1936 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Lázaro Cárdenas
• Interior Secretary : Silvestre Guerrero
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Eduardo Hay
• Communications Secretary : Francisco J. Múgica
• Education Secretary : Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
• Secretary of Defense : Manuel Ávila Camacho

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Daniel V. Valencia

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  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
• 23 February — Manuel Bartlett, politician
• 8 March – Mario Hernández, film director and screenwriter
• 15 April – José Becerra, boxer
• 23 April — Víctor Cervera Pacheco, politician ; Governor of Yucatán 1984–1988 and 1995–2001
• 8 May – Víctor Yturbe, singer
• 8 October – Rogelio Guerra, actor
• 27 October – Enrique Canales, technologist, editor, political analyst, painter, and sculptor
• Date unknown
• *Mario Stern, composer and académic.

  Deaths

• 19 May – Pascual Díaz y Barreto, Archbishop of Mexico City