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Events on Saturday 12 March 1932 1
1880 – 1932Ivar Kreuger (1880-1932)Died 12 March 1932, aged 52The Swedish "Match King" built a worldwide match monopoly and financial empire. He shot himself in Paris, and the collapse that followed revealed large-scale fraud.