* 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.

Olivier's co-star in his 1937 Old Vic Theatre production, Judith Anderson, had an equally triumphant association with the play.

Judith Borg " Judy " Biggert ( born August 15, 1937 ) is the U. S. Representative for, serving since 1999.

Biggert was born Judith Gail Borg in Chicago on August 15, 1937, the second of four children of Alvin Andrew Borg and Marjorie Virginia ( Mailler ) Borg.

Templeton married Judith Folk in 1937, and the couple had three children: John Jr., Anne, and Christopher.

After a long illness, Baylis died of a heart attack on 25 November 1937, aged 63, the night before the Old Vic was to open a production of Macbeth starring Olivier and Judith Anderson.

Howland Island was overflown in 1967 by Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno and in 1997 by Linda Finch during memorial circumnavigation flights to commemorate Earhart's 1937 world flight.

* Children ( 8 ): Gwendolyn Gail ( 1935 – 1976 ), Sue ( 1937 – 1978 ), Bill ( 1939 – 1962 ), Cathy Ann ( 1943 – 1947 ), Arlo Davy ( 1947 –), Joady Ben ( 1948 –), Nora ( 1950 –), Lorinna Lynn ( 1954 – 1973 )

* The Case of the Stuttering Bishop ( 1937 ), with Donald Woods as Perry Mason and Ann Dvorak as Della Street

William L. Polhemous, the navigator on Ann Pellegreno's 1967 flight which followed Earhart and Noonan's original flight path, studied navigational tables for July 2, 1937 and thought Noonan may have miscalculated the " single line approach " intended to " hit " Howland.

He was married to Anna Dora Gaitskell from 1937, who became a Labour life peer one year after his death, but it is widely known that he had a number of affairs, even during his time in public life with the socialite Ann Fleming, the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Barbara Windsor, MBE ( born Barbara Ann Deeks on 6 August 1937 ) is an English actress.

In 1937, he received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor.

Ann Clwyd Roberts ( born 21 March 1937 ) is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Cynon Valley since 1984.

The first ( made in 1937 ) was directed by Lloyd Bacon ; starred Pat O ' Brien, Humphrey Bogart, and Ann Sheridan ; and was filmed at the prison.

* Ann Kobayashi ( born 1937 ), a member of the Honolulu City Council

Ann Mary survived him by 46 years and died in England in March 1937.

In June 1934, she played Myrtle in House on Fire at the Queen's Theatre, and on 22 August 1934 appeared as Margaret Hamilton in Gertrude Jenning's play Family Affairs when it premiered at the Ambassadors Theatre ; Helene Ferber in Repayment at the Arts Theatre in January 1936 ; Trixie Drew in Henry Bernard's play Miss Smith at the Duke of York's Theatre in July 1936 ; and back at the Queen's in July 1937 as Ann Harlow in Ann's Lapse.

He was married five times: Helen Louise Campbell ( 1925 – 1927 ), Ruth Chatterton ( 1932 – 1934 ), Constance Worth ( 1937 ) and Ann Sheridan ( 1942 – 1943 ) with Chatterton, Worth, and Sheridan being actresses.

Afterwards, she was cast in Danger – Love at Work ( 1937 ), but due to her heavy French accent she had to be replaced by Ann Sothern.

Florence Ann Griswold ( December 25, 1850 – December 6, 1937 ) was a resident of Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA who became the nucleus of the " Lyme Art Colony " in the early 20th century.

He also enjoyed significant roles alongside Ann Sheridan in The Footloose Heiress ( 1937 ) and Mystery House ( 1938 ).

In Ann Arbor, Michigan, in January 1937 he married Jacqueline de Rothschild, daughter of Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild of the wealthy Rothschild banking family of France.

The Alton Railroad inaugurated the Ann Rutledge in 1937 as a companion to the Abraham Lincoln over the St. Louis – Chicago route.

* Action for Slander ( 1937 ), Ann Daviot

They had three children: Leonard Frank ( 13 January 1937 ), Greville ( 4 November 1944 – 1973 ) and Gale Ann ( 4 November 1944 – 1972 ).

Thomas Stephen " Tom " Monaghan ( born March 25, 1937 in Ann Arbor, Michigan ) is an American entrepreneur and Catholic who founded Domino's Pizza in 1960.

* Ch ' i Hsi-sheng, Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937 – 1945 ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1982 ).

It eventually expanded to Ann Arbor, Battle Creek and Jackson, Michigan as well, moving its headquarters to Jackson in 1937.

* Ann Miller, dancer / actress ( 1937 )