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Months in Year 1932: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 122 of 122

Jan 1st - C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)
Jan 7th - Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60
Jan 8th - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
Jan 13th - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
Jan 15th - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
Jan 17th - Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
Jan 21st - [Giles] Lytton Strachey, British biographer/critic, dies at 51
Jan 24th - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
Jan 26th - William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies
Jan 28th - Franz Xavier Arens, composer, dies at 75
Feb 2nd - Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader
Feb 8th - Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang
Feb 9th - Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered
Feb 10th - R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76
Feb 15th - Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at 66
Feb 16th - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1841)
Feb 17th - Frans Gailliard, Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina), dies at 70
Feb 18th - Frederik Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18), dies at 66
Feb 27th - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
Feb 28th - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
Feb 29th - "Big Ed" Morris, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies
Mar 1st - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
Mar 1st - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
Mar 3rd - Eugene Francis Charles D'albert, composer, dies at 67
Mar 5th - Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
March King John Philip Sousa (Mar 6th) Mar 6th - John Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 77
Mar 7th - Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69
Mar 8th - Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84
Mar 11th - Dora Carrington, British Bloomsbury artist commits suicide aged 38
Mar 12th - Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
Mar 14th - George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77
Mar 24th - George Robert Canning, cricketer (the 4th Lord Harris), dies
Mar 26th - Jean Cartan, composer, dies at 25
Apr 2nd - Hugo Kaun, composer, dies at 69
Apr 4th - Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Austrian minister, dies at 59
Apr 4th - Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies
Apr 7th - Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
Apr 10th - Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56
Apr 13th - Johannes T de Visser, 1st Dutch Min of Education, dies at 75 [or 14th]
Apr 19th - Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer, dies at 77
Apr 20th - Giuseppe Peano, mathematician, dies
Apr 26th - Bill Lockwood, cricketer (43 wickets in 12 Tests for England), dies
Apr 27th - Harold "Heart" Crane, US poet (Bridge), commits suicide at 32
Apr 27th - Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
May 1st - Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov
May 3rd - Anton Wildgans, Austr writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies at 51
May 7th - Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies
May 8th - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
May 12th - Lindbergh baby, found dead
May 15th - Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
May 16th - Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
May 16th - William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies
May 22nd - Lady Augusta, [Isabella Gregory], playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80
Jun 5th - Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies
Jun 7th - Emil Pauer, composer, dies at 76
Jun 9th - Natalia Janotha, composer, dies at 76
Jun 12th - René de Clerq, Flemish poet/writer (Book of Love), dies
Jun 12th - Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer/Dutch sec of state (1866..88), dies at 79
Jun 14th - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer
Jun 16th - Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies
Jun 19th - Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer, dies
Jun 22nd - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (b. 1892)
Jul 2nd - Manuel II, last King of Portugal (1908-10), dies at 43
Jul 5th - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
Jul 6th - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
Jul 7th - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
Jul 7th - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
Jul 8th - Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies
Jul 9th - Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies
Jul 9th - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885)
Jul 20th - René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
Jul 21st - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
Jul 22nd - Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71
Jul 22nd - Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71
Jul 22nd - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
Jul 22nd - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
Jul 23rd - Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
Jul 25th - Cyriel Buysse, Flemish baron/writer (It Bolleken), dies [or 1936]
Jul 31st - Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer, dies at 58
Aug 1st - Arnold Fothergill, cricketer (8 wickets in 2 Tests for Eng 1889), dies
Aug 2nd - Gheorghe Cucu, composer, dies at 50
Aug 5th - Israel Querido, writer (Jordan), dies
Aug 10th - Slang, writer, dies
Aug 10th - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918)
Aug 14th - Rin Tin Tin, US Hollywood-dog, dies
Aug 20th - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87
Aug 20th - Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59
Aug 20th - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer, dies at 60
Aug 21st - Frederick Corder, composer, dies at 80
Aug 30th - Willem M van Rossum, cardinal/prefect of Propaganda Fide, dies at 77
Sep 5th - Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, dies
Sep 5th - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist, playwright and journalist (b. 1866)
Sep 10th - Percy Fletcher, composer, dies at 52
Sep 11th - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
Sep 13th - Julius Rontgen, composer, dies at 77
Sep 13th - Paul Gorguloff, murderer of French pres Doumer, beheaded
Sep 14th - Jean Emile Paul Cras, composer, dies at 53
Sep 15th - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76
Sep 16th - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
Sep 20th - Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63
Sep 20th - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
Oct 18th - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
Oct 19th - Arthur Friedheim, composer, dies at 72
Oct 22nd - Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday
Oct 29th - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies
Oct 30th - Paul S Methuen, English baron/fieldmarshal/gov of Natal, dies at 87
Nov 4th - Belle Bennett, actress (Iron Mask), dies at 41
Nov 9th - Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30
Nov 16th - Carry van Bruggen, [de Haan], Dutch author (Eva), dies at 51
Nov 19th - Marie MJ Poupelet, French sculptor/poster artist, dies
Nov 21st - Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument Argentina), dies
Nov 22nd - William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
Nov 23rd - Percy Pitt, composer, dies at 63
Nov 27th - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
Dec 1st - Amadeo Vives, composer, dies at 61
Dec 4th - Gustav Meyrink, writer, dies at 64
Dec 12th - Egon Richter, writer, dies
Dec 13th - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853)
Dec 18th - Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82
Dec 19th - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908)
Dec 24th - Eyvind Alnaes, composer, dies at 60
Dec 28th - John Blackham, cricketer (35 Tests as Aust WK, caught 37), dies

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