Year (''' MCMXXXII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
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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 , 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 , 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 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 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 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 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 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 , 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 , English-born chemist, 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 7
- --- Jenny Joseph , English poet
- --- Jordi Bonet , Canadian artist
- May 8
- --- Phyllida Law , Scottish actress
- --- Sonny Liston , American boxer (d. 1970 )
- May 19 - Alma Cogan , English singer (d. 1966 )
- May 25
- --- John Gregory Dunne , American writer (d. 2003 )
- --- Roger Bowen , American actor (d. 1996 )
- 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 laureate
- --- Geoffrey Hill , English poet
- June 22 - Prunella Scales , English Actress
- 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 2 - 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
- July 21 - Ernie Warlick , American football player
- July 29 - 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-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 12 - Charlie O'Donnell , American game show announcer
- August 17 - V. S. Naipaul , West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 18 - William R. Bennett , Premier of British Columbia
- 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 , 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 , 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 laureate
- --- Robert Mundell , Canadian economist, 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 3 - Albert Reynolds , President Of 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
- November 12 - 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 20 - Richard Dawson , British-born comedian and game show host
- November 22 - Robert Vaughn , American actor
- 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 , American boxing promoter
- December 7
- --- Ellen Burstyn , American actress
- --- Paul Caponigro , American photographer
- December 9 - Bill Hartack , American jockey
- 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
- 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 laureate (b. 1853 )
- April 20 - Giuseppe Peano , Italian mathematician (b. 1858 )
- April 26 -
- --- Hart Crane , American poet (b. 1899 )
- --- William Lockwood , English cricketer (b. 1868 )
- 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 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 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 )
- 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 )
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