About the day » Saturday April 18, 1936Calender converter

• Charles Louis Hamstra, DeMotte-Indiana (USA) († 2019)
• Cornelia van den Broek, Barneveld († 2002)
• Gerda Smoes († 2002)
• Hendrik Wilem Anton (Henk) Polman, Didam Montferland Gelderland Nederland († 2011)
• Hendrik-Willem-Anton Polman, Didam († 2011)
• Cornelis Petrus van RIJN, Stompwijk († 2018)
• Hendrik de Mooij, Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Donald Ray "Scratch" Martin, Denham Springs, Louisiana († 2000)
• Franciscus Jacobus Eschler, Leiden († 2012)
• Antonius Theodorus Johannes van der Steen, Helvoirt († 1937)

• Abraham op 't Hof (74), Wemeldinge, Nederland
• Antonius Leonardus Bellekom (72), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Oosterling (59), Schoondijke
• Carel Albertus Elskamp (51), Deventer
• Carolina Petronella Smits (35), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Butler Alexander Miller (56)
• Adrianus van der Linden (57), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiaantje Ligthart (75), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anton Kooij (41), New York City, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Brummel (78), Olst, Nederland

• 1934 » George Shirley, African-American tenor and educator
• 1934 » James Drury, American actor († 2020)
• 1935 » Brian Clay, Australian rugby league player († 1987)
• 1935 » Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1936 » Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer
• 1936 » "TV" Tommy Ivo, American actor and drag racer
• 1936 » Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher († 1997)
• 1937 » Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building († 2009)
• 1937 » Tatyana Shchelkanova, Russian long jumper and heptathlete († 2011)
• 1937 » Teddy Taylor, Scottish journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland

• 1923 » Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)
• 1938 » George Bryant, American archer (b. 1878)
• 1942 » Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1942 » Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
• 1945 » John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
• 1947 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Petrus
8. Pieter
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Antonius
12. Jacob
13. Wilhelmus
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Helena
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Mary

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
• February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
• April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
• August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
• August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
• August 30 » The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
• October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.

The temperature on April 18, 1936 was between 3.1 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.