(executed) (b. 1908) December 26 - Max Rogers, American vaudevillian (b. 1873) December 28 – Malcolm Whitman, American tennis player (b. 1877) Nobel Prizes Physics – Werner Karl Heisenberg Chemistry – Irving Langmuir Physiology or Medicine – Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian Literature – John Galsworthy Peace – not awarded References External links The 1930s Timeline: 1932 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia Leap years in the Gregorian calendar