Events in the year 1936 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Lázaro Cárdenas
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Silvestre Guerrero
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Eduardo Hay
Communications Secretary (SCT): Francisco J. Múgica
Education Secretary (SEP): Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Manuel Ávila Camacho
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia
Governors
Aguascalientes: Enrique Osorio Camarena/Juan G. Alvarado Lavallade
Campeche: Eduardo Mena Córdova
Chiapas: Victórico R. Grajales/Efraín A. Gutiérrez
Chihuahua: Rodrigo M. Quevedo
Coahuila: Jesús Valdez Sánchez
Colima: Miguel G. Santa Ana
Durango: Enrique R. Calderón
Guanajuato: José Inocente Lugo
Guerrero: José Inocente Lugo
Hidalgo: Ernesto Viveros
Jalisco: Everardo Topete
State of Mexico: Eucario López
Michoacán: Rafael Ordorica/Gildardo Magaña
Morelos: José Refugio Bustamante
Nayarit: Joaquín Cardoso
Nuevo León: Gregorio Morales Sánchez/Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo
Oaxaca: Anastasio García Toledo/Constantino Chapital
Puebla: Gustavo Ariza
Querétaro: Ramón Rodríguez Familiar
San Luis Potosí: Mateo Fernández Netro
Sinaloa: Manuel Páez
Sonora: Ramón Ramos
Tabasco: Víctor Fernández Manero
Tamaulipas: Enrique Canseco
Tlaxcala: Adolfo Bonilla
Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Valdés
Yucatán: Fernando Cárdenas/Florencio Palomo Valencia
Zacatecas: Matías Ramos
Events
Popular culture
Sports
Mexico wins a total of three bronze medals at the Summer Olympics.
Music
Film
Allá en el Rancho Grande, directed by Fernando de Fuentes and starring Tito Guízar and Esther Fernández; beginning of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema
Literature
Births
6 January – Rubén Amaro Sr., Mexican professional baseball player (d. 2017) 23 February — Manuel Bartlett, politician (PRI) 8 March – Mario Hernández, film director and screenwriter 15 April – José Becerra, boxer 23 April — Víctor Cervera Pacheco, politician (PRI); Governor of Yucatán 1984–1988 and 1995–2001 (d. 2004) 8 May – Víctor Yturbe, singer (died 1987) 19 September – Juliana González Valenzuela, Mexican philosopher 8 October – Rogelio Guerra, actor (d. 2018) 27 October – Enrique Canales, technologist, editor, political analyst, painter, and sculptor (died 2007) Date unknown Mario Stern, composer and académic (d. 2017).
Deaths
19 May – Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Archbishop of Mexico City (born 1876; colitis)