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{{UseAUSTIN Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Timeline 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–May 21 – Amelia Earhart flies from the USA to Derry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes.
- May 20 – Federaci n Obrera de la Industria de la Carne initiates a major strike in the Argentinian meat-packing industry.
- May 26 – Judgement in Donoghue v Stevenson handed down in the House of Lords, creating the neighbour principle in English law.
- 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 Br ning resigns. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government.
June July August September October November Enigma]] with plugboard, the main German cipher device during World War II. December Date unknown Births January February - February 1 – John Nott, British polictian
- February 3 – Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
- February 6 – Fran ois Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
- February 7 – Gay Talese, American author
- February 8
- 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
- February 18 – Milo Forman, Czech film director
- February 20 – Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007)
- February 22
- February 23 – Majel Barrett, American actress (Star Trek) (d. 2008)
- 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) (d. 2011)
- February 28 – Don Francks, Canadian actor
March - March – Dennis O'Neill, young victim of manslaughter by fosterparents (d. 1945)
- March 4
- March 6 – Bronis aw Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (d. 2008)
- March 7 – Momoko K chi, Japanese actress (d. 1998)
- 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 17 – Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist
- March 18 – John Updike, American author (d. 2009)
- March 21 – Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 30 – Ted Morgan, French-born author, biographer, and journalist
April - April 1
- April 2 – Michael Vernon, Australian consumer activist (d.1993)
- April 4
- April 8 – Sultan Iskandar of Johor, also the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2010)
- April 9
- April 10 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
- April 11 – Joel Grey, American actor (Cabaret)
- April 12
- 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
- April 28 – Brownie Ledbetter, American civil rights activist (d. 2010)
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 19 – Jos Sanchis Grau, Spanish comic writer (d. 2011)
- June 21 – OC Smith American musician (d. 2001)
- June 22
- 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 August September - September 1
- September 4 – Dinsdale Landen, British actor (d. 2003)
- September 5 – Carol Lawrence, American actress and dancer
- September 6 – Marguerite Pearson, American professional baseball player (d. 2005)
- 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, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2002)
- September 22 – Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania (d. 2010)
- September 25
- September 26
- September 27 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
- September 28 – Victor Jara, Chilean politician and singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
- September 29 – Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
- September 30 – Shintar Ishihara, Japanese author and politician
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
- October 28
November December Date unknown Deaths January–June - January 7 – Andre Maginot, French soldier and politician (b. 1877)
- January 8 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (b. 1866)
- January 13
- 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 8 – Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1867)
- February 8 – Mad Dog Coll, American gangster (b. 1908)
- February 10 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- February 15 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (b. 1865)
- 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 11 – Dora Carrington, British painter (b. 1893)
- March 14 – George Eastman, American inventor (Kodak) (b. 1854)
- March 18 – Chancellor Olcott, American actor (b. 1858)
- March 31 – Eben Byers, American steel tycoon and socialite (radiation poisoning) (b. 1880)
- April 2 – Bill Pickett, African-American cowboy whose parents were slaves (b. 1870)
- April 4 – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- April 7 – Grigore Constantinescu, Romanian priest and journalist (b. 1875)
- April 20 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
- April 22 – Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian, writer and irredenta (b. 1883)
- April 26 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
- April 27 – Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
- 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)
- May 25 – Franz von Hipper, German admiral (b. 1863)
- June 21 – Major Taylor, American cyclist (b. 1878)
- June 24 – Ernst P dder, Estonian military commander (b. 1879)
July–December - July 2 – Manuel II of Portugal, last king of Portugal (b. 1889)
- July 6 – Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author (The Wind In The Willows) (b. 1859)
- July 7 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
- July 22
- July 23
- September 5 – Paul Bern, American screenwriter (b. 1889)
- September 16 – Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
- September 18 – Peg Entwistle, American actress (b. 1908)
- September 20 – Wovoka, Paiute visionary (Ghost Dance) (b. c. 1856)
- September 23 – Jules Ch ret, French poster designer (b. 1836)
- September 25 – Joel R. P. Pringle, American admiral (d. 1873)
- October 5 – Christopher Brennan, Australian poet and scholar (b. 1870)
- October 17 – Lucy Bacon, American painter (b. 1857)
- October 26 – Molly Brown, Denver socialite, Titanic survivor (b. 1867)
- November 4 – Belle Bennett, American actress (b. 1891)
- November 15 – Charles Waddell Chesnutt, African American author, essayist, political activist (b. 1858)
- December 8 – Gertrude Jekyll, British garden designer, writer and artist (b. 1843)
- December 9 – Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, Bangladeshi writer and social worker (b. 1880)
- December 19 – Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908)
- December 28 – Malcolm Whitman, American tennis player (b. 1877)
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