Timeline Monday 4 April 1932

Events on Monday 4 April 1932 4

• 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.
• 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.