* 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, Claude Shannon showed there is a one-to-one correspondence between the concepts of Boolean logic and certain electrical circuits, now called logic gates, which are now ubiquitous in digital computers.

* 1937 – Claude Lelouch, French film director

* c. 1937: Joe Keyes, Buck Clayton, Carl Smith, George Hunt, Dan Minor, Caughey Roberts, Herschel Evans, Lester Young, Jack Washington, Claude Williams, Walter Page, Jo Jones.

On January 18, 1937, President Roosevelt appointed Charles Edison as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, then as Secretary on January 2, 1940, Claude A. Swanson having died several months previously.

In 2012, the museum acquired its first major work by an African-American artist when it purchased a 22-foot-long carved redwood panel from 1937 by sculptor Sargent Claude Johnson.

* Early 1937 – Mitsubishi A5M ( Allied reporting name " Claude ") with the Imperial Japanese Navy

Claude ( Jean ) Allègre ( ; born 31 March 1937, Paris ) is a French politician and scientist.

* Messent, Claude John Wilson, The Weather Vanes of Norfolk & Norwich, Norwich, Fletcher & son, limited, 1937

Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch ( born October 30, 1937 ) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.

In 1934, Blackney defeated incumbent Claude E. Cady to be elected as a Republican from Michigan's 6th congressional district to the U. S. House for the 74th Congress, serving from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1937.

His output was influenced not only by the musical language of the earlier Claude Debussy and his contemporary Olivier Messiaen ( seen in Le jardin suspendu, 1934 ), but also by an interest in the music, dance and philosophies of the far east ( acquired at the Exposition coloniale internationale of 1931 and seen in Deux danses à Agni Yavishta, 1932, and Deuxième fantaisie, 1936 ), a renaissance of baroque music ( seen in Variations sur un thème de Clément Janequin, 1937 ), and in jazz ( seen in Trois danses of 1939 ).

After leaving the Governor's Mansion on January 5, 1937, Sholtz unsuccessfully ran for the U. S. Senate in 1938, losing the Democratic primary to Claude Pepper.

Admiral Claude Charles Bloch ( July 13, 1878 – October 4, 1967 ) was a United States Navy admiral who served as Commander, Battle Force, U. S. Fleet ( COMBATFOR ) from 1937 – 1938 ; and Commander in Chief, U. S. Fleet ( CINCUS ) from 1938-1940.

* Deharme, Lise: Le Cœur de Pic, 32 illustrated with 20 photos by Claude Cahun, Paris: José Cortis, 1937

Claude Frizzel Bloodgood ( born Klaus Frizzel Bluttgutt III on July 14, 1937, died August 4, 2001 ) was a controversial American chess player.

He co-founded the Euston Road School with Graham Bell Victor Pasmore, and Claude Rogers in 1937.

William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore, Claude Rogers, Maurice Field and Graham Bell set up a School of Drawing and Painting in Euston Road in 1937 ; other associated artists included Lawrence Gowing, Tom Carr, Peter Lanyon, Rodrigo Moynihan and Thelma Hulbert.

A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits is the title of a master's thesis written by computer science pioneer Claude E. Shannon while attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) in 1937.

Christian socialist the Reverend Claude Williams, " the preaching hillbilly ", then served as director from 1937 until 1940.

* Hon Sir Claude Ernest Weymouth James, Kt 1937 – 1950