, artist, and writer. Leonov became the first person to conduct a spacewalk on 18 March 1965 and commanded Soyuz…

  6. Anthony Quinn

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Mexican-American actor, painter, sculptor, writer, and civil-rights supporter Anthony Quinn (Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) worked in film,…

  7. Benito Mussolini

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Italian journalist, Fascist leader, and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his removal in 1943.…

  8. B. J. Habibie

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Indonesian aerospace engineer, technocrat, vice president, and third president of Indonesia.…

  9. B. R. Ambedkar

    in 1936

    2 moments here

    Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer, politician, principal architect of India’s Constitution, and a leading…

  10. Charlie Chaplin

    in 1936

    11 moments here

    English actor, comedian, director, writer, producer and composer whose screen persona, the Tramp, became an international icon.…

  11. Chiang Kai-shek

    in 1936

    2 moments here

    Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…

  12. Chien-Shiung Wu

    in 1936

    3 moments here

    Chinese-American experimental physicist whose career moved from Jiangsu and eastern China to California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York,…

  13. Chinua Achebe

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Nigerian novelist, poet, critic, editor, educator, and Biafran representative whose life moved between southeastern Nigeria, Lagos, East Africa,…

  14. Claude Simon

    in 1936

    3 moments here

    French novelist, painter, photographer, viticulturist, Resistance participant, and 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.…

  15. Desmond Tutu

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    South African Anglican bishop, theologian, anti-apartheid activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop of Cape Town, and chair of South Africa’s…

  16. Eleanor Roosevelt

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    American political figure, diplomat, activist, and First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945.…

  17. Erwin Schrödinger

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work on wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation became foundational to quantum…

  18. Félix Houphouët-Boigny

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Ivorian physician and politician who became the first president of Côte d’Ivoire, serving from independence in 1960 until his death in 1993.…

  19. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    in 1936

    9 moments here

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…

  20. F. W. de Klerk

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    South African lawyer and National Party politician who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994…

  21. Gabriela Mistral

    in 1936

    3 moments here

    Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…

  22. Gabriel García Márquez

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Colombian novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose life moved between Colombia, Europe, Cuba, the United States, Mexico, and…

  23. George Orwell

    in 1936

    7 moments here

    George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, and democratic socialist.…

  24. Gerald Ford

    in 1936

    1 moment here

    Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 after having served as…

Moments

  1. 1936 Technical-college enrollment and protest Ahmed Sékou Touré
  2. 1936 Mathematics and physics student Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  3. 1936 Family relocation to Kemerovo Alexei Leonov
  4. 1936 Early professional stage work Anthony Quinn
  5. 1936 Arrival in San Francisco Chien-Shiung Wu
  6. 1936 Graduate enrollment at Berkeley Chien-Shiung Wu
  7. 1936 Primary school enrollment Chinua Achebe
  8. 1936 Childhood move to Tshing Desmond Tutu
  9. 1936 National Training School visit Eleanor Roosevelt
  10. 1936 Professor at the University of Graz Erwin Schrödinger
  11. 1936 Transfer to Guatemala Gabriela Mistral
  12. 1936 Visit to Oporto Gabriela Mistral
  13. 1936 Move to Sincé Gabriel García Márquez
  14. 1936 Arrival in Manchester for northern investigation George Orwell
  15. 1936 Yellowstone park-ranger season Gerald Ford
  16. 1936 St Helena at the Old Vic Glynis Johns
  17. 1936 Exile residence at Fairfield House Haile Selassie
  18. 1936 Pilgrimage to Lalibela Haile Selassie
  19. 1936 Stay at the Rock Hotel Haile Selassie
  20. 1936 Groundbreaking at Richmond Hill Henry Ford
  21. 1936 World Encyclopaedia address H. G. Wells
  22. 1936 Teaching at Lycée de Laon Jean-Paul Sartre
  23. 1936 Talks in Eddington Jiddu Krishnamurti
  24. 1936 Travel in Russia John Maynard Keynes
  25. 1936 Childhood naval-family move to New London John McCain
  26. 1936 Childhood naval-family move to Pearl Harbor John McCain
  27. 1936 Stay in Paris Jomo Kenyatta
  28. 1936 Moscow tournament victory José Raúl Capablanca
  29. 1936 Nottingham shared victory José Raúl Capablanca
  30. 1936 Military attaché in Chile Juan Perón
  31. 1936 Secondary school at Tabora Julius Nyerere
  32. 1936 Lingotto factory visit Le Corbusier
  33. 1936 Rio de Janeiro project and conferences Le Corbusier
  34. 1936 Norwegian writing retreat Ludwig Wittgenstein
  35. 1936 Move to Santa Ana Marlon Brando
  36. 1936 17D vaccine work in New York Max Theiler
  37. 1936 Return to Stamps and school Maya Angelou
  38. 1936 Railway-depot work at Matai Mikhail Kalashnikov
  39. 1936 Railway work in Alma-Ata Mikhail Kalashnikov
  40. 1936 Return from Switzerland Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  41. 1936 Secondary school in Saigon Norodom Sihanouk
  42. 1936 Teaching in Mérida Octavio Paz
  43. 1936 Kumbha Mela visit Paramahansa Yogananda
  44. 1936 Return to Mount Washington Paramahansa Yogananda
  45. 1936 Return to the Taj Mahal Paramahansa Yogananda
  46. 1936 Visit to Keshabananda in Brindaban Paramahansa Yogananda
  47. 1936 Death at Middlesex Hospital Rudyard Kipling
  48. 1936 Popular Front founding in Valparaíso Salvador Allende
  49. 1936 Appears at London Surrealist exhibition Salvador Dalí
  50. 1936 Arthritis retreat in Aix-les-Bains Sergei Rachmaninoff

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