1937: Events

1937: January

January 19: Howard Hughes sets record.

January 20: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as US President for his second term.

• January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
• January 11 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
• January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road (begun 13 December 1936) concludes with both sides withdrawing.
• January 19 – Howard Hughes establishes a record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
• January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States is on this date, on which it continues to occur; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union seventeen leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
• January 26 – Michigan celebrates its centennial anniversary as a U.S. state.
• January 30 – Ingrid Christensen becomes the first woman to set foot on the continent of Antarctica.
• January 31 – The Soviet Union executes 31 people for alleged Trotskyism.
• January – February – The Ohio River flood of 1937 takes place, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead.

1937: February

• February 5 – U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
• February 6 – John Steinbeck's novella of the Great Depression Of Mice and Men is published in the United States.
• February 8 – Spanish Civil War: Falangist troops take Málaga.
• February 8 – February 27 – Spanish Civil War – Battle of Jarama: Nationalist and government troops fight to a stalemate.
• February 11 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers union.
• February 16 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.
• February 19
  • Airliner VH-UHH (Stinson) goes down over Lamington National Park, bound for Sydney, killing five people.
  • Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. The Italian security guard fire into the crowd of Ethiopian onlookers. Authorities exact further reprisals, which include indiscriminately slaughtering native Ethiopians over the next three days, detaining thousands of Ethiopians at Danan and slaughtering almost 300 monks at Debre Libanos monastery.
  • The flag of the Netherlands is officially adopted.
• February 20 – Roberto Ortiz is elected president of Argentina.
• February 21 – The League of Nations Non-Intervention Committee prohibits foreign nationals from fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
• February – Hergé's Tintin adventure The Broken Ear (L'Oreille cassée) concludes serialization in the Belgian weekly newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième and soon afterwards is published as a book in black and white.

1937: March

• March
  • The first issue of Detective Comics is published in the United States. It goes on to become the longest continually published comic book in American history; it is still published as of 2017.
  • Napoleon Hill's self-help book Think and Grow Rich is first published in the United States.
• March 10 (dated March 14 (Passion Sunday)) – The encyclical Mit brennender Sorge ("With burning concern") of Pope Pius XI is published in Germany in the German language. Largely the work of Cardinals von Faulhaber and Pacelli, it condemns breaches of the 1933 Reichskonkordat agreement signed between the Nazi government and the Catholic Church, and criticises Nazism's views on race and other matters incompatible with Catholicism.
• March 17 – The Atherton Report (private investigator Edwin Atherton's report detailing vice and police corruption in San Francisco) is released.
• March 18 – New London School explosion: In the worst school disaster in American history in terms of lives lost, the New London School in New London, Texas, suffers a catastrophic natural gas explosion, killing in excess of 295 students and teachers. Mother Frances Hospital opens in Tyler, Texas, a day ahead of schedule in response to the explosion.
• March 19 – The encyclical Divini Redemptoris of Pope Pius XI, critical of communism, is published.
• March 21
  • Ponce massacre: A police squad, acting under orders from Governor of Puerto Rico Blanton Winship, opens fire on demonstrators protesting at the arrest of Puerto Rican Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos, killing 17 people and injuring over 200.
  • The first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile, makes its initial flight.
• March 26
  • In Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect a statue of the cartoon character Popeye.
  • William H. Hastie becomes the first African American appointed to a federal judgeship in the United States.

1937: April

• April 1
  • Aden becomes a British crown colony.
  • Bombing of Jaén in Spain by the Condor Legion of the Nazi German Luftwaffe.
• April 9 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London; it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
• April 12
  • Frank Whittle ground-tests the world's first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
  • NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the National Labor Relations Act is constitutional.
• April 17 – The animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery for the Looney Tunes series, featuring the debut of Daffy Duck, is released in the United States.
• April 20 – A fire in an elementary school in Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia, kills seventeen students and injures fifty.
• April 26 – Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Guernica in Spain by the Condor Legion of the Nazi German Luftwaffe in support of the Francoists. Three-quarters of the town is destroyed and hundreds killed.

1937: May

May 6: The Hindenburg disaster occurs.

May 27: The Golden Gate Bridge opens.

• May
  • The Dáil Éireann passes the Executive Authority (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937, which abolishes the office of Governor-General of the Irish Free State, retrospectively dated to December 1936.
  • 17 million unemployed in the USA.
• May 1 – A general strike occurs in Paris, France.
• May 6 – Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 36 passengers and 61 crew on board, 13 passengers and 22 crew die, as well as one member of the ground crew.
• May 7 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
• May 8: Wydad Athletic Club (WAC;(Arabic: نادي الوداد الرياضي; Berber: Wydad Dar al-Beida; commonly: Wydad al ouma is established in Casablanca, Morocco; it will be best known for its Casablanca Association football team.
• May 12 – The coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes place at Westminster Abbey, London.
• May 21
  • A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
  • As one of the reprisals for the attempted assassination of Italian viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, a detachment of Italian troops massacres the entire community of Debre Libanos, killing 297 monks and 23 laymen.
• May 27 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington, D.C., signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the bridge.
• May 28
  • Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the retirement of Stanley Baldwin.
  • In Germany, Volkswagen is established to build a "people's car". A new town, Wolfsburg, is set to be created to house the thousands of workers who will be involved in its production.
• May 30
  • Spanish Civil War: Spanish ship Ciudad de Barcelona is torpedoed.
  • The Chicago Police Department shoot and kill ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago in what is known as the Memorial Day massacre.

1937: June

• June 3 – Wallis Simpson marries The Duke of Windsor (the former Edward VIII) in France.
• June 8
  • The first total solar eclipse to exceed seven minutes of totality in over 800 years is visible in the Pacific and Peru.
  • Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres in Frankfurt, Germany.
• June 14 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
• June 21 – The coalition government of Léon Blum resigns in France.
• June – Picasso completes his painting Guernica.
• June–July – The Dáil Éireann debates and passes the draft new Constitution of Ireland, which is then submitted for public approval by plebiscite.

1937: July

July 2: Amelia Earhart disappears from New Guinea.

July 9: The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.

• July 1
  • The Gestapo arrests pastor Martin Niemöller in Germany.
  • In a referendum the people of the Irish Free State accept the new Constitution by 685,105 votes to 527,945.
  • First alleged sighting of the White River Monster.
• July 2
  • Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
  • A guard takes his place at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington, D.C.; continuous guard has been maintained there ever since.
• July 4 – The Lost Colony historical drama is first performed at an outdoor theater in the location where it is set, Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
• July 5
  • The canned precooked meat product Spam is introduced by the Hormel company in the United States
  • The highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, is 45 °C (113 °F).
• July 7
  • Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge (aka Marco Polo Bridge Incident): Japanese forces invade China (often seen as the beginning of World War II in Asia).
  • Peel Commission proposes partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.
• July 9 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
• July 11 – American popular composer George Gershwin dies in Los Angeles of a brain tumor, age 38.
• July 20 – The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany.
• July 21 – Éamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council (prime minister) of the Irish Free State by the Dáil (parliament).
• July 22 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• July 24 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called Scottsboro Boys.
• July 25–31 – Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Beiping–Tianjin, a series of actions fought around Beiping and Tianjin, resulting in Japanese victory.
• July 28 – The Irish Republican Army attempts the assassination by bomb of George VI in Belfast.
• July 29 – Tungchow Mutiny: units of the East Hopei Army mutiny and kill Japanese troops and civilians in Tōngzhōu.
• July 31 – NKVD operative order 00447 "Об операции по репрессированию бывших кулаков, уголовников и других антисоветских элементов" ("The operation for repression of former kulaks, criminals and other anti-Soviet elements") is approved by the Politburo of the Soviet Union, initially as a 4-month plan for 75,950 people to be executed and an additional 193,000 to be sent to the Gulag.

1937: August

• August 2 – The Marihuana Tax Act in the United States is a significant bill on the path that will lead to the criminalization of cannabis. It was introduced to U.S. Congress by Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger.
• August 5 – The Soviet Union commences one of the largest campaigns of the Great Purge, to "eliminate anti-Soviet elements." Within the following year, at least 724,000 people are killed on order of the troikas, directed by Joseph Stalin. This is an offensive that targets social classes (such as the kulaks), ethnic or racial backgrounds which are seen as non-Russian and Stalin's personal opponents from the Communist Party and their sympathizers.
• August 6 – Spanish Civil War: Falangist artillery bombards Madrid.

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• August 8 – Japan occupies Beijing.
• August 9 – The Polish Operation of the NKVD (1937–38) is signed by Nikolai Yezhov as a continuation of the Great Purge.
• August 13 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai opens.
• August 26 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese aircraft attack the car carrying the ambassador of Great Britain during a raid on Shanghai.

1937: September

September 17: Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.

• September 2 – The Great Hong Kong Typhoon kills an estimated 11,000 persons.
• September 5 – Spanish Civil War: The city of Llanes falls to the Falangists.
• September 7 – CBS broadcasts a two-and-a-half hour memorial concert nationwide on radio in memory of George Gershwin, live from the Hollywood Bowl. Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess. The concert is recorded and released complete years later in what is excellent sound for its time, on CD. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is the featured orchestra.
• September 10 – Nine nations meet in the Nyon Conference, led by the United Kingdom and France, to address international piracy in the Mediterranean.
• September 17 – Abraham Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.
• September 19 – Swiss professional ice hockey club HC Ambrì-Piotta founded.
• September 21 – George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London publishes the first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
• September 25 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Pingxingguan: The Communist Chinese National Revolutionary Army defeats the Japanese.
• September 27 – The last Bali tiger dies.

1937: October

• October 1
  • The Marihuana Tax Act becomes law in the United States.
  • U.S. Supreme Court associate justice Hugo Black, in a nationwide radio broadcast, refutes allegations of past involvement in the Ku Klux Klan.
• October 2–8 – Parsley Massacre: Under the orders of President Rafael Trujillo, Dominican troops kill thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.
• October 3 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops advance toward Nanking, capital of the Republic of China.
• October 5 – Roosevelt gives his famous Quarantine Speech in Chicago.
• October 9 – Jimmie Angel lands his plane on top of Devil's Mountain; however, the plane gets damaged and he has to trek through the rainforest for help.
• October 13 – Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany.
• October 15 – Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not is first published, in the United States.
• October 18–October 21 – Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists' hands; Republican forces in Gijón, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists.
• October 23 – Australian federal election, 1937: Joseph Lyons' UAP/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by John Curtin.
• October 25 – Celâl Bayar forms the new (ninth) government of Turkey.

1937: November

• November 3 – Maurice J. Tobin resoundingly defeats former governor and mayor James Michael Curley in Boston's mayoral election.
• November 5
  • World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum).
• November 6 – Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact.
• November 9 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops take Shanghai.
• November 10 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas announces the Estado Novo ("New State"), thence becoming dictator of Brazil until 1945.
• November 11 – The Kogushi sulfur mine collapse, in western Gunma, Japan, kills at least 245 people.

1937: December

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December 21: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released, the world's first full-length animated feature film, the first Disney film, and the first film to feature a Disney Princess. The top image shows the Seven Dwarfs singing "Heigh-Ho" while walking on a log. The second top image shows Walt Disney introducing the Seven Dwarfs in the trailer and the bottom images are the trailers.

• December 1 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Nanking begins.
• December 4 – The Dandy comic is first published in Scotland; it will still be running as of 2011.
• December 11 – Italy withdraws from the League of Nations.
• December 12
  • USS Panay incident: Japanese bombers sink the American gunboat USS Panay.
  • Mae West makes a risqué guest appearance on NBC's Chase and Sanborn Hour, which eventually results in her being banned from radio.
• December 13 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Nanking ends with the Japanese occupying the city. In the Nanking Massacre which follows, Japanese soldiers kill over 300,000 Chinese in 3 months. A few days previously, the Nationalist government of China has moved its capital to the southwestern city Chungking (Chongqing).
• December 16 – The original production of the musical Me and My Girl opens at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London's West End. A later revival will win an award.
• December 21 – Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first feature-length animated film, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.
• December 22 - The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
• December 25 – At the age of 70, legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra on radio for the first time, beginning his successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. This first concert consists of music by Vivaldi (at a time when he is seldom played), Mozart, and Brahms. Millions tune in to listen, including U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
• December 29 – The new Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hÉireann) comes into force. The Irish Free State becomes "Ireland", and Éamon de Valera becomes the first Taoiseach (prime minister) of the new state. A Presidential Commission (made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann, and the President of the High Court) assumes the powers of the new presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in June 1938. The new constitution prohibits divorce.

1937: Date unknown

• Switzerland begins construction of its Border Line defences.
• The Vibora Luviminda trades union's sugar plantation strike on Maui island, Hawaii.
• Italian psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti is the first to document a transorbital approach to the brain, which becomes the basis for the controversial medical procedure of transorbital lobotomy.
• Soviet industry produces about four times as much as it had in 1928.
• The Allen Organ Company, the builder of Church Organs, home Organs and Theatre Organs is founded in Macungie, Pennsylvania.

1937: Births

1937: January

Vanessa Redgrave

Suzanne Pleshette

• January 1 – Anne Aubrey, British actress
• January 4
  • Grace Bumbry, American opera singer
  • Dyan Cannon, American actress, film director and screenwriter
• January 6
  • Paolo Conte, Italian singer, pianist and composer
  • Underwood Dudley, American mathematician
• January 8 – Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
• January 13
  • George Reisman, American economist
  • Ati George Sokomanu, President of Vanuatu
• January 14
  • Ken Higgs, English cricketer (d. 2016)
  • Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (d. 2015)
• January 15 – Margaret O'Brien, American child actress
• January 16 – Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
• January 18
  • Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (d. 2009)
  • John Hume, Northern Irish politician; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• January 19 – Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
• January 21 – Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, heir to the Bavarian Royal House
• January 22 – Joseph Wambaugh, American author
• January 25 – Ange-Félix Patassé, 5th President of Central African Republic (d. 2011)
• January 27 – John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
• January 29 – Bobby Scott, American musician, producer and songwriter (d. 1990)
• January 30
  • Vanessa Redgrave, British actress
  • Boris Spassky, Russian chess grandmaster
• January 31
  • Philip Glass, American composer
  • Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)

1937: February

Gaston Roelants

Rupiah Banda

Harald V of Norway

Tom Courtenay

• February 1
  • Don Everly, American rock and roll musician
  • Garrett Morris, American comedian and actor
• February 2
  • Remak Ramsay, American actor
  • Tom Smothers, American musician and comedian
  • Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer (d. 2015)
• February 3 – Billy Meier, Swiss Prophet
• February 4 – Magnar Solberg, Norwegian biathlete
• February 5 – Gaston Roelants, Belgian Olympic athlete
• February 8
  • Manfred Krug, German actor and singer (d. 2016)
  • Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (d. 2016)
• February 9
  • Francis William Lawvere, American mathematician
  • Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr., American blues guitarist
• February 10 – Anne Anderson, Scottish physiologist (d. 1983)
• February 11
  • Mauro Staccioli, Italian sculptor (d. 2018)
  • Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
• February 12 – Charles Dumas, American athlete (d. 2004)
• February 13 – Rupiah Banda, 4th President of Zambia
• February 14 – Magic Sam, American musician (d. 1969)
• February 17 – Mary Ann Mobley, American actress; Miss America 1959 (d. 2014)
• February 20
  • Robert Huber, German chemist; Nobel Prize laureate
  • George Leonardos, Greek journalist and author
  • Roger Penske, American race car driver
  • Nancy Wilson, American singer
• February 21
  • Ron Clarke, Australian runner (d. 2015)
  • King Harald V of Norway
• February 25
  • Sir Tom Courtenay, English actor
  • Bob Schieffer, American television journalist
• February 27 – Barbara Babcock, American character actress

1937: March

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Olusegun Obasanjo

Benny Paret

Warren Beatty

• March 2 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
• March 3 – Bobby Driscoll, American actor, primarily known as a child actor and voice actor (d. 1968)
• March 4
  • Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
  • Leslie H. Gelb, American foreign policy expert, President of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993
  • Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
  • Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
• March 5 – Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria
• March 6 – Valentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space
• March 8
  • Richard Fariña, American folk music singer and novelist (d. 1966)
  • Juvénal Habyarimana, 3rd President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
• March 9 – Harry Neale, Canadian ice hockey coach and broadcaster
• March 14 – Benny Paret, Cuban welterweight boxer (d. 1962)
• March 15 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (d. 2015)
• March 17 – Frank Calabrese, Sr., American gangster in the Chicago Outfit (d. 2012)
• March 20 – Jerry Reed, American country musician (d. 2008)
• March 22 – Armin Hary, German athlete
• March 23
  • Craig Breedlove, American race car driver
  • Tony Burton, American actor and comedian (d. 2016)
• March 24 – Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th Prime Minister of Barbados
• March 27 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
• March 30 – Warren Beatty, American actor and director

1937: April

Colin Powell

Maryanne Trump Barry

Billy Dee Williams

Joseph Estrada

George Takei

Jack Nicholson

Saddam Hussein

• April 4 – Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2017)
• April 5
  • Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
  • Maryanne Trump Barry, American attorney
• April 6
  • Merle Haggard, American country musician (d. 2016)
  • Billy Dee Williams, American actor
• April 9 – Valerie Singleton, English television presenter
• April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (d. 2010)
• April 12 – Gene Lenz, American competition swimmer (d. 2005)
• April 15 – Robert W. Gore, American inventor
• April 16 – George "The Animal" Steele, American professional wrestler (d. 2017)
• April 17
  • Don Buchla, American electronic-instrument designer (d. 2016)
  • Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian engineer and business magnate
• April 18
  • Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin (d. 2009)
  • Teddy Taylor, British politician (d. 2017)
• April 19
  • Antonio Carluccio, Italian-born restaurateur (d. 2017)
  • Elinor Donahue, American actress
  • Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
• April 20 – George Takei, Japanese American actor, director and author
• April 22 – Jack Nicholson, American film actor and director
• April 24 – Joe Henderson, American rhythm and blues and gospel music singer (d. 1964)
• April 26 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French race car driver (d. 2015)
• April 27
  • Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
  • Robin Eames, Anglican prelate; Northern Irish clergyman and peace activist
• April 28 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)
• April 29 – Jill Paton Walsh, English novelist

1937: May

David Waisman

Trần Đức Lương

George Carlin

Yvonne Craig

Mengistu Haile Mariam

• May 1 – Una Stubbs, British actress
• May 2
  • Gisela Elsner, German writer (d. 1992)
  • Lorenzo Music, American voice actor (d. 2001)
• May 3 – Hans Cieslarczyk, German football player
• May 4
  • Ron Carter, American jazz musician
  • David Waisman, Peruvian politician, First Vice President of Peru
• May 5 – Trần Đức Lương, President of Vietnam
• May 6 – Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, American boxer (d. 2014)
• May 8
  • Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian justice and politician
  • Thomas Pynchon, American writer
• May 9 - Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
• May 12 – George Carlin, American comedian (d. 2008)
• May 13
  • Trevor Baylis, English inventor (d. 2018)
  • Roch Carrier, Canadian writer
  • Roger Zelazny, American writer (d. 1995)
• May 15
  • Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
  • Trini Lopez, American musician
• May 16 – Yvonne Craig, American actress (d. 2015)
• May 17 – Hazel R. O'Leary, U.S. Secretary of Energy
• May 18
  • Brooks Robinson, American baseball player
  • Jacques Santer, Luxembourg politician, President of the European Council
• May 21
  • Sofiko Chiaureli, Georgian actress (d. 2008)
  • John Fairfax, British ocean rower (d. 2012)
  • Mengistu Haile Mariam, President of Ethiopia
• May 22 – Facundo Cabral, Argentine singer (d. 2011)
• May 24 – Roger Peterson, pilot who flew the plane on The Day the Music Died (d. 1959)
• May 30 – Deanna Lund, actress

1937: June

Morgan Freeman

Keizō Obuchi

Robert Coleman Richardson

• June 1
  • Morgan Freeman, American actor
  • Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
  • Colleen McCullough, Australian author (d. 2015)
  • Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
• June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress and singer
• June 3
  • Phyllis Baker, American professional baseball player (d. 2006)
  • Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr., American archaeologist (d. 2012)
  • Solomon P. Ortiz, U.S. congressman from Texas
• June 4
  • Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor (d. 2014)
  • Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler and announcer (d. 1999)
• June 7
  • Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
  • Roberto Blanco, German singer
• June 8
  • Toni Harper, American child singer
  • Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (d. 2017)
• June 9 – Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
• June 10 – Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress
• June 11
  • Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Reginaldo Faria, Brazilian actor and film director
• June 15
  • Herbert Feuerstein, German cabarettist and entertainer
  • Waylon Jennings, American country singer (d. 2002)
  • Alan Thornett, British Trotskyist activist
• June 16
  • Charmian May, British actress (d. 2002)
  • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2001-2005).
• June 17 – Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter and politician (d. 2009)
• June 18
  • Wray Carlton, American football player
  • Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
• June 19 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (d. 2015)
• June 21
  • Barbara Carlson, American politician
  • Gerald Clarke, American author
  • John Edrich, English cricketer
  • Jon Huntsman Sr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
• June 23 – Martti Ahtisaari, 10th President of Finland
• June 25
  • Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Crown Prince of Kuwait
  • Eddie Floyd, American soul-R&B singer and songwriter
  • Keizō Obuchi, 54th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
• June 26 – Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• June 27
  • Jules Accorsi, French football player and manager
  • Joseph P. Allen, American astronaut
  • Alona Frankel, Polish-born Israeli writer and illustrator
  • Abraham Karem, American aerospace engineer
• June 28 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire and writer (d. 1995)
• June 29 – Yair Nossovsky, Israeli footballer
• June 30
  • Ron Husmann, American actor
  • Walton McLeod, American politician

1937: July

Queen Sonja of Norway

Ned Beatty

Bill Cosby

Lionel Jospin

Yoshirō Mori

Ryutaro Hashimoto

• July 1
  • Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, German jurist
  • Ali Chekr, Lebanese fencer
  • Lydia Makhubu, Swazi chemist
• July 2
  • Polly Holliday, American actress
  • Dennis Keeney, American scientist in soil science and water chemistry
  • Dee Palmer, born David Palmer, English composer, arranger and progressive rock keyboardist
  • Richard Petty, American stock car racer, seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion
• July 3 – Brian Garvey, English footballer
• July 4
  • Queen Sonja of Norway, queen consort of Norway
  • Wolf von Lojewski, German television journalist
  • Ray Pillow, American country music singer
• July 5 – Jo de Roo, Dutch road racing cyclist
• July 6
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist
  • Ned Beatty, American actor
  • Ernesto Figueiredo, Portuguese footballer
  • Michael Sata, Zambian president (d. 2014)
• July 7
  • Valery Anisimov, Soviet wrestler
  • Carroll Hubbard, American politician
  • Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish rowing coxswain
  • Jocelyn Newman, Australian politician
  • Carol Nugent, American actress
  • Nanami Shiono, Japanese author and novelist
  • Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong administrator
• July 9
  • David Hockney, English-born artist
  • Josef Vacenovský, Czech football forward
• July 12
  • Bill Cosby, American actor and comedian
  • Fritz Kehl, Swiss football defender
  • Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France
  • František Valošek, Czech football player
• July 13 – Ghillean Prance, British botanist and ecologist
• July 14
  • Duncan MacKay, Scottish footballer
  • Yoshirō Mori, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
• July 16 – Richard Bryan, American attorney and politician
• July 17
  • Alan Hopper, English professional footballer
  • Jaberi Bidandi Ssali, Ugandan politician and businessman
• July 18
  • Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Peter Smith, Scottish footballer
  • Hunter S. Thompson, American author and journalist (d. 2005)
• July 20
  • Ilie Datcu, Romanian football goalkeeper and coach
  • Dick Hafer, American Christian cartoonist (d. 2003)
  • Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008)
• July 21 – Neville Bannister, English footballer
• July 27
  • Anna Dawson, British actress
  • Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
• July 29
  • Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2006)
  • Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1937: August

Barbara Windsor

Dustin Hoffman

Gustavo Noboa

Francesco Musso

• August 2 – Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2006)
• August 4
  • Paul Abels, American United Methodist minister (d. 1992)
  • David Bedford, American musician (d. 2011)
  • David Holliday, American actor (d. 1999)
• August 5 – Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (d. 2003)
• August 6
  • Charlie Haden, American jazz bassist (d. 2014)
  • Barbara Windsor, English actress
• August 8 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor and director
• August 11 – Hasri Ainun Habibie, Indonesian physician (d. 2010)
• August 14 – Alberta Nelson, American actress (d. 2006)
• August 15 – Bounnhang Vorachith, 14th Prime Minister and 6th President of Laos
• August 16
  • David Anderson, Canadian politician
  • Ian Deans, Canadian politician (d. 2016)
• August 18
  • Jean Alingué Bawoyeu, Chadian politician and former Prime Minister
  • Willie Rushton, English comedian and cartoonist (d. 1996)
• August 20
  • Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality (d. 2018)
  • Jean-Louis Petit, French composer, conductor and organist
• August 21
  • Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
  • Robert Stone, American novelist
  • Chuck Traynor, American pornographer (d. 2002)
  • Gustavo Noboa, President of Ecuador
• August 22
  • Francesco Musso, Italian Olympic boxer
  • Ary Toledo, Brazilian humorist, singer, lyricist and actor
• August 26
  • Kenji Utsumi, Japanese voice actor and actor (d. 2013)
  • Gennady Yanayev, former Soviet leader (d. 2010)
• August 27 – Alice Coltrane, American jazz harpist, organist, pianist and composer (d. 2007)
• August 29 – James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
• August 30 – Bruce McLaren, Founder of McLaren Racing (d. 1970)
• August 31 – Bobby Parker, American rock musician (d. 2013)

1937: September

Dawn Fraser

William Devane

Fernando de la Rúa

Bob Schul

• September 2 – Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
• September 4
  • Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
  • Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor and director (d. 2006)
• September 5 – William Devane, American actor
• September 6
  • Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada (Keith Gordon Ham), American-born Hare Krishna guru (d. 2011)
  • Jo Anne Worley, American actress and comedian
• September 7
  • Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
  • John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
• September 10
  • Jared Diamond, American geographer, anthropologist, and author (Guns, Germs, and Steel)
  • Tommy Overstreet, American country singer (d. 2015)
• September 11 – Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Italian-born Queen of the Belgians
• September 13
  • Don Bluth, American director, producer
  • Meeli Sööt, Estonian actress
• September 15
  • Jean-Claude Decaux, French advertising executive (d. 2016)
  • King Curtis Iaukea, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
  • Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Giuseppe Puglisi, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (d. 1993)
  • Fernando de la Rúa, President of Argentina
• September 16 – Keith Bosley, British broadcaster, poet and translator
• September 17
  • Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican baseball player
  • Ilarion Ionescu-Galați, Romanian conductor
• September 19 – Abner Haynes, American football player
• September 26 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer and talent agent (d. 2015)
• September 28
  • Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
  • Bob Schul, American Olympic athlete

1937: October

Jackie Collins

• October 2 – Johnnie Cochran, American attorney (d. 2005)
• October 4
  • Jackie Collins, English author (d. 2015)
  • Franz Vranitzky, former Chancellor of Austria
• October 5 – Barry Switzer, American football coach
• October 11 – Bobby Charlton, English footballer
• October 15 – Linda Lavin, American actress (Alice)
• October 17 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor
• October 19 -- Teresa Ciepły, Polish Olympic athlete (d. 2006)
• October 20 – Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
• October 21 – Irán Eory, Iranian-Mexican actress and model (d. 2002)
• October 23 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (d. 1971)
• October 24
  • John Goetz, American professional baseball player (d. 2008)
  • M. Rosaria Piomelli, born Agrisano, Italian-born American architect
• October 28 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
• October 31 – Tom Paxton, American folk singer-songwriter

1937: November

Loretta Swit

Marlo Thomas

Ridley Scott

• November 1
  • "Whisperin'" Bill Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter and game show host
  • Witta Pohl, German actress (d. 2011)
• November 2 – Earl Carroll, American lead vocalist for The Cadillacs (d. 2012)
• November 4
  • Michael Wilson, Canadian politician and diplomat
  • Loretta Swit, American actress
• November 5
  • Chan Sek Keong, third Chief Justice of Singapore
  • Harris Yulin, American actor
• November 6 – Joe Warfield, American actor
• November 8 – Paul Foot, British journalist (d. 2004)
• November 10 – Zdeněk Zikán, Czech football player (d. 2013)
• November 11 – Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
• November 15
  • Little Willie John, American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer (d. 1968)
  • Yaphet Kotto, American actor
• November 17
  • Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (d. 1995)
  • Manuel Félix López, Ecuadorian politician (d. 2004)
• November 20
  • Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005)
  • Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2013)
• November 21
  • Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (d. 2010)
  • Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer and social activist
• November 26 – Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1994)
• November 30 – Ridley Scott, British film director and producer

1937: December

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga

Jane Fonda

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

Anthony Hopkins

• December 1
  • Bruce Brown, American documentary film director (d. 2017)
  • Chuck Low, American actor (d. 2017)
  • Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia
• December 3 – Bobby Allison, American race car driver
• December 6 – Ramon Torrents, Spanish artist
• December 7 – Kenneth Colley, British actor
• December 8
  • Michael Bowen, American artist (d. 2009)
  • James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
  • Arne Næss, Jr., Norwegian mountaineer and businessman (d. 2004)
• December 9 – Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
• December 11 – Jim Harrison, American writer (d. 2016)
• December 12 – Flukey Stokes, American mobster (d. 1986)
• December 17
  • Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
  • Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (d. 2007)
• December 21 – Jane Fonda, American actress and social activist
• December 22 – Pierluigi Chicca, Italian fencer (d. 2017)
• December 26 – John Horton Conway, English-born mathematician
• December 28 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
• December 29
  • Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives (1978–2008)
  • Dieter Thomas Heck, German television presenter, singer and actor
  • Barbara Steele, British actress
• December 30
  • Raquel Olmedo, Cuban-Mexican actress and singer
  • Gordon Banks, English footballer
  • John Hartford, American musician and composer (d. 2001)
  • Jim Marshall, American football player
  • Noel Paul Stookey, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
  • Zaldy Zshornack, Filipino actor (d. 2002)
• December 31
  • Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Anthony Hopkins, British actor

1937: Date unknown

• Cathie Jung, owner of the smallest waist on a living person (measuring just 15 in.).

1937: Deaths

1937: January

Saint André Bessette

• January 1
  • Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1874)
  • John Gresham Machen, American Presbyterian theologian (b. 1881)
• January 2 – Ross Alexander, American actor (b. 1907)
• January 4 – Paul Behncke, German admiral (b. 1869)
• January 5
  • Alberto de Oliveira, Brazilian poet (b. 1857)
  • Ernst Löfström, Finnish general, leaders of World War I (b. 1865)
• January 6
  • André Bessette, Canadian religious leader and saint (b. 1845)
  • Albert Gleaves, American admiral (b. 1858)
• January 12 – Martin Johnson, American adventurer and documentary filmmaker (plane crash) (b. 1884)
• January 15
  • Pietro Biginelli, Italian chemist (b. 1860)
  • Georges Hilaire Bousquet, French scholar (b. 1845)
• January 16 – Pyotr Bark, Soviet statesman (b. 1869)
• January 17 – Richard Boleslavsky, Polish film director (b. 1889)
• January 18 – Jaime Hilario Barbal, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (executed) (b. 1889)
• January 21
  • Yasin al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician and 4th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1884)
  • Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1896)
• January 23 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (b. 1876)

1937: February

Saint Peter of Jesus Maldonado

George Hassell

• February 1 – Asano Nagakoto, Japanese diplomat and politician (b. 1842)
• February 2 – Reinhold Hanisch, Austrian politician and worker (b. 1884)
• February 5
  • Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
  • José Nicoletti Filho, Italian revolutionary hero (b. 1871)
• February 7 – Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1845)
• February 11
  • Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and town planner (b. 1876)
  • Vasily Gurko, Russian general (b. 1864)
  • Maria Luisa Josefa, Mexican Roman Catholic nun and venerable (b. 1866)
  • Peter of Jesus Maldonado, Mexican priest, martyr and saint (b. 1892)
• February 13 – Francisco Bergamín y García, Spanish lawyer, economist and politician (b. 1855)
• February 14 – Vicente Vilar David, Spanish Roman Catholic priest, saint and martyr (killed in battle) (b. 1889)
• February 17 – George Hassell, English actor (b. 1881)
• February 22 – James P. Buchanan, American politician (b. 1867)
• February 24
  • Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky, Soviet scientist and botanist (b. 1863)
  • Beyene Merid, Ethiopian military commander (b. 1897)
  • Guy Standing, British actor (b. 1873)
• February 27
  • Douglas Carnegie, British politician (b. 1870)
  • Charles Donnelly, Irish poet (killed in battle) (b. 1915)

1937: March

Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida

H. P. Lovecraft

• March 6 – John Ellis Martineau, American politician (b. 1873)
• March 7 – Concepcion Cabrera de Armida, Mexican Roman Catholic mystic and blessed (b. 1862)
• March 8
  • Yuriy Kotsiubynsky, Soviet politician and activist (b. 1896)
  • Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• March 9 – Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
• March 11 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco (b. 1860)
• March 12
  • Julius Geppert, German philosopher (b. 1856)
  • Jenő Hubay, Hungarian composer and violinist (b. 1858)
  • Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1840)
• March 15 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
• March 16 – Edith Clark, French aviator and parachutist (b. 1904)
• March 17 – Austen Chamberlain, British statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
• March 18
  • Mélanie Bonis, French composer (b. 1858)
  • Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (killed in action) (b. 1852)
  • Julio Sanchez Gardel, Argentine dramatist (b. 1870)
• March 20
  • Arthur Bernède, French writer, poet and playwright (b. 1870)
  • Harry Vardon, English golf professional (b. 1870)
• March 22
  • Thorvald Aagaard, Danish composer (b. 1877)
  • Alfred Dyke Acland, British military officer (b. 1858)
  • Vladimir Maksimov, Soviet actor (b. 1880)
  • Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, British aviator and ornithologist (plane crash) (b. 1865)
• March 25 – John Drinkwater, British poet and dramatist (b. 1882)
• March 27 – Victor Gustav Bloede, Swedish chemist (b. 1849)
• March 28 – Josef Klička, Czechoslovak organist, violinist and composer (b. 1855)
• March 29
  • Fyodor Keneman, Soviet pianist and composer (b. 1873)
  • Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
  • Kim You-jeong, Korean novelist (b. 1908)
• March 31 – Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Turkish general (b. 1864)

1937: April

Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco

Lucy Beaumont

• April 2 – Nathan Birnbaum, Austrian writer and journalist (b. 1864)
• April 4
  • Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco (b. 1875)
  • Maria Teresa Casini, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1864)
• April 5 – Jose Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (b. 1858)
• April 6 – Gyula Juh%C3%A1sz, Hungarian poet (b. 1883)
• April 7 – Helen Burgess, American actress (b. 1916)
• April 8 – Billy Bassett, English association footballer (b. 1869)
• April 10
  • Ralph Ince, American film director (b. 1887)
  • Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar, Indian sociologist and historian (b. 1884)
• April 14 – Ned Hanlon, American baseball manager and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1857)
• April 16 – Jay Johnson Morrow, American military engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (b. 1870)
• April 19
  • William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
  • William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist (b. 1865)
• April 20
  • Gaston Chérau, French journalist (b. 1872)
  • Josef Mařatka, Czech sculptor (b. 1874)
• April 21 – Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (b. 1913)
• April 22 – Arthur Edmund Carewe, Armenian-American actor (b. 1884)
• April 23 – Caroline Harris, American actress (b. 1867)
• April 24 – Lucy Beaumont, British actress (b. 1873)
• April 25 – Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
• April 27 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
• April 29
  • Wallace Carothers, American chemist, inventor of nylon (b. 1896)
  • William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)

1937: May

Noel Rosa

Afonso Costa

John D. Rockefeller

Lizardo García

• May 1
  • Snitz Edwards, Hungarian actor (b. 1868)
  • Herbert Hughes, Irish composer (b. 1882)
• May 2 – Takuji Iwasaki, Japanese meteologist (b. 1869)
• May 4 – Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
• May 5
  • Camillo Berneri, Italian philosopher and anarchist (b. 1897)
  • C.K.G. Billings, American horseman (b. 1861)
• May 7 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain of the Hindenburg (b. 1886)
• May 9
  • Harry Barton, American architect (b. 1876)
  • Maurice Conner, Canadian politician (b. 1868)
• May 10 – James Blindell, British politician (b. 1884)
• May 11 – Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer, professor and politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1871)
• May 15 – Percy Lee Gassaway, American politician (b. 1885)
• May 23 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839)
• May 24
  • Luis F. Álvarez, Spanish physician (b. 1853)
  • Francis Bird, Australian architect (b. 1845)
• May 25 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist (b. 1859)
• May 26 – Bertha May Crawford, Canadian opera singer (b. 1886)
• May 28 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
• May 29 – Lizardo García, 17th President of Ecuador (b. 1844)

1937: June

Jean Harlow

Robert Laird Borden

Gaston Doumergue

J. M. Barrie

• June 2 – Louis Vierne, French composer (b. 1870)
• June 3
  • Hugo Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant and politician (b. 1845)
  • Emilio Mola, Spanish Nationalist commander (plane crash) (b. 1887)
• June 4
  • Fernand Cabrol, French theologian (b. 1855)
  • Keke Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1858)
• June 7 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
• June 10
  • Jane Foss Barff, American activist (b. 1863)
  • Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
  • Malcolm Williams, American actor (b. 1870)
• June 12 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Soviet Army officer and Red Army commander-in-chief (executed) (b. 1893)
• June 16 – Alexander Chervyakov, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1892)
• June 18
  • Pierre Bodard, French painter (b. 1881)
  • Gaston Doumergue, 60th Prime Minister of France and 13th President of France (b. 1863)
• June 19 – J. M. Barrie, British novelist and dramatist (b. 1860)
• June 20 – Andreu Nin Pérez, Spanish politician (b. 1892)
• June 25
  • Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
  • Marta Cunningham, American opera singer (b. 1869)
• June 26 – Minoru Murata, Japanese actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• June 27 – Sandro Akhmeteli, Soviet director (b. 1866)

1937: July

George Gershwin

Guglielmo Marconi

Reverend Nazzareno Formosa

Varnava, Serbian Patriarch

• July 1
  • Ilya Garkavyi, Soviet general (b. 1888)
  • Matvei Vasilenko, Soviet komkor (b. 1888)
• July 2 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator (missing on this date) (b. 1897)
• July 3 – Boris Gorbachyov, Soviet general (b. 1892)
• July 6
  • Bohdan Ihor Antonych, Soviet poet (b. 1909)
  • Ernesto Badini, Italian opera singer (b. 1876)
• July 7
  • William H. Carlton, American developer and politician (b. 1864)
  • Åke Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat and lawyer (b. 1893)
• July 9 – Oliver Law, American labor organizer and Army officer (killed in Spanish Civil War) (b. 1899)
• July 11
  • George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
  • Rodrigues Ottolengui, American writer (b. 1861)
• July 13
  • Mykhailo Boychuk, Soviet painter (b. 1882)
  • Victor Laloux, French architect (b. 1850)
• July 14
  • Julius Meier, American businessman and politician (b. 1874)
  • Joseph Taylor Robinson, American politician (b. 1872)
• July 15 – Walter Gay, American painter (b. 1856)
• July 16 – Vladimir Kirillov, Soviet poet (b. 1889)
• July 17 – Percy Gardner, British archaeologist (b. 1846)
• July 18
  • Julian Bell, British poet (killed in Spanish Civil War) (b. 1908)
  • Grigol Giorgadze, Soviet historian, jurist and politician (b. 1879)
• July 20 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian-born inventor (b. 1874)
• July 22
  • Nazzareno Formosa, American Roman Catholic priest and reverend (b. 1901)
  • Paolo Iashvili, Soviet poet (b. 1894)
• July 23 – Varnava, Serbian Patriarch (b. 1880)
• July 31 – Noë Bloch, Soviet producer (b. 1875)

1937: August

Saint Alexander Hotovitzky

Christos Christovasilis

• August 5 – Jean Louis Conneau, French aviator (b. 1880)
• August 6
  • Adeodato Barreto, Portuguese poet (b. 1905)
  • F. C. S. Schiller, German-British philosopher (b. 1864)
• August 8 – Martin Rázus, Czechoslovakian poet, writer and politician (b. 1888)
• August 9 – Na Woon-gyu, Korean actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• August 11 – Edith Wharton, American writer (b. 1862)
• August 13 – Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot (b. 1902)
• August 19
  • Alexander Hotovitzky, Russian Orthodox priest, missionary and saint (b. 1872)
  • Asaichi Isobe, Japanese army officer (b. 1905)
  • Ivan Kataev, Russian novelist and writer (b. 1902)
• August 22
  • Owen Burns, American entrepreneur (b. 1869)
  • Gelegdorjiin Demid, Russian political military figure (b. 1900)
• August 24 – Gervase Beckett, British politician (b. 1866)
• August 26 – Christos Christovasilis, Greek journalist and author (b. 1861)
• August 27 – Andrew W. Mellon, American banker and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1855)
• August 30
  • Gaetano Bisleti, Italian cardinal (b. 1856)
  • Tomás António Garcia Rosado, Portuguese general (b. 1854)

1937: September

Pierre de Coubertin

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Ray Ewry

• September 2
  • Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Indian revolutionary hero (b. 1880)
  • Pierre de Coubertin, 2nd President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863)
• September 3 – François Guiguet, French painter (b. 1860)
• September 4
  • Daniel Alexander Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1870)
  • Juan Campisteguy, Uruguayan lawyer, soldier and 25th President of Uruguay (b. 1859)
• September 5 – David Hendricks Bergey, American bacteriologist (b. 1860)
• September 6 – Harry Charles Purvis Bell, British civil servant and commissioner (b. 1851)
• September 8 – Frank Alexander, American actor (b. 1879)
• September 9
  • Moritz Geiger, German philosopher (b. 1880)
  • Géza Horváth, Hungarian doctor and entomologist (b. 1847)
• September 11 – Nazmi Ziya Güran, Turkish painter (b. 1881)
• September 13 – Ellis Parker Butler, American humorist (b. 1869)
• September 14 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakian politician, sociologist and philosopher, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
• September 15
  • Anders Bundgaard, Danish sculptor (b. 1864)
  • Clifford Heatherley, British actor (b. 1888)
• September 20
  • Maksymilian Horwitz, Polish movement (b. 1877)
  • Lev Karakhan, Soviet revolutionary hero and diplomat (b. 1889)
• September 21 – Osgood Perkins, American actor (b. 1892)
• September 22 – Ruth Roland, American actress (b. 1892)
• September 26
  • Bessie Smith, American blues singer (b. 1894)
  • Edward Filene, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1860)
• September 29 – Ray Ewry, American Olympic athlete (b. 1873)

1937: October

Prince Kuni Taka

Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsy

Ernest Rutherford

• October 1 – Prince Kuni Taka (b. 1875)
• October 3
  • Baden Baden-Powell, American aviator pioneer (b. 1860)
  • Richard Hertwig, German zoologist (b. 1850)
• October 6 – Angelo Musco, Italian actor (b. 1872)
• October 9 – August de Boeck, Flemish composer (b. 1865)
• October 10 – Peter of Krutitsy, Soviet Orthodox priest, martyr and metropolitan (b. 1862)
• October 13 – Kazimierz Novak, Polish traveller (b. 1897)
• October 14 – Salvatore Micalizzi, Italian Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1856)
• October 15 – James Marcus, American actor (b. 1867)
• October 16 – Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
• October 17
  • J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
  • Antônio Parreiras, Brazilian painter and illustrator (b. 1860)
• October 19
  • Pedro Chutro, Argentine physician (b. 1880)
  • Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871)
• October 23 – Nikolai Klyuev, Russian poet (b. 1884)
• October 26 – Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
• October 27
  • Joseph-Félix Bouchor, French painter (b. 1853)
  • Abdul Karim Khan, Indian classical singer (b. 1872)
• October 29 – Kazimierz Cichowski, Polish-born Soviet politician (b. 1887)
• October 30
  • Mendel Khatayevich, Soviet politician (b. 1893)
  • Ivan Zhukov, Soviet politician (b. 1889)

1937: November

Ramsay MacDonald

Metropolitan Joseph (Petrovykh)

Saint Aleksandr Glagolev

Peljidiin Genden

• November 1 – Ivar Bauck, Norwegian general (b. 1863)
• November 2 – Félix Gaffiot, French philologist (b. 1870)
• November 4
  • William Bennett, British politician (b. 1873)
  • Alfred Walter Campbell, Australian neurologist (b. 1868)
  • Gustav Gartner, Austrian pathologist (b. 1855)
  • Emil Hassler, Swiss physician and botanist (b. 1864)
• November 5 – Naoe Kinoshita, Japanese Christian socialist (b. 1869)
• November 6 – Johnston Forbes-Robertson, British stage actor (b. 1853)
• November 8 – Francis de Croisset, Belgian-born French playwright (b. 1877)
• November 9 – Ramsay MacDonald, British statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
• November 10 – Nikolai Batalov, Soviet actor (b. 1899)
• November 11 – Uryū Sotokichi, Japanese admiral (b. 1857)
• November 13 – Mrs. Leslie Carter (Caroline Louise Dudley), American actress (b. 1862)
• November 16
  • Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1933)
  • Némèse Garneau, Canadian politician (b. 1847)
• November 17 – Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1860)
• November 20 – Metropolitan Joseph (Petrovykh) (b. 1872)
• November 23
  • Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-born Yugoslav poet (b. 1857)
  • Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
  • George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
• November 25
  • Aleksandr Glagolev, Russian Orthodox priest, religious philosopher and saint (b. 1872)
  • Alessandro Padoa, Italian mathematician (b. 1868)
  • Raymond Stanton Patton, American admiral and engineer, second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (b. 1882)
• November 26 – Peljidiin Genden, Mongolian political figure, 9th Prime Minister of Mongolia and 2nd President of Mongolia (b. 1892)
• November 27
  • Vsevolod Balitsky, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1892)
  • Eero Haapalainen, Finnish Communist leader and activist (b. 1880)
  • Felix Hamrin, 22nd Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1875)
  • Vasyl Lypkivsky, Soviet Orthodox priest and metropolitan (b. 1864)
  • Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician (b. 1862)
• November 28 – Magnús Guðmundsson, Icelandic politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1879)

1937: December

Prosper Poullet

Dimitrie Călugăreanu

Maurice Ravel

• December 2 – Josep Comas i Solà, Andorran astronomer (b. 1868)
• December 3
  • Attila József, Hungarian poet (b. 1905)
  • Prosper Poullet, Belgian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1868)
• December 4 – Ralph Lewis, American actor (b. 1872)
• December 8 – Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist (b. 1856)
• December 9
  • Lilias Armstrong, British phonetician (b. 1882)
  • Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• December 10 – Robert Bolder, British actor (b. 1859)
• December 12 – Alfred Abel, German actor (b. 1879)
• December 14 – Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter (b. 1869)
• December 16 – Giorgi Mazniashvili, Soviet general (b. 1870)
• December 17 – Dimitrie Călugăreanu, Romanian physician, naturalist and physiology (b. 1868)
• December 18 – Robert Worth Bingham, American politician (b. 1871)
• December 20 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
• December 21
  • Meliton Balanchivadze, Soviet composer (b. 1862)
  • Ted Healy, American actor (b. 1896)
  • Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856)
• December 23 – Osman Nuri Hadžić, Yugoslav writer (b. 1869)
• December 25 – Newton D. Baker, United States Secretary of War (b. 1871)
• December 28
  • Herbert Bullmore, Scottish Rugby Union international, grandfather of Kerry Packer (b. 1874)
  • Maurice Ravel, French composer (Bolero) (b. 1875)
• December 29
  • Frederik Beichmann, Norwegian jurist (b. 1859)
  • Don Marquis, American poet (b. 1878)
• December 30 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• December 31 – Dezső Czigány, Hungarian painter (b. 1883)

1937: Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson
• Chemistry – Walter Haworth, Paul Karrer
• Physiology or Medicine – Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt
• Literature – Roger Martin du Gard
• Peace – Robert Cecil

1937: References

1937: Links

• 1937 WWII Timeline
• The 1930s Timeline: 1937 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia