Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1932
January
February
March
April
May
- 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 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.
June
July
August
September
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October
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.
December
Undated
Births
January
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
- February 22 - Robert Opron, French automotive designer
- February 23 - Majel Barrett, American actress (Star Trek)
- 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
- March 4
- March 6 - Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (d. 2008)
- March 12
- 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 laureate
- March 25 - Gene Shalit, American film critic
- March 30 - Ted Morgan, French-born author, biographer, and journalist
April
May
June
- 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
- 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, 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 21 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
- July 29 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator
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 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
September
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)
November
- November 3 - Albert Reynolds, eighth Taoiseach of Ireland
- November 4
- November 11 - Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist
- November 10 - Roy Scheider, American film actor (Jaws) (d. 2008)
- November 12 - Jerry Douglas, American actor
- November 13 - Richard Mulligan, American actor (Soap and Empty Nest) (d. 2000)
- November 15 -
- November 18 - Yoyoy Villame, Philippine Novelty singer and movie actor (d. 2007)
- November 20 - Richard Dawson, British-born comedian and game show host (Family Feud)
- November 22 - Robert Vaughn, American actor (Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
- November 27 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician and senator (d. 1983)
- November 29
December
Deaths
January - April
- 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., American 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 (The Stars and Stripes Forever) (b. 1854)
- March 7 - Aristide Briand, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
- March 14 - George Eastman, American inventor (Kodak) (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 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
- April 27 - Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
May-December
- 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)
- July 2 - Manuel II of Portugal, last king of Portugal (b. 1889)
- July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, English 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 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 18 - Peg Entwistle, American actress (suicide)
- 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)
- December 19 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908)
- Edward Bernstein, German socialist (b. 1850)
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