* 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 – 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.

* London Music in 1888 – 89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto ( later known as Bernard Shaw ) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars, 1937.

* George Bernard Shaw 1937 color portrait by Madame Yevonde

* 1937 – Bernard Cleary, Canadian politician

George Bernard Shaw, who criticised the play perhaps more harshly than he did any of Shakespeare's other works, took aim at what he saw as the defects of the final act in his 1937 Cymbeline Refinished ; as early as 1896, he had complained about the absurdities of the play to Ellen Terry, then preparing to act Imogen.

In 1937, Bernard O ' Reilly became a hero when he rescued the survivors from a crashed Stinson plane from the remote Lamington wilderness.

* Bernard O ' Reilly ( 1903 – 1975 ), located the wreck of a Stinson airplane in the McPherson Range, Australia, 1937

Richard Bernard " Red " Skelton ( July 18, 1913September 17, 1997 ) was an American entertainer best known for being a national radio and television comedian between 1937 and 1971.

Bernard Landry, (; born March 9, 1937 ) is a Quebec lawyer, teacher, politician, who as the leader of the Parti Québécois ( 2001 – 2005 ) served as the 28th Premier of Quebec ( 2001 – 2003 ), and leader of the Opposition ( 2003 – 2005 ).

News of the Soviet experience traveled to the United States, where in 1937 Bernard Fantus, director of therapeutics at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, established the first hospital blood bank in the United States.

Bernard Allen ( c. 1937 – 14 October 2006 ) was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's thirty-third House district, predominantly composed of constituents in Raleigh, North Carolina but including some suburban areas of Wake County.

At this time, there was no road that led to the land tract, but in 1937, the city added Saint Bernard Street, which was later renamed to Cullen Boulevard.

Lane expanded the business in 1937 with the publication of George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism under the Pelican Books imprint, an imprint designed to educate the reading public rather than entertain.

In 1937, one of its brigades was commanded by Bernard Montgomery.

* 1937 – 1943 Bernard Weller

After Paine's death in 1937, Bernard DeVoto became possessor of Twain's manuscripts and released them to the public.

* Extension of Remarks of the Honorable Congressman John T. Bernard of Minnesota in the Congressional Record, 75th Congress, 1st Session, 14 April 1937, Volume 81: 934-936 ;

* Bernard Allen ( U. S. politician ) ( 1937 – 2006 ), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Munby worked in the antiquarian book trade with Bernard Quaritch, Limited ( 1935 – 37 ) and Sotheby & Company ( 1937 – 39, 1945 – 47 ).

* Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk ( 1908 – 1975 ), married ( 1937 ) Hon.

Its graduates included two future Commissioners, Sir Joseph Simpson and Sir John Waldron ( both 1934 – 1935 ), three Deputy Commissioners, Sir Ranulph Bacon ( 1934 – 1935 ), Douglas Webb ( 1935 – 1936 ) and Sir John Hill ( who later also became HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary ; 1938 – 1939 ), and two Assistant Commissioners, Tom Mahir and Andrew Way ( both 1935 – 1936 ), as well as a number of Chief Constables of provincial forces, including Sir Edward Dodd ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Birmingham, Sir Eric St Johnston ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Oxfordshire, Durham, and Lancashire, and Sir John McKay ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Manchester, all three later HM Chief Inspectors of Constabulary, Bernard Bebbington ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Cambridge and John Gaskain ( 1936 – 1937 ) of Cumberland and Westmorland, both later HM Inspectors of Constabulary, Alec Muir ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Durham, Albert Wilcox ( 1934 – 1935 ) of Hertfordshire, Sir Douglas Osmond ( 1935 – 1936 ) of Shropshire and Hampshire, Sir Derrick Capper ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Birmingham and the West Midlands, John Gott ( 1937 – 1939 ) of Northamptonshire, Thomas Williams ( 1938 – 1939 ) of Huntingdonshire and the Isle of Ely, West Sussex, and Sussex, and David Holdsworth ( 1939 ) of Oxfordshire and Thames Valley.

In 1937, he left for the United States to study under Bernard Rogers.