Month August 1936 Calendar

About Month of August Calendar

• August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.
  
  August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Historical Events for August, 1936

• Day of Week 3rd » Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the 1936 Summer Olympics e.g Berlin Olympics.
• 3rd » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic e.g Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
• Day of Week 4th » List of Prime Ministers of Greece Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends Hellenic Parliament parliament and the Constitution of Greece Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
• Day of Week 9th » Summer Olympic Games: 1936 Summer Olympics known as Games of the XI Olympiad Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
• Day of Week 14th » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public capital punishment in the United States called execution in the United States.
• Day of Week 24th » The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
• Day of Week 31st » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1936

• 1st » W. D. Hamilton, Egyptian-English biologist, psychologist, and academic (d. 2000)
• 1st » Yves Saint Laurent (designer) named Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (brand) or Yves Saint Laurent (d. 2008)
• 1st » Laurie Taylor (sociologist) named Laurie Taylor, English sociologist, radio host, and academic
• 2nd » Anthony Payne, English composer
• 3rd » Jerry G. Bishop, American radio and television host (d. 2013)
• 3rd » Edward Petherbridge, English actor and singer
• 4th » Giorgos Zographos, Greek singer and actor (d. 2005)
• 5th » Nikolai Baturin, Estonian author and playwright
• 8th » Frank Howard (baseball) named Frank Howard, American baseball player and manager
• 8th » Çolpan İlhan, Turkish actress (d. 2014)
• 8th » Jan Pieńkowski, Polish-English author and illustrator
• 9th » Julián Javier, American baseball player
• 9th » Patrick Tse, Chinese-Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 10th » P. R. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan politician
• 11th » Andre Dubus, American author (d. 1999)
• 11th » Jonathan Spence, English-American historian and academic
• 13th » Kostas Hatzis, Greek singer-songwriter
• 14th » Trevor Bannister, English actor (d. 2011)
• 15th » Rita Shane, American soprano
• 16th » Anita Gillette, American actress and singer
• 17th » Seamus Mallon, Irish politician, First Minister and deputy First Minister or Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
• 17th » Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor, singer, and activist (d. 2007)
• 18th » Robert Redford, American actor, director, and producer
• 20th » Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry e.g Nobel Prize laureate
• 21st » Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (d. 1999)
• 21st » Radish Tordia, Georgian painter
• 22nd » Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2012)
• 22nd » John Callaway (journalist) called John Callaway, American journalist (d. 2009)
• 22nd » Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)
• 22nd » Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer, designed the Maverick (roller coaster) called maverick roller coaster
• 23rd » Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
• 24th » A. S. Byatt, English author and poet
• 24th » Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (d. 2010)
• 24th » Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American physicist and academic (d. 2001)
• 27th » Joel Kovel, American scholar and author
• 28th » Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire
• 29th » John McCain, American captain and politician
• 31st » Vladimir Orlov (author) called Vladimir Orlov, Russian author (d. 2014)

Famous Deaths for August 1936

• 3rd » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)
• 11th » Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885)
• 12th » Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina, Spanish educator (b. 1903)
• 15th » Grazia Deledda, Italian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 19th » Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 19th » Hugh Lygon, German son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp (b. 1904)

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