Famous People Born in 1932

Jacques Chirac

French president who opposed the Iraq invasion, acknowledged Vichy collaboration in deporting Jews, and ended military conscription

Jacques René Chirac (UK:, US:; French:; 29 November 1932 – 26 September 2019) was President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.

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Umberto Eco

Italian semiotician and novelist whose medieval murder mystery The Name of the Rose became an international bestseller

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.

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Elizabeth Taylor

British-American film star of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Cleopatra who won two Oscars and raised millions for AIDS research

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s.

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Anatoliy Solovyanenko

Ukrainian operatic tenor of the Kyiv Opera, famed for Italian bel canto roles and named People's Artist of the USSR

Anatoliy Borysovych Solovianenko (Ukrainian: Анатолій Борисович Солов'яненко; Russian: Анатолий Борисович Соловья́ненко; 25 September 1932 – 29 July 1999) was a Ukrainian operatic tenor, People's Artist of the USSR (1975), People's Artist of Ukraine, and Shevchenko National Prize winner.

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Johnny Cash

American singer-songwriter known as the Man in Black, famous for Walk the Line, Ring of Fire and his prison concerts

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter. Most of his music contains themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption, especially songs from the later stages of his career.

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Manmohan Singh

Economist who opened up India's economy as finance minister in 1991 and served as prime minister from 2004 to 2014

Manmohan Singh (26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024) was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Narendra Modi.

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Sylvia Plath

American poet of Ariel and author of the novel The Bell Jar, who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide.

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V. S. Naipaul

Trinidad-born British writer of A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River who won the Booker and Nobel prizes

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidad-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in English.

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