1932
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1932 is the 932nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1930s decade.
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Art and culture
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Film
- Freaks by Tod Browning
- Horse Feathers by the Marx brothers
- Vampyr by Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Scarface by Howard Hawks
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Visual arts
- Bauhaus Stairway, a painting by Oskar Schlemmer
- International Exhibition of Modern Architecture, an exhibition and book by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson
- Human Relations, a photo by American photographer William Mortensen
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Literature
- Film as Art by Rudolf Arnheim
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand D. Céline
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Music
- Teddy Bears' Picnic by Henry Hall & His Orchestra
- Mad About the Boy by Noël Coward
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Births
- January 24 – Éliane Radigue, French electronic music composer
- July 29 - Mike Hodges, British director (d. 2022)
- October 14 – Wolf Vostell, German artist (d. 1998)
- Louis Malle (1932 - 1995)
- Nagisa Oshima (1932 - 2013)
- Donald Byrd, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2013)
- Sir Coxsone Dodd (1932 - 2004)
- Raymond Durgnat (1932 - 2002)
- Stuart Hall (1932 - 2014)
- Jack Smith (1932 - 1989)
- Umberto Eco (1932 - 2016)
- Robert Coover (1932 - )
- Dušan Makavejev (1932 - 2019)
- Dieter Rams (1932 - )
- Ernest Ranglin (1932 - )
- Paul Virilio (1932 - 2018)
- Fernando Arrabal (1932 - )
- Stéphane Audran (1932 - 2018)
- Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist and composer
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Deaths
- May 3 - Charles Fort, American researcher of the unusual (b. 1874)
- December 9 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
- Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932)
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