* 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.

* 1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1685 )

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 ).

The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon ( 1732 ), developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard ( 1804 ), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM.

German music, sponsored by the upper classes, came of age under composers Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ).

Two of the most prominent composers of the Classical period ( music ), Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ), wrote harpsichord music.

* Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) Austrian composer who revolutionized the symphonic form.

** Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer ( b. 1732 )

* Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) had two Kapellmeister positions: first, from ( probably ) 1757 to 1761 for Count Morzin, then from 1761 on for the Eszterházy family.

* Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 )

Joseph Majer ( 1732 ) called them pneumatica, pulsatilia ( percussives including plucked instruments ), and fidicina ( from fidula, fiddle ) ( for bowed instruments );

Consequently, opus numbers are not usually in chronological order, unpublished compositions usually had no opus number, and numeration gaps and sequential duplications occurred when publishers issued contemporaneous editions of a composer ’ s works, as in the sets of string quartets by Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ); Haydn's Op.

Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande ( 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807 ) was a French astronomer and writer.

He wrote several plays, of which Der sterbende Cato ( 1732 ), an adaptation of Joseph Addison's tragedy and a French play on the same theme, was long popular on the stage.

* May 31 – Joseph Haydn, composer ( born 1732 )

* February 27 – Joseph Leutgeb, horn virtuoso ( b. 1732 )

The parents of Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) could not read music, yet Haydn ’ s father ( who worked as a wheelwright ) taught himself to play the harp, and the Haydn family frequently played and sang together.

* Franz Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ), composer

He was the son of Joseph Ellicott ( 1732 – 1780 ).

Law's Case of Reason ( 1732 ), in answer to Tindal's Christianity as old as the Creation is to some extent an anticipation of Joseph Butler's argument in the Analogy of Religion.

The sonata da chiesa had become outdated by the time of Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ), although he did compose a few of his early symphonies in this style ( slow-fast-minuet-fast ).

* Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein ( 27 May 1690 – 17 December 1732 )

Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein ( Full name: Johann Nepomuk Karl Borromäus Joseph Franz de Paula ) ( 6 July 1724 – 22 December 1748 ) was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1732 and 1748.

James Philip Landrofilo ( 1528 ); Octavian Bagatti ( 1566 ); Raphael Maffei ( 1577 ); Paolo Sarpi ( 1623 ); Archangelus Giani ( 1623 ); Philip Ferrari ( 1626 ); Archangelus Garbi ( 1722 ); Placidus Bonfrizieri ( 1732 ); Joseph Damiani ( 1842 ); Austin M. Morini ( 1910 ).

The composer Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau in 1732.

* ( Franz ) Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ), composer

Joseph Gaertner ( March 12 1732 – July 14 1791 ) was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum ( 1788-1792 ).

* April 25-Joseph von Sonnenfels, Austrian novelist ( born 1732 )

* 1732 – František Brixi, Czech classical composer ( d. 1771 )

* January 26 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer ( b. 1732 )

* January 29 – Luigi Antonio Sabbatini, composer and music theorist ( born 1732 )

* April 17 – Johann Christian Kittel, organist and composer ( born 1732 )

* November 7 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer ( b. 1732 )

* Francesco Bartolomeo Conti ( 1681 – 1732 ), Florentine composer

* January 26 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer ( b. 1732 )

* October 9 – Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, musician and composer ( b. 1732 )

* October 14 – Frantisek Brixi, composer ( b. 1732 )

Louis Marchand ( 2 February 1669 – 17 February 1732 ) was a French Baroque organist, harpsichordist, and composer.

* February 2 – Louis Marchand, organist, harpsichordist and composer ( died 1732 )

Nicola Francesco Leonardo Grimaldi ( 5 April 1673 ( bap ) – 1 January 1732 ) was an Italian mezzo-soprano castrato who is best remembered today for his association with the composer George Frideric Handel, in two of whose early operas he sang.

The work was revived on 18 April 1732, under the direction of the composer, for four performances.

Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie ( 1 September 1732 – 9 October 1781 ), styled Viscount Fentoun and Lord Pittenweem until 1756, was a British musician and composer whose considerable talent brought him international fame and his rakish habits notoriety, but nowadays is little known.