* 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 – 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.

* Royal Hudson, a type of locomotive used by Canadian Pacific Railway 1937 – 1960

* Alexander Hamilton Council, 1937 – 1968-Merged with Hudson Council to form Hudson-Hamilton Council in 1968.

In 1937, Canadian aviators seeking to be the first to fly from Hudson Bay to Tierra Del Fuego crash-landed safely in Bruni.

The trend continued on a larger scale with The Hindenburg ( 1975 ) starring George C. Scott ; The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ) starring Burt Lancaster ; Two-Minute Warning ( 1976 ) starring Charlton Heston ; Black Sunday ( 1977 ) starring Robert Shaw ; Rollercoaster in Sensurround ( 1977 ) starring George Segal ; Damnation Alley ( 1977 ) starring Jan-Michael Vincent ; Avalanche ( 1978 ) starring Rock Hudson ; Gray Lady Down ( 1978 ) also starring Charlton Heston ; Hurricane ( a 1979 remake of John Ford's 1937 film ) starring Jason Robards ; and City on Fire ( 1979 ) starring Henry Fonda.

In 1937, under the administration of commissioner Robert Moses, of land were added to the park, primarily by creating a promenade that covered the tracks of the Hudson River Railroad.

1937 Hudson Custom Eight

A later development were the fifty J-3a class “ Super Hudson ” in 1937 – 38, with every modern appliance and innovation the railroad could put on them.

* Joseph Hudson Turner ( 1872 – 1937 ), Wrexham A. F. C.

Richard Hudson " Dick " Bryan ( born July 16, 1937 ) is an American Democratic Party politician.

* Robert William Hudson ( 1856 – 1937 ), soap manufacturer and son of Robert Spear Hudson

In 1937, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, now part of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson line, was realigned onto railroad tracks along New Jersey Route 21.

On June 27, 1937, a proposal was made by the city of Newark and the counties of Hudson and Essex to convert the upper level of the span to a roadway after proposing that the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, now the Port Authority Trans-Hudson, to be moved onto tracks that paralleled New Jersey Route 21, which was assigned in 1927.

Caleb Howard Baumes ( March 31, 1863 Bethlehem, Albany County, New York – September 25, 1937 near Hudson, New York ) was an American lawyer and politician from New York

* 1937 – David Anderson, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian ( d. 2012 )

** Royal Canadian Mounted Police — accorded the status of a regiment of Dragoons in 1921 and remained so until 1937.

* 2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist ( b. 1937 )

* 1937 – Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player

* 1937 – Larry Hillman, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1937 – Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer ( d. 1997 )

* 1937 – Eddie Shack, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1854 – Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Michel Louvain, Canadian singer

* 1937 – Bernard Cleary, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Claude Raymond, Canadian baseball player

* 1937 – Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist

* 1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian politician

* 1898 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Michael Wilson, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer

* 1937 – Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1902 – Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – John D ' Amico, Canadian ice hockey referee ( d. 2005 )

* 1937 – Jacques Poulin, Canadian novelist

* 2012 – Henry Champ, Canadian journalist ( b. 1937 )

* 1937 – George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer