1932

1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

• January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang tries to assassinate Emperor Hirohito of Japan and fails.
• February 4 - The 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
• August 6 - The first Venice Film Festival happens.
• October 30 - A hurricane forms. It hits Cuba in November.
• November 2 - The Emu War begins.
• November 18 - The United States has a presidential election.
• Unknown - Joseph Stalin starts the Holodomor.

• January 19 – Richard Lester
• January 30 – Gino Conforti, American actor
• February 8 – John Williams
• February 12 – Johnny Cash (d. 2003)
• February 22 – Ted Kennedy (d. 2009)
• March 2 – Gun Hägglund, Swedish television star
• March 4 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
• March 4 – Frank Wells, American businessman, president of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1994)
• April 27 – Casey Kasem, American radio show host, voice actor (d. 2014)
• July 2 – Dave Thomas, founder of the fast food chain Wendy's (d. 2002)
• August 2 – Peter O'Toole (d. 2013)
• September 25 – Adolfo Suárez (d. 2014)
• October 20 – William Christopher
• November 13 – Richard Mulligan
• November 29 – Jacques Chirac (d. 2019)
• December 5 - Little Richard, American rock and roll pianist (d. 2020)
• December 14 – Charlie Rich

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Charles Scott Sherrington, (1857 – 1952) and Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889 — 1977).