* 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.

Vanguard Ferdinand Marcos, 1937, leading the U. P.

Vanguard Ferdinand Marcos, 1937, leading the U. P.

William James 1842 – 1910 Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller | F. C. S. Schiller 1863 – 1937 It is sometimes stated that James ' and other philosophers ' use of the word pragmatism so dismayed Peirce that he renamed his own variant pragmaticism.

* 1937 – La Habanera, with Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell, Paul Bildt, Edwin Juergenssen, Werner Finck

Ferdinand Karl Piëch ( born 17 April 1937 ) is an Austrian business magnate, engineer and executive who is currently the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group.

* Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller ( 1864 – 1937 ), British pragmatist / humanist philosopher of the early 20th century.

Spurgeon Ferdinand " Spud " Chandler ( September 12, 1907 – January 9, 1990 ) was an American right-handed starting pitcher in major league baseball who played his entire career for the New York Yankees from 1937 through 1947.

René de Saussure ( brother of linguist Ferdinand de Saussure ) published numerous Esperantido proposals, starting with a response to Ido later called Antido 1 (" Anti-Ido 1 ") in 1907, which increasingly diverged from Esperanto before finishing with a more conservative Esperanto II in 1937.

* Ferdinand Schaefer ( 1930 – 1937 ) ( founder )

Two of his most noted roles were as the murder victim Archer Coe in Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case ( 1933 ) and as the treacherous Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy in the 1937 Warner Bros. Academy Award winning film, The Life of Emile Zola.

* Countess Helene Marina Elisabeth of Toerring-Jettenbach, born 20 May 1937 in Winhöring, married civil in Munich 6 Apr 1956 ( rel ) Schloß Seefeld am Pilsensee 10 Apr 1956 to Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria ( Vienna 6 Dec 1918-Ulm 6 Aug 2004 ); Mother of the well known socialite and former fashion model Sophie, Princess of Windisch-Grätz ( wife of Mariano Hugo of Windisch-Graetz )

The company was founded by Ferdinand August " Gus " Buescher ( born Elk Township, Noble County, Ohio 26 April 1861 ; died Elkhart, Indiana 29 November 1937 ).

* The Elkhart Truth, 29 November 1937, obituary of Ferdinand August Buescher

* Holman Harry Linn, 1877 – 1937, Dog and pony show operator from Maine, inventor with 19 patents relating to commercial halftrack type tractors, snowplows, automotive and trailer applications, founder of the Linn Mfg.

After Lea's mysterious disappearance in 1934, and Cliff's death in 1937, Cliff's fourth wife, Charlotte Phillips Durant, sold the land to George W. Mason, an automotive executive.

In the MOMA's first exhibit on automotive design, called " Eight Automobiles ", the Cisitalia was displayed with seven other cars ( 1930 Mercedes-Benz SS tourer, 1939 Bentley saloon with coachwork by James Young, 1939 Talbot-Lago Figoni teardrop coupé, 1951 Willys Jeep, 1937 Cord 812 Custom BeverlySedan, 1948 MG TC, and the 1941 Lincoln Continental coupe ).

After returning to America in 1937 following a successful career as a Paris coachbuilder, Darrin looked around for chassis on which to practice his automotive art.

The Estate was built primarily to house the increasing number of workers then employed at Morris Motors ( by 1937 Morris Motors was the largest motor manufacturer in Europe ); until relatively recently, most of the home-owners were still likely to be employed in the automotive industry.