Curated category
1936 births
- James M. McPhersonJames Munro McPherson arrived in the world on the 11th of October 1936. His birthplace was Valley City, North Dakota. This small town shaped his early years…
- Buddy HollyBuddy Holly was 22 years old when he died in a cornfield five miles northwest of Clear Lake, Iowa, on the 3rd of February 1959.
- Jim HensonJim Henson made his first Kermit the Frog from a halved table tennis ball and fabric cut from an old coat that belonged to his mother.
- Johnny GentleJohnny Gentle was a Liverpool singer who spent a few days in May 1960 touring Scotland with an unknown backing group called the Silver Beetles.
- Ken MattinglyKen Mattingly came closest to the Moon without ever landing on it. Born on the 17th of March, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois, Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II spent a…
- Roy OrbisonRoy Kelton Orbison left a room feeling different after he sang. Where other male performers of his era projected confidence and ease, Orbison sang about…
- Sepp BlatterSepp Blatter ran world football for seventeen years, and by the time he left, he had been banned, investigated by two countries, and accused of everything…
- Tony BarrowTony Barrow stood in the south Lancashire suburb of Crosby during the late 1950s. He presented jazz bands and skiffle-folk groups at local dance halls across…
- Dražan JerkovićDražan Jerković entered the world on the 6th of August 1936 in Šibenik. At that moment, his hometown belonged to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
- Wilt ChamberlainWilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single game. Not in a pickup game, not in some forgotten exhibition. On the 2nd of March 1962, on a neutral court in…
- Richard V. AllenRichard Vincent Allen was born on the first day of 1936 in Collingswood, New Jersey, and died on the 16th of November 2024 in a Denver hospital at the age of…
- Leonel SánchezLeonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros entered the world on the 25th of April 1936 in Santiago, Chile. His father worked as a professional boxer and brought…
- John KortyJohn Korty is a name that rarely surfaces in lists of great American directors, yet Leonard Maltin described him as "a principled filmmaker who has worked…
- John MaddenJohn Earl Madden coached the Oakland Raiders to their first Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XI, then spent three more decades reshaping how Americans watch…
- Judea PearlJudea Pearl entered the world on the 4th of September 1936 in Tel Aviv. This city sat within the British Mandate for Palestine at that time.
- Stephen B. OatesStephen Baery Oates entered the world in Pampa, Texas, on the 5th of January 1936. The small town offered no immediate path to national history fame for a…
- Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert was born on the 25th of October 1936, the son of a north London jeweller whose family name had once been Goldberg.
- Graham E. FullerGraham E. Fuller spent 27 years inside the American intelligence and diplomatic apparatus, rising to vice-chairman of the National Intelligence Council…