1932

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Years: 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 - 1932 - 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937

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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.