* 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.

Roch Carrier, OC ( born 13 May 1937 ) is a Canadian novelist and author of " contes " ( a very brief form of the short story ).

* Nakajima B5N 九七式艦攻 Kyushichishiki-kanko ( Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber )-' Kate ' 1937 Navy torpedo bomber

Spread out over four cities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Carrier consolidated and moved his company to Syracuse, New York, in 1937, and the company became one of the largest employers in central New York.

This pressure resulted in the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935, which set up a staff retirement plan providing annuities based on an employee ’ s creditable railroad earnings and service, and Railroad Retirement and Carrier Taxing Acts of 1937, which made railroad employees the only private-sector workers outside the Social Security system to have a separate, federally administered pension plan.

* 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 – Michel Louvain, Canadian singer

* 1937 – Bernard Cleary, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Claude Raymond, Canadian baseball player

* 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