List of Famous people who died in 1936

Stanley Rossiter Benedict was an American chemist best known for discovering Benedict's reagent, a solution that detects certain sugars.

Marie Wandscheer or Maria Wilhelmina Wandscheer was a Dutch painter.

Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg was the princess consort of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Louise was the third child and second eldest daughter of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe, a niece of Christian IX of Denmark and a cousin of Queen Alexandra of United Kingdom

Tessa Verney Wheeler was an archaeologist who made a significant contribution to excavation techniques and contributed to the setting up of major British archaeological institutions after the Second World War. Owing to the gender politics of her era, she remains best known as the wife and professional partner of Mortimer Wheeler. They collaborated on major excavations in Wales and England—including Segontium, Caerleon and Verulamium—and their investigation of Maiden Castle in Dorset had been running for two years when she died unexpectedly from complications following a minor operation.

Charles Jules Henri Nicolle was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.

Anna Emelia Elisa Wengberg (1865–1936) was a Swedish painter specializing in portraits who was a member of the Önningeby artists colony on the Finnish island of Åland. Her works are in the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm and the Helsingborg Museum.

Robert Stephen Vere de Vere was an Irish judge in the British Colonial Service.

William Brownlow, 3rd Baron Lurgan KCVO was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, landowner, hotel proprietor, and sportsman.

William Bradley Coley was an American bone surgeon and cancer researcher best known for his early contributions to the study of cancer immunotherapy. Although his work was not proven effective in his lifetime, modern discoveries and research in immunology have led to a greater appreciation for his work in cancer immunotherapy and his targeted therapy, Coley's toxins. Today, Coley is recognized as the Father of Cancer Immunotherapy for his contributions to the science.