* 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.

Gene Ahern's The Squirrel Cage ( January 3, 1937 ), an example of a topper ( comic strip ) | topper strip which is better remembered than the strip it accompanied, Ahern's Room and Board ( comic strip ) | Room and Board.

* 2010 – Gene Ludwig, American pianist ( b. 1937 )

The 1937 recording of Louis Prima's " Sing, Sing, Sing ( With a Swing )" by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra featuring Gene Krupa on drums was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1982.

The MacDonald-Eddy team had split after MacDonald's engagement and marriage to Gene Raymond, but neither of their solo films grossed as much as the team films and by the fall of 1937, MGM was barraged with outraged fan mail.

On June 16, 1937 MacDonald married Gene Raymond in a traditional ceremony at Wilshire Methodist Church in Los Angeles.

Bill Drake ( January 14, 1937 – November 29, 2008 ), born Philip Yarbrough, was an American radio programmer who co-developed the Boss Radio format with Gene Chenault via their company Drake-Chenault.

* Terry Gene Carr ( 1937 – 1987 ), U. S. science fiction author & editor

Gene Brewer ( born 1937 ) is the author of the K-PAX series of novels: K-PAX, K-PAX II, K-PAX III, K-PAX IV and Prot's Report, a brief natural history of the Earth, which appears in the K-PAX trilogy, an omnibus edition of the first three K-PAX books.

)", " A Lane in Spain ", " Some Rainy Day ", " Boo Hoo ( You've Got Me Crying For You )", " A Sailboat in the Moonlight " ( 1937 ) with John Jacob Loeb, " Coquette ", written with Johnny Green and Gus Kahn, recorded by Paul Whiteman, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Bud Freeman, Bob Crosby, and The Ink Spots, " Seems Like Old Times ", " Oahu ( My Lovely Island Home )", " Get Out Those Old Records ", " Ridin ' Around in the Rain " with Gene Austin, " Return to Me " ( 1957 ) with Danny Di Minno, and " You're Beautiful To-Night, My Dear ".

Gene Chandler ( born Eugene Dixon, July 6, 1937 ) also known as " The Duke of Earl " or simply " The Duke ", is an American R & B and soul singer-songwriter, producer and record executive.

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

* Gene Mako – 1937 & 1938 Wimbledon Doubles Champion

Both Robert Bingham and Percy Haly died in 1937 ; with J. C. W. Beckham aging – he would die in 1940 – Chandler moved to fill the leadership void in the faction.

His 1937 Bears ' team is often regarded as the best minor league team in history with future all-stars George McQuinn, Charlie Keller, Tommy Henrich, Babe Dahlgren, and Spud Chandler joining Gordon to lead the team to an incredible 110 wins in 158 games.

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.

Chandler finally made his major league debut at age 29 on May 6, 1937, and went 7-4 that season with a 2. 84 ERA and six complete games ( including two shutouts ).

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

Lynchehaun is said to have returned to Achill on two occasions, once in disguise as an American tourist, and eventually died in Girvan, Scotland, in 1937.

* 1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor

* 1937 – George " The Animal " Steele, American wrestler

* 1937 – David Behrman, American composer and producer

* 1937 – Walter Dean Myers, American novelist and poet

* 1937 – Robert Stone, American novelist

* 1884 – Ogden L. Mills, American businessman and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Dick Radatz, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1937 – James Florio, American politician

* 1937 – Elinor Donahue, American actress

* 1937 – Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist ( d. 2001 )

He was a Lecturer in Anthropology from 1937 through 1938, replacing Sapir, who was gravely ill. Whorf gave graduate level lectures on " Problems of American Indian Linguistics ".

" Another Bengals team had existed in the city and played in three previous American Football Leagues from 1937 to 1942.

1937 ( Board of American Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America ).

* 1937 – James MacArthur, American actor ( d. 2010 )

* 1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay ; neither is ever seen again.

* 1937 – Joyce Bulifant, American actress