* 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 – Jacques Santer, Luxembourg statesman

Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert collaborated on an opera, L ' Aiglon, which premiered in 1937.

In addition to his pieces written alone, he collaborated with Jacques Ibert on both an opera, L ' Aiglon ( 1937 ), and an operetta.

: 1925: H L ' Aiglon, co-written with Jacques Ibert ; libretto for acts 2 – 4 by H. Cain, after E. Rostand, libretto for acts 1 and 5 by Ibert, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 10 March 1937

* Jacques Singer ( 1937 – 1942 )

* Emiel Jacques: nl: Emiel Jacques ( Moorslede 1874-Michigan, 1937 ) was a Flemish painter, illustrator and professor, best known for his flax paintings.

Jacques Santer ( born 18 May 1937 in Wasserbillig ) is a Luxembourg politician.

Jacques Poulin ( born 23 Sep 1937 at Saint-Gédéon, Quebec ) is a Canadian novelist with a quiet and intimate style of writing.

After studies with Carl Flesch in Berlin ( 1929 – 32 ), he went to Paris to continue his training with Jacques Thibaud at the Conservatory, graduating with a premier prix in 1937.

Simone met her future husband, Jacques, at a cocktail party in 1937.

Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert composed an opera in five acts, also with the title L ' Aiglon, to a libretto by Henri Cain based on Rostand's play, It was first performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1937.

Paolo Conte ( born January 6, 1937 ) is an Italian singer, pianist, composer, and lawyer notable for his grainy, resonant voice, his colourful and dreamy compositions ( evocative of Italian and Mediterranean sounds, as well as of jazz music, South American atmospheres, and of French-language singers like Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens ) and his wistful, sometimes melancholic lyrics.

* Tovarich ( 1935 )-from a French comedy by Jacques Deval-adapted into a 1937 film, and a 1963 musical with Vivien Leigh and Jean Pierre Aumont.

* Jacques Santer ( b. 1937 ), a politician from Luxembourg

Jacques Barrot ( born 3 February 1937 in Yssingeaux, Haute-Loire ) is a French politician, who has served as European Commissioner for Justice ( 2008 – 2010 ), after four years as Commissioner for Transport ( 2004 – 2008 ) and Commissioner for Regional Policy for eight months ( 2004 ).

Maurice Ravel with Jacques Février playing the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in Paris in 1937

File: Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial. jpg | Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, Belgium ( 1937 ), Jacques Gréber, landscape architect.

The contract for the construction of the arch was awarded in December 1937 and the entire cenotaph was completed on 19 October 1938, after which the landscaping surrounding the memorial was laid out by Jacques Greber, and installed by Toronto contractors.

He made contributions to several Jacques Feyder films, Le Grand Jeu ( 1934 ), La Kermesse héroïque ( Carnival in Flanders ) ( 1935 ), Die Klugen Frauen ( 1936 ) and Knight Without Armour ( 1937 ), his first under producer Alexander Korda in England.