Timeline April 1932

Events in April 1932 12

• 1853 – 1932 Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) Died 4 April 1932, aged 78 The Baltic German chemist was a founder of physical chemistry. He won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on catalysis.
• 1858 – 1932 Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) Died 20 April 1932, aged 73 The Italian mathematician formulated the Peano axioms for the natural numbers and helped develop modern mathematical logic.
• 1899 – 1932 Hart Crane (1899-1932) Died 27 April 1932, aged 32 The American modernist poet, author of The Bridge, died after jumping from a steamship in the Gulf of Mexico.
• 1932 Hindenburg re-elected President of Germany Runoff defeats Adolf Hitler Paul von Hindenburg beat Adolf Hitler in the runoff of the German presidential election. The first round was held on 13 March. Hitler took 37 percent of the runoff vote.
• 1932 1932 World Snooker Championship Joe Davis Title 6 Winner: Joe Davis; Runner-up: Clark McConachy. Score: 30–19.
• 1932 – 1992 Anthony Perkins (1932-1992) Died 12 September 1992, aged 60 Anthony Perkins was an American actor best remembered for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and its sequels. His unsettling performance became one of the most iconic in horror cinema. He died of AIDS-related pneumonia, having kept his diagnosis private for years.
• 1932 – 2026 Clive Davis Clive Davis (born 4 April 1932, Brooklyn, New York) is the most influential record executive in the history of the American music industry. A lawyer with no musical background who stumbled into the record business, Davis discovered and developed more major artists than any other executive of his era: Janis Joplin, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Patti Smith, Barry Manilow, Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and dozens more. He ran Columbia Records through its greatest creative period (1967–1973), founded Arista Records (1974) and J Records (2000), and at 91 remains active as Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Entertainment. His autobiography 'Clive: Inside the Record Business' (1975) is the definitive account of the music industry at its commercial peak.
• 1932 Clive Davis born in Brooklyn — loss defines his ambition Clive Jay Davis is born on 4 April 1932 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, to Herman Davis, a salesman, and Florence Grossman Davis. His childhood is shaped by loss: his father dies when Clive is 10, his mother when he is 18. He is largely raised by relatives and driven by a fierce determination to achieve financial security and status. He wins a scholarship to New York University and subsequently to Harvard Law School — the first in his family to attend university, let alone Harvard. Law is the path, not a passion.
• 1932 – 2015 Omar Sharif (1932-2015) Died 10 July 2015, aged 83 Omar Sharif was an Egyptian actor who achieved international stardom with roles in Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. He received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and was one of the most successful Arab actors in Hollywood history. Sharif was also an internationally ranked bridge player.
• 1932 Cockcroft and Walton split the atom First nuclear reaction driven by an accelerator John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton fired accelerated protons at lithium nuclei at the Cavendish Laboratory, splitting them into alpha particles. It was the first nuclear transmutation produced by artificially accelerated particles.
• 1932 – 1990 Halston (1932-1990) Died 26 March 1990, aged 57 Halston, born Roy Halston Frowick, was an American fashion designer who dominated American style in the 1970s with minimalist designs favored by celebrities. He designed Jacqueline Kennedy's pillbox hat before launching his own label. He died of AIDS-related complications in San Francisco.
• 1932 – 2014 Casey Kasem (1932-2014) Died 15 June 2014, aged 82 Casey Kasem, the radio host who created and hosted the long-running countdown show "American Top 40," died in Washington state amid a highly publicized family dispute over his care. He also voiced the character Shaggy in the "Scooby-Doo" cartoon franchise. His radio countdown format was widely imitated for decades.