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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 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 (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
- February 24 - Michel Legrand, composer
- February 25 - Faron Young country music singer (d. 1996)
- February 26 - Johnny Cash, US country music singer
- 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 18 - John Updike, US author
April-July
- April 1 - Gordon Jump, actor, "Maytag Repairman" (d. 2003)
- April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, actress
- April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986)
- April 4 - Anthony Perkins, US 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) (d. 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
- February 10 - Edgar Wallace, novelist, screenwriter for King Kong
- March 6 - John Philip Sousa, US band leader, conductor, composer
- March 1 - Frank Teschemacher, jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist
- March 7 - Aristide Briand, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1928)
- March 14 - George Eastman, camera inventor
- March 31 - Eben Byers, steel tycoon and Pittsburgh socialite, 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
- April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician
- April 26 - Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
- May 3 - Charles Fort, US researcher of the unusual
- May 7 - Paul Doumer, French president (assassinated)
- May 15 - Tsuyoshi Inukai, Japanese prime minister (assassinated)
- July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, author, The Wind in the Willows
- July 23 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer
- September 23 - Jules Chéret, master poster designer
- November 9 - Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin
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