Historical figures in 1932
The atlas holds 69 people and 110 moments here, in 1932. The most recorded lives are Charlie Chaplin, Umm Kulthum and Bảo Đại. Among them Political Leaders, Writers and Performers.
Notable people
Pearl S. Buck
in 1932
2 moments here
American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…
P. L. Travers
in 1932
1 moment here
Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Prajadhipok
in 1932
2 moments here
Prajadhipok (Rama VII) was King of Siam from 1925 until his abdication in 1935. Educated in England and trained in the military, he travelled…
Puyi
in 1932
1 moment here
Puyi (1906–1967), the Xuantong Emperor, was the last emperor of Qing China and later the Kangde Emperor of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo.…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1932
3 moments here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Raisa Gorbacheva
in 1932
1 moment here
Soviet and Russian activist, philanthropist, lecturer, and public figure; wife of Mikhail Gorbachev.…
Ronald Reagan
in 1932
1 moment here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Ronald Ross
in 1932
1 moment here
British physician, malariologist, mathematician, writer, and 1902 Nobel laureate. Ross established the mosquito’s role in malaria transmission…
Rosa Parks
in 1932
1 moment here
American civil-rights activist whose lifelong work against racial segregation included local NAACP organizing in Montgomery, the 1955 bus protest and…
Saint-John Perse
in 1932
1 moment here
Saint-John Perse was the pen name of Alexis Léger, a French poet and diplomat. Born in Guadeloupe, he spent formative years in Pau and Bordeaux,…
Salvador Allende
in 1932
1 moment here
Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death during the 11 September 1973 coup.…
Sarojini Naidu
in 1932
2 moments here
Indian poet, nationalist, women’s-rights advocate, president of the Indian National Congress, and first governor of the United Provinces.…
Simone de Beauvoir
in 1932
1 moment here
French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Born and died in Paris, Beauvoir studied philosophy in Paris,…
Sirikit
in 1932
1 moment here
Sirikit Kitiyakara was Queen of Thailand from 1950 to 2016 as consort of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and later Queen Mother.…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1932
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
T. S. Eliot
in 1932
1 moment here
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Tunku Abdul Rahman
in 1932
1 moment here
Malaysian statesman, UMNO leader, chief minister of the Federation of Malaya, and first prime minister of Malaya and Malaysia.…
Umm Kulthum
in 1932
6 moments here
Egyptian singer and actress, born Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi. Raised in rural Dakahlia, she moved permanently to Cairo in 1923 and became…
Vallabhbhai Patel
in 1932
1 moment here
Indian lawyer, Indian National Congress leader, independence activist, and statesman. Known as Sardar Patel, he organized major civil-disobedience…
V. S. Naipaul
in 1932
1 moment here
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad-born British novelist, essayist, and travel writer.…
William Faulkner
in 1932
2 moments here
American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate whose work was closely associated with Oxford and north Mississippi.…
Moments
- 1932 Final graduate year in Copenhagen Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1932 Campaign address in Baltimore Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1932 Campaign address in Boston Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1932 Lives at Kimball House Ronald Reagan
- 1932 Signs Rockefeller Center contract in Detroit Diego Rivera
- 1932 Final 1932 campaign radio address Herbert Hoover
- 1932 Birth in Paris Jacques Chirac
- 1932 Second Peking lecture visit Lu Xun
- 1932 Arrival for Baghdad engagement Umm Kulthum
- 1932 Settling in Montgomery after marriage Rosa Parks