April 29, 1936

1936Zubin Mehta, Indian conductor^[†]

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and conductor emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

1936Adolfo Nicolás, Spanish priest, 13th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (died 2020)^[†]

Adolfo Nicolás Pachón was a Spanish Catholic priest who served as the 30th superior general of the Society of Jesus from 2008 to 2016. He previously taught at Sophia University in Tokyo for twenty years and headed educational institutions in Manila from 1978 to 1984 and in Tokyo from 1991 to 1993. He led the Jesuits in Japan from 1993 to 1996 and, after four years of pastoral work in Tokyo, led the Jesuits in Asia from 2004 to 2008.

1936Alejandra Pizarnik, Argentine poet (died 1972)^[†]

Flora Alejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death".

1936Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, English banker and philanthropist (died 2024)^[†]

Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, was a British hereditary peer, investment banker and member of the Rothschild banking family. Rothschild held important roles in business and British public life, and was active in charitable and philanthropic areas.