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September 27, 1932

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Geoff Bent

1932Geoff Bent, English footballer (died 1958)[โ€ ]

Geoffrey Bent was an English footballer who played as a left back for Manchester United from 1948 until 1958. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s. Bent only made twelve first-team appearances for Manchester United, who already had an international-quality left back in Roger Byrne. Modern writers speculate that at most other teams Bent would have been a regular starter, and he was the subject of interest from fellow First Division clubs, but Busby refused to let him leave. He was one of eight Manchester United players who died in the Munich air disaster, when their aircraft crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport after a European Cup match in Belgrade.

1932Michael Colvin, English captain and politician (died 2000)[โ€ ]

Michael Keith Beale Colvin was a British Conservative Party politician. He was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol North West at the 1979 general election. From 1983 onwards, he was the MP for Romsey and Waterside constituency in Hampshire, which later became the constituency of Romsey.

Gabriel Loubier

1932Gabriel Loubier, Canadian politician[โ€ ]

Gabriel Loubier was a Canadian politician in Quebec. He served as leader of the Union Nationale party from 1971 to 1974, and as leader of the opposition in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1971 to 1973.

Oliver E. Williamson

1932Oliver E. Williamson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)[โ€ ]

Oliver Eaton Williamson was an American economist, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Elinor Ostrom.

Marcia Neugebauer

1932Marcia Neugebauer, American geophysicist[โ€ ]

Marcia Neugebauer is an American geophysicist who made contributions to space physics. Neugebauer's research was among the first that yielded the first direct measurements of the solar wind and shed light on its physics and interaction with comets.