1936 births

Pope Francis was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025. He was the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American, and the first pope born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.

Italian politician and media tycoon (1936–2023)

Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)

American politician (1936–2018)

Peruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer (1936–2025)

Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards,. He has also received various honors including the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and the Honorary César in 2019.

8th President of the International Federation of Association Football

7th state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994

Tunisian politician

British actress and politician (1936–2023)

Albanian writer (1936–2024)

American actor and film director (1936–2010)

American astronomer (born 1936)

Soviet-Latvian chess player (1936-1992)

French fashion designer (1936–2008)

3rd President of Indonesia (1998—1999) and 7th Vice President of Indonesia (1998)

American actor (1936–2018)

American rock and roll singer (1936–1959)

American spiritual writer

American basketball player (1936–1999)

Nobel prize winning US physicist

South African activist and politician (1936-2018)

American actor (born 1936)

Swiss actress

Palestinian political and religious leader (1937–2004)

American actress and television producer (1936-2017)

Chinese-American physicist

British actor (1936–2019)

German physicist

Russian politician (1936–2019)

American musician

American country singer, songwriter and actor (1936-2024)

French Algerian writer and film director (1936-2015)

German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)

Japanese scientist (1936–)

American physicist

American chemist, physicist

Indian conductor

American puppeteer (1936–1990)

David Carradine was an American actor, director, and producer, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage. He was widely known to television audiences as the star of the series Kung Fu (1972–1975), playing Kwai Chang Caine, a peace-loving Shaolin monk traveling through the American Old West.

Italian actress (1936–2014)

British writer (1936–2023)

English film director and screenwriter (born 1936)

French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)

British racecar driver (1936–1968)

Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein (1936-2015)

American novelist, playwright and essayist (born 1936)

Japanese association football player and manager

American physician and pharmacologist (1936–2023)

Taiwanese chemist

Japanese association football player and manager (1936–1995)

German association football player (1936–2022)

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 to 2016

American political scientist (1936-2015)

Scottish economist (1936-2018)

49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ilism Muslims

Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013) and the Silver Bear for Best Actor for That Championship Season (1982). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Nebraska (2013). He is also a BAFTA Award, two-time Genie Award, and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee.

Chief of Army Staff and President of Bangladesh (1936-1981)

Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)

Japanese association football player