About the day » Wednesday May 13, 1936Calender converter

• Gerald H. Triezenberg († 2017)
• Eugene BEX, Lanklaar (B) († 1999)
• Aaffien Ester Nienhuis, Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland († 2004)
• Ewoud van Elderen, Westmaas, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland († 2011)
• Floyd Dee Eisenhour, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States († 1967)
• Felix Ducachet, On († 2006)
• Antonius Franciscus Maria Commissaris, Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2018)
• Hendrik (Henk) Lukens, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1990)
• Elisabeth HAAK († 1990)
• Elizabeth Haak († 1990)

• Anna Maria Verhoeven (80), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van Tatenhove (83), Vlissingen
• Addie Oddie Calloway (63), Teague, Freestone, Texas, United States
• Cornelia Petronella Maria van der Valk (40), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cora Ellen Maxey Winstead [K-Ks82] (56), Weakley County, Tennessee
• Anna Catharina Sterenberg (75), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Oudbier (84), Apeldoorn
• Anna Maria van Bommel, Deurne en Liessel
• Bartel Louisse (60), Hoedekenskerke, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Sterenberg (75), Groningen

• 1934 » Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and academic († 2010)
• 1935 » Dominic Cossa, American opera singer
• 1935 » Jan Saudek, Czech photographer and painter
• 1935 » Kája Saudek, Czech author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1936 » Bill Rompkey, Canadian educator and politician († 2017)
• 1937 » Beverley Owen, American actress († 2019)
• 1937 » Roch Carrier, Canadian librarian and author
• 1937 » Roger Zelazny, American author and poet († 1995)
• 1937 » Trevor Baylis, English inventor, invented the wind-up radio († 2018)
• 1937 » Zohra Lampert, American actress

• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1948 » Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)

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 29 » February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
• July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
• October 5 » The Jarrow March sets off for London.
• November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
• November 20 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
• December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

The temperature on May 13, 1936 was between 7.3 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.