* 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.

* 1937 – David Anderson, Canadian politician

* 1937 – David Behrman, American composer and producer

* 1937 – David Bedford, English keyboardist and composer ( d. 2011 )

* 1937 – David Hockney, English painter, designer, and photographer

* 1869 – David Robertson, Scottish golfer ( d. 1937 )

* March 26 – David Holliday, British actor ( b. 1937 )

* David L. Gunn ( born 1937 ), American (& Canadian ) railroad administrator

Turner was married on May 11, 1963, to Geills McCrae Kilgour ( b. 1937 ) who was a great-niece of Canadian Army doctor John McCrae, the author of what is probably the best-known First World War poem In Flanders Fields, and sister of David Kilgour, a long-time Canadian Member of Parliament.

Linville House, the 1925 Craftsman brick house of Robert A. Stafford, and the 1937 Colonial Revival Sheriff David B. Stafford House.

Extravagant offers lured Dietrich away from Paramount to make The Garden of Allah ( 1936 ) for independent producer David O. Selznick ( she received $ 200, 000 ) and to England for Alexander Korda's production, Knight Without Armour ( 1937 ) ( at a salary of $ 450, 000 ).

Instrumental to the sisters ' success over the years were their parents, Olga and Peter ; their orchestra leader and musical arranger, Vic Schoen ( 1916 – 2000 ); music publishing giant Lou Levy, who died only days after Maxene, and was their manager from 1937 – 51 and was also Maxene's husband from 1941 – 49 ; and both Jack Kapp ( d. 1949 ) and his brother David Kapp, who founded Decca Records. Maxene was the mother of 2 children, Mark ( born -) & Shianne ( born ).

The tenor ( higher ) voice was Samuel David Moore ( born Samuel David Hicks on October 12, 1935 ), and the baritone / tenor ( lower ) voice was Dave Prater ( May 9, 1937 – April 9, 1988 ).

David C. Korten ( born 1937 ) is an American economist, author, and former Professor of the Harvard Business School, political activist, prominent critic of corporate globalization, and " by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems ".

David Korten was born in Longview, Washington in 1937 and is a 1955 graduate of Longview's R. A.

John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, PC ( NI ) ( born 24 December 1937 ), is a former Ulster Unionist Party MP and a life peer.

David Hockney, OM, CH, RA, ( born 9 July 1937 ) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London.

One poet who served in the war, the visual artist David Jones, later resisted this trend in his long experimental war poem " In Parenthesis ", which was written directly out of his trench experiences but was not published until 1937.

* 1937 in art-Birth of David Hockney, Ronald Davis, Red Grooms, Robert Mangold, Larry Zox, Pablo Picasso paints Guernica ; Death of Joseph-Maurice Ravel, French composer and pianist

The scholar David Havird describes the rest of Tate's publication history in poetry as follows: By 1937, when he published his first Selected Poems, Tate had written all of the shorter poems upon which his literary reputation came to rest.

The important visitors personally greeted on the steps of the Berghof by Hitler included David Lloyd George ( 3 March 1936 ), the Aga Khan ( 20 October 1937 ), Duke and Duchess of Windsor ( 22 October 1937 ), Kurt von Schuschnigg ( 12 February 1938 ), Neville Chamberlain ( 15 September 1938 ) and Benito Mussolini ( 19 January 1941 ).

* David Lewis Davies ( 1873 – 1937 ), British Member of Parliament for Pontypridd, 1931 – 1937