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October 29, 1932

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Notable Births

Dick Garmaker

1932Dick Garmaker, American basketball player (died 2020)[†]

Richard Eugene Garmaker was an American basketball player who played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1955 to 1961.

1932Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, English pharmacist and politician[†]

Joyce Brenda Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton is a British Labour Party politician.

Notable Deaths

Joseph Babinski

1932Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (born 1857)[†]

Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski was a French-Polish professor of neurology. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.