page_title: 1936
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1936 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936) is an American actor, director and screenwriter. his photo was taken on December 14, 2008 during a Question &amp; Answer session following a screening of the movie "Nothing But the Truth" in Morristown, New Jersey.
context_page_description: 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1936th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 936th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1930s decade.
context_section_description: January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d. 1992)
  January 6
  Darlene Hard, American tennis player
  Alejandro Maldonado, Guatemalan politician
  Julio María Sanguinetti, 2-time President of Uruguay
  January 8 – Robert May, Australian scientist (d. 2020)
  January 10
  Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and biographer (d. 2002)
  Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist, author and actor (d. 1997)
  Robert Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, and Nobel laureate
  January 11 – Eva Hesse, American artist (d. 1970)
  January 12 – Émile Lahoud, 15th President of Lebanon
  January 13 – Renato Bruson, Italian baritone
  January 14 – Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (d. 1999)
  January 19
  Tonny Koeswoyo, Indonesian rock musician (d. 1987)
  Ziaur Rahman, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
  January 22
  Alan J. Heeger, American physicist
  Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
  January 25 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
  January 27
  Barry Barish, American gravitational physicist, Nobel laureate
  Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
  Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist
  January 28
  Waldyr Boccardo, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2018)
  Alan Alda, American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and author
  Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
caption: Alan Alda
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