List of Famous people who died in 1932

Gertrude Jekyll

First Name Gertrude
Born on November 29, 1843
Died on December 8, 1932 (aged 89)

Gertrude Jekyll was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1,000 articles for magazines such as Country Life and William Robinson's The Garden. Jekyll has been described as "a premier influence in garden design" by British and American gardening enthusiasts.

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Peg Entwistle

First Name Peg
Born on February 5, 1908
Died on September 16, 1932 (aged 24)

Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle was a British stage and screen actress. She began her stage career in 1925, appearing in several Broadway productions. She appeared in only one film, Thirteen Women, which was released posthumously.

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Alberto Santos-Dumont

First Name Alberto
Last Name Santos-Dumont
Born on July 20, 1873
Died on July 23, 1932 (aged 59)
Born in Brazil, Minas Gerais

Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian inventor and aviation pioneer, one of the very few people to have contributed significantly to the development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft.

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Margaret Brown

First Name Margaret
Last Name Brown
Born on July 18, 1867
Died on October 26, 1932 (aged 65)

Margaret ("Molly") Brown, posthumously known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", was an American socialite and philanthropist. She unsuccessfully encouraged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field of the 1912 sinking of RMS Titanic to look for survivors. During her lifetime, her friends called her "Maggie", but even by her death, obituaries referred to her as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown". The reference was further reinforced by a 1960 Broadway musical based on her life and its 1964 film adaptation which were both entitled The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

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William Wrigley

First Name William
Last Name Wrigley
Died on January 26, 1932
Net Worth $3.3B

William Mills Wrigley Jr. was an American chewing gum industrialist. He was founder and eponym of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in 1891.

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Inukai Tsuyoshi

First Name Inukai
Last Name Tsuyoshi
Born on June 4, 1855
Died on May 15, 1932 (aged 76)

Inukai Tsuyoshi was a Japanese politician, cabinet minister, and Prime Minister of Japan from 1931 to his assassination in 1932. Inukai is Japan's second oldest prime minister while serving, as he was aged 76 on the last day of his tenure, after Suzuki Kantarō.

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Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

First Name Florenz
Born on March 21, 1867
Died on July 22, 1932 (aged 65)

Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr. was an American Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. He also produced the musical Show Boat. He was known as the "glorifier of the American girl". Ziegfeld is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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Martha Hughes Cannon

First Name Martha
Born on July 1, 1857
Died on July 10, 1932 (aged 75)

Martha Maria "Mattie" Hughes Cannon was a Utah State Senator, physician, Utah women's rights advocate, suffragist, polygamous wife, and a Welsh-born immigrant to the United States. Her family immigrated to the United States as converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and traveled West to settle in Utah territory with other Saints. She started working at the age of fourteen. At sixteen she enrolled in the University of Deseret, now called the University of Utah, receiving a Bachelors in Chemistry. From there she attended the University of Michigan and received her MD. She became the fourth of six wives in a polygamous marriage to Angus M. Cannon, a prominent Latter-day Saint leader during the anti-polygamy crusade. Cannon exiled herself to Europe so she wouldn't have to testify against her husband. Upon returning to Utah, Cannon worked as a doctor and fought for women's rights. She helped put women enfranchisement into Utah's constitution when it was granted statehood in 1896. On November 3, 1896 Cannon became the first female State Senator elected in the United States, defeating her own husband, who was also on the ballot. Martha Hughes Cannon was the author of Utah sanitation laws and was a founder and member of Utah's first State Board of Health.

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Lucy Bacon

First Name Lucy
Last Name Bacon
Born on July 30, 1857
Died on October 17, 1932 (aged 75)

Lucy Angeline Bacon was a Californian artist known for her California Impressionist oil paintings of florals, landscapes and still lifes. She studied in Paris under the Impressionist Camille Pissarro. She is the only known Californian artist to have studied under any of the great French Impressionists.

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King Camp Gillette

First Name King
Last Name Gillette
Born on January 5, 1855
Died on July 9, 1932 (aged 77)

King Camp Gillette was an American businessman. He invented a best-selling version of the safety razor. Several models were in existence before Gillette's design. Gillette's innovation was the thin, inexpensive, disposable blade of stamped steel. Gillette is widely credited with inventing the so-called razor and blades business model, where razors are sold cheaply to increase the market for blades, but in fact the Gillette Safety Razor Company only adopted this model after its competitors did.

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