List of Famous people who died in 1936

Henry Plantagenet Somerset was a pioneer pastoralist and politician in Queensland, Australia. Somerset was a liberal politician who represented the district of Stanley in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1904 to 1920, and canvassed successfully for the extension of the Brisbane Valley railway through the Brisbane River Valley to the rich timber reserves in the Blackbutt Range and beyond. Both the Somerset Dam and the local government area of Somerset Region are named in his honour.

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

Miekichi Suzuki was a Japanese novelist.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne, DSO, MVO, styled Earl of Kerry until 1927, was a British soldier and politician.

Blessed Giacinto Bonaventura Longhin - in religious Andrea di Campodarsego - was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin who served as the Bishop of Treviso from 1904 until his death. Longhin held various roles of leadership within his order following his ordination such as acting as a teacher in Udine and acting as the Provincial Minister for his order. He became close friends with the Patriarch of Venice Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto. The latter became Pope Pius X in 1903 who made his old friend Longhin the new head for the vacant Treviso episcopal see.

Kamala Kaul Nehru was an Indian independence activist and the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru. Her daughter Indira also served later as Prime Minister of India.

Richard Yates Jr. was the 22nd Governor of Illinois from 1901 to 1905—the first native-born governor of the state. From 1919 to 1933, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois. Although he failed to receive his party's nomination in 1928 to the Seventy-first Congress, he was later appointed nominee and elected in place of Henry R. Rathbone who died prior to the election. In 1932, he was unsuccessful in his bid for reelection to the Seventy-third Congress.

Johannes Henricus Gerardus Jansen was a former Archbishop of Utrecht and Roman Catholic Primate of the Netherlands. He was born in Leeuwarden, in the Dutch province of Friesland.

Charles A. Miller was an American actor and silent film director. Before taking up directing, he was an actor.