Events from the year 1936 in China.

• President: Lin Sen
• Premier: Chiang Kai-shek
• Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi
• Foreign Minister: Zhang Qun

• October–November - Suiyuan Campaign
• December 12 - Xi'an Incident

• January 31 — Zeng Xianyi, professor of legal history (d. 2011)

• February 20 — Li Mingqi, actress
• Zhang Tingyan, 1st Chinese Ambassador to South Korea
• Ma Yutao, opera singer and military general

• March 4 — Xu Qinan, engineer

• April 18 — Yuan Xingpei, scholar, educator, author and political leader

• Li Aizhen, scientist

• July 24 — Yan Huaili, actor (d. 2009)

• August 9 — Patrick Tse, Hong Kong actor, producer, screenwriter and director
• August 27 — Lien Chan, 3rd Chairman of the Kuomintang

• September 10 — Liu Xingtu, agronomist (d. 2021)
• September 18 — Li Tieying, politician
• Liu Mingzu, 7th Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2022)

• October 20 — Zhong Nanshan, pulmonologist

• November 7 — Zheng Zhenyao, film and television actress (d. 2023)

• December 8 — Zhang Xianliang, novelist, essayist and poet (d. 2014)
• December 26 — Han Meilin, artist
• Shu Shengyou, 10th Governor of Jiangxi

• Zheng Shuang, woodcut artist
• Xia Feiyun, conductor

• January 5 — Ding Wenjiang, essayist, geologist and writer (b. 1887)
• March 19 — Lim Nee Soon, Singaporean banker and businessman (b. 1879)
• April 14 — Liu Zhidan, communist military commander (b. 1903)
• May 12 — Hu Hanmin, philosopher and politician (b. 1879)
• June 14 — Zhang Binglin, philologist, textual critic, philosopher and revolutionary (b. 1869)
• June 28 — Lien Heng, Taiwanese historian, politician, poet, merchant and editor of a Tainan local newspaper (b. 1878)
• August 2 — Zhao Yiman, Anti-Japanese resistance fighter (b. 1905)
• September 12 — Pan Fu, 20th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1883)
• September 20 — Wang Yaqiao, gangster and assassin leader (b. 1887)
• October 19 — Lu Xun, writer, literary critic, lecturer and state servant (b. 1881)
• November 2 — Duan Qirui, warlord, politician and commander of the Beiyang Army (b. 1865)
• December 4 — Sai Jinhua, prostitute who became acquaintance of Alfred von Waldersee (b. 1872)
• December 6 — Huang Fu, general and politician (b. 1880)
• December 12 — Yau Lit, revolutionary and one of the Four Bandits (b. 1864)

• List of Chinese films of the 1930s