* 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.

At the Embassy Theatre in March 1937 he played Anderson in a mystery play, The Bat, before returning to the Old Vic in April, succeeding Marius Goring as Chorus in Henry V. Other roles that year included Christopher Drew in Daisy Fisher's comedy A Ship Comes Home at the St Martin's Theatre in May and Larry Starr in Philip Leaver's comedy Three Set Out at the Embassy in June, before joining John Gielgud's Company at the Queen's Theatre, September 1937 to April 1938, where he played Bolingbroke in Richard II, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal and Baron Tusenbach in Three Sisters.

After singing with various dance bands and touring in vaudeville with the likes of Ted Mack, Leon Belasco, and comic bandleader Larry Rich, they first came to national attention with their recordings and radio broadcasts in 1937, most notably via their major Decca record hit, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön ( translation: " To Me, You Are Beautiful "), originally a Yiddish tune, the lyrics of which Sammy Cahn had translated to English and which the girls harmonized to perfection.

* 1937 in art-Birth of David Hockney, Ronald Davis, Red Grooms, Robert Mangold, Larry Zox, Pablo Picasso paints Guernica ; Death of Joseph-Maurice Ravel, French composer and pianist

* Larry Poons ( born 1937 )

* Larry Zox ( 1937 – 2006 )

Larry Ridley ( born September 3, 1937 ) is an American jazz bassist and music educator.

This version of the story ( dated to 1937 ) is retold in episode 3, season 2, of comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm, when Larry David searches for evidence to prove that another character has falsely claimed that his grandfather invented the salad.

After the production of their first feature-length animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, with its highly successful score by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey, which included the songs ' Whistle while you work ', ' Some Day My Prince Will Come ', and ' Heigh-Ho ', the mould for a combination of animation, fairy tale and distinctive songs was set that would carry through to the 1970s with songs from films such as Pinocchio ( 1940 ) and Song of the South ( 1946 ).

After the production of their first feature-length animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937, with its highly successful score by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey, the mould for a combination of animation, fairy tale and distinctive songs was set that would carry through to the 1970s with songs from films such as Pinocchio ( 1940 ) and Song of the South ( 1946 ).

* Larry Miller ( baseball ) ( born 1937 ), MLB pitcher

Da Silva appeared in a number of Broadway musicals, including the role of " Larry Foreman " in the legendary first production of Marc Blitzstein's musical, The Cradle Will Rock ( 1937 ).

* Died: Joe Louis, 66, American heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949 ; the night before, he had watched Larry Holmes defeat challenger Trevor Berbick in Lasa Vegas

Herzog was born at Cliftonpark Avenue in Belfast, the son of notable Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, who was Chief Rabbi of Ireland from 1919 to 1937 ( and later, of Palestine and Israel ), and Sara ( née Hillman ).

In 1937 she married the American businessman Edward Hillman Jr, but was again divorced in 1939.

Among take-overs were Hillman, Humber and Commer in 1929 ; Clement, Talbot and Sunbeam in 1935, British Light Steel Pressings ( 1937 ) and Thrupp & Maberly ( 1926 ).

Hillman was one of the original founders in 1935 of the Committee for Industrial Organizing, an effort led by John L. Lewis, and the ACWA followed the Mine Workers and other unions out of the AFL in 1937 to establish the CIO as a separate union confederation.

* 1937 – David Anderson, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian ( d. 2012 )

** Royal Canadian Mounted Police — accorded the status of a regiment of Dragoons in 1921 and remained so until 1937.

* 2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist ( b. 1937 )

* 1937 – Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player

* 1937 – Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer ( d. 1997 )

* 1937 – Eddie Shack, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1854 – Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Michel Louvain, Canadian singer

* 1937 – Bernard Cleary, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Claude Raymond, Canadian baseball player

* 1937 – Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist

* 1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian politician

* 1898 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Michael Wilson, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer

* 1937 – Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1902 – Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – John D ' Amico, Canadian ice hockey referee ( d. 2005 )

* 1937 – Jacques Poulin, Canadian novelist

* 2012 – Henry Champ, Canadian journalist ( b. 1937 )

* 1937 – George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer