Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. [edit] Events of 1932 [edit] January [edit] February - May 2 – Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
- May 6 – Paul Gorguloff shoots 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, is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir Phillip Game.
- May 15 – Japanese troops leave Shanghai; the May 15 Incident, the assassination of Japanese prime minister Tsuyoshi Inukai, occurs.
- May 16 – Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in Bombay leave thousands dead and injured.
- May 20–21 – Amelia Earhart flies from the USA to Derry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes.
- May 26 – judgement in Donoghue v Stevenson handed down in the House of Lords, creating the neighbour principle in English law.
- 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 asks Franz von Papen to form a new government.
[edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November  In 1932 the Cipher Bureau broke the German Enigma cipher and overcame the ever-growing structural and operating complexities of the evolving Enigma with plugboard, the main German cipher device during World War II. [edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January [edit] February - 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, American composer and conductor
- February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painter
- February 11
- 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 – Edward Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
- February 22 – Robert Opron, French automotive designer
- February 23 – Majel Barrett, American actress (Star Trek) (d. 2008)
- February 24 – Michel Legrand, French composer
- February 25 – Faron Young, American country singer (d. 1996)
- February 26 – Johnny Cash, American country singer (I Walk The Line) (d. 2003)
- February 27 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-born actress (Cleopatra)
- February 28 – Don Francks, Canadian actor
- March 4
- March 6 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (d. 2008)
- March 12 – 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 (d. 2009)
- March 21 – Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 25 – Gene Shalit, American film critic
- March 30 – Ted Morgan, French-born author, biographer, and journalist
- June 4
- June 9 – Jack Imel, American singer
- June 12 – Rona Jaffe, American novelist (d. 2005)
- June 13 – Rainer Kurt Sachs, German-American physicist and biologist
- June 15 – Mario Cuomo, American politician
- June 18
- June 22 – Prunella Scales, English actress
- June 25 – Peter Blake, English artist
- June 27 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
- June 28 – Pat Morita, Asian-American actor (The Karate Kid) (d. 2005)
- June 29 – Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord
- July 2 – Dave Thomas, American fast-food entrepreneur (Wendy's) (d. 2002)
- July 4 – Otis Young, African-American actor (d. 2001)
- July 7 – Eileen Lemass, Irish politician
- July 9 – Donald Rumsfeld, former 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 17 – Yukio Aoshima, Japanese politician and comedian (d. 2006)
- July 20 – Nam June Paik, Korean-born American artist (d. 2006)
- July 21 – Ernie Warlick, American football player
- July 29 – Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator
[edit] August - August 1 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
- August 2
- August 6 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter and print-maker
- August 7 – Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr., African-American ophthalmologist (d. 2005)
- August 7 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian long-distance runner (d. 1973)
- August 8 – Mel Tillis, American country singer
- August 11 – Fernando Arrabal, Moroccan-born writer
- August 12 – Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer (Wheel of Fortune)
- August 17 – V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 18 – William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
- August 20 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
[edit] September - September 1
- 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, English footballer
- September 18 – Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2002)
- September 19 – Lowen Coxhill, British Musician
- September 22 – Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania
- September 25
- September 26
- September 27 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
- September 29 – Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
- September 30 – Shintarō Ishihara, Japanese author and politician
[edit] October - 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, 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 (The Brady Bunch) (d. 1992)
- October 20
- October 24
- 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)
[edit] November [edit] December - December 1 – Heather Begg, New Zealand mezzo-soprano (d. 2009)
- December 2 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (d. 1990)
- December 2 – Sergio Bonelli, Italian comic book author and publisher
- December 4 – Roh Tae-woo, President of South Korea
- December 5
- December 6 – Don King, American boxing promoter
- December 7
- December 9 – Bill Hartack, American jockey
- December 9 – Morton Downey, Jr., American television personality (d. 2001)
- December 11 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan Contra leader (d. 1991)
- December 21 – Edward Hoagland, American essayist
- December 24
- December 28
- date unknown
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 7 – Andre Maginot, French soldier and politician (b. 1877)
- January 8 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (b. 1866)
- January 13 – William Gentles, US army private, known for killing Crazy Horse (b. 1857)
- 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., American chewing gum industrialist (b. 1861)
- February 8 – Mad Dog Coll, American gangster (b. 1908)
- February 10 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- February 15 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (b. 1865)
- 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 (The Stars and Stripes Forever) (b. 1854)
- March 7 – Aristide Briand, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
- March 11 – Dora Carrington, British painter (b. 1893)
- March 14 – George Eastman, American inventor (Kodak) (b. 1854)
- March 18 – Chancellor Olcott, American actor (b. 1858)
- March 31 – Eben Byers, American steel tycoon and socialite (radiation poisoning) (b. 1880)
- April 4 – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, 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 –
- 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 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)
[edit] July–December - July 2 – Manuel II of Portugal, last king of Portugal (b. 1889)
- July 6 – Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author (The Wind In The Willows) (b. 1859)
- July 7 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
- July 22 – Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
- July 22 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway impressario (b. 1867)
- July 23
- September 5 – Paul Bern, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
- September 16 – Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
- September 18 – Peg Entwistle, American actress (b. 1908)
- September 20 – Wovoka, Paiute visionary (Ghost Dance) (b. c. 1856)
- September 23 – Jules Chéret, French poster designer (b. 1836)
- October 5 – Christopher Brennan, Australian poet and scholar (b. 1870)
- October 17 – Lucy Bacon, American painter (b. 1857)
- October 26 – Molly Brown, Denver socialite, Titanic survivor (b. 1867)
- November 4 – Belle Bennett, American actress (b. 1891)
- November 15 – Charles Waddell Chesnutt, African American author, essayist, political activist (b. 1858)
- December 19 – Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908)
- December 28 – Malcolm Whitman, American tennis player (b. 1877)
- Edward Bernstein, German socialist (b. 1850)
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