* 1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician ( d. 1715 )

* 1637 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord ( b. 1571 )

* 1637 – Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen, German hymn writer ( d. 1706 )

* 1637 – Johann Gerhard, German church leader and theologian ( b. 1582 )

* 1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer ( d. 1637 )

* Sir George Gordon, 3rd Baronet ( 1637 – 1720 ) ( created Earl of Aberdeen in 1682 )

* George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 1637 – 1720 )

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

* 1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.

* 1637 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, German composer and music director in Hamburg ( d. 1718 )

* Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1578 – 1637 )

* 1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces ( now the Netherlands ) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.

* 1637 – Eighty Years ' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.

He wrote in Chinese a life of Jesus ( Pekin, 1635 – 1637, 8 vols.

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.

Most foreign militaries operated under the umbrella of the Multinational force in Iraq ( the MNF – I ), authorized under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1546, 1637, 1723, and 1790 until December 31, 2008.

* 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer ( d. 1675 )

* 1578 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1637 )

* 1574 – Robert Fludd, English composer and writer ( d. 1637 )

* 1698 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian ( b. 1637 )

In 1637, however, Sir David Kirke acquired a charter giving him title to the entire island of Newfoundland superseding the charter granted to his father, the 1st Baron.

A Puritan by upbringing, in 1637 Owen was driven from Oxford by Laud's new statutes, and became chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir Robert Dormer and then in that of Lord Lovelace.

Holles was the third son of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare ( c. 1564 – 1637 ), by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope.

Sir Robert Loftus and his wife lived in the chancellor's house, and mainly at his expense, until the beginning of 1637, when the lady's half-brother, Sir John Gifford, petitioned the king, as her next friend, for specific performance of her father-in-law's alleged promise as to a post-nuptial settlement.

John Berkeley was accredited ambassador from Charles I of England to Christina of Sweden, in January 1637, to propose a joint effort by the two sovereigns for the reinstatement of the elector palatine in his dominions ; probably the employment of Berkeley in this by his cousin, Sir Thomas Roe, who had conducted negotiations between Gustavus Adolphus and the king of Poland.

Sir Edmund Andros ( 6 December 1637 – 24 February 1714 ) was an English colonial administrator in North America.

* Sir Henry Lee, 3rd Baronet ( 1637 – 1658 )

* Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet, of Stowe ( 1567-c. 1637 ), English landowner and Member of Parliament

He was a great grandson of Sir Stephen Rice ( 1637 – 1715 ), Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer and a leading Jacobite, and Sir Maurice FitzGerald, 14th Knight of Kerry.

* Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet ( 1567 – 1637 )

* Sir Roger Townshend, 1st Baronet ( 1596 – 1637 )

Sovereign of the Seas, 1637, by J PayneDuring the transition from galleons to more frigate like warships ( 1600 – 1650 ) there was a general awareness that the reduction in topweight afforded by the removal of upperworks made ships better sailers ; Rear Admiral Sir William Symonds noted after the launch of Sovereign of the Seas that she was " cut down " and made a safe and fast ship.

* Sir John St John, 2nd Baronet ( c. 1637 – 1656 )

* Sir John Marsham, 2nd Baronet ( 1637 – 1692 )

It was created in 1690 for Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth, 2nd Baronet, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1696 to 1702 ( the baronetcy had been created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1637 for his father and namesake Patrick Hume ).

* Sir Laurence Parsons, 1st Baronet ( c. 1637 – 1698 )

A series of crises and calamities led Calvert to quit the colony in 1629 for " some other warmer climate of this new world ", which turned out to be Maryland, though his family was to maintain agents to govern Avalon until 1637, when the entire island of Newfoundland was granted by charter to Sir David Kirke and James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton.

Brome plays that have not survived include: The Lovesick Maid ( 1629 ); Wit in a Madness (? 1637 ); The Jewish Gentleman ( registered 1640 ); A Fault in Friendship ( 1623 ), perhaps with Jonson and another collaborator ; two more collaborations with Heywood, The Life and Death of Sir Martin Skink ( c. 1634 ) and The Apprentice's Prize ( c. 1633 – 41 ); and Christianetta, or Marriage and Hanging Go by Destiny ( registered 1640 ), possibly a collaboration with George Chapman.

Sir Robert Newcomen who died in 1629 and his son Sir Beverley Newcomen, Admiral of Ireland, who died in 1637 while taking soundings at Waterford harbour were buried here.

He left, by a second wife Joan Fletcher, two sons and a daughter, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1637 ; the sons later returned to England ; his daughter Ruth married in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Edmund Angier, and their son Samuel Angier later married in 1680 Hannah Oakes, the daughter of Urian Oakes.

* February 24 – Edmund Andros, English governor in North America ( b. 1637 )

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

Her third daughter Judith was the third wife of Sir Edmund Carey ( died 1637 ), brother of the Earl of Monmouth.