1932
1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday .
Events
January-February
March-April
May-June
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 occurs.
May 16 - Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in Bombay - thousands dead and injured.
May 18 - Assassination of Japanese prime minister Tsuyoshi Inukai
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 (1 cent per gallon 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 , actor
January 4 - Carlos Saura , director
January 5 - Umberto Eco , Italian semiotic scholar and author
January 5 - Raisa Gorbachev , Soviet political consort, (d. 1999 )
January 16 - Dian Fossey , zoologist (d. 1985 )
January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson , US author
January 22 - Piper Laurie , actress
January 26 - Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd , Jamaican record producer
January 29 - Tommy Taylor , English footballer (d. 1958 )
January 30 - Knock Yokoyama , Japanese comedian and politician
February-March
February 3 - Peggy Ann Garner , actress (d. 1984 )
February 6 - François Truffaut , French film director (d. 1984 )
February 7 - Gay Talese , author
February 8 - John Williams , composer, conductor
February 9 - Gerhard Richter , painter and graphic artist
February 11 - Jerome Lowenthal , pianist/professor
February 12 - Julian Simon , economist, author
February 14 - Alexander Kluge , author and film director
February 18 - Milos Forman , film director
February 22 - Edward Kennedy , US politician and brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy
February 23 - Majel Barrett , actress ( February 24 - Michel Legrand , composer
February 25 - Faron Young country music singer (d. 1996 )
February 26 - Johnny Cash , US country music singer (d. 2003 )
February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor , US actress
March 4 - Miriam Makeba , singer
March 12 - Andrew Young , civil rights activist, politician, ambassador to the United Nations
March 16 - Don Blasingame , a MLB All-Star and Japanese baseball manager (d. 2005 )
March 18 - John Updike , US author
April-July
April 1 - Gordon Jump , American television actor (d. 2003 )
April 1 - Debbie Reynolds , American actress
April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky , Russian movie director (d. 1986 )
April 4 - Anthony Perkins , American actor (d. 1992 )
April 8 - Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail , later Sultan of Johor and 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia .
April 12 - Tiny Tim , musician (d. 1996 )
April 23 - Halston , fashion designer (d. 1990 )
April 27 - Casey Kasem , American disc jockey
April 27 - Gian-Carlo Rota , Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher
May 8 - Phyllida Law , actress
May 8 - Sonny Liston , boxer (d. 1970 )
May 21 - Gabriele Wohmann , author
June 4 - John Drew Barrymore , actor (d. 2004 )
June 4 - Maurice Shadbolt , New Zealand writer (d. 2004 )
June 12 - Rona Jaffe , novelist
June 25 - Peter Blake , artist
June 27 - Anna Moffo , American soprano
June 28 - Pat Morita , actor
July 2 - Dave Thomas - founder of Wendy's restaurant chain (d. 2002 )
July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld , US Secretary of Defence (2001-present)
July 12 - Otis Davis , American runner
July 21 - Ernie Warlick , American football player
July 29 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker , US Senator (1978 -1996 )
August-December
August 2 - Peter O'Toole , Irish film and stage actor
August 2 - Lamar Hunt , American sportsman
August 6 - Howard Hodgkin , painter and print-maker
August 11 - Fernando Arrabal , writer
August 17 - V. S. Naipaul , writer
September 8 - Patsy Cline , singer and the first woman elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame
August 18 - William R. Bennett , Premier of British Columbia
September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov , Soviet cosmonaut
September 25 - Glenn Gould , Canadian pianist (d. 1982 )
September 26 - Dr. Manmohan Singh , Prime Minister of India
September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson , US economist
October 19 - Robert Reed , actor (The Brady Bunch 1992 )
October 20 - Rosey Brown , Pro Football Hall of Famer (d. 2004 )
October 26 - Eidegenegen Eidagaruwo , first Angam Baby
October 28 - Suzy Parker , actress
November 3 - Albert Reynolds , Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
November 4 - Noam Pitlik , actor/director (d. 1999 )
November 15 - Petula Clark , singer-actress-composer
November 20 - Richard Dawson , game show host
November 29 - Jacques Chirac , president of France
December 9 - Bill Hartack , jockey
December 24 - Earl Dodge , United States Prohibition Party Presidential candidate .
December 28 - Roy Hattersley , British politician
December 28 - Dorsey Burnette , Rockabilly pioneer (d. 1979 )
unknown dates
Deaths
January 21 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (b. 1880 )
January 24 - Sir Alfred Yarrow , shipbuilder, philanthropist (b. 1842 )
February 10 - Edgar Wallace , novelist , screenwriter for King Kong (b. 1875 )
March 6 - John Philip Sousa , US band leader, conductor, composer (b. 1854 )
March 1 - Frank Teschemacher , jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist (b. 1906 )
March 7 - Aristide Briand , diplomat, winner of the (1928 ) Nobel Peace Prize
March 14 - George Eastman , inventor of the camera (b. 1854 )
March 31 - Eben Byers , steel tycoon and Pittsburgh socialite (b. 1880 ). He died from radiation poisoning due to the ingestion of the radium-laced nostrum Radithor over three years. His gruesome death made front-page news and led to the eventual regulation of radium and empowerment of the FDA.
April 3 - Wilhelm Ostwald , chemist (b. 1853 )
April 20 - Giuseppe Peano , Italian mathematician (b. 1858 )
April 26 - Hart Crane , American poet (b. 1899 )
April 26 - William Lockwood , Surrey fast bowler (b. 1868 )
May 3 - Charles Fort , US researcher of the unusual (b. 1874 )
May 7 - Paul Doumer , French president (assassinated) (b. 1857 )
May 15 - Tsuyoshi Inukai , Japanese prime minister (assassinated) (b. 1855 )
May 17 - Fredrick C. Billard , Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1924 until his death (b. 1873 ).
July 6 - Kenneth Grahame , author, The Wind in the Willows (b. 1859 )
July 23 - Alberto Santos-Dumont , Brazilian aviation pioneer (b. 1873 )
September 23 - Jules Chéret , master poster designer (b. 1836 )
November 9 - Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin , second wife of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (b. 1901 )
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