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1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday .
Events
January-February
March-April
May-June
May 2 - Comedian Jack Benny 's radio show airs for the first time.
May 6 - Paul Gordulof 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 1 - 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
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Births
January
January 3 - Dabney Coleman , American actor
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 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-March
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
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 30 - Ted Morgan , French-born author, biographer, and journalist
April-July
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 12 - Lakshman Kadirgamar , Sri Lankan politician (assassinated) (d. 2005 )
April 12 - Tiny Tim , American musician (d. 1996 )
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 8 - Phyllida Law , Scottish actress
May 8 - Sonny Liston , American boxer (d. 1970 )
May 25 - John Gregory Dunne , American writer (d. 2003 )
June 4 - John Drew Barrymore , American actor (d. 2004 )
June 4 - Maurice Shadbolt , New Zealand writer (d. 2004 )
June 12 - Rona Jaffe , American novelist
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
June 28 - Pat Morita , American actor
July 2 - Dave Thomas , American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 2002 )
July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld , U.S. Secretary of Defense
July 12 - Otis Davis , American runner
July 21 - Ernie Warlick , American football player
July 29 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker , U.S. Senator
August-December
August 1 - Meena Kumari , Indian actress
August 2 - Lamar Hunt , American sportsman
August 2 - Peter O'Toole , Irish actor
August 6 - Howard Hodgkin , British painter and print-maker
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 4 - Dinsdale Landen , English 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 26 - Richard Herd , American actor
September 26 - Dr. Manmohan Singh , Prime Minister of India
September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson , American economist
October 19 - Robert Reed , American actor (d. 1992 )
October 20 - Rosey Brown , American football playerr (d. 2004 )
October 24 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 24 - Robert Mundell , Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 28 - Suzy Parker , American actress (d. 2003 )
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 15 - Petula Clark , English singer, actress, and songwriter
November 20 - Richard Dawson , English-born game show host
November 29 - Jacques Chirac , President of France
December 2 - Manuel Puig , Argentinian writer (d. 1990 )
December 5 - Sheldon Lee Glashow , American physicist
December 9 - Bill Hartack , American jockey
December 24 - Earl Dodge , American presidential candidate
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 )
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 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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