Editing 1936 (section)

=== August ===
[[File:Louis Bleriot.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Louis Bleriot]]]]
[[File:Grazia Deledda 1926.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Grazia Deledda]]]]
* [[August 1]] – [[Louis Blériot]], French aviation pioneer (b. [[1872]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Lincoln Steffens]], American journalist (b. [[1866]])
* [[August 12]]
** Blessed [[Victoria Díez Bustos de Molina]], Spanish teacher, religious woman (b. [[1903]])
** [[Manuel Goded]], Spanish general (executed) (b. [[1882]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Grazia Deledda]], Italian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1871]])
* [[August 19]]
** [[Federico García Lorca]], Spanish writer (assassinated) (b. [[1898]])
** [[Hugh Patrick Lygon]], English aristocrat (b. [[1904]])
** [[Oscar von Sydow]], 18th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. [[1873]])
* [[August 22]] – [[José María Hinojosa Lasarte|José María Hinojosa]], Spanish poet (assassinated) (b. [[1904]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Julio Ruiz de Alda]], Spanish aviator, Falangist politician (executed) (b. [[1897]])
* [[August 25]]
** [[Ivan Nikitich Smirnov]], [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Communist Party]] activist (b. [[1881]])
** [[Lev Kamenev]], Soviet politician (b. [[1883]])
** [[Grigory Zinoviev]], Soviet politician (b. [[1883]])