Editing 1932

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==Events==
===January===
{{Main|January 1932}}
* [[January 4]] – The British authorities in India arrest and intern [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and [[Vallabhbhai Patel]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Gujarat State Gazetteers: Kheda|publisher=Directorate of Government Print., Stationery and Publications, Gujarat State|year=1977|page=127}}</ref>
* [[January 9]] – [[Sakuradamon Incident (1932)|Sakuradamon Incident]]: Korean nationalist [[Lee Bong-chang]] fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor [[Hirohito]] of Japan. The [[Kuomintang]]'s official newspaper runs an editorial expressing regret that the attempt failed, which is used by the Japanese as a pretext to attack [[Shanghai]] later in the month. 
* [[January 22]] – The [[1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising]] begins; it is suppressed by the government of [[Maximiliano Hernández Martínez]].
* [[January 24]] – Marshal [[Pietro Badoglio]] declares the end of [[Libya]]n resistance.
* [[January 26]] – British submarine {{HMS|M2|1918|6}} sinks with all 60 hands.
* [[January 28]] – [[January 28 incident]]: Conflict between Japan and China in Shanghai.
* [[January 31]] – Japanese warships arrive in [[Nanking]].

===February===

{{Main|February 1932}}
* [[February 2]]
** A general [[World Disarmament Conference]] begins in [[Geneva]]. The principal issue at the conference is the demand made by Germany for {{lang|de|Gleichberechtigung}} ("equality of status" i.e. abolishing Part V of the Treaty of Versailles, which had disarmed Germany) and the French demand for {{lang|fr|sécurité}} ("security" i.e. maintaining Part V).
** The [[League of Nations]] again recommends negotiations between the [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]] and Japan.
** The [[Reconstruction Finance Corporation]] begins operations in Washington, D.C.
* [[February 4]]
** The [[1932 Winter Olympics]] open in [[Lake Placid, New York]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lake Placid Winter Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results |url=https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/lake-placid-1932 |website=Olympics.com |access-date=17 September 2021 |language=en |date=25 April 2018}}</ref>
** Japan occupies [[Harbin]], China.
* [[February 9]] – [[League of Blood Incident]]: [[Junnosuke Inoue]], prominent Japanese businessman, banker and former governor of the Bank of Japan is assassinated by the right-wing extremist group the League of Blood.
* [[February 11]] – [[Pope Pius XI]] meets [[Benito Mussolini]] in [[Vatican City]].
* [[February 15]] – ''Clara, Lu & Em'', generally regarded as the first daytime network [[soap opera]], debuts in its morning time slot over the [[Blue Network]] of [[NBC]] Radio in the United States, having originally been a late evening program.
* [[February 18]] – Japan declares [[Manchukuo]] (Japanese name for [[Manchuria]]) formally independent from China.
* [[February 25]] – [[Adolf Hitler]] obtains German citizenship by [[naturalization]], opening the opportunity for him to run in the [[1932 German presidential election]].
* [[February 27]] – The [[Mäntsälä rebellion]] occurs in Finland.

===March===
{{Main|March 1932}}
* [[March 1]]
** [[Lindbergh kidnapping]]: Charles Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] and [[Charles Lindbergh]], is kidnapped from the family home near [[Hopewell, New Jersey]].
** Japan installs [[Puyi]] as [[puppet emperor]] of [[Manchukuo]].
* [[March 2]] – The [[Mäntsälä rebellion]] ends in failure; Finnish democracy prevails. The [[Lapua Movement]] is condemned by conservative Finnish president [[Pehr Evind Svinhufvud]] in a radio speech.
* [[March 5]] – [[Dan Takuma]], prominent Japanese businessman and director of the [[Mitsui]] ''[[Zaibatsu]]'' conglomerate is assassinated by the radical right-wing League of Blood group. 
* [[March 9]] – [[Éamon de Valera]] is elected [[President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State]], the first change of government in the country since its foundation 10 years previously.
* [[March 14]] – [[George Eastman]], founder of [[Kodak]], commits suicide in [[Rochester, New York]].
* [[March 18]] – Peace negotiations between China and Japan begin.
* [[March 19]] – The [[Sydney Harbour Bridge]] opens in Australia.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Museum of Australia - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens |url=https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/sydney-harbour-bridge-opens |website=www.nma.gov.au |access-date=17 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] – The ''[[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|Graf Zeppelin]]'' airship begins a regular route between Germany and South America.
* [[March 21]]–[[March 22|22]] – [[1932 Deep South tornado outbreak]]: A series of deadly tornadoes in the United States kills more than 220 people in [[Alabama]], 34 in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and 17 in [[Tennessee]].
* [[March 22]] – ''[[Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)|Tarzan the Ape Man]]'' premieres in New Yord City, first of the classic film series starring [[Johnny Weissmuller]] and [[Maureen O'Sullivan]].

===April===
{{Main|April 1932}}
* [[April 5]]
** 10,000 disgruntled Newfoundlanders march on their legislature to show discontent with their current political situation; this is a flash point in the demise of the [[Dominion of Newfoundland]].
** The first [[Alko]] stores are opened in Finland at 10 in the morning (local time) following the end of Prohibition in that country, resulting in a new [[mnemonic]] "543210".
* [[April 6]]
** U.S. president [[Herbert Hoover]] supports armament limitations at the [[Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments|World Disarmament Conference]].
** The trial of fraudulent art dealer [[Otto Wacker]] begins in Berlin.
* [[April 11]] – [[1932 German presidential election]]: [[Paul von Hindenburg]] is re-elected as ''[[President of Germany (1919–1945)|Reichspräsident]]'', defeating Hitler.
* [[April 13]] – German Chancellor [[Heinrich Brüning]] bans the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] and the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] as threats to public order, arguing that they are chiefly responsible for the wave of political violence afflicting Germany.<ref name=Feuchtwanger>{{cite book|last=Feuchtwanger|first=Edgar|title=From Weimar to Hitler|location=Basingstoke|publisher=Macmillan|year=1993|pages=270–9|isbn=0333274660}}</ref> 
* [[April 14]] – [[John Cockcroft]] and [[Ernest Walton]] focus a proton beam on lithium and split its nucleus.
* [[April 17]] – [[Haile Selassie]] announces an anti-[[slavery]] law in [[Ethiopia|Abyssinia]].
* [[April 19]] – German art dealer [[Otto Wacker]] is sentenced to 19 months in prison for selling [[art forgery|fraudulent]] paintings he attributed to [[Vincent van Gogh]].
* [[April 25]]
** [[Gladys Elinor Watkins]] consecrates the [[carillon]] of the [[National War Memorial (New Zealand)|National War Memorial]] in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wellington War Memorial Carillon Inauguration |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a1cb939a9db092c95c6db66/t/5a71781c0852295f5a31f698/1517385764473/Wellington+War+Memorail+Carillon.pdf |access-date=2021-06-24 |url-status=live |archive-date=2018-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013053947/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a1cb939a9db092c95c6db66/t/5a71781c0852295f5a31f698/1517385764473/Wellington+War+Memorail+Carillon.pdf}}</ref>
** The bodies of [[Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman]] and [[Jabir ibn Abd Allah]], two of the companions of Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]], are moved from their graves in Salmaan Paak following a dream of King [[Faisal I of Iraq]] that they are affected by water.
* [[April 29]] – Korean pro-independence paramilitary [[Yun Bong-gil]] detonates a bomb at a gathering of Japanese government and military officials in [[Shanghai]]'s [[Lu Xun Park (Shanghai)|Hongkou Park]], killing General [[Yoshinori Shirakawa]] and injuring [[Mamoru Shigemitsu]] and Vice Admiral [[Kichisaburō Nomura]].

===May===
{{Main|May 1932}}
* [[May 6]]
** [[Paul Gorguloff]] shoots French president [[Paul Doumer]] in Paris; Doumer dies the next day.
** The politically powerful General [[Kurt von Schleicher]] meets secretly with [[Adolf Hitler]].<ref name="auto">{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|page=366|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7}}</ref> Schleicher tells Hitler that he is scheming to bring down the Brüning government in Germany and asks for Nazi support of the new "presidential government" Schleicher is planning to form.<ref name="auto"/> Schleicher and Hitler negotiate a "gentlemen's agreement" where in exchange for lifting the ban on the SA and SS and having the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] dissolved for early elections this summer, the Nazis will support Schleicher's new chancellor. 
* [[May 10]]
** [[Albert Lebrun]] becomes the new [[president of France]].
** Violent scenes in the German [[Reichstag building]] in Berlin as [[Hermann Göring]] and other Nazi MRDs attack the Defense Minister General [[Wilhelm Groener]] for his lack of belief in a supposed Social Democratic ''[[putsch]]''.<ref name="auto"/> After the debate, General Schleicher tells Groener that he has lost the confidence of the Army and must resign at once.<ref name="auto"/>
** [[James Chadwick]] discovers the [[neutron]].
* [[May 12]] – General Wilhelm Groener resigns as German Defense Minister.<ref name="auto"/> Schleicher takes control of the Defense Ministry.
* [[May 13]] – The [[Premier of New South Wales]], [[Jack Lang (Australian politician)|Jack Lang]], is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir [[Philip Game]].
* [[May 15]] – [[May 15 Incident]], an attempted military coup in which Japanese prime minister [[Tsuyoshi Inukai]] is assassinated by naval officers. Japanese troops leave Shanghai.
* [[May 16]] – Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] leave thousands dead and injured.
* [[May 20]]–[[May 21|21]] – [[Amelia Earhart]] flies from the United States to [[County Londonderry]], [[Northern Ireland]] in 14 hours 54 minutes.
* [[May 20]] – ''[[Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne]]'' initiates a major [[strike action|strike]] in the [[Argentina|Argentinian]] meat-packing industry.
* [[May 25]] – [[Goofy]] makes his appearance in the Disney animated short ''[[Mickey's Revue]]''.
* [[May 26]] – Judgement in ''[[Donoghue v Stevenson]]'' handed down in the [[House of Lords]] of the United Kingdom, creating the modern concept of a [[duty of care]] in English law.
* [[May 30]] – German chancellor [[Heinrich Brüning]] is dismissed by President von Hindenburg. President Hindenburg asks [[Franz von Papen]] to form a new government, known as the "Government of the President's Friends", which is openly dedicated to the destruction of democracy and the [[Weimar Republic]]. The downfall of Brüning is largely the work of Schleicher, who has been scheming against him since the beginning of May.<ref name=Feuchtwanger/> Schleicher takes the position of Defense Minister in his friend Papen's government.

===June===
{{Main|June 1932}}
* c. June – The [[Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition]] is established for the [[repeal of Prohibition in the United States]].
* [[June 4]] 
** A [[military coup]] occurs in [[Chile]].
** The Papen government in Germany dissolves the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] for elections on July 31 in the full expectation that the Nazis will win the largest number of seats.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=John Wheeler-Bennett|last=Wheeler-Bennett|first=John|title=The Nemesis of Power|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1967|page=250}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] – The Papen government lifts the ban against the SS and [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] in Germany. 
* [[June 16]]– [[Lausanne Conference of 1932|Lausanne conference]] opens to discuss [[World War I reparations|reparations]], which Germany had not paid since the [[Hoover Moratorium]] of June 1931.
* [[June 20]] – The [[Benelux]] customs union is negotiated.
* [[June 24]] – After a [[Siamese revolution of 1932|relatively bloodless military rebellion]], [[Thailand|Siam]] becomes a [[constitutional monarchy]].
* [[June 25]] – [[India national cricket team|India]] plays its first [[Test cricket]] match with [[England cricket team|England]] at [[Lord's]].

===July===
{{Main|July 1932}}
* [[July 5]] – {{lang|pt|[[António de Oliveira Salazar]]|italic=no}} becomes the [[fascist]] prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years).
* [[July 7]] – French submarine {{lang|fr|[[French submarine Prométhée (1930)|Prométhée]]|italic=yes}} sinks off [[Cherbourg-Octeville|Cherbourg]]; 66 are killed.
* [[July 8]] – The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] in the United States reaches its lowest level of the [[Great Depression]], bottoming out at 41.22.
* [[July 9]]
** The [[Constitutionalist Revolution]] starts in Brazil with the uprising of the [[state of São Paulo]].
** Lausanne conference ends, agreeing to cancel [[World War I reparations]] against Germany.
* [[July 12]]
** Norway annexes northern [[Greenland]].
** [[Hedley Verity]] establishes a new [[first-class cricket]] record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
* [[July 17]] – [[Altona Bloody Sunday]]: In Altona, Germany, a bloody clash with heavy police involvement occurs when [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] marchers enter a working class area with many [[Communist Party of Germany|communist]] supporters; 18 are killed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scheuermann-Peilicke |first=Wolfgang |date=14 July 2021 |title=Der "Altonaer Blutsonntag" 1932 |trans-title=The Altona Bloody Sunday 1932 |url=https://www.dhm.de/lemo/kapitel/weimarer-republik/innenpolitik/altonaer-blutsonntag-1932.html |access-date=9 December 2023 |website=Deutsches Historisches Museum |language=de}}</ref>
* [[July 20]] – The {{lang|de|[[Preußenschlag]]}} in Germany. The political coup gives [[Franz von Papen]] control of [[Free State of Prussia|Prussia]], the most powerful state in Germany, and is a major blow to German democracy.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|pages=368–69}}</ref>
* [[July 21]] – The [[British Empire Economic Conference]] opens in Ottawa, Canada. 
* [[July 30]]
** The [[1932 Summer Olympics]] open in [[Los Angeles]].
** Walt Disney's ''[[Flowers and Trees]]'', the first animated cartoon to be presented in full [[Technicolor]], premieres in Los Angeles. It releases in theaters, along with [[Strange Interlude (film)|the film version]] of [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''[[Strange Interlude]]'' (starring [[Norma Shearer]] and [[Clark Gable]]); ''Flowers and Trees'' goes on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
* [[July 31]] – [[July 1932 German federal election]] sees the Nazis become the largest party in the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]], winning 37% of the vote.

===August===
{{Main|August 1932}}
* [[August]] – A farmers' revolt begins in the [[Midwestern United States]].
* [[August 1]]
** The second [[International Polar Year]], an international scientific collaboration, begins.
** [[Forrest Edward Mars, Sr.|Forrest Mars]] produces the first [[Mars bar]] in his [[Slough]] factory in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=slough&f=generic_theme%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&%3dtheme_record_id=sl%2dsl%2dmars&s=MUhpLhrsY1I|title=Mars – the chocolate planet|work=Slough History Online|access-date=2010-02-08}}</ref>
* [[August 2]] – The first [[positron]] is discovered by [[Carl D. Anderson]].
* [[August 5]] – Hitler meets with Schleicher and reneges on the "gentlemen's agreement", demanding that he be appointed Chancellor.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=John Wheeler-Bennett|last=Wheeler-Bennett|first=John|title=The Nemesis of Power|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1967|page=257}}</ref> Schleicher agrees to support Hitler as Chancellor provided that he can remain minister of defense.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|page=371}}</ref> Schleicher sets up a meeting between Hindenburg and Hitler on August 13 to discuss Hitler's possible appointment as Chancellor. 
* [[August 6]]
** The first [[Venice Film Festival]] is held.
** In Germany, the world's first [[Autobahn]] is opened by [[Konrad Adenauer]] ([[Bundesautobahn 555]]).
** [[Carl Gustaf Ekman]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] and is replaced by his Minister of Finance [[Felix Hamrin]].
* [[August 9]] – In Germany:
**The Papen government, which likes to take a tough "law and order" stance, passes via Article 48 a law prescribing the death penalty for a variety of offenses and with the court system simplified so that the courts can hand down as many death sentences as possible.<ref name="auto1">{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|page=382}}</ref>
** [[Potempa Murder of 1932]]: In the eastern town of [[Potępa|Potempa]], five Nazi "[[Brownshirts]]" break into the house of Konrad Pietrzuch, a Communist miner, and proceed to castrate and beat him to death in front of his mother.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|page=381}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] – A 5.1&nbsp;kg [[chondrite]]-type [[meteorite]] breaks into fragments and strikes earth near the town of [[Archie, Missouri]], United States.
* [[August 11]] – To celebrate Constitution Day in Germany, Chancellor [[Franz von Papen]] and his interior minister Baron [[Wilhelm von Gayl]] present proposed amendments to the Weimar constitution for a "New State" to deal with the problems besetting Germany.<ref name="auto2">{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|page=372}}</ref> 
* [[August 13]] – Hitler meets President von Hindenburg and asks to be appointed as Chancellor.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|page=373}}</ref> Hindenburg refuses under the grounds that Hitler is not qualified to be Chancellor and asks him instead to serve as Vice-Chancellor in Papen's government.<ref name="auto2"/> Hitler announces his "all or nothing" strategy in which he will oppose any government not headed by himself and will accept no office other than Chancellor. 
* [[August 18]] – [[Auguste Piccard]] reaches an altitude of {{convert|16197|m|ft|abbr=on}} with a [[hot air balloon]].
* [[August 18]]–[[August 19|19]] – Scottish aviator [[Jim Mollison]] becomes the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo [[transatlantic flight]], from [[Portmarnock]], [[County Dublin]], Ireland to [[RCAF Station Pennfield Ridge]], [[New Brunswick]], Canada, in his [[de Havilland Puss Moth]] high-wing monoplane ''The Heart's Content''.
* [[August 20]] – The Ottawa conference ends with the adoption of [[Imperial Preference]] tariff, turning the British Empire into one economic zone with a series of tariffs meant to exclude non-empire states from competing within the markets of Britain; the Dominions; and the rest of the empire. 
* [[August 22]] – [[Potempa murder of 1932|Potempa murder]]: The five SA men involved in the torture and murder of Konrad Pietrzuch are quickly convicted and sentenced to death under the new law introduced by the Papen government.<ref name="auto1"/> The Potempa case becomes a ''[[wikt:cause célèbre|cause célèbre]]'' in Germany, where some maintain the death sentences are appropriate given the brutality of the torture and murder, whilst Nazis demonstrate for amnesty for the "Potempa five" on the grounds they are patriotic heroes, justified in killing the Communist Pietrzuch, and should not be executed. Hitler sends a telegram congratulating the five<ref name="auto1"/> and they are released from jail in 1933 after he becomes [[Chancellor of Germany]].<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Michael Burleigh|last=Burleigh|first=Michael|title=The Third Reich: A New History|location=New York|publisher=Hill & Wang|year=2000|page=159|isbn=0-8090-9325-1}}</ref>
* [[August 23]] – The [[Civil Aviation Authority (Panama)|Panama Civil Aviation Authority]] is established.
* [[August 30]] – [[Hermann Göring]] is elected as Speaker of the German [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]].
* [[August 31]] – A [[total solar eclipse]] is visible from northern Canada through northeastern Vermont, New Hampshire, southwestern Maine and the Capes of Massachusetts.

===September===
{{Main|September 1932}}
* [[September 2]] – Despite the court's sentence of death against the "Potempa five", Chancellor von Papen in his capacity as Reich Commissioner of Prussia refuses to have the "Potempa five" executed under the grounds that they were not aware of the emergency law at the time they committed the murder, but in reality because he is still hoping for Nazi support for his government.<ref name="auto1"/>
* [[September 9]] 
** The {{Lang|es|[[Cortes Generales]]|italic=no}} (Parliament) of the [[Second Spanish Republic]] approves the [[Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1932|Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia]] which grants full autonomy for [[Catalonia]] for the first time in [[modern history]].
** Beginning of the [[Chaco War]] between [[Paraguay]] and [[Bolivia]] because of delimitation problems and others.
* [[September 10]] – The [[IND Eighth Avenue Line]], at this time the world's longest [[rapid transit|subway]] line ({{convert|31|mi|km}}), begins operation in [[Manhattan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mta.info/nyct/facts/ffhist.htm |title=New York City Transit – History and Chronology|publisher=[[Metropolitan Transportation Authority]]|year=2009|access-date=2012-01-03|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021019203759/http://www.mta.info/nyct/facts/ffhist.htm|archive-date=2002-10-19}}</ref>
* [[September 11]]
** Canadian operations end on the [[International Railway (New York–Ontario)]].
** A bronze statue of [[Youssef Bey Karam]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=ehden|title=Youssef Bey Karam|work=Ehden Family Tree|access-date=March 29, 2019|archive-date=March 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329220258/https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=ehden|url-status=dead}}</ref> is erected in his memory outside the Cathedral of Saint Georges, [[Ehden]] in Lebanon.
* [[September 12]] – The very unpopular Papen government in Germany is defeated on a massive motion of no-confidence in the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]]. With the exceptions of the [[German People's Party]] and the [[German National People's Party]], every party in the Reichstag votes for the no-confidence motion. Papen has Hindenburg dissolve the Reichstag for new elections in November. 
*[[September 17]] 
** A speech by [[Laureano Gómez]] leads to the escalation of the [[Leticia Incident]] between Colombia and Peru.
** Start of the [[Han–Liu War]] over [[Shandong]].
* [[September 20]] – [[Mahatma Gandhi]] begins a [[hunger strike]] in [[Poona]] prison, India.
* [[September 22]] – [[Soviet famine of 1932–33]] begins; millions starve to death as a result of forced collectivization and as part of the government's effort to break rural resistance to its policies. The Soviet regime denies the famine and allows the deaths. 
* [[September 23]] – The [[Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd]] is proclaimed the Kingdom of [[Saudi Arabia]], concluding the country's [[Unification of Saudi Arabia|unification]] under the rule of [[Ibn Saud|King Abdulaziz]].
* [[September 24]] – After his party's victory in the election to the Swedish Riksdag's second chamber, Social Democrat [[Per Albin Hansson]] becomes the new prime minister of Sweden, after [[Felix Hamrin]].
* [[September 27]] – [[Ryutin Affair]] at its height in the Soviet Union. The Politburo meets and condemns the so-called "Ryutin Platform" and agrees to expel those associated with it from the Communist Party, but refuses Stalin's request to execute those associated with the Platform.
* [[September 28]] – The court of [[Helsinki]] sentences Vilho Kallio, Ville Saari and Ida Maria Viden to prison for the [[Tattarisuo case|Tattarisuo mutilation case]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/1739850?page=3|title=Tattarisuon juttu pois päiväjärjestyksestä. Noita-Kallion y.m. tuomiot vahvistettu|work=Laatokka|date=13 October 1934|language=fi}}</ref>

===October===
{{Main|October 1932}}
* [[October]] – [[Hergé]]'s ''[[Tintin in America]] (Tintin en Amérique)'' concludes serial publication and is issued in book format (in black and white) in Belgium.
* [[October 1]] – [[Gyula Gömbös]] becomes Prime Minister of Hungary, the first time a member of the radical right has become the country's head of government. 
* [[October 3]] – [[Iraq]] becomes an independent kingdom under [[Faisal I of Iraq|Faisal]].
* [[October 15]] – Tata Airlines (later to become [[Air India]]) makes its first flight.
* [[October 19]] – [[Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten|Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden]] marries [[Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]].
* [[October 25]] – [[George Lansbury]] became the leader of the opposition British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Shepherd|first= John|title= George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= Oxford|year= 2002|isbn= 0-19-820164-8|page=282}}</ref>

===November===
{{Main|November 1932}}
[[File:Enigma-plugboard.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The [[Polish Cipher Bureau|Cipher Bureau]] breaks the German Enigma cipher and overcomes the ever-growing structural and operating complexities of the evolving [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] with [[plugboard]], the main German cipher device during World War II.]]
* [[November 1]] – The [[Kennedy–Thorndike experiment]] is published, showing that measured time as well as length is affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of [[special relativity]].
* [[November 2]] – The [[Emu War]], a nuisance wildlife management military operation, begins in Australia.
* [[November 3]] – Strike by transport workers in Berlin. The Nazis and the Communists both co-operate in support of the strike. The Nazi-Communist co-operation damages the Nazis at the upcoming election with many right-wing voters switching back to the [[German National People's Party]]. 
* [[November 6]] – [[November 1932 German federal election]]: The Nazis remain the largest party in the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] but their share of the seats drops from 37% to 32%.
* [[November 7]] – ''[[Buck Rogers|Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]'' debuts on American [[radio]]. It is the first science fiction program on radio.
* [[November 8]] – [[1932 United States presidential election]]: [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] governor of [[New York (state)|New York]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] defeats Republican president Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
* [[November 9]]
** A [[hurricane]] and huge waves kill about 2,500 in [[Santa Cruz del Sur]] in the worst [[natural disaster]] in [[Cuba]]n history.
** Geneva massacre: [[Military of Switzerland]] fire on a socialist anti-fascist demonstration in [[Geneva]] leaving 13 dead and 60 injured.
* [[November 21]] – German president [[Paul von Hindenburg|Hindenburg]] begins negotiations with Adolf Hitler about the formation of a new government.
* [[November 27]] – The [[Second Eastern Women's Congress]] opens in Tehran, Iran.<ref>{{cite book | last = Moghissi | first = Haideh | title = Women and Islam: critical concepts in sociology | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780415324212 | page=224}}</ref>
* [[November 30]] – The [[Polish Cipher Bureau]] breaks the German [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] cipher.

===December===
{{Main|December 1932}}
* [[December 1]] – Germany returns to the [[World Disarmament Conference]] after the others powers agree to accept ''gleichberechtigung'' {{Clarify|date=December 2014}} "in principle". Henceforward, it is clear that Germany will be allowed to rearm beyond the limits imposed by the [[Treaty of Versailles]]. 
* [[December 3]] – Hindenburg names [[Kurt von Schleicher]] as German chancellor after he ousts Papen. Papen is deeply angry about how his former friend Schleicher has brought him down and decides that he will do anything to get back into power.
* [[December 4]] – Chancellor Schleicher meets with [[Gregor Strasser]] and offers to appoint him Vice-Chancellor and ''Reich'' Commissioner for Prussia out of the hope that if faced with a split in the NSDAP, Hitler will support his government.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Henry Ashby|title=Hitler's Thirty Days to Power|location=New York|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1996|isbn=0201328003|page=25}}</ref> 
* [[December 5]] – At a secret meeting of the Nazi leaders, Strasser urges Hitler to drop his "all or nothing" strategy and accept Schleicher's offer to have the Nazis serve in his cabinet.<ref name="auto3">{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Henry Ashby|title=Hitler's Thirty Days to Power|location=New York|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1996|isbn=0201328003|page=26}}</ref> Hitler gives a dramatic speech saying that Schleicher's offer is not acceptable and he will stick to his "all or nothing" strategy whatever the consequences might be and wins the Nazi leadership over to his viewpoint.<ref name="auto3"/>
* [[December 8]] – [[Gregor Strasser]] resigns as the chief of the NSDAP's organizational department in protest against Hitler's "all or nothing" strategy.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Henry Ashby|title=Hitler's Thirty Days to Power|location=New York|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1996|isbn=0201328003|pages=27–28}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – The [[Emu War]] in Australia ends in failure.
* [[December 12]] – Japan and the [[Soviet Union]] reform their diplomatic connections.{{clarify|date=December 2016}}
* [[December 19]] – [[BBC World Service]] begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service using a [[shortwave radio]] facility at its [[Daventry transmitting station]] in England.
* [[December 24]] – [[1932 Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster]]
* [[December 25]]
** The 7.6 {{M|s}} [[1932 Changma earthquake|Changma earthquake]] shakes the [[Gansu|Gansu Province]] in China with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''). Two-hundred and seventy-five people are killed.
** [[IG Farben]] files a [[patent]] application in Germany for the medical application of the first [[Sulfonamide (medicine)|sulfonamide]] oral [[antibiotic]], which will be marketed as [[Prontosil]], following [[Gerhard Domagk]]'s laboratory demonstration of its properties as an antibiotic.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lesch|first=J. E.|title=The First Miracle Drugs: How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine|chapter=Prontosil|pages=51–61|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-19-518775-5}}</ref>
** King [[George V]] delivers the first [[Royal Christmas Message]]<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=375–376|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> on the new BBC Empire Service radio from [[Sandringham House]]; the text has been written by [[Rudyard Kipling]].
* [[December 27]] – Internal passports are introduced in the Soviet Union.
* [[December 28]] – The Cologne banker [[Kurt Baron von Schröder|Kurt von Schröder]]-who is a close friend of Papen and a NSDAP member-meets with [[Adolf Hitler]] to tell him that Papen wants to set up a meeting to discuss how they can work together. Papen wants Nazi support to return to the Chancellorship while Hitler wants Papen to convince Hindenburg to appoint him Chancellor. Hitler agrees to meet Papen on January 3, 1933.

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* [[Zero-length spring]]s are invented, revolutionizing [[seismometer]]s and [[gravimeter]]s.
* Geneticist [[J. B. S. Haldane]] publishes ''The Causes of Evolution'', unifying the findings of Mendelian [[genetics]] with those of [[evolution]]ary science.
* The [[heath hen]] becomes extinct in North America.
* [[Walter B. Pitkin]] publishes ''[[Life Begins at Forty]]'' in the United States.
* [[SPAR (retailer)|SPAR]], the global [[retail]] brand, is founded in [[Zegwaart]], [[Netherlands]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://spar-international.com/aboutus/history/|access-date=2021-08-02|website=SPAR International|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Unemployment in the United States – ca. 33% – 14&nbsp;million. A similar level of unemployment affects Germany. Many people in depressed countries do not receive unemployment benefit due to governments not being able to afford benefit payments.<ref>[http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/weimar.htm US unemployment statistics], historyhome.co.uk; accessed December 10, 2014.</ref>

==Births==
{{BDToC|births}}

===January===
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* [[January 3]] – [[Dabney Coleman]], American actor  (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/03/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-3-2019/1811546209344/|title= UPI Almanac for Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019|work=[[United Press International]]|date=January 3, 2019|access-date=September 3, 2019|archive-date=January 3, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190103223323/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/03/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-3-2019/1811546209344/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 5]]
** [[Bob Barney]] and [[Dave Barney]], American educators and sportspersons
** [[Umberto Eco]], Italian scholar and novelist (d. [[2016]])
** [[Raisa Gorbacheva]], wife of the president of the Soviet Union (d. [[1999]])
* [[January 10]] 
** [[József Szécsényi]], Hungarian track and field athlete (d. [[2017]])
** [[David Ejoor]], Nigerian Army officer (d. [[2019]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Takkō Ishimori]], Japanese voice actor (d. [[2013]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Joseph Cardinal Zen]], Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong
* [[January 16]] – [[Dian Fossey]], American zoologist (d. [[1985]])
* [[January 17]] – [[Sheree North]], American actress and singer (d. [[2005]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Robert Anton Wilson]], American author (d. [[2007]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Richard Lester]], American film director 
* [[January 22]] – [[Piper Laurie]], American actress (d. [[2023]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Nikolay Anikin]], Soviet cross-country skier (d. [[2009]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Coxsone Dodd]], Jamaican record producer (d. [[2004]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Boris Shakhlin]], Soviet gymnast (d. [[2008]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Ellen Griffin Dunne]], American actress and activist (d. [[1997]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Tommy Taylor]], English footballer (d. [[1958]])
* [[January 30]]
** [[Kazuo Inamori]], Japanese businessman (d. [[2022]])
** [[Knock Yokoyama]], Japanese comedian and politician (d. [[2007]])

===February===
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[[File:Taylor, Elizabeth posed.jpg|thumb|130x130px|Dame [[Elizabeth Taylor]]]]
* [[February 1]] – [[Hassan Al-Turabi]], Sudanese spiritual leader (d. [[2016]])
* [[February 3]]
** [[Peggy Ann Garner]], American actress (d. [[1984]])
** [[Blaise Rabetafika]], Malagasy diplomat (d. [[2000]])
* [[February 5]] – [[Cesare Maldini]], Italian football player and manager (d. [[2016]])
* [[February 6]]
** [[François Truffaut]], French film director (d. [[1984]])
** [[Camilo Cienfuegos]], Cuban revolutionary leader (d. [[1959]])
* [[February 7]]
** [[Gay Talese]], American author
** [[Alfred Worden]], American astronaut (d. [[2020]])
* [[February 8]] – [[John Williams]], American composer and conductor<ref>{{cite book | last = MacDonald | first = Laurence | title = The invisible art of film music: a comprehensive history | publisher = Ardsley House Publishers | location = New York, N.Y | year = 1998 | isbn = 9781880157565 | page=218}}</ref>
* [[February 9]] – [[Gerhard Richter]], German painter
* [[February 11]] – [[Margit Carlqvist]], Swedish actress 
* [[February 13]] – [[Susan Oliver]], American actress (d. [[1990]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Alexander Kluge]], German author and film director
* [[February 16]]
** [[Ahmad Tejan Kabbah|Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah]], former [[president of Sierra Leone]] (d. [[2014]])
** [[Aharon Appelfeld]], Ukrainian-born Israeli writer (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Miloš Forman]], Czech-American film director (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Alberto Dines]], Brazilian journalist and writer (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Morre o jornalista Alberto Dines, aos 86 anos|url=http://www.jb.com.br/pais/noticias/2018/05/22/morre-o-jornalista-alberto-dines-aos-86-anos/|accessdate=22 May 2018|work=Jornal do Brasil|language=pt-br|archive-date=July 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728013310/http://www.jb.com.br/pais/noticias/2018/05/22/morre-o-jornalista-alberto-dines-aos-86-anos/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] – [[Adrian Cristobal]], Filipino writer (d. [[2007]])
* [[February 22]]
** [[Ted Kennedy]], American politician (d. [[2009]])
** [[Robert Opron]], French automotive designer (d. [[2021]])
* [[February 23]] – [[Irene Jai Narayan]], Fiji politician (d. [[2011]])
* [[February 24]]
** [[John Vernon]], Canadian actor (d. [[2005]])
** [[Michel Legrand]], French composer (d. [[2019]])
** [[Zell Miller]], American politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[M. S. Rajeswari]], Indian singer (d. [[2018]])
* [[February 25]]
** [[Augusto Polo Campos]], Peruvian composer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Faron Young]], American country singer (d. [[1996]])
**[[Tony Brooks (racing driver)|Tony Brooks]], British racing driver (d. [[2022]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Johnny Cash]], American country singer (d. [[2003]])
* [[February 27]] – Dame [[Elizabeth Taylor]], British-American actress (d. [[2011]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Don Francks]], Canadian actor, musician and singer (d. [[2016]])
** [[Francisco Colmenero]], Mexican dub director, dub actor.

===March===
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* [[March 4]]
** [[Ryszard Kapuściński]], Polish journalist (d. [[2007]])
** [[Miriam Makeba]], South African singer and civil rights activist (d. [[2008]])
** [[Efrén Echeverría]], Paraguayan musician guitarist, composer, and compiler (d. [[2018]])
* [[March 6]]
** [[Marc Bazin]], 4th prime minister of Haiti (d. [[2010]])
** [[Bronisław Geremek]], Polish social historian and politician (d. [[2008]])
* [[March 7]] 
** [[Lola Beltrán]], Mexican singer, actress, and television presenter (d. [[1996]])
** [[Momoko Kōchi]], Japanese actress (d. [[1998]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Leroy Jenkins (musician)|Leroy Jenkins]], African-American jazz musician and composer (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=227/8}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] – [[Bob Houbregs]], Canadian basketball player (d. [[2014]])
* [[March 15]]
** [[Alan Bean]], American naval officer and naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (d. [[2018]])
** [[Yumie Hiraiwa]], Japanese screenwriter and novelist (d. [[2023]]){{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
* [[March 18]] – [[John Updike]], American author (d. [[2009]])
* [[March 21]] 
** [[Wan Mokhtar]], Malaysian politician (d. [[2020]])
** [[Walter Gilbert]], American chemist and [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel]] laureate
* [[March 22]] – [[Els Borst]], Dutch politician, [[Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (1998–2002) (d. [[2014]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Junior Parker]], African-American blues musician (d. [[1971]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Sven Lindqvist]], Swedish author (d. [[2019]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Ted Morgan (writer)|Ted Morgan]], French-born biographer and journalist (d. [[2023]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Nagisa Oshima]], Japanese film director (d. [[2013]])

===April===
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* [[April 1]] – [[Debbie Reynolds]], American actress, singer and dancer (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38448434|title=Obituary: Debbie Reynolds, a wholesome Hollywood icon|date=December 29, 2016|website=BBC|access-date=November 12, 2021}}</ref>
* [[April 4]]
** [[Richard Lugar]], American politician (d. [[2019]])
** [[Anthony Perkins]], American actor (d. [[1992]])
** [[Andrei Tarkovsky]], Soviet and Russian film director (d. [[1986]])
* [[April 8]]
** [[József Antall]], Hungarian historian, librarian, political figure and teacher, 53rd [[Prime Minister of Hungary|prime minister of Hungary]] (d. [[1993]])
** Sultan [[Iskandar of Johor]], 8th [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]] of Malaysia (d. [[2010]])
* [[April 9]]
** [[Armin Jordan]], Swiss conductor (d. [[2006]])
** [[Carl Perkins]], American musician (d. [[1998]])
* [[April 10]]
** [[Kishori Amonkar]], Indian vocalist (d. [[2017]])
** [[Delphine Seyrig]], Lebanese-born French actress (d. [[1990]])
** [[Omar Sharif]], Egyptian actor (d. [[2015]])
* [[April 11]] – [[Joel Grey]], American actor, singer and dancer
* [[April 12]]
** [[Jean-Pierre Marielle]], French actor (d. [[2019]])
** [[Lakshman Kadirgamar]], Sri Lankan politician (d. [[2005]])
** [[Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim]], American musician (d. [[1996]])
* [[April 13]]
** [[Barney Simon]], South African writer, playwright and director (d. [[1995]])
** [[Orlando Letelier]], Chilean economist, politician and diplomat (d. [[1976]])
* [[April 14]] 
** [[António dos Santos (bishop)|António dos Santos]], Portuguese bishop (d. [[2018]])
** [[Loretta Lynn]], American country singer-songwriter (d. [[2022]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Qahhor Mahkamov]], Tajik politician, 1st [[president of Tajikistan]] (d. [[2016]])
** [[Pierre Milza]], French historian (d. [[2018]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Elaine May]], American comedian, film director, screenwriter, playwright, and actress
* [[April 24]] – [[Vladimir Yengibaryan]], Armenian amateur light-welterweight boxer (d. [[2013]])
* [[April 25]] 
** [[Nikolai Kardashev]], Soviet and Russian astrophysicist (d. [[2019]])
** [[Meadowlark Lemon]], American basketball player, 22 years for the [[Harlem Globetrotters]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[April 26]] 
** [[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]], English-born chemist and [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel]] laureate (d. [[2000]])
** [[Francis Lai]], French composer (d. [[2018]])
* [[April 27]]
** [[Anouk Aimée]], French actress (d. [[2024]])
** [[Pik Botha]], South African politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Casey Kasem]], American disc jockey and voice actor (d. [[2014]])
** [[Gian-Carlo Rota]], Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. [[1999]])
* [[April 29]] – [[Wilson Ndolo Ayah]], Kenyan politician (d. [[2016]])

===May===
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* [[May 6]] 
** [[Ahmet Haxhiu]], Albanian political activist (d. [[1994]])
** [[José Maria Marin]], Brazilian politician and sports administrator
** [[Antal Bolvári]], Hungarian water polo player (d. [[2019]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Fufi Santori]], Puerto Rican basketball player and writer (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 8]] 
** [[Phyllida Law]], Scottish actress
** [[Sonny Liston]], American boxer (d. [[1970]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Geraldine McEwan]], English actress (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Obituary: Versatile Actress Geraldine McEwan |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/movie-news/obituary-versatile-actress-geraldine-mcewan-30973238.html |website=independent |date=February 8, 2015 |access-date=18 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 11]]
** [[Fabio Mamerto Rivas Santos]], Dominican Roman Catholic prelate (d. [[2018]]) 
** [[Valentino (fashion designer)|Valentino]], Italian fashion designer 
* [[May 18]] – [[Dean Tavoularis]], Greek-American motion picture production designer
* [[May 19]] – [[Alma Cogan]], English singer (d. [[1966]])
* [[May 21]] – [[Leonidas Vasilikopoulos]], Greek admiral and intelligence chief (d. [[2014]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Arnold Wesker]], British playwright (d. [[2016]])
* [[May 25]] – [[K. C. Jones]], American basketball player and coach (d. [[2020]])<ref name=goldstein>{{citation |last=Goldstein|first=Richard |title=K.C. Jones, Celtics Standout as Player and Coach, Dies at 88 | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 25, 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/sports/kc-jones-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries}}</ref>
* [[May 27]] – [[José Varacka]], Argentine footballer and coach (d. [[2018]])
* [[May 29]] – [[Paul R. Ehrlich]], American biologist
* [[May 30]] 
** [[Abdul Ghani Gilong]], Malaysian politician (d. [[2021]])
** [[Jose Melo]], Filipino lawyer and jurist (d. [[2020]])

===June===
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[[File:Dudley R. Herschbach in Lindau.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dudley R. Herschbach]]]]
[[File:Amrish Puri.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Amrish Puri]]]]
[[File:Pat Morita 1971 publicity photo.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pat Morita]]]]
* [[June 4]] – [[Maurice Shadbolt]], New Zealand writer (d. [[2004]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Christy Brown]], Irish writer and painter (d. [[1981]])
* [[June 6]] – [[David Scott]], American astronaut
* [[June 9]] – [[Dave McKigney]], Canadian professional wrestler (d. [[1988]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Branko Lustig]], Croatian film producer (d. [[2019]])
* [[June 11]] – [[Athol Fugard]], South African author and dramatist (d. [[2025]])
* [[June 12]]
** [[Mimi Coertse]], South African opera [[soprano]]
** [[Mamo Wolde]], Ethiopian Olympic athlete (d. [[2002]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Rainer K. Sachs]], German-American physicist and biologist (d. [[2024]])
* [[June 17]] – [[Vesna Krmpotić]], Croatian writer and translator (d. [[2018]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Dudley R. Herschbach]], American chemist and [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel]] laureate
* [[June 20]] – [[Robert Rozhdestvensky]], Soviet Poet (d. [[1994]])
* [[June 21]]
** [[Ilka Soares]], Brazilian actress (d. [[2022]])
** [[Lalo Schifrin]], Argentine pianist, composer, arranger and conductor
* [[June 22]]
** [[Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari]], [[Princess of Iran]]; wife of [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] (d. [[2001]])
** [[Amrish Puri]], Indian actor (d. [[2005]])
** [[Prunella Scales]], English actress
* [[June 23]] – [[Eloisa Cianni]], Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder (d. [[2022]])
* [[June 24]]
** [[Margit Korondi]], Hungarian gymnast (d. [[2022]])
** [[David McTaggart]], Canadian environmental campaigner (d. [[2001]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]], English artist
* [[June 26]]
** [[Marguerite Pindling]], Governor-General of the Bahamas
** [[Harry Bromfield]], South African cricketer (d. [[2020]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Anna Moffo]], American operatic soprano (d. [[2006]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Pat Morita]], Asian-American actor (d. [[2005]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Ingrid Allen]], British neuroscientist (d. [[2020]])

===July===
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* [[July 1]]
**[[Sonny Caldinez]], Trinidadian actor and former professional wrestler (d. [[2022]])
**[[Pablo Eisenberg]], French-born American academic and tennis player (d. [[2022]])
**[[Adam Harasiewicz]], Polish concert pianist
* [[July 2]] – [[Waldemar Matuška]], Czech singer (d. [[2009]])
* [[July 4]] – [[Otis Young]], African-American actor (d. [[2001]])
* [[July 5]] 
** [[Gyula Horn]], Prime Minister of Hungary (d. [[2013]])
** [[Kazimiera Utrata]], Polish actress (d. [[2018]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Herman Hertzberger]], Dutch architect and professor
* [[July 7]] 
** [[Carlos de Cárdenas Jr.]], Cuban yachtsman (d. [[1990]])
** [[Eileen Lemass]], Irish politician
* [[July 9]] – [[Donald Rumsfeld]], U.S. Secretary of Defense (d. [[2021]])
* [[July 10]]
** [[Carlo Maria Abate]], Italian racing driver (d. [[2019]])
** [[János Bódi]], Hungarian modern pentathlete
* [[July 11]] – [[Hans van Manen]], Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer
* [[July 12]] 
** [[Rene Goulet]], Canadian professional wrestler (d. [[2019]])
** [[Otis Davis]], American athlete (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Roberto Quercetani|title=A World History of Track and Field Athletics, 1864-1964|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1964|page=62}}</ref>
* [[July 13]] 
** [[Per Nørgård]], Danish composer
** [[Khalil Taha]], Lebanese wrestler (d.[[2020]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Helga Liné]], German-born Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus acrobat
* [[July 17]] 
** [[Joanne Gilbert]], American actress
** [[Quino]], Argentine cartoonist (d. [[2020]])
* [[July 20]]
** [[Nam June Paik]], Korean-born American artist (d. [[2006]])
** [[Otto Schily]], German politician
* [[July 22]] 
** [[Jean Barthe]], French rugby league and rugby union player (d. [[2017]])
** [[Tom Robbins]], American novelist (d. [[2025]])
* [[July 23]] 
** [[Jorge Arvizu]], Mexican voice actor (d. [[2014]])
** [[Oswaldo Loureiro]], Brazilian actor (d. [[2018]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Paul J. Weitz]], American astronaut (d. [[2017]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra]], Brazilian colonel (d. [[2015]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Nancy Kassebaum Baker|Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker]], U.S. senator
*[[July 30]] – [[Edd Byrnes]], American actor ([[Grease (film)|Grease]]) (d. [[2020]])
* [[July 31]] – [[John Searle]], American philosopher

===August===
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* [[August 1]]
** [[Meir Kahane]], American-born Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist (d. [[1990]])
** [[Meena Kumari]], Indian actress (d. [[1972]])
* [[August 2]]
** [[Lamar Hunt]], American sportsman (d. [[2006]])
** [[Peter O'Toole]], British-Irish actor (d. [[2013]])
* [[August 4]] – [[Frances Allen]], American computer scientist (d. [[2020]])
* [[August 5]]
** [[Jameson Mbilini Dlamini]], 7th prime minister of Swaziland (d. [[2008]])
** [[Vladimir Fedoseyev]], Soviet and Russian conductor, accordionist, teacher
* [[August 6]] – [[Howard Hodgkin]], British painter and print-maker (d. [[2017]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Abebe Bikila]], Ethiopian long-distance runner (d. [[1973]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Mel Tillis]], American country singer (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1993|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-726-6|pages=408/9}}</ref>
* [[August 9]] – [[Anand Panyarachun]], 18th [[Prime Minister of Thailand|prime minister of Thailand]]
* [[August 11]] – [[Fernando Arrabal]], Spanish writer
* [[August 12]] – [[Sirikit]], Queen mother of Thailand (from [[1950]] to present)
* [[August 17]]
** [[V. S. Naipaul]], West Indian-born writer and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel]] laureate (d. [[2018]])
** [[Jean-Jacques Sempé]], French cartoonist (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2022/08/11/le-dessinateur-jean-jacques-sempe-est-mort_6137814_3382.html|title=Le dessinateur Jean-Jacques Sempé est mort|newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=August 11, 2022|via=Le Monde}}</ref>
* [[August 18]] – [[Luc Montagnier]], French virologist and [[Nobel Prize]] winner (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Banharn Silpa-archa]], 32nd prime minister of Thailand (d. [[2016]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Vasily Aksyonov]], Russian writer (d. [[2009]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Melvin Van Peebles]], African-American actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer (d. [[2021]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Houari Boumediene]], 2nd president of Algeria (d. [[1978]])
* [[August 24]] – [[W. Morgan Sheppard]], English actor (d. [[2019]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Luis Félix López]], Ecuadorian doctor, writer and politician (d. [[2008]])
* [[August 27]]
** [[Mohamed Hamri]], Moroccan artist (d. [[2000]])
** [[Saye Zerbo]], 3rd president and 4th prime minister of Burkina Faso (d. [[2013]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Raul Cortez]], Brazilian actor (d. [[2006]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Shen Chun-shan]], Taiwanese academic (d. [[2018]])

===September===
[[File:Ingemar Johansson 2x3.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ingemar Johansson]]]]
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[[File:Adolfo Suarez 03 cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Adolfo Suárez]]]]
[[File:Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in March 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Manmohan Singh]]]]
[[File:Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-42.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Oliver E. Williamson]]]]
[[File:Rainer Weiss - December 2006.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rainer Weiss]]]]
* [[September 1]]
** [[Sunny von Bülow]], American socialite (d. [[2008]])
** [[Derog Gioura]], Nauruan politician, President of Nauru (d. [[2008]])
* [[September 3]] 
** [[Eileen Brennan]], American actress and singer (d. [[2013]])
** [[Acácio Pereira Magro]], Portuguese academic, economist and politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[September 5]] – [[Carol Lawrence]], American actress, singer and dancer
* [[September 8]]
** [[Patsy Cline]], American singer (d. [[1963]])
** [[Herbert Leuninger]], German Roman Catholic priest and refugee rights activist (d. [[2020]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Carm Lino Spiteri]], Maltese architect and politician (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Scerri |first1=Victor |title=Politiċi li Valletta offriet għas-servizz nazzjonali (3) |url=https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/38284/1/L-Orizzont_18-7-18_Politici%20li%20Valletta%20offriet%20ghas-servizz%20nazzjonali%20%283%29.PDF |work=[[L-Orizzont]] |date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709090648/https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/38284/1/L-Orizzont_18-7-18_Politici%20li%20Valletta%20offriet%20ghas-servizz%20nazzjonali%20%283%29.PDF |archive-date=9 July 2020 |pages=16–17 |language=mt}}</ref>
* [[September 11]]
** [[Mustapha Akanbi (jurist)|Mustapha Akanbi]], Nigerian lawyer and judge (d. [[2018]]) 
** [[Rinaldo Fidel Brédice]], Argentine Roman Catholic prelate (d. [[2018]]) 
* [[September 12]] – [[Atli Dam]], 3-Time Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (d. [[2005]])
* [[September 13]]
**[[Fernando González Pacheco]], Colombian television host, announcer, journalist and actor (d. [[2014]])
**[[Dick Biondi]], American Top 40 and Oldies disc jockey (d. [[2023]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani]], Qatari Emir (d. [[2016]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Nikolay Rukavishnikov]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[2002]])
* [[September 22]] 
** [[Algirdas Brazauskas]], [[President of Lithuania]] (d. [[2010]])
** [[Ingemar Johansson]], Swedish boxer (d. [[2009]])
* [[September 25]]
** [[Glenn Gould]], Canadian pianist (d. [[1982]])
** [[Adolfo Suárez]], 1st Spanish prime minister after the dictatorship of [[Francisco Franco|Franco]] (d. [[2014]])
* [[September 26]]
** [[Donna Douglas]], American actress (''The Beverly Hillbillies'') (d. [[2015]])
** [[Vladimir Voinovich]], Russian writer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Manmohan Singh]], Indian economist and 13th [[Prime Minister of India|prime minister of India]] (d. [[2024]])
* [[September 27]]
** [[Oliver E. Williamson]], American economist (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Sent|first1=Esther-Mirjam|last2=Kroese|first2=Annelie L. J.|date=2021|title=Commemorating Oliver Williamson, a founding father of transaction cost economics|journal=Journal of Institutional Economics|volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=181–193|language=en|doi=10.1017/S1744137421000606|issn=1744-1374|doi-access=free|hdl=2066/247655|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
** [[Roger C. Carmel]], American actor (d. [[1986]])
** [[Yash Chopra]], Indian film director and producer (d. [[2012]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Víctor Jara]], Chilean singer-songwriter (d. [[1973]])
* [[September 29]]
** [[Mehmood Ali|Mehmood]], Indian actor (d. [[2004]])
** [[Rainer Weiss]], German-born American gravitational physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate

===October===
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[[File:Sylvia Plath.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Sylvia Plath]]]]
* [[October 8]] – [[Ray Reardon]], Welsh snooker player (d. [[2024]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Frances Fox Piven]], American sociologist 
* [[October 11]] – [[Dottie West]], American singer and songwriter (d. [[1991]])
* [[October 12]]
** [[Dick Gregory]], African-American comedian and activist (d. [[2017]])
** [[Yuichiro Miura]], Japanese alpinist
* [[October 13]] – [[Liliane Montevecchi]], French-Italian actress, dancer and singer (d. [[2018]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Wolf Vostell]], German artist (d. [[1998]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Vytautas Landsbergis]], Lithuanian politician
* [[October 19]] – [[Robert Reed]], American actor (''[[The Brady Bunch]]'') (d. [[1992]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Rokurō Naya]], Japanese voice actor (d. [[2014]])
* [[October 24]]
** [[Pierre-Gilles de Gennes]], French physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2007]])
** [[Robert Mundell]], Canadian economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2021]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Meng Sufen]], Chinese politician (d. [[2020]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Manfred Max-Neef]], Chilean economist (d. [[2019]])
* [[October 27]]
** [[Jean-Pierre Cassel]], French actor (d. [[2007]])
** [[Harry Gregg]], Northern Irish football goalkeeper and manager (d. [[2020]])
** [[Sylvia Plath]], American poet and author (d. [[1963]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Sylvia Plath {{!}} Biography, Poems, Books, Death, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvia-Plath |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 28]]
** [[Spyros Kyprianou]], [[President of Cyprus]] (d. [[2002]])
** [[Suzy Parker]], American fashion model and actress (d. [[2003]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Iemasa Kayumi]], Japanese voice actor, actor and narrator (d. [[2014]])

===November===
[[File:Roy Scheider 2007.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Roy Scheider]]]]
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[[File:Ninoy Aquino 3.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Benigno Aquino Jr.]]]]
[[File:Jacques Chirac (1997) (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jacques Chirac]]]]
* [[November 2]] – [[Henri Namphy]], 35th president of Haiti (d. [[2018]])
* [[November 3]] – [[Albert Reynolds]], 8th [[taoiseach]] of [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] (d. [[2014]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Thomas Klestil]], [[President of Austria]] (d. [[2004]])
* [[November 8]]
** [[Stéphane Audran]], French actress (d. [[2018]])
** [[Ugo Mifsud Bonnici]], Maltese politician, 5th [[president of Malta]]
* [[November 9]] –  [[Orfeo Reda]], Italian painter
* [[November 10]]
** [[Paul Bley]], Canadian pianist (d. [[2016]])
** [[Roy Scheider]], American actor (d. [[2008]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Germano Mosconi]], Italian journalist (d. [[2012]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Richard Mulligan]], American actor (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite news| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/29/arts/richard-mulligan-67-actor-on-soap-and-empty-nest.html| title=Richard Mulligan, 67, Actor On 'Soap' and 'Empty Nest'| first=Lawrence| last=Van Gelder| date=September 29, 2000}}</ref>
* [[November 15]]
** [[Petula Clark]], British singer, actress and songwriter 
** [[Clyde McPhatter]], American singer (d. [[1972]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen]], Danish composer (d. [[2016]])
* [[November 23]] – [[Kai Hietarinta]], Finnish businessman and ice hockey executive<ref>{{cite book|title=Kuka kukin on 1982|trans-title=Who's Who 1982|publisher=[[Otava (publisher)|Otava]]|date=1982|location=Helsinki, Finland|pages=223|isbn=951-1-06659-5}}</ref>
* [[November 22]] – [[Robert Vaughn]], American actor (d. [[2016]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Claudio Naranjo]], Chilean psychiatrist (d. [[2019]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Benigno Aquino Jr.]], Filipino politician and senator (d. [[1983]])
* [[November 28]]
** [[Gato Barbieri]], Argentine jazz saxophonist (d. [[2016]])
** [[Ethel Ennis]], African-American jazz singer (d. [[2019]])
* [[November 29]]
** [[Jacques Chirac]], [[President of France]] (d. [[2019]])
** [[Ed Bickert]], Canadian jazz musician (d. [[2019]])

===December===
[[File:Little Richard 1957 (crop).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Little Richard]]]]
[[File:SajadHaider1965.png|thumb|100px|[[Sajad Haider]]]]
* [[December 1]] – Dame [[Heather Begg]], New Zealand mezzo-soprano (d. [[2009]])

* [[December 2]] – [[Sergio Bonelli]], Italian comic book author and publisher (d. [[2011]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Corry Brokken]], Dutch singer, [[Eurovision Song Contest]] 1957 winner (d. [[2016]])
* [[December 4]]
** [[Tengku Ampuan Afzan]], Tengku Ampuan of Pahang (d. [[1988]])
** [[Roh Tae-woo]], 6th [[president of South Korea]] (d. [[2021]])
* [[December 5]]
** [[Sheldon Glashow]], American physicist<ref>{{cite web|title=Sheldon Glashow|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/glashow/facts|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=April 17, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Little Richard]], American singer and actor (d. [[2020]])
* [[December 7]]
** [[Ellen Burstyn]], American actress
** [[J. B. Sumarlin]], Indonesian economist and a former Minister of Finance (d. [[2020]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Donald Byrd]], American jazz trumpeter (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/12/donald-byrd|title=Donald Byrd obituary|work=The Guardian|date=12 February 2013|access-date=26 January 2021}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – [[Howard McCurdy]], Canadian politician (d. [[2018]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Enrique Bermúdez]], Nicaraguan Contra leader (d. [[1991]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Bob Pettit]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nba.com/history/legends/profiles/bob-pettit|title=Legends profile: Bob Pettit|work=[[NBA.com]]|date=August 23, 2017|access-date=January 2, 2021}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] – [[Tatsuya Nakadai]], Japanese actor
* [[December 15]] – [[Jesse Belvin]], American [[rhythm and blues]] singer, pianist, and songwriter (d. [[1960]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Rodion Shchedrin]], Russian composer and pianist 
* [[December 21]] – [[Jean-Jacques Guyon]], French equestrian (d. [[2017]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Sajad Haider]], [[Pakistan Air Force]] officer and [[1965 War]] veteran (d. [[2025]])
* [[December 28]]
** [[Manuel Puig]], Argentinian writer (d. [[1990]])
** [[Titien Sumarni]], Indonesian actress (d. [[1966]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Inga Swenson]], American actress and singer (d. [[2023]])

==Deaths==
===January – February===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-13109, Edgar Wallace.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Edgar Wallace]]]]
[[File:Santa Ángela de la Cruz (1846-1932).jpg|thumb|110px|Saint [[Angela of the Cross]]]]
[[File:Paolo Boselli, dal 1858 al 1932 - Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 0043 C.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Paolo Boselli]]]]
[[File:LOUISE REED STOWELL A woman of the century (page 708 crop).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Louise Reed Stowell]]]]
[[File:Wilhelm Ostwald by Nicola Perscheid.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Wilhelm Ostwald]]]]
* [[January 2]] – [[Paul Pau]], French general (b. [[1848]])
* [[January 7]] – [[André Maginot]], French soldier and politician (b. [[1877]])
* [[January 8]]
** [[Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] priest and writer (b. [[1862]])
** [[Eurosia Fabris]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] nun and blessed (b. [[1866]])
* [[January 12]] – [[James Felts]], American newspaper editor and politician (b. [[1866]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Ernest Mangnall]], English football manager (b. [[1866]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Dmitry Shcherbachev]], Russian general (b. [[1857]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Lytton Strachey]], British writer and biographer (b. [[1880]])
* [[January 24]] – Sir [[Alfred Yarrow]], British shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. [[1842]])
* [[January 26]]
**[[Edward Stinson]], American aviator and aircraft manufacturer (b. [[1893]])
**[[William Wrigley Jr.]],  American chewing gum industrialist (b. [[1861]])
* [[February 1]] – [[Farabundo Martí]], Salvadorean revolutionary (murdered) (b. [[1893]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Louise Reed Stowell]], American scientist, author (b. [[1850]])
* [[February 8]]
** [[Mad Dog Coll]], American gangster (b. [[1908]])
** [[Jean César Graziani]], French general (b. [[1859]])
** [[Yordan Milanov]], Bulgarian architect (b. [[1867]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Edgar Wallace]], British 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]])
** [[Edgar Speyer|Sir Edgar Speyer]], American-born international financier and philanthropist (b. [[1862]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Albert Johnson (criminal)|Albert Johnson]], Canadian criminal
* [[February 18]] – [[Frederick Augustus III of Saxony|Frederick Augustus III]], last [[King of Saxony]] (b. [[1865]])
* [[February 23]] – [[László Lukács]], 17th prime minister of Hungary (b. [[1850]])
* [[February 29]] – [[Ramon Casas i Carbó]], Spanish painter (b. [[1866]])

===March – April===
[[File:Minna-Craucher-salonki.jpg|thumb|110px|Madame [[Minna Craucher]]]]
* [[March 1]]
** [[Frank Teschemacher]], American musician (b. [[1906]])
** [[Dino Campana]], Italian poet (b. [[1885]])
* [[March 2]] – [[Angela of the Cross]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] nun and saint (b. [[1846]])
* [[March 6]] – [[John Philip Sousa]], American band leader, conductor, and composer ("[[The Stars and Stripes Forever]]") (b. [[1854]])
* [[March 7]] 
** [[Heinrich Clam-Martinic]], Austrian statesman, former prime minister (b. [[1863]])
** [[Aristide Briand]], French statesman, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Minna Craucher]], Finnish socialite and [[spy]] (b. [[1891]])<ref>Venla Sainio: ''[https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/8452 Craucher, Minna (1891-1932)]'' - Kansallisbiografia (in Finnish)</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Minna Craucher|date=1932-03-21|work=[[Time Magazine]]|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743386,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027061756/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743386,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 27, 2010|accessdate=2008-08-09}}</ref>
* [[March 11]] – [[Dora Carrington]], British painter (b. [[1893]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Paolo Boselli]], 22nd [[Prime Minister of Italy|prime minister of Italy]] (b. [[1838]])
* [[March 12]] – [[Ivar Kreuger]], Swedish civil engineer and entrepreneur, [[Swedish Match]] (b. [[1880]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Frederick Jackson Turner]], American historian (b. [[1861]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Iliaz Vrioni]], Albanian statesman, former prime minister (b. [[1882]])
* [[March 14]] – [[George Eastman]], American inventor ([[Kodak]]) (b. [[1854]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Chauncey Olcott]], American stage actor and singer-songwriter (b. [[1858]])
* [[March 24]] – [[George Harris, 4th Baron Harris]], English cricketer and colonial administrator (b. [[1851]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Eben Byers]], American steel tycoon and socialite (radiation poisoning) (b. [[1880]])
* [[April 2]] 
**[[Rose Coghlan]], English actress (b. [[1851]])
**[[Bill Pickett]], African-American cowboy whose parents were slaves (b. [[1870]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Wilhelm Ostwald]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1853]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Phar Lap]], Australian racehorse (b. [[1926]])
* [[April 20]] – [[Giuseppe Peano]], Italian mathematician (b. [[1858]])
* [[April 22]] – [[Ferenc Oslay]], [[Hungarians|Hungarian]]-[[Slovenes|Slovene]] historian, writer and irredenta (b. [[1883]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Bill Lockwood (cricketer)|Bill Lockwood]], English cricketer (b. [[1868]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Hart Crane]], American poet (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Hart Crane {{!}} American poet |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hart-Crane |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 29]] – [[José Félix Uriburu]], 22nd president of Argentina (b. [[1868]])

===May – June===

* [[May 3]]
** [[Henri de Gaulle]], father of [[Charles de Gaulle]] (b. [[1848]])
** [[Charles Fort]], American researcher of the unusual (b. [[1874]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Paul Doumer]], [[President of France]] (assassinated) (b. [[1857]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Petar Gudev]], 16th [[Prime Minister of Bulgaria|prime minister of Bulgaria]] (b. [[1863]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Tsuyoshi Inukai]], 18th [[Prime Minister of Japan|prime minister of Japan]] (assassinated) (b. [[1855]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Frederick C. Billard]], [[Commandant of the Coast Guard|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]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Yoshinori Shirakawa]], Japanese general (assassinated) (b. [[1869]])
* [[May 30]] – [[John Hubbard (admiral)|John Hubbard]], American admiral (b. [[1849]])
* [[June 3]] – [[Dorabji Tata]], Indian businessman (b. [[1859]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Ernest Broșteanu]], Romanian general (b. [[1869]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Edith Cowan]], Australian social reformer and politician (b. [[1861]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Theo Heemskerk]], Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. [[1852]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Alexander Bethell|Sir Alexander Bethell]], British admiral (b. [[1855]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock]], British colonial administrator (b. [[1860]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Felipe Segundo Guzmán]], 30th [[president of Bolivia]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Sol Plaatje]], South African journalist, politician and writer. (b. 1876)
* [[June 21]] – [[Major Taylor]], American cyclist (b. [[1878]])
* [[June 24]] – [[Ernst Põdder]], Estonian military commander (b. [[1879]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Francis P. Duffy]], Canadian American Roman Catholic priest (b. [[1871]])
* [[June 29]] – [[William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley]], 4th governor-general of Australia (b. [[1867]])

===July – August===
[[File:SMF Manoel II.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Manuel II of Portugal]]]]
[[File:Kate M. Gordon.png|110px|thumb|[[Kate M. Gordon]]]]
[[File:Duke_Alexander_Petrovich_of_Oldenburg_(1844-1932).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg]]]]
[[File:Cox in the Atelier of Toon Dupuis.jpg|thumb|110px|[[C. C. van Asch van Wijck]]]]
* [[July 2]] – King [[Manuel II of Portugal]] (b. [[1889]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Kenneth Grahame]], British-born author (''The Wind In The Willows'') (b. [[1859]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Henry Eyster Jacobs]], American Lutheran theologian (b. [[1844]])
* [[July 9]] – [[King C. Gillette]], American businessman, safety razor inventor (b. [[1855]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Martha Hughes Cannon]], American politician (b. [[1857]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven]], South African playwright, poet and politician. (b. [[1873]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer]], British general (b. [[1857]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Rosa Louise Woodberry]], American journalist, educator (b. [[1869]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Matsumura Tatsuo (admiral)|Matsumura Tatsuo]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1868]])
* [[July 22]]
** [[Reginald Fessenden]], Canadian inventor (b. [[1866]])
** [[Errico Malatesta]], Italian anarchist (b. [[1853]])
** [[Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.]], American Broadway impresario (b. [[1867]])
* [[July 23]]
** [[Emma Pow Bauder]], American evangelist, missionary, reformer, and author (b. [[1848]])
** [[Tenby Davies]], Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. [[1884]])
** [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]], Brazilian aviation pioneer (suicide) (b. [[1873]])
*[[July 24]] – [[Hidaka Sōnojō]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1848]])
* [[July 27]] – [[Archduchess Gisela of Austria]] (b. [[1856]])
* [[August 1]] – [[Sulejman Delvina]], Albanian politician, 5th [[Prime Minister of Albania|prime minister of Albania]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[August 2]] 
** [[Dan Brouthers]], American baseball player and [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1858]])
** [[Ignaz Seipel]], two-time Chancellor of Austria (b. [[1876]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Traian Moșoiu]], Romanian general and politician (b. [[1868]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Hans Zenker]], German admiral (b. [[1870]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Johannes Schober]], three-time Chancellor of Austria (b. [[1874]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Kate M. Gordon]], American suffragette (b. [[1861]])

===September – October===
* [[September 5]] – [[Paul Bern]], American screenwriter (b. [[1889]])
* [[September 6]]
** [[Duke Alexander of Oldenburg]] (b. [[1844]])
** [[Sir Gilbert Parker, 1st Baronet]], Canadian-born British novelist and politician (b. [[1862]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Christian von Ehrenfels]], Austrian philosopher (b. [[1859]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Julius Röntgen]], German-Dutch classical composer (b. [[1855]])
* [[September 16]]
**[[Ronald Ross|Sir Ronald Ross]], British physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1857]])
**[[Peg Entwistle]], film actress (b. [[1908]])
* [[September 18]] – [[C. C. van Asch van Wijck]], Dutch artist, sculptor (b. [[1900]])
* [[September 20]] – [[Wovoka]], Paiute visionary (''Ghost Dance'') (b. c. [[1856]])
* [[September 22]] – [[Claude C. Hopkins]], American advertising executive (b. [[1866]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Jules Chéret]], French poster designer (b. [[1836]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Joel R. P. Pringle]], American admiral (b. [[1873]])
* September 27 – [[Frédéric-Georges Herr]], French general (b. [[1855]])
* [[September 29]] – [[Jesse Pomeroy]], youngest convicted murderer in Massachusetts (b. [[1859]])
* [[September 30]]
** [[Francisco S. Carvajal]], 36th [[president of Mexico]] (b. [[1870]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/francisco-s-carvajal/|title=Francisco S. Carvajal|publisher=Presidency de la Republica de Mexico|access-date=May 29, 2019|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530032116/http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/francisco-s-carvajal/|archive-date=May 30, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
**[[Constantin Coandă]], Romanian general and politician, 26th [[Prime Minister of Romania|prime minister of Romania]] (b. [[1857]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicolae Titulescu|title=Romania's foreign policy: 1937|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1aQsAQAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Encyclopaedic Publishing House|isbn=978-973-45-0092-5|page=305}}</ref>
* [[October 3]] – [[Emanuel Hoffmann]], Swiss jurist and art collector.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hoffmann, Emanuel|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/articles/027729/2006-11-09/|access-date=2021-02-16|website=hls-dhs-dss.ch|language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 5]] – [[Christopher Brennan]], Australian poet and scholar (b. [[1870]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Élisabeth Renaud]], French teacher, socialist activist, and feminist (b. [[1846]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Lucy Bacon]], American painter (b. [[1857]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Anna Elizabeth Dickinson]], American orator and lecturer (b. [[1842]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Molly Brown]], Denver socialite, noted survivor of the [[Sinking of the RMS Titanic|sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'']] (b. [[1867]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Paul Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen]], British field marshal (b. [[1845]])

===November – December===

* [[November 4]] – [[Belle Bennett]], American actress (b. [[1891]])
* [[November 12]] – [[Alessandro Tonini]], Italian aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. [[1885]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Herman Bendell]], Civil War surgeon and superintendent of Indian affairs Arizona Territory  (b. [[1843]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Charles W. Chesnutt]], African-American author, essayist and political activist (b. [[1858]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Leónidas Plaza]], 16th president of Ecuador (b. [[1865]])
* [[November 22]] – [[William Walker Atkinson]], American writer (b. [[1862]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Amadeo Vives]], Spanish composer (b. [[1871]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Gustav Meyrink]], Austrian writer (b. [[1868]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Gertrude Jekyll]], English garden designer, writer and artist (b. [[1843]])
* [[December 9]] 
** [[Roquia Sakhawat Hussain]], Bangladeshi writer and social worker (b. [[1880]])
** [[Isa ibn Ali Al Khalifa]], [[Ruler of Bahrain|Hakim of Bahrain]] (b. [[1848]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Eduard Bernstein]], German socialist (b. [[1850]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Yun Bong-gil]], Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed)  (b. [[1908]])
* [[December 26]] – [[The Rogers Brothers|Max Rogers]], American vaudevillian (b. [[1873]])
* [[December 28]] – [[Malcolm Whitman]], American tennis player (b. [[1877]])

==Nobel Prizes==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Werner Heisenberg|Werner Karl Heisenberg]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Irving Langmuir]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – Sir [[Charles Scott Sherrington]], [[Edgar Douglas Adrian]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[John Galsworthy]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – not awarded

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20030416075623/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/1932/1932fr.html The 1930s Timeline: 1932] – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia

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