1932

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937

Births

• February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director
• February 11 - [Jerome Lowenthal]?, pianist/professor
• February 26 - Johnny Cash, country music singer
• April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director
• August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, writer
• Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence (2001-present)

Deaths

Events

• Kennedy? and Thorndike? prove that measured time as well length are affected by motion (see Einstein's Special relativity and General relativity).

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Werner Karl Heisenberg
• Chemistry - Irving Langmuir
• Medicine - [[Sir [Charles Scott Sherrington]?, [Edgar Douglas Adrian]?
• Literature -[John Galsworthy]?
• Peace - Not awarded.