* 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.

* Pierre-Jean Rémy ( born Jean-Pierre Angremy 1937 ), writer, member of the Académie française.

By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )

" Foresight: its Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources ," ( translation of the 1937 article in French ) in H. E. Kyburg and H. E. Smokler ( eds ), Studies in Subjective Probability, New York: Wiley, 1964.

* 1899 – Jean de Brunhoff, French author ( d. 1937 )

* 1844 – Charles-Marie Widor, French composer ( d. 1937 )

Rosselli was assassinated by a French fascist in 1937, the Italian brigade he had led took on the name the " Rosselli Brigade ".

* 1937 – Alain Badiou, French philosopher

* 1937 – Lionel Jospin, French politician, 165th Prime Minister of France

* 1937 – Francis Veber, French director and screenwriter

In November 1937, Ribbentrop was placed in a highly embarrassing situation when his forceful advocacy of the return of the former German colonies led to the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos offering to open talks on returning the former German colonies, in return for which the Germans would make binding commitments to respect their borders in Central and Eastern Europe.

With League oversight, the Sanjak of Alexandretta in the French Mandate of Syria was given autonomy in 1937.

The CAM was reconstituted as a nationalist political party to gain mass support for more radical demands, but the French suppressed the party in 1937.

* 1937 – Claude Lelouch, French film director

* 1870 – Louis Vierne, French organist ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Sami Frey, French actor

Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (; 1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937 ) was a French educator and historian, and founder of the International Olympic Committee.

The Battle of Shanghai in 1937 resulted in the occupation of the Chinese administered parts of Shanghai outside of the International Settlement and the French Concession.

* January 1 – Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games ( d. 1937 )

* March 7 – Maurice Ravel, French composer ( d. 1937 )

* February 21 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer ( d. 1937 )

* November 15 – Victor Laloux, French architect ( d. 1937 )

The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about French author Émile Zola.

A French cyclotron, produced in Zurich, Switzerland in 1937

Joseph-Maurice Ravel ( March 7, 1875December 28, 1937 ) was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects.