List of Famous people who died in 1932

Moses Alexander was the 11th Governor of Idaho, the second elected Jewish governor of a U.S. state, and the first who actually practiced that religion. He served from 1915 until 1919, and remains the state's sole Jewish chief executive.

Maurice Nicolle was a French physician and microbiologist born in Rouen. He was the brother of biologist Charles Nicolle (1866–1936).

Maurice de Féraudy was a French songwriter and actor at the Comédie-Française. He was the father of actor Jacques de Féraudy.

Max Schlosser was a German zoologist and paleontologist. He is best known for his research on extinct primates and Caniformia.

William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford,, known as Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt, from 1919 to 1929 and popularly known as Jix, was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician.

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian-born inventor, who did a majority of his work in the United States and also claimed U.S. citizenship through his American-born father. During his life he received hundreds of patents in various fields, most notably ones related to radio and sonar.

Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, was an Anglo-Irish agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural cooperatives, Unionist MP, supporter of Home Rule, Irish Senator and author.

Henri de Gaulle (1848–1932) was a French civil servant and later a schoolteacher. He was the father of Charles de Gaulle, a general of the French army and President of France.

Charles Augustus Leale was a surgeon in the Union Army during the American Civil War and the first doctor to arrive at the presidential box at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865 after John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln in the head. His prompt treatment allowed Lincoln to live until the next morning. Leale continued to serve in the army until 1866, after which he returned to his home town of New York City where he established a successful private practice and became involved in charitable medical care. One of the last surviving witnesses to Lincoln's death, Leale died in 1932 at the age of 90.