List of Famous people who died in 1936

Pietro Bestetti was an Italian cyclist. He competed in two events at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He finished in second place in the 1925 Paris–Roubaix and rode in four editions of the Giro d'Italia in the 1920s.

Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton (1876–1936) was an American painter and curator. She was the director of the Albright Art Museum in Buffalo, New York from 1910 through 1924. Upon her appointment as director on October 15, 1910 she became the first woman to serve as director of a major art museum in the United States.

Henry Cecil Sutton was an English sailor who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics representing Great Britain.

Meir Dizengoff was a Zionist leader and politician and the founder and first mayor of Tel Aviv. Dizengoff's actions in Ottoman Palestine and the British Mandate for Palestine helped lead to the creation of the State of Israel. David Ben-Gurion declared Israeli independence in 1948 at Dizengoff's residence in Tel Aviv. Dizengoff House is now Israel's Independence Hall.

Louis-Joseph Maurin was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon.

Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick,, known as Nora to her family and friends, was a physics researcher assisting Lord Rayleigh, an activist for the higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge, and a leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research.

Marcel Grossmann was a mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein. Grossmann was a member of an old Swiss family from Zurich. His father managed a textile factory. He became a Professor of Mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, today the ETH Zurich, specializing in descriptive geometry.

Karl Moser was an architect from Switzerland.

General Sir David Graham Muschet "Soarer" Campbell was a cavalry officer of the British Army, amateur sportsman, and later Governor of Malta.