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1932 (''' MCMXXXII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar).
Events
January-February
March-April
May-June
- 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 in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's 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 ; May 15 Incident , the assassination of Japanese prime minister Tsuyoshi Inukai , occurs.
- May 16 - Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in Bombay - thousands dead and injured.
- May 20 -21 - Amelia Earhart flies from USA to Londonderry , Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes
- May 30 - German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg takes Franz Von Papen to form a new government.
- June - 15,000 World War I veterans march in Washington, DC
- June 4 - Military Coup 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 negotiated
- June 24 - After a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Siam becomes a Constitutional Monarchy
July-October
November-December
Unknown dates
Births
January
- January 3 - Dabney Coleman , American actor
- January 3 - Neil Levang , American musician
- January 3 - Coo Coo Marlin , American race car driver (d. 2005 )
- January 5 - Johnny Adams , American musician (d. 1998 )
- January 5 - 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 26 - Coxsone Dodd , Jamaican record producer (d. 2004 )
- January 29 - Tommy Taylor , English footballer (d. 1958 )
- January 30 - Knock Yokoyama , Japanese comedian and politician
February
- 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 - Jerome Lowenthal , American pianist
- 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 - Milos Forman , Czech film director
- February 22 - Edward Kennedy , American politician
- 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
- March 4 - Miriam Makeba , South African singer
- 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 18 - John Updike , American author
- 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
April
- April 1 - Gordon Jump , American television actor (d. 2003 )
- April 1 - Debbie Reynolds , American actress
- April 2 - Michael Vernon , Australian consumer activist (d. 1993 )
- April 4 - Anthony Perkins , American actor (d. 1992 )
- April 4 - 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 - Carl Perkins , American musician (d. 1998 )
- April 11 - Joel Grey , American actor
- April 12 - Lakshman Kadirgamar , Sri Lankan politician (assassinated) (d. 2005 )
- April 12 - Tiny Tim , American musician (d. 1996 )
- April 21 - Elaine May , American movie director
- April 23 - Halston , American fashion designer (d. 1990 )
- April 26 - Michael Smith , English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000 )
- April 27 - Casey Kasem , American disc jockey and voice actor
- April 27 - Gian-Carlo Rota , Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999 )
May
June
- June 4 - John Drew Barrymore , American actor (d. 2004 )
- June 4 - 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 laureate
- June 18 - Geoffrey Hill , English poet
- June 25 - 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
- August 1 - Meena Kumari , Indian actress
- August 2 - Lamar Hunt , American sportsman
- August 2 - Peter O'Toole , Irish-born actor
- August 6 - Howard Hodgkin , British painter and print-maker
- August 7 - Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr. , African American ophthalmologist
- August 8 - Mel Tillis , American singer
- August 11 - Fernando Arrabal , Moroccan-born writer
- August 17 - V. S. Naipaul , West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 18 - William R. Bennett , Premier of British Columbia
September
- 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 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov , cosmonaut (d. 2002 )
- September 22 - Algirdas Brazauskas , President Of Lithuania
- September 25 - Glenn Gould , Canadian pianist (d. 1982 )
- September 25 - Charles Stanley , American televangelist
- September 26 - Richard Herd , American actor
- September 26 - Dr. Manmohan Singh , Prime Minister Of India
- September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson , American economist
- September 30 - Shintaro Ishihara , Japanese author and politician
October
- October 12 - Dick Gregory , American comedian and activist
- October 18 - Vytautas Landsbergis , Lithuanian politician
- October 19 - Robert Reed , American actor (d. 1992 )
- October 20 - Rosey Brown , American football playerr (d. 2004 )
- October 20 - William Christopher , American actor
- October 24 - Pierre-Gilles De Gennes , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 24 - Robert Mundell , Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 25 - Harry Gregg , Irish footballer and football manager
- October 28 - Suzy Parker , American actress (d. 2003 )
November
- November 3 - Albert Reynolds , President Of Ireland
- November 4 - Thomas Klestil , President Of Austria (d. 2004 )
- November 4 - Noam Pitlik , American actor and director (d. 1999 )
- November 10 - Roy Scheider , American film actor
- November 12 - Jerry Douglas , American actor
- November 13 - Richard Mulligan , American actor (d. 2000 )
- November 15 - Petula Clark , British singer, actress, and songwriter
- November 20 - Richard Dawson , British-born comedian and game show host
- November 22 - Robert Vaughn , American actor
- November 29 - Jacques Chirac , President Of France
- November 29 - Diane Ladd , American actress
December
- December 2 - Manuel Puig , Argentinian writer (d. 1990 )
- December 5 - Sheldon Lee Glashow , American physicist
- December 5 - Little Richard , American singer
- December 6 - Don King , American boxing promoter
- December 7 - Ellen Burstyn , American actress
- December 9 - Bill Hartack , American jockey
- December 24 - Earl Dodge , American temperance movement leader
- December 28 - Dhirubhai Ambani , Indian businessman (d. 2002 )
- December 28 - Dorsey Burnette , American singer (d. 1979 )
- December 28 - Roy Hattersley , British politician
Unknown dates
Deaths
- January 21 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (b. 1880 )
- January 24 - Sir Alfred Yarrow , English shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. 1842 )
- 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 laureate (b. 1853 )
- April 20 - Giuseppe Peano , Italian mathematician (b. 1858 )
- April 26 - Hart Crane , American poet (b. 1899 )
- April 26 - William Lockwood , English cricketer (b. 1868 )
- May 3 - 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 United States Coast Guard (b. 1873 )
- May 22 - Lady Gregory , Irish writer and folklorist (b. 1852 )
- June 21 - Major Taylor , American cyclist (b. 1878 )
- July 6 - Kenneth Grahame , English author (b. 1859 )
- July 23 - Alberto Santos-Dumont , Brazilian aviation pioneer (b. 1873 )
- 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 )
- December 19 - Yoon Bong-Gil , Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908 )
Unknown date
Nobel prizes
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