Famous people born in 1932

The best-known people born in 1932, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Jacques Chirac
President of France from 1995 to 2007
November 29 · d. 2019
Photo: Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
January 5 · d. 2016
Photo: Rob Bogaerts for Anefo, CC0
Elizabeth Taylor
British-American actress (1932–2011)
February 27 · d. 2011
Photo: Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Anatoliy Solovyanenko
Ukrainian singer (1932-1999)
September 25 · d. 1999
Photo: Published by the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the United States of America , Public domain
Johnny Cash
American country singer (1932–2003)
February 26 · d. 2003
Photo: CBS Television, Public domain
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
September 26 · d. 2024
Photo: Prime Minister's Office, GODL-India
Sylvia Plath
American poet and writer (1932–1963)
October 27 · d. 1963
Photo: Giovanni Giovannetti/Grazia Neri, Public domain
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)
August 17 · d. 2018
Photo: Faizul Latif Chowdhury, CC BY-SA 4.0
Peter O'Toole
British-Irish actor (1932–2013)
August 2 · d. 2013
Photo: ABC TV, Public domain
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
April 4 · d. 1986
Photo: Boris Mikhailovich Baldin (1929-2005) - my father, CC BY-SA 4.0
Miriam Makeba
South African singer and civil rights activist (1932–2008)
March 4 · d. 2008
Photo: Reprise Records, Public domain
François Truffaut
French film director (1932–1984)
February 6 · d. 1984
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0
John Updike
American novelist, poet (1932–2009)
March 18 · d. 2009
Photo: Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain
Donald Rumsfeld
American politician and diplomat (1932–2021)
July 9 · d. 2021
Photo: Scott Davis, U.S. Army, Public domain
Omar Sharif
Egyptian actor (1932–2015)
April 10 · d. 2015
Photo: Photographer-Gene Weber, Seattle, Public domain
Miloš Forman
Czech American director, screenwriter, and professor (1932–2018)
February 18 · d. 2018
Photo: che (Please credit as "Petr Novák, Wikipedia" in case you use this outside Wikimedia projects.), CC BY-SA 3.0
Debbie Reynolds
American actress, singer, and dancer (1932–2016)
April 1 · d. 2016
Photo: Studio photographer, Public domain
Dian Fossey
American zoologist, gorilla researcher (1932–1985)
January 16 · d. 1985
Photo: Tribune Publishing, no photographer credited, Public domain
John Williams
American composer and conductor (born 1932)
February 8
Photo: Lindseysharpe, CC BY-SA 4.0
Luc Montagnier
French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
August 18 · d. 2022
François Englert
Belgian theoretical physicist (1932–2026)
November 6 · d. 2026
Photo: Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0
Adolfo Suárez
Prime Minister of Spain (1976–1981)
September 25 · d. 2014
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Soviet and Russian poet (1933–2017)
July 18 · d. 2017
Photo: mos.ru, CC BY 4.0
Ted Kennedy
United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009
February 22 · d. 2009
Photo: Ted_Kennedy,_official_photo_portrait.jpg : United States Senate derivative work: Tktru, Public domain
Momoko Kōchi
Japanese actress (1932-1998)
March 7 · d. 1998
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Ellen Burstyn
American actress
December 7
Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0
Sheldon Glashow
American theoretical physicist
December 5
Photo: Luboš Motl - Lumidek, Public domain
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
French physicist
October 24 · d. 2007
Photo: Dominique Morisseau Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etude des Matériaux (LPEM) ESPCI Paris 10 rue Vauqu, CC BY-SA 4.0
Little Richard
American musician (1932–2020)
December 5 · d. 2020
Anthony Perkins
American actor (1932–1992)
April 4 · d. 1992

Who is your time twin?

Enter your birth date and find out who was exactly your age today on the day you were born.

Find my twin

Month by month

January

January 4 · Carlos Saura, Spanish photographer and film director (1932–2023)
January 5 · Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1932–1999)
January 13 · Joseph Zen, Bishop of Hong Kong
January 18 · Robert Anton Wilson, American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic (1932-2007)
January 22 · Piper Laurie, American actress (1932–2023)
January 25 · Yukio Shimomura, Japanese association football player and manager

February

February 3 · Stuart Hall, Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist
February 5 · Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (1932-2016)
February 5 · Hiroaki Sato, Japanese association football player (born 1932)
February 6 · Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary fighter and guerilla (1932–1959)
February 9 · Gerhard Richter, German visual artist (b. 1932)
February 24 · Michel Legrand, French film score composer (1932–2019)

March

March 4 · Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author (1932–2007)
March 6 · Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (1932–2008)
March 15 · Alan Bean, American astronaut and painter (1932-2018)
March 16 · Walter Cunningham, American astronaut (1932–2023)
March 21 · Walter Gilbert, American biochemist
March 31 · Nagisa Ōshima, Japanese film director and screenwriter (1932–2013)

April

April 9 · Carl Perkins, American guitarist
April 14 · Loretta Lynn, American country singer (1932–2022)
April 19 · Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (1932–2023)
April 26 · Michael Smith, Canadian Nobel laureate in chemistry
April 27 · Anouk Aimée, French actress (1932–2024)
April 27 · Casey Kasem, American voice actor (1932–2014)

May

May 8 · Sonny Liston, American boxer (c. 1930–1970)
May 11 · Valentino, Italian fashion designer (1932–2026)
May 19 · Elena Poniatowska, French-born Mexican journalist and author
May 21 · Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower (1932-2011)
May 22 · Tavo Burat, Italian journalist and writer (1932–2009)
May 24 · Arnold Wesker, British dramatist (1932-2016)

June

June 6 · David Scott, American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut (born 1932)
June 15 · Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994
June 18 · Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist
June 22 · Amrish Puri, Indian actor (1932–2005)
June 22 · Soraya Esfandiari-Bakhtiari, Queen consort of Iran from 1951 to 1958
June 28 · Pat Morita, Japanese-American actor (1932–2005)

July

July 5 · Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician (1932–2013)
July 7 · Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (1932–2007)
July 17 · Wojciech Kilar, Polish composer and pianist (1932–2013)
July 17 · Quino, Argentine cartoonist (1932-2020)
July 20 · Nam June Paik, American video art pioneer (1932–2006)
July 31 · John Searle, American philosopher (1932–2025)

August

August 4 · Frances Allen, American computer scientist (1932–2020)
August 7 · Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian double Olympic marathon champion
August 11 · Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer and actor resident in France (born 1932)
August 12 · Sirikit, Queen Consort of Thailand from 1950 to 2016, since then Queen Mother (1932–2025)
August 20 · Vasily Aksyonov, Soviet-Russian writer (1932-2009)
August 23 · Houari Boumédiène, Head of State of Algeria from 1965 to 1978

September

September 8 · Patsy Cline, American country singer (1932–1963)
September 22 · Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian politician (1932–2010)
September 25 · Glenn Gould, Canadian composer and pianist (1932–1982)
September 27 · Oliver E. Williamson, American economist (1932–2020)
September 28 · Víctor Jara, Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and political activist (1932-1973)
September 29 · Rainer Weiss, American physicist (1932–2025)

October

October 11 · Dana Scott, American mathematician and computer scientist
October 13 · John G. Thompson, American mathematician
October 18 · Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician and musicologist (born 1932)
October 24 · Stephen Covey, American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker (1932-2012)
October 24 · Robert Mundell, Canadian economist (1932–2021)
October 30 · Louis Malle, French film director, screenwriter, and producer (1932-1995)

November

November 2 · Melvin Schwartz, American experimental physicist (1932-2006)
November 4 · Thomas Klestil, Austrian diplomat and politician (1932–2004)
November 8 · Stéphane Audran, French actress (1932–2018)
November 10 · Roy Scheider, American actor (1932–2008)
November 15 · Petula Clark, British singer and actress
November 27 · Ninoy Aquino, Filipino senator and governor of Tarlac (1932–1983)

December

December 3 · Corry Brokken, Dutch singer, judge (1932–2016)
December 4 · Roh Tae-woo, President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993
December 16 · Rodion Shchedrin, Soviet and Russian composer and pianist
December 25 · Michihiro Ozawa, Japanese association football player
December 28 · Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian business tycoon (1932–2002)
December 28 · Nichelle Nichols, American actress (1932–2022)

People from Wikidata (CC0), photos from Wikimedia Commons; each photo shows its author and licence.