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January
1st
– Giuseppe Patanè, Italian conductor (d. 1989)[193]
3rd
– Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
1932 – Eeles Landström, Finnish pole vaulter and politician[105]
– Dabney Coleman, American actor
4th
1932 – Carlos Saura, Spanish director and screenwriter[79]
– Clint Hill, American secret service agent and author
5th
1932 – Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
– Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (d. 2016)
6th
– Stuart A. Rice, American chemist and academic
7th
– Joe Berinson, Australian pharmacist, lawyer, and politician; Attorney-General of Western Australia (d. 2018)
– André Maginot, French sergeant and politician (b. 1877)
11th
– Alfonso Arau, Mexican actor and director
12th
– Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
– Des O'Connor, English comedian, singer, and television host
13th
– Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (d. 1994)
14th
– Don Garlits, American race car driver and engineer
15th
– Lou Jones, American sprinter (d. 2006)
16th
1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist and anthropologist (d. 1985)
– Victor Ciocâltea, Romanian chess player (d. 1983)
17th
– Ahmet Derviş, Turkish general (b. 1881)
1932 – Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1893)
– Sheree North, American actress and dancer (d. 2005)
18th
– Robert Anton Wilson, American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2007)
19th
– Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
1932 – Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (d. 2014)
1932 – Richard Lester, American-English director, producer, and screenwriter
20th
– Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2016)
21st
– Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (b. 1880)
22nd
1932 – Piper Laurie, American actress
– Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and academic (d. 2007)
23rd
– George Allen, English footballer (d. 2016)
1932 – Larri Thomas, American actress and dancer (d. 2013)
24th
– Éliane Radigue, French electronic music composer
25th
– Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
26th
– William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded the Wrigley Company (b. 1861)
27th
– Boris Shakhlin, Russian-Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2008)
28th
– Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
29th
1932 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
– Raman Subba Row, English cricketer and referee
30th
– Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (d. 2007)
31st
– Miron Babiak, Polish captain (d. 2013)
February
2nd
1932 – Robert Mandan, American actor (d. 2018)
– Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (d. 2002)
4th
– Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
5th
– Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2016)
6th
– John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1865)
1932 – François Truffaut, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1984)
– Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier and anarchist (d. 1959)
7th
1932 – Alfred Worden, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
– Gay Talese, American journalist and memoirist
8th
1932 – John Williams, American pianist, composer, and conductor
– Cliff Allison, English racing driver and businessman (d. 2005)[29]
– Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
9th
– Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and banker (b. 1869)
1932 – A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi soldier and activist (b. 1904)
1932 – Gerhard Richter, German painter and photographer
– Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player and manager
10th
– Barrie Ingham, English-American actor (d. 2015)
– Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (b. 1875)
11th
– Dennis Skinner, English miner and politician
12th
1932 – Julian Simon, American economist, author, and academic (d. 1998)
– Axel Jensen, Norwegian author and poet (d. 2003)
13th
– Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
14th
– Harriet Andersson, Swedish actress
15th
– Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (b. 1865)
16th
– Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
1932 – Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
1932 – Gretchen Wyler, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2007)
– Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (d. 2014)
18th
– The Empire of Japan declares a puppet state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
– Miloš Forman, Czech-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2018)[1]
19th
– Joseph P. Kerwin, American captain, physician, and astronaut
20th
Adrian Cristobal, Filipino journalist and author (d. 2007)
22nd
– Ted Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2009)
23rd
– Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (d. 2008)
24th
1932 – John Vernon, Canadian-American actor (d. 2005)
1932 – Zell Miller, American sergeant and politician, 79th Governor of Georgia (d. 2018)
– Michel Legrand, French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2019)
25th
– Tony Brooks, English race car driver
1932 – Faron Young, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
– Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
26th
– Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2003)
27th
1932 – David Young, Baron Young of Graffham, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
– Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress and humanitarian (d. 2011)
28th
– Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
– Don Francks, Canadian actor, singer, and jazz musician (d. 2016)
March
1st
– Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (b. 1906)
– Charles Lindbergh's son is reportedly kidnapped.
2nd
– Gun Hägglund, Swedish journalist and translator (d. 2011)
3rd
– Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (b. 1864)
4th
1932 – Frank Wells, American businessman (d. 1994)
1932 – Ed Roth, American illustrator (d. 2001)
1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2008)
1932 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist, photographer, and poet (d. 2007)
– Sigurd Jansen, Norwegian pianist, composer, and conductor
5th
– Paul Sand, American actor
6th
– John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (b. 1854)
1932 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2008)
– Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (d. 2010)
7th
– Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
9th
1932 – Jože Pučnik, Slovenian sociologist and politician (d. 2003)
1932 – Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican-American astrologer and actor
– Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 2014)
10th
– Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender, English politician (d. 2019)
1932 – Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Indian physicist and engineer (d. 2017)
11th
1932 – Nigel Lawson, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
– Leroy Jenkins, American violinist and composer (Revolutionary Ensemble) (d. 2007)
12th
– Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (d. 2014)
1932 – Andrew Young, American pastor and politician, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
14th
– Mark Murphy, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2015)
1932 – Naina Yeltsina, Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia
– George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
15th
– Alan Bean, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2018)
1932 – Arif Mardin, Turkish-American record producer (d. 2006)
16th
1932 – Herbert Marx, Canadian politician
1932 – Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and author
1932 – Walter Cunningham, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
– Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
18th
– John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 2009)
19th
– Gay Brewer, American golfer (d. 2007)
1932 – Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (d. 2013)
1932 – Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic (d. 2014)
– The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
21st
– Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871)
1932 – Joseph Silverstein, American violinist and conductor (d. 2015)
– Walter Gilbert, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
22nd
1932 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (d. 2010)
– Els Borst, Dutch physician and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2014)
23rd
Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
25th
– Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter (b.1845)
1932 – Wes Santee, American runner (d. 2010)
– Penelope Gilliatt, English novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1993)
26th
– Henry M. Leland, American machinist, inventor, engineer, automotive entrepreneur and founded of Cadillac and Lincoln (b. 1843)
1932 – James Andrew Harris, American chemist and academic (d. 2000)
– Leroy Griffith, American businessman
27th
– Junior Parker, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1971)
1932 – Bailey Olter, Micronesian politician, 3rd President of the Federated States of Micronesia (d. 1999)
31st
– John Jakes, American author
1932 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
April
1st
– Debbie Reynolds, Scottish-Irish American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2016)
2nd
– Edward Egan, American cardinal (d. 2015)
4th
– Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1932 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
1932 – Richard Lugar, American lieutenant and politician, 44th Mayor of Indianapolis (d. 2019)
– Clive Davis, American record producer, founded Arista Records and J Records
1932 – Johanna Reiss, Dutch-American author
1932 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and producer (d. 1986)
5th
1932 – Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
– María Blanchard, Spanish painter (b. 1881)
6th
1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor and director (d. 2004)
– Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
7th
– Grigore Constantinescu, Romanian priest and journalist (b. 1875)
– Cal Smith, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
8th
– Iskandar of Johor (d. 2010)
9th
1932 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
1932 – Peter Moores, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 2016)
1932 – Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)
– Jim Fowler, American zoologist and television host
10th
1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
– Delphine Seyrig, Swiss/Alsatian French actress (d. 1990)
11th
– Joel Grey, American actor, singer, and dancer
12th
1932 – Tiny Tim, American singer and ukulele player (d. 1996)
1932 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (d. 2019)
– Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 5th Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2005)
13th
– Orlando Letelier, Chilean-American economist and politician, Chilean Minister of National Defense (d. 1976)
14th
1932 – Cameron Parker, Scottish businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire
1932 – Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter and musician
1932 – Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2014)
– Bill Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2015)
16th
– Maury Meyers, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
19th
– Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor
20th
– Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1858)
– Myriam Bru, French actress
21st
– Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
1932 – Angela Mortimer, English tennis player
1932 – Elaine May, American actress, comedian, director, and screenwriter
– Slide Hampton, African-American trombonist and composer
22nd
– Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (b. 1883)
23rd
– Halston, American fashion designer (d. 1990)
1932 – Jim Fixx, American runner and author (d. 1984)
24th
– Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
25th
1932 – Lia Manoliu, Romanian discus thrower and politician (d. 1998)
1932 – Meadowlark Lemon, African-American basketball player and minister (d. 2015)
– Nikolai Kardashev, Russian astrophysicist
26th
– Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar (d. 2010)
1932 – Shirley Cawley, English long jumper
1932 – Frank D'Rone, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
1932 – Francis Lai, French accordion player and composer (d. 2018)
1932 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
– William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
27th
– Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
1932 – Casey Kasem, American disc jockey, music historian, radio celebrity, and voice actor; co-created American Top 40 (d. 2014)
1932 – Pik Botha, South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 8th South African Ambassador to the United States (d. 2018)
– Anouk Aimée, French actress
1932 – Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
1932 – Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
1932 – Chuck Knox, American football coach (d. 2018)
29th
– Joy Clements, American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
1932 – David Tindle, English painter and educator
May
1st
– Sandy Woodward, English admiral (d. 2013)
2nd
– Maury Allen, American journalist, actor, and author (d. 2010)
3rd
– Robert Osborne, American actor and historian (d. 2017)
– Charles Fort, American journalist and author (b. 1874)
4th
1932 – Alexander MacAra, Scottish epidemiologist and academic (d. 2012)
Harlon Hill, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
5th
1932 – Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsled racer (d. 2002)
– Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (d. 2014)
6th
1932 – Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, English lieutenant and politician
– Ahmet Haxhiu, Kosovan activist (d. 1994)
7th
– Jordi Bonet, Spanish-Canadian painter and sculptor (d. 1979)
1932 – Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (d. 1997)
1932 – Pete Domenici, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Albuquerque (d. 2017)
1932 – Alan Cuthbert, English pharmacologist and academic (d. 2016)
8th
– Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican author and translator (d. 2007)
1932 – Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
1932 – Harry Wells, Australian rugby league player
9th
– Conrad Hunte, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999)
10th
– Karthigesu Sivathamby, Sri Lankan author and academic (d. 2011)
11th
– Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer[59]
12th
– Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe, South African-English lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
– Ten weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, is found dead near Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.[7]
14th
– Robert Bechtle, American lithographer and painter
15th
– In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
17th
1932 – Peter Burge, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
– Rodric Braithwaite, English soldier and diplomat, British Ambassador to Russia
19th
– Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
1932 – Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
1932 – Elena Poniatowska, Mexican intellectual and journalist
1932 – Bill Fitch, American basketball player and coach
20th
– Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
21st
– Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
– Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (b. 1873)
1932 – Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral and intelligence chief (d. 2014)[28]
– Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower and surgeon (d. 2011)
22nd
– Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
– Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2015)
23rd
– Kevork Ajemian, Syrian-French journalist and author (d. 1998)
– In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
24th
– Arnold Wesker, English playwright and producer (d. 2016)
25th
1932 – K. C. Jones, American basketball player and coach
– John Gregory Dunne, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2003)
28th
– In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
– Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, English politician, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries
29th
– World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1932 – Jan Malmsjö, Swedish actor and singer[4]
1932 – Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
– Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
30th
– Ray Cooney, English actor and playwright
1932 – Pauline Oliveros, American accordion player and composer (d. 2016)
1932 – Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, Welsh politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2018)
31st
– Ed Lincoln, Brazilian pianist, bassist, and composer (d. 2012)
1932 – Jay Miner, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 1994)
June
1st
1932 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (d. 1994)
– Frank Cameron, New Zealand cricketer
4th
– Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
1932 – Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand author and playwright (d. 2004)
1932 – Oliver Nelson, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1975)
– John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
5th
Christy Brown, Irish painter and author (d. 1981)
1932 – Dave Gold, American businessman, founded the 99 Cents Only Stores (d. 2013)
6th
– David Scott, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
1932 – Billie Whitelaw, English actress (d. 2014)
– The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (​1⁄4¢/L) sold.
7th
– Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (d. 2013)
– John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (b. 1856)
8th
1932 – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, Scottish lawyer and judge (d. 2017)
– Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and sportscaster
10th
Pierre Cartier, French mathematician and academic
11th
1932 – Tim Sainsbury, English businessman and politician, Minister of State for Trade
– Athol Fugard, South African-American actor, director, and playwright
12th
– Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1852)
– Mimi Coertse, South African soprano and producer
1932 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (d. 2002)
13th
– Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, English politician
1932 – Bob McGrath, American singer and actor (Sesame Street)
1932 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
14th
– Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian businesswoman, co-founded Desjardins Group (b. 1858)
– Joe Arpaio, American police officer and sheriff
15th
1932 – Bernie Faloney, American-Canadian football player and sportscaster (d. 1999)
1932 – Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Indian singer (d. 2013)
1932 – Mario Cuomo, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New York (d. 2015)
– David Alliance, Baron Alliance, Iranian-English businessman and politician
17th
– Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1932 – John Murtha, American colonel and politician (d. 2010)
– Derek Ibbotson, English runner (d. 2017)
18th
1932 – Geoffrey Hill, English poet and academic (d. 2016)
– Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
19th
– Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (b. 1876)
1932 – Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
1932 – José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2011)
– Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
20th
– Robert Rozhdestvensky, Russian poet and author (d. 1994)
21st
– Bernard Ingham, English journalist and civil servant
1932 – O.C. Smith, American R&B/jazz singer (d. 2001)
1932 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentinian pianist, composer, and conductor
22nd
– Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Princess of Iran (d. 2001)
1932 – Yevgeny Kychanov, Russian orientalist, historian, and academic (d. 2013)
1932 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
1932 – June Salter, Australian actress (d. 2001)
1932 – Prunella Scales, English actress
1932 – John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, English businessman and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
23rd
– Peter Millett, Baron Millett, English lawyer and judge
24th
– Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (b. 1879)
– A bloodless revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
– David McTaggart, Canadian-Italian environmentalist (d. 2001)
25th
1932 – George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1932 – Tim Parnell, English race car driver (d. 2017)
– Peter Blake, English painter and illustrator
26th
– Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (b. 1900)
1932 – William Murray McPherson, Australian politician, 31st Premier of Victoria (b. 1865)
– Dame Marguerite Pindling, Bahamian politician; Governor-General of the Bahamas
1932 – Don Valentine, American venture capitalist
27th
1932 – Hugh Wood, English composer
– Eddie Kasko, American baseball player and manager
1932 – Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (d. 2006)
28th
– Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
29th
– Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British jurist; Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
30th
– Bruno Kastner, German actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1890)
July
1st
– Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
– Ze'ev Schiff, French-Israeli journalist and author (d. 2007)
2nd
– Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (d. 2002)
– Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
3rd
– Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman (d. 2014)
4th
– Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian runner
5th
– Sasha Chorny, Russian poet and author (b. 1880)
– Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
6th
– Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English author (b. 1859)
– Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and academic
7th
1932 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (b. 1844)
– Alexander Grin, Russian author (b. 1880)
– T. J. Bass, American physician and author (d. 2011)
– Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (d. 2007)
8th
– The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
9th
– Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense
1932 – Amitzur Shapira, Israeli sprinter and long jumper (d. 1972)
– The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
– King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (b. 1855)
10th
1932 – Manfred Preußger, German athlete
1932 – Neile Adams, Filipino-American actress, singer and dancer
– Carlo Maria Abate, Italian race car driver
11th
– Alex Hassilev, French-born American folk singer and musician
1932 – Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
12th
1932 – Otis Davis, American sprinter
1932 – Monte Hellman, American director and producer
– Rene Goulet, Canadian retired professional wrestler
13th
– Hubert Reeves, Canadian-French astrophysicist and author
14th
1932 – Del Reeves, American country singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
– Rosey Grier, American football player and actor
15th
– Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (b. 1846) [5]
1932 – Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (b. 1873)
– Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
16th
– John Chilton, English trumpet player and composer (d. 2016)
1932 – Max McGee, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1932 – Dick Thornburgh, American lawyer and politician, 76th United States Attorney General
17th
Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
– Rasmus Rasmussen, Norwegian actor, singer, and director (b. 1862)
1932 – Wojciech Kilar, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1932 – Johnny Kerr, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009)
1932 – Niccolò Castiglioni, Italian composer (d. 1996)
– Quino, Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist
1932 – Karla Kuskin, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)
1932 – Hal Riney, American businessman, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (d. 2008)
18th
– Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)
– Robert Ellis Miller, American director and screenwriter
19th
1932 – Jan Lindblad, Swedish biologist and photographer (d. 1987)
– Buster Benton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
20th
– René Bazin, French author and academic (b. 1853)
– In the Preußenschlag ("Prussian coup"), German President Paul von Hindenburg dissolves the government of Prussia
1932 – Otto Schily, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior
– Nam June Paik, American artist (d. 2006)
21st
– Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858)
– Kaye Stevens, American singer and actress (d. 2011)
22nd
1932 – Tom Robbins, American novelist
– Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (d. 2014)
1932 – Flo Ziegfeld, American actor and producer (b. 1867)
1932 – Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and author (b. 1853)
1932 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and academic (b. 1866)
– J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (b. 1858)
23rd
– Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (b. 1884)
24th
– Gustav Andreas Tammann, German astronomer and academic
25th
– Paul J. Weitz, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2017)
26th
– Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Company (b. 1876)
27th
– Forest Able, American basketball player
1932 – Diane Webber, American model, dancer and actress
28th
1932 – Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, Brazilian colonel (d. 2015)
– Natalie Babbitt, American author and illustrator (d. 2016)
– U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
29th
1932 – Nancy Kassebaum, American businesswoman and politician
– Leslie Fielding, English diplomat
– Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
30th
– Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
31st
– The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
1932 – John Searle, American philosopher and academic
– Ted Cassidy, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1979)
August
1st
1932 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
– Meir Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and activist, founded the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
2nd
1932 – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor and producer (d. 2013)
– Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (d. 2006)
– The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
4th
– Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (b. 1868)
1932 – Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist, founded Friends of Nature (d. 2010)
– Frances E. Allen, American computer scientist and academic
5th
1932 – Vladimir Fedoseyev, Russian conductor
– Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1996)
6th
– Michael Deeley, English screenwriter and producer
1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter (d. 2017)
1932 – Charles Wood, English playwright and screenwriter
7th
– Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (d. 1973)
1932 – Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic (d. 2005)
1932 – Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator (d. 1995)
1932 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor (d. 2011)
8th
– Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
9th
John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (b. 1863)
Tam Dalyell, Scottish academic and politician (d. 2017)
1932 – John Gomery, Canadian lawyer and jurist
10th
– Rin Tin Tin, American acting dog (b. 1918)
– Alexander Goehr, English composer and academic
1932 – Gaudencio Rosales, Filipino cardinal
– A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
11th
1932 – John Gorrie, English director and screenwriter
1932 – Peter Eisenman, American architect, designed the City of Culture of Galicia
1932 – Geoffrey Cass, English businessman
1932 – Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician, founded Canwest (d. 2003)
– Fernando Arrabal, Spanish actor, director, and playwright
12th
– Dallin H. Oaks, American lawyer, jurist, and religious leader
1932 – Charlie O'Donnell, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
1932 – Sirikit, Queen mother of Thailand
14th
– Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007)
15th
– Abby Dalton, American actress
1932 – Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn, South African-English lawyer and judge
17th
– V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1932 – Duke Pearson, American pianist and composer (d. 1980)
1932 – Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist
18th
– Luc Montagnier, French virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
19th
– Thomas P. Salmon, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of Vermont
1932 – Banharn Silpa-archa, Thai politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996) (d. 2016)
– Louis Anquetin, French painter (b. 1861)
20th
– Vasily Aksyonov, Russian physician, author, and academic (d. 2009)
1932 – Atholl McKinnon, South African cricketer (d. 1983)
21st
– Menashe Kadishman, Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2015)
1932 – Melvin Van Peebles, American actor, director, and screenwriter
22nd
– Gerald P. Carr, American engineer, colonel, and astronaut
23rd
1932 – Mark Russell, American comedian and pianist
1932 – Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean soldier and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (d. 2013)
– Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria (d. 1978)
24th
– Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
– Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
1932 – Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal (d. 2017)
1932 – Richard Meale, Australian pianist and composer (d. 2009)
– Robert D. Hales, American captain and religious leader (d. 2017)
26th
– Luis Salvadores Salvi, Chilean basketball player (d. 2014)
27th
– Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2008)
1932 – Antonia Fraser, English historian and author
28th
1932 – Yakir Aharonov, Israeli academic and educator
– Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2016)
31st
1932 – Roy Castle, English dancer, singer, comedian, actor, television presenter and musician (d. 1994)
– Allan Fotheringham, Canadian journalist
September
1st
– Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (d. 2008)
2nd
– Walter Davis, Jr., American pianist (d. 1990)
1932 – Arnold Greenberg, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (d. 2012)
3rd
– Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
4th
– Carlos Romero Barceló, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Puerto Rico
– Vince Dooley, American football player and coach
5th
– The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
– Francisco Acebal, Spanish journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
1932 – Paul Bern, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
1932 – Robert H. Dennard, American electrical engineer and inventor
– Carol Lawrence, American actress and singer
6th
1932 – Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer and educator
– Colin McColl, English intelligence officer
7th
– The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
– Malcolm Bradbury, English author and academic (d. 2000)
1932 – John Paul Getty Jr., American-English philanthropist and book collector (d. 2003)
8th
Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
10th
– The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
– Bo Goldman, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer
11th
– Stanisław Wigura, Polish pilot and businessman, co-founded the RWD Company (b. 1901)
1932 – Franciszek Żwirko, Polish soldier and pilot (b. 1895)
– Peter Anderson, English footballer
1932 – Bob Packwood, American politician
12th
– Atli Dam, Faroese engineer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
13th
1932 – Bengt Hallberg, Swedish pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1932 – Radoslav Brzobohatý, Czech actor (d. 2012)
– Fernando González Pacheco, Spanish-Colombian journalist and actor (d. 2014)
14th
1932 – John Tembo, Malawian politician
– Harry Sinden, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
15th
– Neil Bartlett, English-American chemist and academic (d. 2008)
16th
– Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress. (b. 1908)
1932 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
– Micky Stewart, English cricketer and coach
17th
– A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
1932 – Samuel Ogbemudia, Nigerian army officer and politician (d. 2017)
1932 – Indarjit Singh, Indian-English journalist
1932 – Robert B. Parker, American author and academic (d. 2010)
– Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, emir of Qatar (d. 2016)
18th
– Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Russian physicist and astronaut (d. 2002)
19th
1932 – Stefanie Zweig, German journalist and author (d. 2014)
– Mike Royko, American journalist and author (d. 1997)
20th
– Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (b. 1870)[4]
21st
– Shirley Conran, English journalist and author
– Marjorie Fletcher, English Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (d. 2008)
1932 – Don Preston, American keyboard player and composer
22nd
1932 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (d. 2009)
– Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of Lithuania (d. 2010)
23rd
– Georg Keßler, German footballer and manager
– The unification of Saudi Arabia is completed.
24th
1932 – Walter Wallmann, German politician, Minister-President of Hesse (d. 2013)
– Miguel Montuori, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (d. 1998)
– Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
25th
1932 – Terry Medwin, Welsh footballer and manager
– Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1932 – Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2014)
26th
1932 – Vladimir Voinovich, Russian author and poet (d. 2018)
1932 – Joyce Jameson, American actress (d. 1987)
– Donna Douglas, American actress (d. 2015)
– Manmohan Singh, Indian economist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of India
27th
1932 – Marcia Neugebauer, American geophysicist
1932 – Oliver E. Williamson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Gabriel Loubier, Canadian politician
1932 – Michael Colvin, English captain and politician (d. 2000)
– Geoff Bent, English footballer (d. 1958)
28th
1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (d. 1973)
– Jeremy Isaacs, Scottish screenwriter and producer
29th
1932 – Paul Giel, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
– Robert Benton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
– Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
30th
1932 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)
– Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo
October
1st
– Albert Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
2nd
– Maury Wills, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
3rd
– Terence English, South African-English surgeon and academic
– Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
5th
1932 – Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist and police officer (d. 2006)
1932 – Dean Prentice, Canadian ice hockey player
– Neal Ascherson, Scottish journalist and author
7th
– Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop (d. 2013)
8th
– Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player and police officer
9th
– Robert McBain, English actor and photographer (d. 2004)
10th
– Harry Smith, English footballer
11th
William Alden Smith, American lawyer and politician (b. 1859)
1932 – Dottie West, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1991)
1932 – Barry Jones, Australian lawyer and politician
Saul Friedländer, Israeli historian and author
12th
– Dick Gregory, American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2017)
1932 – John Moffat, Danish physicist and academic
1932 – Ned Jarrett, American race car driver and sportscaster
13th
– Johnny Lytle, American vibraphone player and drummer (d. 1995)
– Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer and singer
14th
1932 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and academic (d. 2005)
– Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor and actor (d. 2005)
15th
– Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
– Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer
16th
– John Grant, English journalist and politician (d. 2000)
1932 – Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (d. 1996)
1932 – Lucien Paiement, Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013)
17th
1932 – Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (d. 1994)
18th
– Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian musicologist and politician
19th
– Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)
20th
1932 – Rokurō Naya, Japanese voice actor (d. 2014)
1932 – William Christopher, American actor and singer (d. 2016)
– Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (d. 2004)
21st
– Pál Csernai, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
23rd
– Vasily Belov, Russian novelist, poet and playwright (d. 2012)
24th
– Stephen Covey, American author and educator (d. 2012)
1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1932 – Adrian Mitchell, English journalist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2008)
1932 – Robert Mundell, Canadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
25th
1932 – Theodor Pištěk, Czech costume designer
1932 – Jerzy Pawłowski, Polish fencer and double agent (d. 2005)
– Vitold Fokin, Ukrainian first deputy prime minister
26th
– Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1867)
27th
1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1963)
1932 – Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1932 – Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and manager
– Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
28th
1932 – Suzy Parker, American model and actress (d. 2003)
– Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (d. 2002)
29th
– Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, English pharmacist and politician
– Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (b. 1857)
30th
– Barun De, Indian historian and author (d. 2013)
1932 – Louis Malle, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
November
1st
– Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
1932 – Francis Arinze, Nigerian cardinal
2nd
– Ron Sproat, American screenwriter and playwright (d. 2009)
3rd
– Albert Reynolds, Irish businessman and politician, 9th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2014)
– Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
4th
– Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician and diplomat, 10th President of Austria (d. 2004)
1932 – Tommy Makem, Irish singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
5th
– Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)
6th
1932 – François Englert, Belgian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
– Stonewall Jackson, American singer-songwriter
8th
1932 – Ben Bova, American journalist and author
– Stéphane Audran, French actress
9th
– Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1901)
10th
– Paul Bley, Canadian-American pianist and composer (d. 2016)
1932 – Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu, Turkish linguist, author, and academic (d. 1996)
1932 – Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
1932 – Arthur K. Snyder, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
11th
– Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (d. 2012)
13th
1932 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
– Buddy Killen, American record producer and music publisher (d. 2006)
– Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (1915) (b. 1878)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/9080/Francisco%20Lagos%20Chazaro%7Ctitle=Francisco Lagos Chazaro
14th
– Charles Hylton Stewart, English organist and composer (b. 1884)
– Gunter Sachs, German astrologer and photographer (d. 2011)
15th
1932 – Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher, author, and academic
1932 – Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
– Petula Clark, English singer-songwriter and actress
17th
– Charles W. Chesnutt, American lawyer, author, and activist (b. 1858)
– Jeremy Black, English admiral (d. 2015)
18th
– Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (d. 2010)
19th
– Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (d. 2009)
20th
– Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (d. 2012)
1932 – Yorozuya Kinnosuke, Japanese kabuki actor (d. 1997)
1932 – Sándor Mátrai, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)
1932 – Paulo Valentim, Brazilian footballer (d. 1984)
1932 – Colville Young, Governor-General of Belize
21st
– Beryl Bainbridge, English author and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1932 – Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (d. 2016)
22nd
– Ray Farabee, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1932 – Robert Vaughn, American actor and director (d. 2016)
– William Walker Atkinson, American merchant, lawyer, and author (b. 1862)
23rd
– Michel David-Weill, French-American banker
1932 – Kunie Tanaka, Japanese actor
24th
– Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist
– In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1932 – Fred Titmus, English cricketer and coach (d. 2011)
25th
– Takayo Fischer, American actress and singer
27th
– Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (d. 1983)
28th
– Gato Barbieri, Argentinian saxophonist and composer (d. 2016)
1932 – Terence Frisby, English author and playwright
29th
– Abdullah Cevdet, Kurdish-Turkish physician and academic (b. 1869)
– Ed Bickert, Canadian jazz guitarist
1932 – Jacques Chirac, French soldier and politician, 22nd President of France
1932 – John Gary, American singer and television host (d. 1998)
1932 – Fernando Guillén, Spanish actor (d. 2013)
1932 – Marc Vaux, English painter
30th
1932 – Cho Nam-chul, South Korean Go player (d. 2006)
– Bob Moore, American bassist and bandleader
December
3rd
– Takao Fujinami, Japanese lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
4th
– Roh Tae-woo, South Korean general and politician, 6th President of South Korea
5th
1932 – Jim Hurtubise, American race car driver (d. 1989)
1932 – Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
– Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs, British politician
1932 – Nadira, Indian actress (d. 2006)
1932 – Little Richard, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
6th
– Kamleshwar, Indian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2007)
7th
– Ellen Burstyn, American actress
1932 – Oktay Ekşi, Turkish journalist and politician
1932 – Rosemary Rogers, American journalist and author
1932 – J. B. Sumarlin, Indonesian economist and politician, 17th Indonesian Minister of Finance
1932 – Bobby Whitton, Australian rugby league player (d. 2008)
– German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
9th
– Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
1932 – Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
– Donald Byrd, American trumpet player and academic (d. 2013)
1932 – Bill Hartack, American jockey (d. 2007)
1932 – Billy Edd Wheeler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and playwright
10th
– Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1857)
– Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
11th
1932 – Keith Waldrop, American author and poet
– Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan colonel and engineer (d. 1991)
12th
– Bob Pettit, American basketball player and coach
13th
– Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
14th
1932 – Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
1932 – Abbe Lane, American actress, singer, and dancer
– George Furth, American actor and playwright (d. 2008)
15th
1932 – John Meurig Thomas, Welsh chemist and academic
Jesse Belvin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1960)
16th
1932 – Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (d. 1968)
1932 – Grace Alele-Williams, Nigerian mathematician and academic
– Quentin Blake, English author and illustrator
17th
– Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
– John Bond, English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
18th
– Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
– The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship.
1932 – Roger Smith, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
– Norm Provan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and businessman
19th
– BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
1932 – Wayne Tippit, American actor (d. 2009)
– Salvador Elizondo, Mexican author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 2006)
– Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
20th
– John Hillerman, American actor (d. 2017)
21st
– U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian author, poet, and critic (d. 2014)
1932 – Edward Hoagland, American author and critic
22nd
– Phil Woosnam, Welsh soccer player and manager (d. 2013)
23rd
– Richard Clark Barkley, American soldier, academic, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to East Germany (d. 2015)
24th
– Colin Cowdrey, Indian-English cricketer (d. 2000)
1932 – On Kawara, Japanese-American painter (d. 2014)
25th
– A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
– Mabel King, American actress and singer (d. 1999)
27th
– Radio City Music Hall, "Showplace of the Nation", opens in New York City.
28th
– Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman, founded Reliance Industries (d. 2002)
1932 – Dorsey Burnette, American singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
1932 – Roy Hattersley, English journalist and politician, Shadow Home Secretary
1932 – Harry Howell, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1932 – Nichelle Nichols, American actress
1932 – Manuel Puig, Argentinian author and playwright (d. 1990)
– Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
29th
– Inga Swenson, American actress and singer
31st
– Don James, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1932 – Felix Rexhausen, German journalist and author (d. 1992)
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