In Art and Artist ( 1932 ), the psychologist Otto Rank wrote that the psychological trauma of birth was the pre-eminent human symbol of existential anxiety and encompasses the creative person's simultaneous fear of – and desire for – separation, individuation and differentiation.

* 1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer ( d. 1932 )

* 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1884 – Tenby Davies, Welsh runner ( d. 1932 )

* 1932 – Dennis Banks, American-Indian activist

* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1932 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor

* 1932 – Tiny Tim, American singer, ukulele player, and archivist ( d. 1996 )

* 1858 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician ( d. 1932 )

* 1932 – Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager ( d. 2008 )

* 1932 – Antonia Fraser, English author

* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )

* 1932 – Howard Hodgkin, English painter

* 1932 – John Gomery, Canadian jurist

It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.

It should be noted that the MCC, although it had earlier condoned and encouraged bodyline tactics in the 1932 – 33 series, laid the blame on Larwood when relations turned sour.

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

Bodyline, a fictionalised television miniseries based on the " Bodyline " Ashes series of 1932 – 33, screened in Australia in 1984, to significant public interest and critical acclaim.

* 1932 – The positron ( antiparticle of the electron ) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.

Elaine May ( born April 21, 1932 ) is an American film director, screenwriter and actress.

Elaine Berlin was born in Philadelphia in 1932, the daughter of the theatre director / actor Jack Berlin and his wife, Ida, an actress, who had a small role in May's film, A New Leaf.

Under the name " Vivian Alice Elaine Dobbs ," she attended the Venable Public Elementary School of Charlottesville for four terms, from September 1930 until May 1932.

* Elaine May ( born 1932 ): Reds ( 1981 ), Tootsie ( 1982 ), and Labyrinth ( 1986 ).

In late May 1932, with the resignation of Karl Buresch's Christian-Social government, Dollfuss, age 39 and with only one year's experience in the Federal government, was offered the office of Chancellor by President Wilhelm Miklas, also a member of the Christian-Social Party.

Dollfuss was sworn in on May 20, 1932, as head of a coalition government between the Christian-Social Party, the Landbund — a right-wing agrarian party — and Heimatblock, the parliamentary wing of the Heimwehr, a paramilitary ultra-nationalist group.

Ribbentrop and his wife joined the National Socialist German Workers ' Party on 1 May 1932.

Kenji Sahara ( 佐原 健二 Sahara Kenji, born Tadashi Ishihara ) ( born 14 May 1932 ) is a Japanese actor.

In May 1934, a final peace agreement was signed, resulting in the return of Leticia to Colombia, a formal apology from Peru for the 1932 invasion, demilitarization of the area around Leticia, free navigation on the Amazon and Putumayo Rivers, and a pledge of non-aggression.

* 1932 – The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d ' état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.

On 20 May 1932 Baba arrived in New York and provided the press with a 1, 000-word written statement, which was described by devotee Quentin Tod as his Message to America.

" Following Bruning's resignation in May 1932 Pacelli, like the new Catholic chancellor Franz von Papen, wondered if the Centre Party should look to the Right for a coalition, " that would correspond to their principles '.

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He was Deputy Premier of Victoria from May 1932 until July 1934.

On 28 January 1932, Japanese forces struck and the Chinese resisted, fighting to a standstill ; a ceasefire was brokered in May.

* Colombia – Peru War ( 1 September 1932 – 24 May 1933 ) – fought between the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Peru.

* May 12 – Robert Reed, American actor ( b. 1932 )

* May 13 – Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1932 )

* May 9 – Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch classical composer ( d. 1932 )

* May 19 – John Hubbard, American admiral ( d. 1932 )

* May 26 – Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner ( b. 1932 )

* May 31 – Jules Chéret, French printmaker ( d. 1932 )

However, the Wilhelmus remained popular and lost its identification as a factional song, and on 10 May 1932, it was decreed that on all official occasions requiring the performance of the national anthem, the Wilhelmus was to be played-thereby replacing Tollens ' song.

Charles Hoy Fort ( August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932 ) was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena.

After he collapsed on May 3, 1932, Fort was rushed to Royal Hospital in The Bronx.