* 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 – Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer ( d. 2007 )

* 1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer

* 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.

This successful string earned him an invitation to the tournament at Semmering – Baden 1937, which he won with 9 / 14 (+ 6 = 6 − 2 ), ahead of Fine, José Raúl Capablanca, Reshevsky, and Erich Eliskases.

Fine placed 2nd at the elite Semmering / Baden 1937 tournament with 8 / 14, behind Paul Keres.

* Baden Fletcher Smyth Powell, ( 22 May 1860 – 3 October 1937 ).

Michael Powell made The Edge of the World in 1937, a dramatisation based on the true story of the evacuation of the last 36 inhabitants of the remote island of St Kilda on 29 August 1930.

Powell had particularly drawn the Chaplain's attention to lines in his First Poems ( published 1937 ).

Baxter was a close friend of William Powell with whom he starred in three films and was at Powell's side when Jean Harlow died in 1937.

She made four films in close succession with William Powell: Libeled Lady ( 1936 ), which also starred Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy, The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), in which she played Billie Burke opposite Powell's Florenz Ziegfeld, the second " Thin Man " film, After the Thin Man with Powell and James Stewart, and the romantic comedy Double Wedding ( 1937 ).

In 1937, after reading of the St Kilda evacuation, Michael Powell made the film The Edge of the World about the dangers of island depopulation.

The Clifton opened on 17 November 1937 with the film “ Edge of the World ” starring John Laurie, Finlay Currie and Campbell Robson, directed by Michael Powell.

He also appeared in Sweethearts, ( 1938 ) the first MGM film in Technicolor, starring Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, and Bolger's future Oz co-star, Frank Morgan, as well as the 1937 Eleanor Powell vehicle Rosalie, which also starred Eddy and Morgan.

Frank Tashlin's cartoon satire The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos ( 1937 ) features a caricature of Powell, a bird named " Dick Fowl ".

* Noble C. Powell ( 1937 – 1941 )

She tried a big musical On the Avenue ( 1937 ) opposite Dick Powell, but others of her films, including One Night in Lisbon ( 1941 ), and My Favorite Blonde ( 1942 ) with Bob Hope, were less prestigious.

At college, she met her first husband, Marshall Powell Hawkins, whom she married on a whim in North Carolina in 1937.

Michael Powell made The Edge of the World in 1937.

Rock Productions built four new large stages and began making films including the drama film The Edge of the World ( 1937 ), directed by Michael Powell.

* Rosalie, 1937, with Eleanor Powell, offered a score by Cole Porter.

In 1937 she starred opposite Dick Powell and Joan Blondell in the Academy Award nominated Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley directed musical comedy Gold Diggers of 1937.

Paul Shell Powell, 1937 – 1950

In a February 2, 1937 letter to Powell, Mary explained her side of the marital breakup.

Her most widely seen performances were in Double Wedding ( 1937 ), in which she was billed third in the cast credits behind William Powell and Myrna Loy, Sweethearts ( 1938 ) with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and The Marx Brothers film At The Circus ( 1939 ).

* The Last of Mrs. Cheyney ( 1937 ) starring Joan Crawford and William Powell ( Boleslavsky died before this film was completed )

*" Rosalie "-Eleanor Powell and Ensemble from Rosalie ( 1937 )

* Follow in my Footsteps-Eleanor Powell / Robert Taylor / George Murphy / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from ( Broadway Melody of 1938 ) 1937