* 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.

In 1937, director Josef von Sternberg attempted a film version of I, Claudius, with Charles Laughton as Claudius.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

On June 24, 1937, Pickford married her third and last husband, actor and band leader Charles ' Buddy ' Rogers.

They adopted two children: Roxanne ( born 1944, adopted 1944 ) and Ronald Charles ( born 1937, adopted 1943, a. k. a. Ron Pickford Rogers ).

Charles H. Haskins ( 1870 – 1937 ), for example, made a case for a Renaissance of the 12th century.

* Charles Plisnier Prix Goncourt ( 1937 )

In 1880, Myers married Eveleen Tennant ( 1856 – 1937 ), daughter of Charles Tennant and Gertrude Tennant.

By 1937, the theme music for Looney Tunes was " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down " by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin ; the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of " Merrily We Roll Along " by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher and Eddie Cantor.

Beginning with a set of decisions in March, April, and May, 1937 ( including the Social Security Act cases ), the Court would sustain a series of New Deal legislation .... Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes played a leading role in defeating the court-packing by rushing these pieces of New Deal legislation through and ensuring that the court's majority would uphold it.

La Grande Illusion ( also known as Grand Illusion ) is a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak.

), Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner ’ s Sons, New York, 10 + 1 + 1 volumes, 1937 – 1964, volume 1 ( Abbe — Brazer ), 660 pages + 613 pages, entry « Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon » ( 1830 – 1893 ) page 429 ( part 2 of volume 1: Barsotti — Brazer ) by T. M. S. ( Thomas Marshall Spaulding )

* 1937 Albert Charles Tysoe

In the early years of the radio show, they were supporting characters in the 1937 Paramount film This Way Please, starring Charles " Buddy " Rogers and Betty Grable.

* Edwin Lutyens & Charles Bressey, The Highway Development Survey, Ministry of Transport, 1937

* Charles Melville Dewey ( 1849 – 1937 ), American painter

Lexington is the birth place of Charles Lathrop Pack ( May 7, 1857 – June 14, 1937 ), a third-generation timberman, one of the five wealthiest men in America prior to World War I.

* Charles Warren Eaton ( 1857 – 1937 ), artist best known for his tonalist landscapes who lived in Bloomfield from 1888 until his death in 1937.

* Charles Emory Patton ( 1859 – 1937 ), Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1915.

* Charles Wall ( c. 1903-1995 ), resident superintendent of George Washington's estate at Mount Vernon for 39 years starting 1937.

Incorporated in 1937 and named after Charles W. Nibley, a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He played the mad Roman emperor Caligula in an uncompleted 1937 film version of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius ( with Charles Laughton ); a kindly veterinarian who accidentally causes the death of a murderess ( played by Bette Davis ) in the 1952 suspense drama Another Man's Poison ; and the fool Wamba in the 1952 Ivanhoe ( with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor ).

Other early Christian radio programs broadcast nationwide in the U. S. beginning in the 1920s – 1930s include ( years of radio broadcast shown ): Bob Jones, Sr. ( 1927 – 1962 ), Ralph W. Sockman ( 1928 – 1962 ), G. E. Lowman ( 1930 – 1965 ), The Lutheran Hour ( 1930 – present ), and Charles E. Fuller ( 1937 – 1968 ).

At the Embassy Theatre in March 1937 he played Anderson in a mystery play, The Bat, before returning to the Old Vic in April, succeeding Marius Goring as Chorus in Henry V. Other roles that year included Christopher Drew in Daisy Fisher's comedy A Ship Comes Home at the St Martin's Theatre in May and Larry Starr in Philip Leaver's comedy Three Set Out at the Embassy in June, before joining John Gielgud's Company at the Queen's Theatre, September 1937 to April 1938, where he played Bolingbroke in Richard II, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal and Baron Tusenbach in Three Sisters.