In the year 1936, Japanese Baseball League is founded (Feb 5), the first superhero to wear a skin-tight costume and mask, The Phantom, makes his appearance in U.S. newspapers (Feb 18), construction of the Hoover Dam is completed (Mar 1), Italia annexes Ethiopia (May 7), Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage (May 27), the first fully controllable helicopter makes its maiden flight (Jun 26), the Olympic Games open in Berlin (Aug 1), Stalin’s Great Purge begins in the Soviet Union (Oct), the weekly Life begins its publication (Nov 23), all German boys ages 10 to 18 are to join the Hitler Youth paramilitary organization (Dec 1), Edward III abdicates (Dec 10), stress is first recognized as a medical condition - and all these fine people were born:
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1936-xxxx Larry Ivie* comics artist/writer/collector - Salt Lake City, UT USA (2014/c. 77)
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1936-0108 Tryggvi Þórhallsson* elecrician/entrepeneur (Orkuvirki) - Hof, Hjaltadal, Iceland (2015/78)
1936-0109 Ralph Terry* baseball player - Big Cabin, OK USA (2022/86)
1936-0110 Burnum Burnum* aboriginal activist - Wallage Lake, NSW Australia (1997/61)
1936-0122 Noel Kelly* rugby league footballer/coach - Ipswich, QLD Australia (2020/84)
1936-0128 Alan Alda* actor (M*A*S*H) - New York, NY USA ****
1936-0131 Georgina Kirby* Māori leader/women’s advocate - Horohoro, New Zealand (2021/85)
1936-0202 Tony Ryan* billionaire businessman/philanthropist/co-founder of the Ryanair airline - Limerick Junction, County Tipperary, Ireland (2007/71)
1936-0204 Gary Conway* (b Gareth Carmody) actor/ screenwriter/winemaker - Boston, MA USA ****
1936-0209 Clive Swift* actor/songwriter - Liverpool, England (2019/82)
1936-0211 Burt Reynolds* actor - Lansing, MI USA (2018/82)
1936-0214 J. Michael Lane* epidemiologist - Boston, MA USA (2020/84)
1936-0215 Russell Marshall* politician/ diplomat - Nelson, New Zealand (2025/88)
1936-0218 Jean M. Auel* (b Untinen) author (Earth’s Children)/of Finnish descent - Chicago, IL USA ****
1936-0229 Henri “The Pocket Rocket” Richard* hockey player (NHL 100)/brother of Maurice Richard - Montreal, QC Canada (2020/84)
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1936-0303 Rachel Yakar* opera singer/academic voice teacher - Lyon, France (2023/87)
1936-0304 Jim Clark* racing driver/WC - Kilmany, Fife, Scotland (1968/32)
1936-0305 Canaan Banana* theologian/1st President of Zimbabwe - Essexvale, Southern Rhodesia (2003/67)
1936-0305 Dean Stockwell* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA (2021/85)
1936-0306 Marion Barry* politician/ mayor - Itta Bena, MS USA (2014/78)
1936-0309 Edmund Ansin* billionaire/co-founder of Sunbeam Television - Worcester, MA USA (2020/84)
1936-0309 Elina Salo* actress/voice actress - Sipoo, Finland ****
1936-0309 Yrjö Tähtelä* actor/ director/journalist - Helsinki, Finland (2025/88)
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1936-0311 Antonin Scalia* Supreme Court Judge - Trenton, NJ USA (2016/79)
1936-0311 Harald zur Hausen* virologist - Gelsenkirchen, Nazi Germany (2023/87)
1936-0313 José Mojica Marins* filmmaker/actor/ television horror host - São Paulo, Brazil (2020/83)
1936-0319 Ursula Andress* model/actress - Ostermundigen, Switzerland ****
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1936-0322 Roger Whittaker* British singer-songwriter/musician - Nairobi, Kenya (2023/87)
1936-0328 Peter Mayer* American publisher - London, England (2018/82)
1936-0328 Mario Vargas Llosa* writer/ journalist/politician/N - Arequipa, Peru (2025/89)
1936-0330 Robert C. Jones* film editor/ screenwriter/educator - Los Angeles, CA USA (2021/84)
1936-0331 Walter E. Williams* economist/commentator/academic - Philadelphia, PA USA (2020/84)
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1936-0405 Benedict J. Fernandez* educator/ documentary street photographer - Manhattan, NY USA (2021/84)
1936-0408 Ernst Trautwein* hockey player - Füssen, Nazi Germany ****
1936-0410 John Madden* Am. football coach/sportscaster - Austin, MN USA (2021/85)
1936-0410 Ricky Valance* (b Spencer) singer - Ynyssdu, Monmouthshire, Wales (2020/84)
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1936-0415 Roosilawaty* (b Surayi Pendidikan) Indonesian actress - Surakarta, Dutch East Indies (2009/72)
1936-0418 Michael M. Thomas* writer - Manhattan, NY USA (2021/85)
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1936-0424 Jill Ireland* actress - England (1990/54)
1936-0427 John Burningham* author/illustrator of children’s books - Farnham, Surrey, England (2019/82)
1936-0429 Zubin Mehta* conductor - Mumbai, India ****
1936-0429 Lane Smith* actor - Memphis, TN USA (2005/69)
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1936-0501 Danièle Huillet* filmmaker - Paris, France (2006/70)
1936-0508 Clyde Bellecourt* Native American civil rights organizer/co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) - White Earth Indian Reservation, MN USA (2022/85) NPR
1936-0509 Albert Finney* actor - Charlestown, Pendleton, England (2019/82)
1936-0509 Glenda Jackson* actress - Birkenhead, England (2023/87)
1936-0509 Ulrich Kienzle* journalist/author - Neckargröningen, Württemberg, Germany (2020/83)
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1936-0517 Dennis Hopper* actor - Dodge City, KS USA (2010/74)
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1936-0525 Tom T. Hall* country music singer-songwriter/short-story writer - Olive Hill, KY USA (2021/85)
1936-0527 Louis Gossett Jr.* actor - Brooklyn, NY USA (2024/87)
1936-0530 Keir Dullea* actor (2001: A Space Odyssey) - Cleveland, OH USA ****
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1936-0602 Volodymyr Holubnychy* race walker/OG - Sumy, Ukraine, Soviet Union (2021/85)
1936-0604 Bruce Dern* actor/father of Laura Dern - Chicago, IL USA ****
1936-0608 James Darren* (b Ercolani) actor/director/singer - Philadelphia, PA USA (2024/88)
1936-0611 Barbara Rose* art historian/art critic/curator - Washington, D.C. USA (2020/84)
1936-0618 Eeva Ahtisaari* (b Hyvärinen) teacher/First Lady - Varkaus, Finland ****
1936-0618 Denny Hulme* racing driver/WC - Motueka, New Zealand (1992/56)
1936-0618 Barack Obama Sr.* economist - Rachuonyo District, Kogalo, Kenya (1982/46)
1936-0620 Harold E. Puthoff* engineer/parapsychologist - USA ****
1936-0622 Kris Kristofferson* actor/singer - Brownsville, TX USA (2024/88)
1936-0623 Costas Simitis* politician/PM - Piraeus, Kingdom of Greece (2025/88)
1936-0624 Robert Downey Sr.* (b Robert Elias Jr.) actor/director/producer - New York City, NY USA (2021/85)
1936-0628 Johan Gullichsen* Olympic sailor/paper engineer - Pihlava, Finland (2023/86)
1936-0630 Assia Djebar* novelist/translator/filmmaker - Cherchell, Algeria (2015/78)
1936-0701 Ron Masak* actor - Chicago, IL USA (2022/86)
1936-0709 Brenda Jagger* writer of historical romance novels - Yorkshire, England (1986/c.50)
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1936-0711 Joe Bussard* collector of 78-rpm records - Frederick, MD USA (2022/86)
1936-0714 Barbara Turner* screenwriter/actress - Brooklyn, NY USA (2016/79)
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1936-0725 August Schellenberg* actor - Montreal, QC Canada (2013/77)
1936-0727 Nathan George* actor - USA (2017/80)
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1936-0802 Anthony Payne* composer/music critic/musicologist - London, England (2021/84)
1936-0805 John Saxon* actor/martial artist - Brooklyn, NY USA (2020/83)
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1936-0811 Susana Duijm* Miss World 1955/actress/television host - Aragua de Barcelona, Venezuela (2016/79)
1936-0817 Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman* Native American country music singer/ actor/political activist - Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, SD USA (2007/71)
1936-0820 Carla Fracci* ballet dancer/actress/ballet director - Milan, Italy (2021/84)
1936-0821 Wilt Chamberlain* basketball player - Philadelphia, PA USA (1999/63)
1936-0829 John McCain* politician - Coco Solo N.A.S. , Panama Canal USA (2018/81)
1936-0830 Jesse A. Marcel Jr* Roswell witness/ physician - Houston, TX USA (2013/76)
1936-0831 Matti Klinge* historian/ writer - Helsinki, Finland (2023/86)
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1936-0907 Buddy Holly* musician/singer-songwriter - Lubbock, TX USA (1959/22)
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1936-0914 Walter Koenig* actor (Star Trek) - Chicago, IL USA ****
1936-0915 Michael Preece* actor/film director/producer - Los Angeles, CA USA ****
1936-0919 Anna Karen* British actress - Durban, Natal, South Africa (2022/85)
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1936-0922 Art Metrano* actor/comedian - New York City, NY USA (2021/84)
1936-0924 Jim Henson* puppeteer/creator of the Muppets - Greenville, MS USA (1990/53)
1936-0925 Louisa Moritz* (b Castro Netto) Cuban-American actress (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) - Havana, Cuba (2019/82)
1936-0926 Winnie Mandela*anti-apartheid activist - Bizana, Pondoland, South Africa (2018/81)
1936-0929 Silvio Berlusconi* media tycoon/politician - Milan, Kingdom of Italy (2023/86)
1936-0930 Meg Johnson* actress (Emmerdale) - Manchester, Lancashire, England (2023/86)
1936-0930 Paavo M. Petäjä* lawyer/ski official - Kemijärvi, Finland (2018/81)
1936-1005 Václav Havel* writer/statesman/P - Prague, Czechoslovakia (2011/75)
1936-1008 Leonid Kuravlyov* actor - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (2022/85)
1936-1010 Dickie Rock* singer/ songwriter- Dublin, Ireland (2024/88)
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1936-1016 Andrei Chikatilo* serial killer known as the Rostov Ripper - Yabluchne, Ukraine, Soviet Union (1994/57)
1936-1022 Lauri Väärä* actor/ theater director - Lappeenranta, Finland (2021/85)
1936-1023 Richard Bletschacher* German writer/dramatic advisor - Füssen, Nazi Germany ****
1936-1025 Arnfinn Nesset* nurse/nursing home manager/ convicted serial killer - Trøndelag, Norway
1936-1028 Charlie Daniels* singer/ songwriter/multi-instrumentalist - Wilmington, NC USA (2020/83)
1936-1031 Michael Landon* actor/director/producer – Queens, NY USA (1991/54)
1936-1103 Antti-Jussi Tiitola* engineer/sports equipment developer (Titan hockey sticks) - Finland (2021/84) Sydän-Hämeen Lehti
1936-1105 Uwe Seeler* football player/football official - Hamburg, Nazi Germany (2022/85)
1936-1109 Bob Graham* lawyer/ politician/Governor of Florida - Coral Gables, FL USA
1936-1109 Mary Travers* singer/songwriter (Peter, Paul and Mary) - Louisville, KY USA (2009/72)
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1936-1119 Dick Cavett* writer/comedian/talk show host - Gibbon, NE USA ****
1936-1121 Victor Chang* Chinese-Australian cardiac surgeon/ pioneer of modern heart transplantation - Shanghai, China (1991/54)
1936-1121 Alexander Ginzburg* journalist/dissident/a founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (2002/65)
1936-1125 Leif Herngren* priest/ activist/father of Per Herngren - Gothenburg, Sweden ****
1936-1128 Gary Hart* lawyer/ politician/ diplomat - Ottawa, KS USA ****
1936-1208 David Carradine* actor - Hollywood, CA USA (2009/72)
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1936-1211 Maggie Tabberer (b Trigar)* fashion editor/television personality - Park Side, SA Australia (2024/87)
1936-1213 Ritva Nieminen** attorney/ judge - Helsinki, Finland
1936-1215 Donald Goines* writer - Detroit, MI USA (1974/37)
1936-1217 Pope Francis* (b Jorge Mario Bergoglio) the first pope from the Americas - Buenos Aires, Argentina (2025/88)
1936-1220 Shin Jae-chul* 신재철 martial artist/trainer - Seoul, Korea (2019/75)
1936-1222 Héctor Elizondo* actor - New York, NY USA ****
1936-1224 Dirck Halstead* photojournalist - Huntington, NY USA (2022/85)
1936-1224 Klaus Järvinen* clarinetist/ music teacher/musical enterpreneur - Pohjois-Pirkkala, Finland (2020/83)
1936-1226 Kitty Dukakis* (b Dickson) author/ activist/m to Michael Dukakis - Cambridge, MA USA (2025/88)
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1936-1229 Mary Tyler Moore* actress - Brooklyn, NY USA (2017/80)
1936-1230 Seela Sella* (b Virtanen) actress/ married to Elis Sella - Tampere, Finland ****
1936-1231 Siw Malmkvist* singer/actress - Landskrona, Skåne, Sweden ****
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