About the day » Monday May 18, 1936Calender converter

• Anthonius Gerardus ter Weijden, Blaricum († 1995)
• Antonius Gerardus ter Weijden, Blaricum,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Dewey Griffin Lovelace, North Carolina († 1982)
• Agatha Maria Minnema († 1991)
• Langenburg, Groningen († 1936)
• Nn Oostwoud, Franeker
• Franciscus Johannes Gerardus Oomen, Ginniken († 1985)
• Alphons Andreas Steverink, Rotterdam († 1969)
• Boy SAMPSON, Delta, Millard County, Utah, United States of America († 1936)
• Antonius Gerardus ter Weijden, Blaricum († 1995)

• Charles Degner (86), Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Maria Hubertina van Ool (0), Venray
• Catharina van Kooij (0), Gouda
• Antonius Maria Mulder (78), Nijmegen
• Anna Petronella Terblanche (70)
• Anna Margaretha Smets (66), Wellen, België
• Cornelia Stoutjesdijk (55), Nieuwerkerk
• Anneke Kunnen (4), Kinrooi
• Anna Altona (55), Amsterdam
• Adrianus van der Heijden (84)

• 1933 » Bernadette Chirac, French politician, First Lady of France
• 1933 » Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer († 1985)
• 1933 » H. D. Deve Gowda, Indian farmer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of India
• 1934 » Dwayne Hickman, American actor and director
• 1936 » Leon Ashley, American singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1936 » Michael Sandle, English sculptor and academic
• 1936 » Türker İnanoğlu, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1937 » Brooks Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1937 » Jacques Santer, Luxembourger jurist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Luxembourg
• 1938 » Janet Fish, American painter and academic

• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883)
• 1947 » Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)
• 1956 » Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1958 » Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (b. 1881)

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.
• January 8 » Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.
• March 1 » The Hoover Dam is completed.
• March 8 » Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
• July 26 » Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
• September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
• October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.

The temperature on May 18, 1936 was between 10.3 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.