* 1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor ( b. 1732 )

At Nuremberg in 1733, he published a collection of 316 observations of the aurora borealis made by himself and others over the period 1716 – 1732.

Bernard of Clairvaux ( 1090 – 1153 ), in a 1700 painting by Georg Andreas Wasshuber ( 1650 – 1732 ) on display at Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

* Constantine II of Kakheti ( died 1732 ), King of Kakheti 1722 – 1732

* Richard Cumberland ( dramatist ) ( 1732 – 1811 ), civil servant and dramatist

* 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.

Under King Agaja ( ruled 1708 – 1732 ), the kingdom conquered Allada, where the ruling family originated.

Ecological concepts such as food chains, population regulation, and productivity were first developed in the 1700s, through the published works of microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 – 1723 ) and botanist Richard Bradley ( 1688 ?– 1732 ).

* 1732 – George Washington, First President of the United States ( d. 1799 )

* 1732 – Charles Lee, British-born American Revolutionary War figure ( d. 1782 )

* 1732 – Francis Marion, American Revolutionary War officer ( d. 1795 )

* 1669 – Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1732 )

* 1732 – Johann Christian Kittel, German organist, composer, and teacher ( d. 1809 )

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

* John Gay ( English, 1685 – 1732 ).

* John Walker ( lexicographer ) ( 1732 – 1807 ), English lexicographer, actor and philologist

* 1732 – John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania ( d. 1808 )

* 1732 – John Broadwood, Scottish founder of the piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons ( d. 1812 )

* February 14 – John Dickinson, American lawyer and governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania ( b. 1732 )

* August 31 – John Blair, American politician ( b. 1732 )

* June 30 – John Gay, English writer ( d. 1732 )

The colony of Georgia was created in 1732 ; its first settlement, Savannah, was founded the following year, on a river bluff where the Yamacraw, a Yamasee band that remained allies of England, allowed John Musgrove to establish a fur-trading post.

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore ( 1732 – 25 February 1809 ) was a British peer and colonial governor.

Settling in Hanover County, in about 1732 John Henry married Sarah Winston Syme, a wealthy widow from a prominent Hanover County family of English ancestry.

Among his efforts in oil between 1728 and 1732 were The Fountaine Family ( c. 1730 ), The Assembly at Wanstead House, The House of Commons examining Bambridge, and several pictures of the chief actors in John Gay's popular The Beggar's Opera.

One of his masterpieces of this period is the depiction of an amateur performance of John Dryden's The Indian Emperor, or The Conquest of Mexico ( 1732 – 1735 ) at the home of John Conduitt, master of the mint, in St George's Street, Hanover Square.

A Chapel was built in 1732, and the introduction of further accommodation in 1846, and the Hall in 1848 to designs by Exeter based architect John Hayward created " Chapel Quad "— widely considered one of the most beautiful Quads in the University.

John Schell's grandfather Michael Schell, the progenitor of this branch of the Schell family in America, first arrived in Philadelphia from the Palatinate by way of Rotterdam in 1727, after which more family members arrived in 1732 and again in 1738.

John Gay ( 30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732 ) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.

* the work of Thomas Otterbourne and John Whethamstede as Duo rerum Anglicarum scriptores veteres ( 1732 )

On 13 March 1732 Susannah made her professional debut in the title role of John Frederick Lampe's setting of Henry Carey's Amelia to positive reviews, at the Little Theatre.

Historian John Fredriksen claims that Clinton was born in Newfoundland ; his father was posted there from 1732 to 1738.

( See the State Dining room with the Silver Trust Silver in use for a luncheon ) Above the fireplace, overlooking the room, is a massive portrait by John Shackleton of George II, the king who originally gave the building to the First Lord of the Treasury in 1732.

* John Hunter ( South Carolina politician ) ( 1732 – 1802 ), American politician

* July 17 – John Broadwood, piano manufacturer ( b. 1732 )

As the settlement expanded its name changed: briefly known as " Bankside " in 1693, officially named Green's Farm in 1732 in honor of Bankside Farmer John Green and in 1835 incorporated as the Town of Westport.

The Duke of Queensberry gave Gay a home, and the duchess continued her affectionate patronage until Gay's death, which took place on December 4, 1732.

* June 30-John Gay, poet and dramatist ( died 1732 )

The Percy miscellany also quotes a pastoral poem by John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ), who wrote that:

* " Black-eyed Susan " or " All in the Downs ", an iconic song by John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 )

The 1544 Greek edition formed the basis of the 1732 English translation by William Whiston, which achieved enormous popularity in the English-speaking world ( and which is currently available online for free download via Project Gutenberg ).

* March 6 – Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters ( d. 1732 )

The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS ( 6 October 1732 – 20 July 1811 ) was the fifth English Astronomer Royal.

Marivaux's play Le Triomphe de l ' amour ( 1732 ) was filmed in English in 2001 as The Triumph of Love, starring Mira Sorvino, Ben Kingsley, and Fiona Shaw.

This site was settled around 1732 by English traders and farmers who moved inland from Charleston.

Through his prose translation of Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1732 ), also, he tried to make English literature accessible in Germany.

Samuel Musgrave, FRS ( 29 September 1732 – 5 July 1780 ) was an English classical scholar and physician.

He gained employment as a surgeon in the English East India Company and was sent to India in 1732.

* George Colman the Elder ( 1732 – 1794 ), English dramatist

Francis Atterbury ( 6 March 1663 – 22 February 1732 ) was an English man of letters, politician and bishop.

Most of his works appeared in a collected form in 1732, and an English translation of the Traité was published in 1780.

* February 9-Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal ( born 1732 )

Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield PC, FRS ( 23 July 1666 – 28 April 1732 ) was an English Whig politician.

* Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield ( 1666 – 1732 ), English Whig politician

Oglethorpe and other English philanthropists secured a royal charter as the Trustees of the colony of Georgia on June 9, 1732.

" His translation was greeted with immense enthusiasm and had soon been translated into many other European languages: English ( a " Grub Street " version appeared in 1706 ); German ( 1712 ); Italian ( 1722 ); Dutch ( 1732 ); and Russian ( 1763 ).

It became a standard technical reference book for astronomers all over Europe, " a text no serious seventeenth century astronomer could do without "; John Flamsteed ( 1646 – 1719 ), the first English astronomer royal, a Copernican and a Protestant, used it for his Gresham lectures ; Jérôme Lalande ( 1732 – 1807 ) of the Paris Observatory cited it extensively even though it was an old book at that point ; the 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia calls it the most important literary work of the Jesuits during the seventeenth century.

* Francis Atterbury ( 1663 – 1732 ) English man of letters, politician, Bishop of Rochester, and Dean of Westminster Abbey