* 1937 – Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter and musician

* 1937 – Peter Maivia, Samoan wrestler ( d. 1982 )

* 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor

* 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Igor Volk, Soviet astronaut

* 1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage ; over 90 % would vote in the affirmative.

* 1876 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer

* 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist ( d. 2000 )

* 1937 – Barbara Windsor, English actress

* 1845 – André Bessette, Canadian pastor and saint ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.

* 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

* 1937 – Billy Cannon, American football player

* 1937 – Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, composer, and producer ( The Band )

* 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution " Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH " to the constitutive congress of KPH ( Croatian Communist Party ) in woods near Samobor.

* 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Al D ' Amato, American politician

* 1937 – Steven Berkoff, English actor

* 1937 – Roland Burris, American politician

* 1937 – Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani cricketer

* 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica ( or Gernika in Basque ), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.

Her other film roles included the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland ( 1972 ), Livia in the abortively-attempted I, Claudius ( 1937 ), Miss Milchrest in Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ).

He co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams ( 1935 ), with Joan Crawford in Above Suspicion ( 1943 ), and with Carole Lombard in four films, Hands Across the Table ( 1935 ), The Princess Comes Across ( 1936 ), Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ), and True Confession ( 1937 ).

She played the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ), Countess Vronsky in Anna Karenina ( 1936 ), Aunt Elizabeth in Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ), and a sharp-tongued Granny in A Star Is Born ( 1937 ).

Some of his noteworthy films include The Front Page ( 1931 ), Trouble in Paradise ( 1932 ), Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ), The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), Top Hat ( 1935, one of several Astaire / Rogers films in which Horton appeared ), Danger-Love at Work ( 1937 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Holiday ( 1938 ), Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Pocketful of Miracles ( 1961 ), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

1937, SYMPOSIUM # 1115 ; also: Alice Neary, Cello, Ulster Orchestra, cond.

Carr suffered a heart-attack in 1937, and another in 1939, forcing her to move in with her sister Alice to convalesce.

Alice Mahon ( born 28 September 1937 ) is a British former Labour Party politician and trade unionist.

**** James Murray Forbes ( 1845 – 1937 ), m. to Alice Francis ( Bowditch ) Forbes

In 1914, he married silent star Alice Joyce, with whom he had a daughter, Alice Moore ( 1916 – 1960 ), who acted in six films with her father from 1934 to 1937.

Prior to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ), Disney planned on making Alice in Wonderland his first feature-length film instead.

* Alice Coltrane ( 1937 – 2007 ), jazz musician, wife of John Coltrane

* In Old Chicago ( 1937 ) with Alice Brady

In 1937 he married Pearl Alice Osgood, an American actress and dancer.

Margaret Alice Holland ( 5 September 1861 – 1937 ), married Reginald Abel Smith

She is also recognizable as Miss Lawrence ( or Miss Jones ), the schoolteacher in the Our Gang comedies from 1936 to 1937 and as Alice Lowell in Charlie Chan's Secret in 1936.

Alice Coltrane ( née McLeod ) ( August 27, 1937 – January 12, 2007 ) was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer.

Among the notable productions included in the strand were the first ever television presentations of Lewis Carroll's famous works Alice Through the Looking-Glass ( a twenty-five minute excerpt, transmitted on 22 January 1937 ) and Alice in Wonderland ( April 29, May 1 and 26 December 1937 ).

The current premises in Hampton were purpose built, and were opened on 7 December 1937 by HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester.