Events from the year 1936 in China.
Incumbents President: Lin Sen Premier: Chiang Kai-shek Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi Foreign Minister: Zhang Qun
Events October–November - Suiyuan Campaign December 12 - Xi'an Incident
Births January January 31 — Zeng Xianyi, professor of legal history (d. 2011)
February February 20 — Li Mingqi, actress Zhang Tingyan, 1st Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Ma Yutao, opera singer and military general
March March 4 — Xu Qinan, engineer
April April 18 — Yuan Xingpei, scholar, educator, author and political leader
May Li Aizhen, scientist
July July 24 — Yan Huaili, actor (d. 2009)
August August 9 — Patrick Tse, Hong Kong actor, producer, screenwriter and director August 27 — Lien Chan, 3rd Chairman of the Kuomintang
September September 10 — Liu Xingtu, agronomist (d. 2021) September 18 — Li Tieying, politician Liu Mingzu, 7th Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2022)
October October 20 — Zhong Nanshan, pulmonologist
November November 7 — Zheng Zhenyao, film and television actress (d. 2023)
December December 8 — Zhang Xianliang, novelist, essayist and poet (d. 2014) December 26 — Han Meilin, artist Shu Shengyou, 10th Governor of Jiangxi
Unknown dates Zheng Shuang, woodcut artist Xia Feiyun, conductor
Deaths January 5 — Ding Wenjiang, essayist, geologist and writer (b. 1887) March 19 — Lim Nee Soon, Singaporean banker and businessman (b. 1879) April 14 — Liu Zhidan, communist military commander (b. 1903) May 12 — Hu Hanmin, philosopher and politician (b. 1879) June 14 — Zhang Binglin, philologist, textual critic, philosopher and revolutionary (b. 1869) June 28 — Lien Heng, Taiwanese historian, politician, poet, merchant and editor of a Tainan local newspaper (b. 1878) August 2 — Zhao Yiman, Anti-Japanese resistance fighter (b. 1905) September 12 — Pan Fu, 20th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1883) September 20 — Wang Yaqiao, gangster and assassin leader (b. 1887) October 19 — Lu Xun, writer, literary critic, lecturer and state servant (b. 1881) November 2 — Duan Qirui, warlord, politician and commander of the Beiyang Army (b. 1865) December 4 — Sai Jinhua, prostitute who became acquaintance of Alfred von Waldersee (b. 1872) December 6 — Huang Fu, general and politician (b. 1880) December 12 — Yau Lit, revolutionary and one of the Four Bandits (b. 1864)
See also List of Chinese films of the 1930s
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