* 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.

Marilyn Grace Bell Di Lascio is a retired long distance swimmer, born October 19, 1937, in Toronto, Ontario.

# Marilyn Bell ( born 1937 ), long distance swimmer

On June 7, 1937, Curly married Elaine Ackerman, who gave birth to their first child, Marilyn, the following year.

Marilyn C. Brewer ( born May 26, 1937 ) is a California politician who served from 1994 to 2000 as a California State Assemblywoman representing southern Orange County's 70th District.

Hemingway also mentioned Bacardí and Hatuey in his novels To Have and Have Not ( 1937 ) and For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1940 ).

While working at Bell Labs in November 1937, Stibitz invented and built a relay-based calculator that he dubbed the " Model K " ( for " kitchen table ", on which he had assembled it ), which was the first to calculate using binary form.

George Stibitz completed a relay-based computer he dubbed the " Model K " at Bell Labs in November 1937.

Vanessa and Clive ’ s eldest son, Julian Bell, was killed in 1937 while driving an ambulance in the Spanish Civil War.

The US patent ( application by Bell Telephone Laboratories, dated 1937 ) states:

In September 1937, she and Bell opened The ' It ' Cafe on Vine Street near Hollywood Blvd.

He held many patents the most famous of which was US Patent 2, 102, 671 " Wave Translation System ", which was issued to Bell Laboratories in 1937, covering the negative feedback amplifier.

The negative feedback amplifier was invented by Harold Stephen Black ( US patent 2, 102, 671, issued in 1937 ) while a passenger on the Lackawanna Ferry ( from Hoboken Terminal to Manhattan ) on his way to work at Bell Laboratories ( historically located in Manhattan instead of New Jersey in 1927 ) on August 2, 1927.

* Robert Duncan Bell, acting governor of Bombay during the British Raj, 1937

Followed by Richard Bell in 1937 and Arthur John Arberry in the 1950s.

In 1937, Paige led several Crawfords players, including Gibson and Bell, to the Dominican Republic to play for the dictator Rafael Trujillo's team.

* Sir James Bell ( town clerk ) ( 1866 – 1937 ), Town Clerk of London, 1902 – 1935

In November 1937, George Stibitz, then working at Bell Labs, completed a relay-based calculator he dubbed the " Model K " ( for " kitchen table ", on which he had assembled it ), which calculated using binary addition.

* Ossie Bell – Highborn II ( 1926, 1927 ), Greenore ( 1932 ), Concerto ( 1933 ), Ipsden ( 1937 )

** Bell TRD & F B Scott ( 1937 ) Moths.

Minnie Bell Sharp Adney ( January 12, 1865-April 11, 1937 ) was a Canadian music teacher and political candidate.

European settlers, initially the Bell family, lived on the islands from the early nineteenth century until 1937, as did whalers.

*’ Julian Bell ’; a memoir ( Cambridge Review, 15 October 1937 ; reprinted in The Cambridge Mind, editors Homberger, Janeway & Shama, 1970 )

In 1937, Bell Laboratories in New York City gave a demonstration of two-channel stereophonic motion pictures, developed by Bell Labs and Electrical Research Products, Inc.

The American Computer Museum presents ( in association with the College of Engineering, the College of Letters & Science, the Humanities Institute and the Computer Science Department of Montana State University ) the George R. Stibitz Computer & Communications Pioneer Awards, named for Dr. George R. Stibitz, who first used relays for computation at Bell Laboratories in 1937 and the Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Awards, named for Harvard Emeritus Professor Dr. Edward O. Wilson.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).