* 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.

* de Finetti, Bruno ( 1937 ) " La Prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives ," Annales de l ' Institut Henri Poincaré,

In 1937, Jean Renoir, the son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, directed what many see as his first masterpiece, La Grande Illusion ( The Grand Illusion ).

* The Transcendence of the Ego / La transcendance de l ' égo ( 1937 )

* La Chaste Suzanne ( 1937 / 1938 ), directed by André Berthomieu-with Raimu and Henri Garat

* The La Follette Committee ( 1933 – 1937 )

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

La Grande Illusion ( also known as Grand Illusion ) is a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak.

After the film won a prize at the Venice Film Festival for " Best Artistic Ensemble " in 1937, the Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declared La Grande Illusion " Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1 "

* F. Gebelin, La Sainte Chapelle et la Conciergerie ( Paris ) 1937.

At about the same time, La Cagoule, a fascist paramilitary organization, launched various actions aimed at destabilizing the Third Republic ; these efforts continued until La Cagoule could be infiltrated and dismantled in 1937.

La piedra cansada ( 1937 ).

In 1937 he made one of his best known films, Grand Illusion ( La Grande Illusion ), starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin.

* 1937: Grand Illusion ( La Grande illusion )

* International Jury Cup, Venice Film Festival, for La Grande Illusion, 1937

The film The Shadow Strikes was released in 1937, starring Rod La Rocque in the title role.

They helped elect Fiorello La Guardia ( a Republican ) as mayor in 1933, and helped reelect him in 1937, and 1941.

In 1937, the American jazz singer Adelaide Hall opened a nightclub in Montmartre along with her husband Bert Hicks and called it ' La Grosse Pomme.

Writing for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, commentator Sergio Vila-Sanjuán described the first volume of Eliade's Autobiography ( covering the years 1907 to 1937 ) as " a great book ", while noting that the other main volume was " more conventional and insincere.

* Noel Vindry's La Maison Qui Tue ( 1932 ), La Bete Hurlante ( 1934 ) and A Travers les Murailles ( 1937 )

* John Abt, chief of Litigation for the AAA from 1933 to 1935, assistant general counsel of the Works Progress Administration in 1935, chief counsel on Senator Robert La Follette, Jr .' s LaFollette Committee from 1936 to 1937 and special assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1937 and 1938.

The classic exposition of his distinctive theory is the 1937 " La prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives ," which discussed probability founded on the coherence of betting odds and the consequences of exchangeability.