* 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.

Running right through the block into Link Straße, this new Weinhaus Huth was designed by the architects Conrad Heidenreich ( 1873 – 1937 ) and Paul Michel ( 1877 – 1938 ), and opened on 2 October 1912, and contained a wine restaurant on the ground floor, and wine storage space above, so it had to take a lot of weight.

Paris: Albin Michel, 1937.

* 1937 – Frans Michel Penning invents a type of cold cathode vacuum gauge known as Penning gauge

* ASMO, Academic Order of Saint Michel, founded in Brussels in 1937

In 1937, she joined the Old Vic Company in London and played Lady Macbeth opposite Laurence Olivier in a production by Michel Saint-Denis, at the Old Vic and the New Theatre.

Louise Michel was opened on 24 September 1937 when the line was extended from Porte de Champerret to Pont de Levallois – Bécon.

In the 1960s Yat Malmgren taught movement, based on principles derived from Laban ; Cicely Berry taught voice to students and later the Royal Shakespeare Company, John Allen, Principal from 1972 to 1978, founded the Glyndebourne Children's Theatre, was the leading organiser of the Communist Party's Unity Theatre, where he coordinated the first Living Newspaper, Busmen ( 1937 ), and was a founding member of the Group Theatre, also in the mid-1930s ; Litz Pisk was Head of Movement ( 1964-1970 ), having previously worked with Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in Vienna, and then Michel Saint-Denis at the Old Vic Theatre School

* Bouchardon, Pierre ( 1937 ), Hélène Jégado, Paris: Albin Michel.

* 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 – Larry Hillman, Canadian ice hockey 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 – 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