* 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 – 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.

Igor Stravinsky ( 1882 – 1971 ) was a regular guest conductor, appearing periodically from 1937 until 1967.

In 1936, Balanchine staged Gluck's opera Orfeo and Eurydice and during 1937 an evening of dance works all choreographed to the music of Igor Stravinsky.

Igor Aleksander FREng ( born 1937 ) is an emeritus professor of Neural Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London.

In 1937, Mildred Bliss commissioned Igor Stravinsky ( 1882 – 1971 ) to compose a concerto in the tradition of Bach ’ s Brandenburg concertos to celebrate the Blisses ’ thirtieth wedding anniversary.

" After being allowed to stage only 2 dance performances ( Orfeo and Eurydice in 1936 and an evening of dances choreographed to the music of Igor Stravinsky in 1937 ), Balanchine moved the company to Hollywood in 1938.

*" Your Broadway and My Broadway " ( 1937 )-sung by Sophie Tucker and Charles Igor Gorin, danced by George Murphy, Eleanor Powell, Buddy Ebsen and Judy Garland ; recorded by Judy Garland and chorus but cut from the film

*" Sun Showers " ( 1937 )-recorded by Charles Igor Gorin but cut from the film

Valentin Altanietz ( 1936 – 1995 ) Andrey Antoniuk, Alexander Anufriev, Valery Basanietz, Alexei Bokatov, Igor Bozhko, Nadia Haiduk, Valentin Khrushch ( 1943 – 2005 ), Michail Kowalski, Ruslan Makoev, Victor Mariniuk, Volodymyr Naumez, Nikolay Novikov, Victor Pavlov, Valery Parfenenko, Evgeni Rakhmanin, Viktor Risovich, Sergei Savchenko, Vitaly Sazonov, Valentin Shapavlenko, Yuri Shurevich ( 1937 – 1997 ), Oleg Sokolov, Nikolai Stepanov, ( sculptor ) ( 1937 – 2003 ), Alexander Stovbur, Vladimir Strelnikov, Stanislav Sytchov ( 1937 – 2003 ), Vladimir Tziupko, Alexander Voloshinov, Ludmilla Yastreb ( 1945 – 1980 ), Anna Zilberman ( 1935-2000 ).

* Das Volk des harten Schlafs: Roman ( Sleeping Nation a. k. a. A Nation Veiled in Slumber ) by Oskar Baum ( Vienna: Löwit, 1937 ).

Magnus Volk ( 1851 – 1937 ) was a pioneer British electrical engineer.

Magnus Volk died in Brighton on 20 May 1937, and is buried at St Wulfran's churchyard in Ovingdean near Brighton.

According to Pasternak, during the 1937 show trial of General Iona Yakir and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Union of Soviet Writers requested all members to add their names to a statement supporting the death penalty for the defendants.

Chiang then supported Muslim General Ma Hushan against Sheng Shicai and the Soviet Union in the Xinjiang War ( 1937 ).

Population censuses have been taken in Azerbaijan under Russian / Soviet rule in 1897, 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

* 1937: The Soviet Union chose a diesel engine for its T-34 tank, widely regarded as the best tank chassis of World War II.

* 1937: Leaders of the Esperanto organisation in the Soviet Union arrested ; Esperanto activities made impossible.

* 1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.

* 1937 – Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet astronaut

* John Anthony Walker ( born 1937 ), American communications specialist convicted in 1986 of spying for the Soviet Union

His Soviet controller at the time, Theodore Maly, reported in April 1937 to the NKVD that he had personally briefed Philby on the need " to discover the system of guarding Franco and his entourage.

He helped to write the 1936 Soviet Constitution, but during the Great Purge of the 1930s, he was accused of treason and confessed, after two and a half months of interrogation, at the Trial of the Seventeen ( 1937, also called the Second Moscow Trial ).

Though born in Rīga in 1937, she settled in Canada during the years of the Soviet occupation, becoming a well-respected academic in the subject of Latvian culture.

* 1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.

* 1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut

However, the Soviet Union, and later Russia, have constructed a number of manned drifting stations on a generally annual basis since 1937, some of which have passed over or very close to the Pole.

In May 1937 the world's first North Pole ice station, North Pole-1, was established by Soviet scientists 20 kilometres ( 13 mi ) from the North Pole.

He was a member of the Politburo ( 1924 – 1929 ) and Central Committee ( 1917 – 1937 ), chairman of the Communist International ( Comintern, 1926 – 1929 ), and the editor in chief of Pravda ( 1918 – 1929 ), the journal Bolshevik ( 1924 – 1929 ), Izvestia ( 1934 – 1936 ), and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

Following the trial and execution of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and other leftist Old Bolsheviks in 1936, Bukharin and Rykov were arrested on 27 February 1937 following a plenum of the Central Committee and were charged with conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state.

The Republic of China waged war against invading Soviet and White Russian forces during the Sino-Soviet conflict ( 1929 ), the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang and the Xinjiang War ( 1937 ).

The Red Army, however, had been crippled by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of 1937, reducing the army's morale and efficiency shortly before the outbreak of the fighting.

The Soviet Спорт (“ Sport ”), also a 24mm by 36mm image size, was prototyped in 1934 and went to market in 1937.

Vladimir Igorevich Arnold ( alternative spelling Arnol'd,, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010 ) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.

Soviet calendar 12 December 1937 ( Below 12 :) " Sixth day of the six-day week " ————————— " Election day for the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "