Editing 1932 in music (section)

==Births==
*[[January 19]] – [[Polibio Mayorga]], Ecuadorian songwriter, accordionist, and keyboardist
*[[January 26]] – [[Coxsone Dodd]], record producer (d. 2004)
*[[January 31]] – [[Rick Hall]], record producer (d. 2018)
*[[February 8]] – [[John Williams]], film music composer (''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'')
*[[February 16]] – [[Harry Goz]], musical theatre star (d. 2003)
*[[February 24]] – [[Michel Legrand]], composer (d. 2019)
*[[February 26]] – [[Johnny Cash]], country singer (d. 2003)
*[[March 4]] – [[Miriam Makeba]], singer (d. 2008)
*[[March 15]] – [[Arif Mardin]], record producer (d. 2006)
*[[March 21]] – [[Joseph Silverstein]], violinist (d. 2015)
*[[April 1]] – [[Debbie Reynolds]], American actress and singer (d. 2016)
*[[April 8]] – [[John Kinsella (composer)|John Kinsella]], Irish composer (d. 2021)
*[[April 9]] – [[Carl Perkins]], American rockabilly singer (d. 1998)
*[[April 10]] – [[Kishori Amonkar]], Indian classical singer (d. 2017)
*[[April 12]] – [[Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim]], American singer and ukulele player (d. 1996)
*[[April 14]] – [[Loretta Lynn]], American country singer  (Coal Miner's Daughter) (d. 2022)
*[[April 26]] – [[Francis Lai]], French songwriter and film composer (d. 2018)
*[[April 27]] – [[Maxine Brown (country singer)|Maxine Brown]], American country singer ([[The Browns]]) (d. 2019)
*[[April 28]] – [[Marek Kopelent]], Czech composer (d. 2023)
*[[May 19]] – [[Alma Cogan]], English singer (d. 1966)
*[[May 30]] – [[Pauline Oliveros]], American electronic music composer (d. 2016)
*[[June 7]] – [[Tina Brooks]], saxophonist (d. 1974)
*[[June 19]] – [[Ernest Ranglin]], Jamaican guitarist
*[[June 21]] – [[Lalo Schifrin]], film composer
*[[June 27]]
**[[Anna Moffo]], operatic soprano (d. 2006)
**[[Hugh Wood]], composer (d. 2021)
*[[July 11]] – [[Roquel Billy Davis]], singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 2004)
*[[July 12]] – [[Eddy Wally]] (Eduard Van De Walle), Flemish [[Schlager music]] singer (d. 2016)
*[[July 13]] – [[Per Nørgård]], Danish composer
*[[July 16]] – [[John Chilton]], English jazz trumpeter (d. 2016)
*[[July 19]] – [[Buster Benton]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
*[[August 2]] – [[John Cohen (musician)|John Cohen]], folk musician and photographer (d. 2019)
*[[August 23]] – [[Sinn Sisamouth]], singer-songwriter, "the King of Khmer music" (d. 1976)
*[[September 8]] – [[Patsy Cline]], country singer (d. 1963)
*[[September 25]] – [[Glenn Gould]], classical pianist (d. 1982)
*[[September 28]] – [[Víctor Jara]], Chilean singer-songwriter (k. 1973)
*[[October 9]] – [[Aloys and Alfons Kontarsky|Alfons Kontarsky]], pianist (d. 2010)
*[[November 10]] – [[Paul Bley]], jazz pianist (d. 2016)
*[[November 15]] – [[Clyde McPhatter]], ([[The Drifters]]) (d. 1972)
*[[November 21]] – [[Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen]], Danish composer (d. 2016)
*[[November 28]] – [[Ethel Ennis]], jazz singer (d. 2019)
*[[November 30]] – [[Bob Moore (musician)|Bob Moore]], bassist (Elvis, Roy Orbison) (d. 2021)
*[[December 3]] – [[Corry Brokken]], Dutch singer, winner of the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1957]] (d. 2016)
*[[December 5]] – [[Little Richard]] (Penniman), rock singer, songwriter, pianist and actor (d. 2020)
*[[December 9]] – [[Donald Byrd]], jazz trumpeter (d. 2013)
*[[December 12]] – [[Charlie Rich]], country singer (d. 1995)
*[[December 15]] – [[Jesse Belvin]], singer, pianist and songwriter (d. 1960)
*[[December 20]] – [[Leslie Adams (composer)|Leslie Adams]], American composer and educator
*[[December 28]] – [[Dorsey Burnette]], [[Rockabilly]] pioneer (d. 1979)