Deaths Date 1936 | History by KabAstro

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Jan 18 English author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), dies at 70

George V (1865-1936)

Jan 20 King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India (1910-36), dies at 70 after being euthanized by his doctor

Jan 22 Louis Glass, Danish pianist and composer, dies at 71
Jan 23 Clara Butt, English alto singer (Country of Hope and Glory), dies at 62
Jan 27 Johnny Golden, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1922, 26, 27 3rd; Ryder Cup 1927, 29 [3-0-0 record]; 9 x PGA Tour titles), dies of pneumonia at 39
Jan 28 Richard Loeb, American Murder, killed Bobby Franks along with Nathan Leopold, killed in prison at 30
Feb 1 Georgios Kondylis, Prime Minister of Greece and general of the Greek army, dies at 56
Feb 2 Owen Seaman, British poet and editor (Punch), dies at 74
Feb 3 Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
Feb 4 Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)

Feb 8 American Republican Senator (Kansas: 1907-13, 1915-29) and 31st US Vice President (1929-33) who was the first Native American to become a Senator and Vice President, dies of a heart attack at 76

Feb 9 Jacques Bainville, French historian, essayist and journalist, dies at 57
Feb 16 James Harvey Robinson, American historian (Ordeal of Civilization), dies at 72
Feb 16 Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket-keeper (23 Tests, 32 dismissals, 2 x 50; Transvaal), dies from accidental electrocution at 48
Feb 17 Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische), dies at 74
Feb 19 Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
Feb 20 Max Schreck, German stage, silent and sound screen (Nosferatu - "Count Orlok"), dies of a heart attack at 56
Feb 22 Johan Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74
Feb 22 John Hope, American educator (President of Atlanta Baptist/Morehouse College,1906-36 and Atlanta University, 1929-36), dies at 67

Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)

Feb 27 Russian physiologist and pioneer in psychology (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 86

Feb 27 Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
Feb 28 Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1928), dies at 69
Mar 2 Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse, dies at 59
Mar 4 Ruben Liljefors, Swedish composer, dies at 64
Mar 6 Josef Stránský, Czech conductor (New York Philharmonic, 1911-23), dies at 63
Mar 6 Rubin Goldmark, American composer, dies at 63

David Beatty (1871-1936)

Mar 12 1st Earl Beatty and British Admiral of the Fleet during World War I (Battle of Jutland), dies of heart failure at 65

Mar 15 John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist, dies at 75
Mar 16 Marguerite Durand, French journalist, feminist, and publisher (La Fronde), dies at 72
Mar 18 Egon Friedell, Austrian journalist, actor and writer (Kleine Portratgalerie, Der Partylowe), commits suicide to avoid arrest by the Gestapo at 58

Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936)

Mar 18 Prime Minister of Greece (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), dies of a stroke at 71

Mar 20 Durant Clifford Parkin, cricketer (Tests for South Africa 1891-92), dies
Mar 21 Alexander Glazunov, Russian pianist, composer (Chopiniana; Stenka Razin), and educator (St Petersburg Conservatory, 1899-1930), dies at 70
Mar 30 Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer, dies at 40
Apr 1 Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61
Apr 2 Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (Father of The Tank), dies at 75
Apr 3 Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, executed at 36
Apr 8 Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
Apr 9 Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher, dies at 80
Apr 11 Mitya Stillman, Russian composer and violinist, dies at 44
Apr 13 Konstantinos Demertzis, Greek premier, dies at 60
Apr 13 Milton Brown, American swing bandleader, dies at 32
Apr 17 Charles Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch PM (1918-23, 29-33), dies at 62
Apr 18 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (The Pines of Rome; Belkis), dies at 56
Apr 18 Seaborn McDaniel Denson, American composer, dies at 82
Apr 23 Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (Memorias de Mamá Blanca), dies at 46
Apr 24 Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer, conductor, and essayist, dies at 73
Apr 24 Bernard van Dieren, Dutch composer, and music critic, dies at 51
Apr 24 Finley Peter Dunne, American journalist and humorist (Mr Dooley), dies at 68
Apr 26 Tammany Young, American actor, dies at 49
Apr 27 Frederik August Stoett, Dutch linguist (Dutch Proverbs), dies at 72
Apr 27 Karl Pearson, British statistician (leading founder of the modern field of statistics), dies at 79
Apr 28 Fuʾād I [Aḥmad Fuʾād Pasha], King of Egypt (1922-36), dies at 68
Apr 29 Florentinus M. Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman (building of houses), dies at 76
Apr 30 A. E. Housman, English poet (A Shropshire Lad), dies at 77
May 6 Hans Jelmoli, Swiss pianist and composer, dies at 59
May 8 Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies at 55
May 9 François Conrad Schlumberger, French physicist, dies at 57
May 14 Edmund Allenby, Viscount Allenby, English Fieldmarshal, General in Egypt during WWI, dies at 74
May 14 Samuel Pierre l'Honoré Naber, Dutch rear-admiral and librarian, dies at 71
May 16 Julius Schreck, German Nazi military man (1st head of the SS), and confidant of Adolf Hitler, dies of meningitis at 37
May 17 Panagis Tsaldaris, twice Greek prime minister (b. 1868)
May 18 Alexander "Alick" Maclean, British composer and conductor (Scarborough Spa Orchestra, 1912-35), dies at 63
May 25 Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer, dies at 92
Jun 3 Clara Noyes, American nurse (head of the American Red Cross WW1), dies from a heart attack at 66
Jun 7 Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer, dies at 60
Jun 11 Julius Nieuwland, Belgian-American chemist (inventor of 1st synthetic rubber neoprene), dies at 58
Jun 11 Robert E. Howard, American pulp fiction author (Conan the Barbarian), commits suicide aged 30
Jun 12 Isidore Weiss, French checker player (world champion x 7), dies at 69
Jun 12 Karl Kraus, Austrian satirical writer, dies at 62
Jun 12 M. R. James, English scholar and author (Ghost Stories of an Antiquary), dies at 73
Jun 14 G. K. Chesterton [Gilbert Keith], English writer (Father Brown; The Everlasting Man), dies of congestive heart failure at 62
Jun 14 Hans Poelzig, German architect (Grosses Schauspielhaus), dies at 67
Jun 16 Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies at 41
Jun 17 Henry B Walthall, American actor (The Birth of a Nation, Klondike), dies at 58

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)

Jun 18 Russian playwright and author (Mother and The Lower Depths), dies at 68

Jun 19 John Sharpe, cricketer (1-eyed fast bowler for England 1891-92), dies
Jun 19 Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (George Dixon, Barbados Joe Walcott, George Gardner, Tom Sharkey), dies at 80
Jun 22 Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher assassinated at 54 by former student Johann Nelböck
Jun 24 Nandor Zsolt, Hungarian composer, conductor and violinist dies at 49
Jul 2 Harry Northrup [Henri N.], French-born American poet and actor (The Heart of Maryland, The Unchastened Woman), dies at 60
Jul 11 James Murray, American actor (The Crowd, The Shakedown), drowns at 35
Jul 13 Izydor Lotto, composer, dies at 91
Jul 13 José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician (Minister of Finance 1925-30, his murder helped lead to civil war), murdered at 43
Jul 20 Arthur Battelle Whiting, American composer and teacher, dies at 75
Jul 20 Jose Sanjurjo, Spanish general (Morocco) and high director, dies at 64
Jul 24 Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of German Empire, dies at 78
Jul 24 James Philip Dunn, American composer, dies at 52
Jul 29 Frank Gavan Duffy, Australian barrister and judge (High Court of Australia, 1913-35, and Chief Justice of Australia, 1931-35), dies at 84
Jul 30 Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72
Aug 2 Louis Blériot, French aviator who made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft, dies of a heart attack at 64
Aug 4 Henry Schoenfeld, American composer, dies at 78
Aug 9 Joseph Lincoln Steffens, American muckraker and investigative journalist (Shame of the Cities), dies at 70
Aug 11 Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)
Aug 14 Rainey Bethea, American murderer, hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, last US public hanging
Aug 15 Grazia Deledda, Italian author (Nobel Prize for Literature 1926), dies at 64
Aug 15 Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (The Mikado), dies at 71
Aug 15 Stanisław Niewiadomski, Polish composer, dies at 76
Aug 17 Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (Surgery & Foules), dies at 36
Aug 19 Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet and composer, murdered at 37 or 38
Aug 20 Edward Weston, English-born American electrical engineer who invented the portable voltmeter, dies at 86 [1]
Aug 22 Juliette Adam, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue) and feminist, dies at 99
Aug 25 Grigory Zinoviev [Hirsch Apfelbaum], Russian revolutionary, dies at 52
Sep 3 Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impresario (b. 1876 or 1877)
Sep 5 Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
Sep 12 Hermann Hirt, German linguist (Indo-European Grammar), dies at 70
Sep 14 Irving Thalberg, American film producer (MGM), dies of pneumonia at 37
Sep 14 Ossip Gabrilovich Russian-American pianist, conductor (Detroit Symphony, 1918-36), and composer, dies of stomach cancer at 58
Sep 16 Karl Buresch, Austrian lawyer and politician, dies at 57
Sep 17 Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
Sep 19 Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musicologist, dies at 76
Sep 26 Harriet Monroe, American poet (You & I, A Poet's Life) and editor of Poetry magazine, dies at 75
Oct 1 Oscar Da Costa, West Indian cricket all-rounder (5 Tests), dies at 29
Oct 2 George Simpson-Hayward, English cricket spin bowler (5 Tests, 23 wickets @ 18.26; last great underarm bowler; Cambridge University CC, Worcestershire CCC), dies at 61

John Heisman (1869-1936)

Oct 3 American football coach (legalised forward pass, originated the center-snap; Heisman Trophy named after him), dies from pneumonia at 66

Oct 5 J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet, writer and ship's doctor (Seaman's Grave), dies of ill health at 38
Oct 8 William Henry Stark, American timber industry leader, dies ta 85
Oct 12 Bernard Bosanquet, English cricketer (1st great googly bowler, England), dies at 58
Oct 12 Edwin Blashfield, American painter who decorated the dome of Library of Congress, dies at 87
Oct 19 Lu Xun, Chinese writer of modern Chinese literature, dies at 55
Oct 20 Anne Sullivan [Johanna Macy], American teacher who educated Helen Keller, dies at 70
Oct 23 [Marie] Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Bitter Pill), dies at 80
Oct 25 Jaime de Magalhães Lima, Portuguese author and poet (Salmos do Prisoneiro), dies at 76
Oct 26 Bob Dellemijn, Lourdes-ganger/Franco-volunteer, dies in battle at 18
Oct 26 Rodney Heath, Australian tennis player (Australasian C'ship 1905, 10), dies of stomach cancer at 52
Oct 29 Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine), dies at 61
Oct 30 Lorado Taft, American sculptor (Black Hawk), dies at 76
Oct 30 Teddy Wynyard, cricketer (three Tests for England 1896-1906), dies
Nov 2 Martin Lowry, English chemist (Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory), dies at 62
Nov 3 Filip Lazar, Romanian composer, dies at 42
Nov 6 Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
Nov 10 Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
Nov 11 Edward German, English Welsh composer (Merrie England), dies at 74
Nov 17 Ernestine Schumann-Heink (née Rössler), Austrian-American contralto (Bayreuth Festival, 1896-1914; Metropolitan Opera, 1899-1932), dies of leukemia at 75
Nov 19 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle

José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903-1936)

Nov 20 Spanish fascist politician and founder of Falange Española, executed for conspiracy and military rebellion at 33

Nov 22 Louis Apol, Dutch painter, etcher and literary, dies at 86
Nov 27 Edward Bach, British bacteriologist, homeopathic doctor (Bach flower remedies), dies at 50
Nov 28 Pedro Muñoz Seca, Spanish comic playwright (Don Mendo's Revenge), executed by the Spanish Republican army at 55
Dec 2 John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
Dec 10 Bobby Abel, English cricket batsman (13 Tests, 2 x 100, HS 132no; Surrey CCC), dies at 79
Dec 10 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Six Characters in Search of An Author-Nobel 1934), dies at 69
Dec 17 Jón Friðfinnsson, Icelandic-Canadian organist, and composer (The Millennial Cantata), dies at 71
Dec 18 Andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)
Dec 20 Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid
Dec 24 Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (discovery and descriptions of the Neandertal remains from the Huŝnjakova rock shelter at Krapina in northwestern Croatia), dies at 80
Dec 25 Pierre Maurice, Swiss composer, dies at 68
Dec 27 Hans von Seeckt, German general and advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70
Dec 31 Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72
Dec 31 William Frederick Archdall Ellison, Irish clergyman and astronomer (director of the Armagh Observatory), dies at 72