1932 in Wales

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

Incumbents

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

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.
20 October – Release of comedy horror The Old Dark House, set entirely in Wales but filmed wholly in Hollywood.
Edmund Gwenn appears in Tell Me Tonight, Money for Nothing, Condemned to Death, Love on Wheels, Lord Babs and Frail Women.

The broadcasting committee of the Welsh Parliamentary Labour Party obtains agreement from the BBC to broadcast a fortnightly programme and religious content in the Welsh language.

Boxing
*3 February – Jack Petersen beats Dick Power to take the Welsh heavyweight title.
*23 May – Jack Petersen wins the British light-heavyweight title against Harry Crossley.
*12 July – Jack Petersen wins the British heavyweight title against Reggie Meen.

27 February – Dicky Owen, Wales rugby union international, 55
3 March – Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist, 80
10 April – Gwyn Thomas, cricketer, 41
14 May – John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda, 58
8 June – Margaret Nevinson, suffrage campaigner, 74
28 June – Thomas Phillips Price, landowner, industrialist and politician, 88
9 July – John Owen Williams (Pedrog), minister and poet
10 July – Martha Hughes Cannon, Welsh-born US physician, politician and campaigner, 75
20 July – Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion, 41
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
26 October – William Howell Davies, merchant and politician, 80
25 November
*John Williams, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 75
*Hugh Hughes, trade union leader, 54