December 19, 1932

1932Salvador Elizondo, Mexican author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 2006)^[†]

Salvador Elizondo Alcalde was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature.

1932Lola Hendricks, African American civil rights activist (died 2013)^[†]

Lola Mae Haynes Hendricks was corresponding secretary for Fred Shuttlesworth's Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights from 1956 to 1963. She assisted Wyatt Walker in planning the early portions of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's involvement in the 1963 Birmingham campaign during the Civil Rights Movement.

1932Wayne Tippit, American actor (died 2009)^[†]

Wayne Tippit was an American television and stage character actor. He was best known to television audiences for playing Ted Adamson on the 1970s and 1980s CBS soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, for five years. He later portrayed Palmer Woodward, the father of Heather Locklear's character, Amanda Woodward, on the Fox primetime soap opera, Melrose Place, during the 1990s.

1932Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (born 1908)^[†]

Yun Bong-gil was a Korean independence activist. His art name is Maeheon (매헌).

1932BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.^[†]

The BBC World Service is a British public service broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception area, language selection and audience reach. It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM, LW and MW relays. In 2024, the World Service reached an average of 450 million people a week.