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Year '''1932''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXXXII]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Friday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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== Events of 1932 ==
===January===
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* [[January 3]] - British arrest and intern [[Mohandas Gandhi]] and [[Vallabhbhai Patel]].
* [[January 7]] - The [[Stimson Doctrine]] is proclaimed in response to the [[Japan]]ese invasion of [[Manchuria]].
* [[January 8]] - In Britain the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] forbids church remarriage of divorced persons.
[[Image:Gandhi studio 1931.jpg|thumb|100px|right| [[January 3]]: Arrest of [[Mohandas Gandhi|Gandhi]] & [[Vallabhbhai Patel|Patel]].]]
* [[January 12]] - [[Hattie W. Caraway]] becomes the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]].
* [[January 14]] - [[Maurice Ravel]]'s ''[[Concerto in G (Ravel)|Concerto in G]]'' debuts with piano soloist [[Marguerite Long]] and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra.
* [[January 15]] - About 6 million are unemployed in [[Germany]].
* [[January 26]] - British submarine [[HMS M2]] sinks with all 60 hands.
* [[January 28]] - [[Japan]] occupies [[Shanghai]].
* [[January 29]] - Minority government of [[Karl Mureschi]] in [[Austria]] ends the governmental crisis.
* [[January 30]] - ''[[Brave New World]]'', a novel by [[Aldous Huxley]], is first published.
* [[January 31]] - Japanese warships arrive in [[Nanking]].
===February===
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* [[February 2]]
**General convention of [[disarmament]] begins in [[Geneva]].
**[[League of Nations]] again recommends negotiations between the [[Republic of China]] and [[Japan]].
**[[Reconstruction Finance Corporation]] begins operations.
* [[February 4]] - [[1932 Winter Olympics]] open in [[Lake Placid, New York]]. Japan occupies [[Harbin]], [[China]].
* [[February 11]] - [[Pope Pius XI]] meets [[Benito Mussolini]] in [[Vatican City]].
* [[February 15]] - ''Clara, Lu & Em'', generally regarded as the first daytime network [[soap opera]], debuts in its morning time slot over the [[Blue Network]] of [[NBC]] Radio, having originally been a late evening program.
* [[February 18]] - Japan declares [[Manzhouguo]] (Japanese name for [[Manchuria]]) formally independent from China.
* [[February 25]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] obtains German citizenship by [[naturalization]], opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for [[Reichspräsident]].
* [[February 27]] - [[Mäntsälä Rebellion]] occurs in [[Finland]].
===March===
* [[March 1]] - [[Charles Lindbergh, Jr.]], the infant son of [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] and [[Charles Lindbergh]], is kidnapped from the family home near [[Hopewell, New Jersey]].
* [[March 7]] - Four people are killed when police fire upon 3000 unemployed autoworkers marching outside the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] [[River Rouge Plant]] in [[Dearborn, Michigan]].
* [[March 9]] - [[Eamon de Valera]] is elected [[President of the Executive Council]]. It is the first change of government in the [[Irish Free State]] in 10 years.
* [[March 18]] - Peace negotiations between China and Japan begin.
* [[March 19]] - [[Sydney Harbour Bridge]] opens.
* [[March 20]] - [[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|Graf Zeppelin]] begins a regular route to South America.
* [[March 25]] - ''[[Tarzan the Ape Man]]'' opens, with Olympic gold medal swimmer [[Johnny Weissmuller]] in the title role. Weismuller starred in a total of 12 [[Tarzan]] films.
===April===
*April - 10 000 disgruntled Newfoundlanders march on their legislature to show discontent with their current political situation; this was a flash point in the demise of the [[Dominion of Newfoundland]].
*April - ''Kreuger & Toll'', the company of the "Match King" [[Ivar Kreuger]], collapses.
* [[April 5]] - Prohibition is lifted in [[Finland]] at 10 in the morning (local time), resulting in a new [[mnemonic]] "[[Alko|543210]]".
* [[April 6]]
**U.S. president [[Herbert Hoover]] supports armament limitations.
**Trial against fraudulent art dealer [[Otto Wacker]] begins in [[Berlin]].
* [[April 10]] - [[Paul von Hindenburg]] is elected president of Germany.
* [[April 17]] - [[Haile Selassie]] announces an anti-[[slavery]] law in [[Abyssinia]].
* [[April 19]] - German art dealer [[Otto Wacker]] is sentenced to 19 months in prison for selling [[art forgery|fraudulent]] paintings he attributed to [[Vincent van Gogh]].
* [[April 25]] - Two of the companions of [[Islam]]'s Last Prophet [[Muhammad]] were moved from their graves upon informing of water in the graves in the dream of [[King Faisal]] of [[Iraq]] in Salmaan Paak, [[Iraq]]. Their names were Hazrat [[Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman]] and Hazrat [[Jabir ibn Abd-Allah]].
===May===
*[[May 2]] - Comedian [[Jack Benny]]'s radio show airs for the first time.
* [[May 6]] - [[Paul Gorguloff]] assassinates French president [[Paul Doumer]] in [[Paris]]. Doumer dies the next day.
* [[May 10]] - [[Albert Lebrun]] becomes the new [[president of France]].
* [[May 12]] - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
* [[May 13]] - The [[Premier of New South Wales]], [[Jack Lang (Australia)|Jack Lang]], is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir Phillip Game.
* [[May 15]] - Japanese troops leave Shanghai; [[May 15 Incident]], the assassination of Japanese prime minister [[Tsuyoshi Inukai]], occurs.
* [[May 16]] - Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] - thousands dead and injured.
* [[May 20]]-21 - [[Amelia Earhart]] flies from USA to [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]] in 14 hours 54 minutes.
* [[May 29]] - The first of approximately 15,000 [[World War I]] veterans arrive in [[Washington, D.C.]] demanding the immediate payment of their military bonus, becoming known as the [[Bonus Army]].
* [[May 30]] - German [[chancellor]] [[Heinrich Brüning]] resigns. President Hindenburg takes [[Franz von Papen]] to form a new government.
===June===
* [[June 4]] - [[Military coup]] occurs in [[Chile]].
* [[June 6]] - The [[Revenue Act of 1932]] is enacted, creating the first [[gas tax]] in the [[United States]] at 1 cent per US gallon (0.26 ¢/L) sold.
* [[June 14]] - Bans against SS and [[SA]] overturned in [[Germany]].
* [[June 20]] - [[Benelux]] customs union is negotiated.
* [[June 24]] - After a relatively bloodless military rebellion, [[Thailand|Siam]] becomes a [[constitutional monarchy]].
* [[June 29]] - The comedy serial ''[[Vic and Sade]]'' debuts on [[NBC]] Radio.
===July===
* [[July 5]] - [[Antonio de Oliveira Salazar]] becomes the [[fascist]] prime minister of [[Portugal]] (for the next 36 years).
* [[July 7]] - French submarine [[Sromethee]] sinks off [[Cherbourg-Octeville|Cherbourg]] - 66 dead.
* [[July 8]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] reaches its lowest level of the [[Great Depression]], bottoming out at 41.22.
*[[July 12]]
**[[Norway]] annexes northern [[Greenland]].
**[[Hedley Verity]] establishes a new [[first-class cricket]] record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
* [[July 17]] - [[Bloody Sunday (1932)|Bloody Sunday]] of Altona in Germany - armed [[communist]]s attack a [[National Socialist German Workers Party|national socialist]] demonstration - 18 dead. Many other political street fights follow.
* [[July 28]] - U.S. President [[Herbert Hoover]] orders the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] to forcibly evict the [[Bonus Army]] of [[World War I]] veterans gathered in [[Washington, D.C.]]. Troops dispersed the last of the Bonus Army the next day.
* [[July 30]]
**[[1932 Summer Olympics]] open in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]].
**Walt Disney's ''[[Flowers and Trees]]'', the first animated cartoon to be presented in full [[Technicolor]], premieres in Los Angeles, California. It releases in theaters, along with [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s experimental play ''[[Strange Interlude]]'' (starring [[Norma Shearer]] and [[Clark Gable]]), and will go on to win the first [[Academy Award for Best Animated Short]].
===August===
* August - Beginning of farmers' revolt in [[Midwestern United States]].
*[[August 1]] - Beginning of the second [[International Polar Year]], an international scientific collaboration.
* [[August 2]] - First [[positron]] is discovered by [[Carl D. Anderson]].
* [[August 6]] - First [[Venice Film Festival]] is held.
* [[August 7]] - Raymond Edward Welch (1894 - 1964) became first one legged man to scale the 6,288 ft. Mount Washington, NH.
* [[August 10]] - A 5.1 [[kilogram|kg]] [[chondrite]]-type [[meteorite]] broke into at least seven fragments and struck earth near the town of [[Archie, Missouri|Archie]] in [[Cass County, Missouri]].
* [[August 18]] - [[Auguste Piccard]] reaches altitude of 16,197 meters with an air balloon.
* [[August 30]] - [[Hermann Göring]] is elected as a chairman of German senate.
* [[August 31]] - Total [[solar eclipse]] visible from northern Canada through NE Vermont, New Hampshire, SW Maine, and the Capes of Massachusetts.
===September===
* [[September 9]] - The Generalitat reinstated, [[Catalonia]] regains political autonomy inside the [[Spain|2nd Spanish Republic]] from [[September 25]].
* [[September 11]] - Canadian operations end on the [[Great Gorge and International Railway]].
* [[September 18]] - Actress [[Peg Entwistle]] commits [[suicide]] jumping from the letter H of the (then) "[[Hollywood]]land" sign.
* [[September 20]] - [[Mohandas Gandhi]] begins a [[hunger]] strike in [[Poona]] prison.
* [[September 23]] - The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
* [[September 28]] - According to [[Prussia]]n statistics, 115 people have been killed in political riots during the year.
===October===
* [[October 15]]
**Tata Airlines (later to become [[Air India]]) makes its first flight.
**The [[Michigan Marching Band]] (then called the Varsity band) debuts [[Script Ohio]] at the Michigan versus Ohio State game in Columbus.
* [[October 19]] - Wedding of [[Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten|Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden]] and [[Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]].
* [[October 23]] - [[Fred Allen]]'s radio comedy show debuts on [[CBS]].
===November===
[[Image:Enigma-plugboard.jpg|right|300px|thumb|In 1932 the ''[[Cipher Bureau]]'' broke the German Enigma cipher and overcame the ever-growing structural and operating complexities of the evolving [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] with [[plugboard]], the main German cipher device during [[World War II]].
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* [[November 1]] - [[San Francisco]] Opera House opens.
* [[November 7]] - ''[[Buck Rogers|Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]'' airs on [[radio]] for the first time.
* [[November 8]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1932]]: [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
* [[November 9]]
**Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in [[Switzerland]] - 13 dead, 60 injured.
**A [[hurricane]] and huge waves kills about 2,500 in [[Santa Cruz del Sur]] in the worst [[natural disaster]] in [[Cuba]] history.
* [[November 16]] - [[New York City]]'s [[Palace Theatre, New York|Palace Theatre]] fully converts to a [[Movie theater|cinema]], which is considered the final death knell of [[vaudeville]] as a popular entertainment in the United States.
* [[November 19]] - Second wife of [[Joseph Stalin]] is found dead in her home.
* [[November 21]] - German president [[Paul von Hindenburg|Hindenburg]] begins negotiations with Adolf Hitler about the formation of a new government.
* [[November 24]] - In Washington, DC, the [[FBI]] Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
* [[November 30]] - The [[Cipher Bureau]] breaks the German [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] cipher.
===December===
* [[December 3]] - Hindenburg names [[Kurt von Schleicher]] as a German chancellor.
* [[December 12]] - Japan and [[Soviet Union]] reform their diplomatic connections.
* [[December 19]] - [[BBC World Service]] begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
* [[December 25]] - [[Earthquake]] in the [[Kansu|Kansu Province]] in [[China]]: 70,000 dead.
* [[December 27]] - [[Radio City Music Hall]] opens in New York City.
===Undated===
*Heath Hen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_hen] becomes extinct.
* Female [[suffrage]] granted in [[Brazil]].
*Beginning of the [[Chaco War]] between [[Bolivia]] and [[Paraguay]].
*[[Mars Bar]] is sold for the first time.
* [[Zippo]] lighters are developed.
* [[Zero-length spring]]s are invented, revolutionizing [[seismometers]] and [[gravimeter]]s.
* The [[Kennedy-Thorndike experiment]] shows that measured time as well as length are affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of [[special relativity]].
* [[James Chadwick]] discovers the [[neutron]].
* Geneticist [[J. B. S. Haldane]] publishes ''The Causes of Evolution'' and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian [[genetics]] with those of [[evolution]]ary science.
* [[Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition]] established for [[repeal of prohibition]] in U.S.
* [[Prontosil]], the first oral [[antibiotic]], is discovered by [[Gerhard Domagk]], but no publication occurs until [[1935]].
==Births==
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===January-February===
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*[[January 1]] - [[Tzaims Luksus]], American artist and fashion designer
*[[January 3]]
**[[Dabney Coleman]], American actor
**[[Neil Levang]], American musician
**[[Coo Coo Marlin]], American race car driver (d. [[2005]])
*[[January 5]]
**[[Johnny Adams]], American musician (d. [[1998]])
**[[Umberto Eco]], Italian scholar and author
*[[January 6]] - [[Stuart A. Rice]], American chemist
*[[January 13]] - [[Joseph Cardinal Zen]], Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong
*[[January 16]] - [[Dian Fossey]], American zoologist (d. [[1985]])
*[[January 18]] - [[Robert Anton Wilson]], American author
*[[January 22]] - [[Piper Laurie]], American actress
*[[January 25]] - [[Nikolay Anikin]], Soviet cross-country skier
*[[January 26]] - [[Coxsone Dodd]], Jamaican record producer (d. [[2004]])
*[[January 29]]
**[[Tommy Taylor]], English footballer (d. [[1958]])
**[[George Allen (footballer)|George Allen]], English footballer
*[[January 30]] - [[Knock Yokoyama]], Japanese comedian and politician
* [[February 1]] - [[John Nott]], British polictian
* [[February 3]] - [[Peggy Ann Garner]], American actress (d. [[1984]])
* [[February 6]] - [[François Truffaut]], French film director (d. [[1984]])
* [[February 7]] - [[Gay Talese]], American author
* [[February 8]] - [[John Williams (composer)|John Williams]], American composer and conductor
* [[February 9]] - [[Gerhard Richter]], German painter
* [[February 11]]
**[[Jerome Lowenthal]], American pianist
**[[Dennis Skinner]], British politician
* [[February 12]] - [[Julian Lincoln Simon]], American economist and author (d. [[1998]])
* [[February 14]] - [[Alexander Kluge]], German author and film director
* [[February 16]] - [[Harry Goz]], American actor (d. [[2003]])
* [[February 18]] - [[Miloš Forman]], Czech film director
* [[February 20]] - [[Adrian Cristobal]], Filipino writer (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 22]] - [[Ted Kennedy|Edward Kennedy]], American politician
* [[February 22]] - [[Robert Opron]], French automotive designer
* [[February 23]] - [[Majel Barrett]], American actress
* [[February 24]] - [[Michel Legrand]], French composer
* [[February 25]] - [[Faron Young]] American singer (d. [[1996]])
* [[February 26]] - [[Johnny Cash]], American singer (d. [[2003]])
* [[February 27]] - [[Elizabeth Taylor]], English-born actress
* [[February 28]] - [[Don Francks]], Canadian actor
===March-April===
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* [[March 4]]
**[[Ryszard Kapuściński]], Polish journalist
**[[Miriam Makeba]], South African singer
**[[Ed Roth]], American car designer (d. [[2001]])
**[[Frank Wells]], American entertainment businessman (d. [[1994]])
* [[March 6]] - [[Bronisław Geremek]], Polish social historian and politician (d. [[2008]])
* [[March 12]]
** [[Barbara Feldon]], American actress
** [[Andrew Young]], U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
* [[March 16]] - [[Don Blasingame]], [[Major League Baseball]] player and Japanese baseball manager (d. [[2005]])
* [[March 17]] - [[Donald N. Langenberg]], American physicist
* [[March 18]] - [[John Updike]], American author
* [[March 21]] - [[Walter Gilbert]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[March 25]] - [[Gene Shalit]], American film critic
* [[March 30]] - [[Ted Morgan]], French-born author, biographer, and journalist
*[[April 1]]
**[[Gordon Jump]], American television actor (d. [[2003]])
**[[Debbie Reynolds]], American actress
*[[April 2]] - [[Michael Vernon]], Australian consumer activist (d.[[1993]])
*[[April 4]]
**[[Anthony Perkins]], American actor (d. [[1992]])
**[[Andrei Tarkovsky]], Russian film director (d. [[1986]])
*[[April 8]] - [[Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail]], King of Malaysia
*[[April 9]]
**[[Armin Jordan]], Swiss conductor (d. [[2006]])
**[[Carl Perkins]], American musician (d. [[1998]])
*[[April 11]] - [[Joel Grey]], American actor
*[[April 12]]
**[[Lakshman Kadirgamar]], Sri Lankan politician (assassinated) (d. [[2005]])
**[[Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim]], American musician (d. [[1996]])
*[[April 21]] - [[Elaine May]], American movie director
*[[April 23]] - [[Halston]], American fashion designer (d. [[1990]])
*[[April 25]] - [[William Roache]], British actor (''[[Coronation Street]]'')
*[[April 26]] - [[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]], English-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2000]])
*[[April 27]]
**[[Casey Kasem]], American disc jockey and voice actor
**[[Gian-Carlo Rota]], Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. [[1999]])
===May-June===
*[[May 7]]
**[[Jenny Joseph]], English poet
** [[Jordi Bonet]], Canadian artist
*[[May 8]]
**[[Phyllida Law]], Scottish actress
**[[Sonny Liston]], American boxer (d. [[1970]])
*[[May]]
*[[May 19]] - [[Alma Cogan]], English singer (d. [[1966]])
*[[May 25]]
**[[John Gregory Dunne]], American writer (d. [[2003]])
**[[Roger Bowen]], American actor (d. [[1996]])
**[[K.C. Jones]], American basketball player and coach
*[[June 4]]
**[[John Drew Barrymore]], American actor (d. [[2004]])
**[[Maurice Shadbolt]], New Zealand writer (d. [[2004]])
*[[June 9]] - [[Jack Imel]], American singer
*[[June 12]] - [[Rona Jaffe]], American novelist (d. [[2005]])
*[[June 15]] - [[Mario Cuomo]], American politician
*[[June 18]]
**[[Dudley R. Herschbach]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
**[[Geoffrey Hill]], English poet
*[[June 22]] - [[Prunella Scales]], English Actress
*[[June 25]] - [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]], English artist
*[[June 27]] - [[Anna Moffo]], American soprano (d. [[2006]])
*[[June 28]] - [[Pat Morita]], American actor (d. [[2005]])
*[[June 29]] - [[Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton]], British Law Lord
===July-August===
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*[[July 2]] - [[Dave Thomas (American businessman)|Dave Thomas]], American fast-food entrepreneur (d. [[2002]])
*[[July 4]] - [[Otis Young]], African-American actor (d. [[2001]])
*[[July 7]] - [[Eileen Lemass]], Irish politician
*[[July 9]] - [[Donald Rumsfeld]], U.S. Secretary of Defense
*[[July 12]] - [[Otis Davis]], American runner
*[[July 16]]
**[[Tim Asch]], Anthropologist, photographer and ethnographic filmmaker
**[[Max McGee]], American football player (d. [[2007]])
*[[July 21]] - [[Ernie Warlick]], American football player
*[[July 29]] - [[Nancy Kassebaum Baker|Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker]], U.S. Senator
* [[August 1]] - [[Meena Kumari]], Indian actress (d. [[1972]])
* [[August 2]]
**[[Lamar Hunt]], American sportsman
**[[Peter O'Toole]], Irish actor
* [[August 6]] - [[Howard Hodgkin]], British painter and print-maker
* [[August 7]] - [[Maurice Rabb, Jr.|Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr.]], African American ophthalmologist
* [[August 8]] - [[Mel Tillis]], American singer
* [[August 11]] - [[Fernando Arrabal]], Moroccan-born writer
* [[August 12]] - [[Charlie O'Donnell]], American game show announcer
* [[August 17]] - [[V. S. Naipaul]], West Indian-born writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[August 18]] - [[William R. Bennett]], Premier of British Columbia
===September-October===
* [[September 4]] - [[Dinsdale Landen]], British actor (d. [[2003]])
* [[September 7]] - [[Paul Getty]], American-born philanthropist (d. [[2003]])
* [[September 8]] - [[Patsy Cline]], American singer (d. [[1963]])
* [[September 11]] - [[Peter Anderson (footballer)|Peter Anderson]], English footballer
* [[September 18]] - [[Nikolai Rukavishnikov]], cosmonaut (d. [[2002]])
* [[September 22]] - [[Algirdas Brazauskas]], [[President of Lithuania]]
* [[September 25]]
**[[Glenn Gould]], Canadian pianist (d. [[1982]])
**[[Charles Stanley]], American televangelist
* [[September 26]]
**[[Richard Herd]], American actor
**Dr [[Manmohan Singh]], [[Prime Minister of India]]
* [[September 27]] - [[Oliver E. Williamson]], American economist
*[[September 29]] - [[Mehmood]], Indian actor (d. [[2004]])
* [[September 30]] - [[Shintaro Ishihara]], Japanese author and politician
* [[October 4]] - [[Milan Chvostek]], Canadian television director
* [[October 5]] - [[Michael John Rogers]], English ornithologist (d. [[2006]])
* [[October 8]] - [[Ray Reardon]], Welsh snooker player
*[[October 9]] - [[David Plowden]], American photographer
* [[October 10]] - [[Harry Smith (footballer)|Harry Smith]], English footballer
* [[October 11]] - [[Dottie West]], American singer/songwriter (d. [[1991]])
* [[October 12]] - [[Dick Gregory]], American comedian and activist
* [[October 13]] - [[Jean Edward Smith]], American political scientist and biographer
* [[October 18]] - [[Vytautas Landsbergis]], Lithuanian politician
* [[October 19]] - [[Robert Reed]], American actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[October 20]]
**[[Rosey Brown]], American football player (d. [[2004]])
**[[William Christopher]], American actor
* [[October 24]]
**[[Pierre-Gilles de Gennes]], French physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
**[[Robert Mundell]], Canadian economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[October 25]] - [[Harry Gregg]], Irish footballer and football manager
* [[October 27]] - [[Sylvia Plath]], American poet and author (d. [[1963]])
* [[October 28]] - [[Suzy Parker]], American actress (d. [[2003]])
===November-December===
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* [[November 3]] - [[Albert Reynolds]], eighth [[Taoiseach]] of [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
* [[November 4]]
**[[Thomas Klestil]], [[President of Austria]] (d. [[2004]])
**[[Noam Pitlik]], American actor and director (d. [[1999]])
* [[November 11]] - [[Germano Mosconi]], Italian journalist
* [[November 10]] - [[Roy Scheider]], American film actor (d. [[2008]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Jerry Douglas (actor)|Jerry Douglas]], American actor
* [[November 13]] - [[Richard Mulligan]], American actor (d. [[2000]])
* [[November 15]] -
**[[Clyde McPhatter]], American singer (d. [[1972]])
**[[Petula Clark]], British singer, actress, and songwriter
* [[November 18]] - [[Yoyoy Villame]], Philippine Novelty singer and movie actor (d. [[2007]])
* [[November 20]] - [[Richard Dawson]], British-born comedian and game show host
* [[November 22]] - [[Robert Vaughn]], American actor
* [[November 27]] - [[Benigno Aquino, Jr.]], Filipino politician and senator (d. [[1983]])
* [[November 29]]
**[[Jacques Chirac]], [[President of France]]
**[[Diane Ladd]], American actress
* [[December 2]] - [[Manuel Puig]], Argentinian writer (d. [[1990]])
* [[December 5]]
**[[Sheldon Lee Glashow]], American physicist
**[[Little Richard]], American singer
* [[December 6]] - [[Don King (boxing promoter)|Don King]], American boxing promoter
* [[December 7]]
**[[Ellen Burstyn]], American actress
**[[Paul Caponigro]], American photographer
* [[December 9]] - [[Bill Hartack]], American jockey
*[[December 9]] - [[Morton Downey, Jr.]], American television personality (d. [[2001]])
* [[December 21]] - [[Edward Hoagland]], American essayist
* [[December 24]]
**[[On Kawara]], Japanese conceptual artist
**[[Earl Dodge]], American temperance movement leader
* [[December 28]]
**[[Dhirubhai Ambani]], Indian businessman (d. [[2002]])
**[[Dorsey Burnette]], American singer (d. [[1979]])
**[[Roy Hattersley]], British politician
**[[Nichelle Nichols]], American actress and singer
*''date unknown''
**[[Basil Blackshaw]], Irish artist
**[[Mohamed Hamri]], Moroccan artist (d. [[2000]])
**[[Irene Jai Narayan]], Fiji politician
**[[Blaze Starr]], American dancer
==Deaths==
===January - June===
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*[[January 8]] - [[Eurosia Fabris]], Italian Catholic ''Blessed'' (b. [[1866]])
* [[January 13]] - [[J. Ernest Mangnall]], English football manager (b. [[1866]])
*[[January 21]] - [[Giles Lytton Strachey]] British writer and biographer (b. [[1880]])
*[[January 24]] - Sir [[Alfred Yarrow]], English shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. [[1842]])
* [[January 26]] - [[William Wrigley Jr.]], [[U.S.]][[chewing gum]] industrialist (b. [[1861]])
*[[February 10]] - [[Edgar Wallace]], English novelist and screenwriter (b. [[1875]])
*[[February 16]] - [[Ferdinand Buisson]], French pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1841]])
*[[March 1]] - [[Frank Teschemacher]], American musician (b. [[1906]])
*[[March 6]] - [[John Philip Sousa]], American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. [[1854]])
*[[March 7]] - [[Aristide Briand]], French statesman, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1862]])
*[[March 14]] - [[George Eastman]], American inventor (b. [[1854]])
*[[March 31]] - [[Eben Byers]], American steel tycoon and socialite (radiation poisoning) (b. [[1880]])
*[[April 4]] - [[Wilhelm Ostwald]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1853]])
*[[April 20]] - [[Giuseppe Peano]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1858]])
*[[April 26]] - [[William Lockwood]], English cricketer (b. [[1868]])
*[[April 27]] - [[Hart Crane]], American poet (b. [[1899]])
*[[May 3]] -
**[[Henri de Gaulle]], father of [[Charles de Gaulle]] (b. [[1848]]
**[[Charles Fort]], American researcher of the unusual (b. [[1874]])
*[[May 7]] - [[Paul Doumer]], [[President of France]] (assassinated) (b. [[1857]])
*[[May 15]] - [[Tsuyoshi Inukai]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (assassinated) (b. [[1855]])
*[[May 17]] - [[Frederick C. Billard]], [[Commandant of the Coast Guard|Commandant of the United States Coast Guard]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[May 22]] - [[Lady Gregory]], Irish writer and folklorist (b. [[1852]])
*[[June 21]] - [[Major Taylor]], American cyclist (b. [[1878]])
*[[June 22]] - [[Tommy Treichel]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1892]])
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*[[July 2]] - [[Manuel II of Portugal]], last king of Portugal (b. [[1889]])
*[[July 6]] - [[Kenneth Grahame]], English author (b. [[1859]])
*[[July 7]] - [[Henry Eyster Jacobs]], American Lutheran theologian (b. [[1844]])
*[[July 22]] - [[Errico Malatesta]], Italian Anarchist (b. [[1853]])
*[[July 23]] - [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]], Brazilian aviation pioneer (b. [[1873]])
*[[July 23]] - [[Tenby Davies]], Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. [[1884]])
*[[September 16]] - [[Ronald Ross]], English physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1857]])
*[[September 20]] - [[Wovoka]], Paiute visionary
*[[September 23]] - [[Jules Chéret]], French poster designer (b. [[1836]])
*[[October 5]] - [[Christopher Brennan]] (b. [[1870]])
*[[October 17]] - [[Lucy Bacon]], American painter (b. [[1857]])
*[[December 19]] - [[Yoon Bong-Gil]], Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. [[1908]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Werner Heisenberg|Werner Karl Heisenberg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Irving Langmuir]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - Sir [[Charles Scott Sherrington]], [[Edgar Douglas Adrian]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[John Galsworthy]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - not awarded
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/1932/1932fr.html The 1930s Timeline: 1932] — from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
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