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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1932 to Wales and its people.

25 January - Leif Jones is created Baron Rhayader.
1 March (Saint David's Day) - Members of Plaid Cymru on two occasions replace the Union Jack flying over Caernarfon Castle with a flag displaying the red Welsh Dragon.^[1]
Plaid Cymru adopts self-government as its official policy.
The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, is built.
Hilary Marquand’s economic surveys of South Wales highlight the depressed conditions in the area during the Great Depression in the United Kingdom.

W. Bradwen - Mab yr ystorm
Grace Williams
- Suite for orchestra
- Two Psalms for contralto, harp and strings^[2]

13 June - Port Talbot-born English actress Peg Entwistle signs a contract with RKO in the United States.
16 September - Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" of the giant Hollywoodland sign.
Edmund Gwenn appears in Tell Me Tonight, Money for Nothing, Condemned to Death, Love on Wheels, Lord Babs and Frail Women.

Boxing
- 3 February - Jack Petersen beats Dick Power to take the Welsh heavyweight title.
- 23 May - Jack Petersen wins the British light-heavyweight title.
- 12 July - Jack Petersen wins the British heavyweight title.

20 March - Garfield Owen, Wales dual-code rugby international
6 April - Leon Eagles, actor
28 May - John Savage, prime minister of Nova Scotia
30 May - Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, politician (d. 2018)
30 June - Derek Tapscott, footballer (d. 2008)
12 August – Gwilym Jenkins, statistician and systems engineer (d. 1982)
31 August - Colin Gale, footballer (d. 2008)
9 September - Alice Thomas Ellis, born Ann Margaret Lindholm in Liverpool, novelist
8 October - Ray Reardon, snooker player
18 October - Don Devereux, dual-code rugby player (d. 1995)
24 October - Allan Rogers, politician
16 November - Onllwyn Brace, Wales rugby union captain
21 November - Alvan Williams, footballer (d. 2003)
7 December - Elystan Morgan, politician
15 December - John Meurig Thomas, chemist
date unknown
- Richard Cyril Hughes, historian

27 February - Dicky Owen, Wales rugby union international, 55 (suicide)
3 March - Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist, 80
10 April - Gwyn Thomas, cricketer, 41
14 May - John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda, 58^[3]
27 May - M. C. Jones, racing driver, 37 (killed during qualification for Indianapolis 500 in the United States)
20 July - Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion, 41
10 July - Martha Hughes Cannon, Welsh-born US physician, politician and campaigner, 75
23 July - Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner, 48
30 August - Conway Rees, Wales rugby union international, 62
11 September - Aneurin Rees Wales rugby union international, 74
16 September - Peg Entwistle, actress, 24 (suicide)
26 October - William Howell Davies, merchant and politician, 80
25 November - John Williams, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 75

^ Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "The Red Dragon Saga". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 96–106. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
^ Evans, John (2009). Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938. London: Faber & Faber. p. 174.
^ Rhondda Cynon Taf: History of Pontypridd. Accessed 14 June 2014.^{[dead link‍]}

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 *[[30 August]] - [[Conway Rees]], Wales rugby union international, 62
 *[[11 September]] - [[Aneurin Rees]] Wales rugby union international, 74
-*[[16 September]] - [[Peg Entwistle]], actress, 24 (throws herself from [[Hollywoodland Sign]] in the United States)
+*[[16 September]] - [[Peg Entwistle]], actress, 24 (suicide)
 *[[26 October]] - [[William Howell Davies]], merchant and politician, 80
 *[[25 November]] - [[John Williams (VC)|John Williams]], recipient of the Victoria Cross, 75