* 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.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

They adopted two children: Roxanne ( born 1944, adopted 1944 ) and Ronald Charles ( born 1937, adopted 1943, a. k. a. Ron Pickford Rogers ).

Ron Carter ( born May 4, 1937 ) is an American jazz double-bassist.

* 1937 – Ron O ' Neal, American actor, director, and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

Novelist Robert Stone, who met the bus on its arrival in New York, has written that those accompanying Kesey on the trip were Neal Cassady ( described by Stone as " the world's greatest driver, who could roll a joint while backing a 1937 Packard onto the lip of the Grand Canyon "), Ken Babbs (" fresh from the Nam, full of radio nomenclature, and with a command voice that put cops to flight "), Jane Burton (" a pregnant young philosophy professor who declined no challenges "), Page Browning (" a Hell's Angel candidate "), George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt (" dis-MOUNT "), Mike Hagen (" Mal Function "), Ron Bevirt (" Hassler "), Chuck Kesey, Dale Kesey, John Babbs, Steve Lambrecht and Paula Sundstren (" aka Gretchin Fetchin, Slime Queen ").

In fact, one scoring method published in the American Journal of Political Science named him the second most conservative member of either chamber of Congress between 1937 and 2002 ( behind only Ron Paul ).

Ron O ' Neal ( September 1, 1937 – January 14, 2004 ) was an American actor, director and screenwriter.

Ron Leibman ( born October 11, 1937 ) is an American actor.

In December 1937 midget car racing was introduced at a special international meeting, it included NZ pioneers Ron Roycroft and Geo Smith.

Midget Car racing started in December 1937 with an International race including NZ pioneers Ron Roycroft and Geo Smith.

Ronald ' Ron ' Yeats ( born 15 November 1937 in Aberdeen, Scotland ) is a Scottish former footballer.

( July 22, 1937 – November 27, 1999 ) was a professional wrestler and the trainer of Hulk Hogan, " Mr. Wonderful " Paul Orndorff, Scott Hall, Lex Luger, Ron Simmons, Keiji Mutoh, and many other professional wrestlers.

* Ron O ' Neal ( 1937 – 2004 ) — an actor, film director and screenwriter who appeared in many blaxploitation films in the 1970s

The original football program was discontinued in 1937, but the sport returned to CU in 1987 under the direction of coach Ron Finley ( 1933 – 2009 ).

Ron Arnold ( born August 8, 1937 ) has been the Executive Vice-President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise since 1984.

Ron Cobb ( born 1937 ) is an American cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer, and film director.

He has two brothers, Barry Voight ( born 1937 ), a former volcanologist at Pennsylvania State University, and Wesley Voight ( born 1940 ), known as Chip Taylor, a singer-songwriter who penned " Wild Thing " and " Angel of the Morning ".

Taylor ( 1937 ).

William T. Piper, Sr., built the Piper Aircraft Corporation factory in Lock Haven in 1937 after the company's Taylor Aircraft manufacturing plant in Bradford, Pennsylvania, was destroyed by fire.

He played the mad Roman emperor Caligula in an uncompleted 1937 film version of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius ( with Charles Laughton ); a kindly veterinarian who accidentally causes the death of a murderess ( played by Bette Davis ) in the 1952 suspense drama Another Man's Poison ; and the fool Wamba in the 1952 Ivanhoe ( with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor ).

When opened the bridge also catered for pedestrian traffic, until the construction of the nearby Walter Taylor Bridge in 1937.

John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, PC ( NI ) ( born 24 December 1937 ), is a former Ulster Unionist Party MP and a life peer.

She also had two stepmothers ; the second, Ruth Scroggins, who married Thomas Taylor in 1937.

In the Australian decision of Victoria Park Racing and Recreation Grounds Company Limited v. Taylor ( 1937 ) 58 CLR 479 at 498, Latham CJ used the analogy of reporting a person's fall from a bus: the first person to do so could not use the law of copyright to stop other people from announcing this fact.

William " Tell " Taylor ( October 14, 1876 – November 24, 1937 ) was a United States songwriter.

After U. S. Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson died in office in 1937, Bailey attempted to take the seat himself.

Joseph Taylor Robinson ( August 26, 1872 – July 14, 1937 ) was an American politician from Arkansas, of the Democratic Party.

The Company dropped its hard-line, anti-union stance in 1937, when Myron Taylor, then president of U. S. Steel, agreed to recognize the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, an arm of the Congress of Industrial Organizations ( CIO ) led by John L. Lewis.

The school moved from Boardman Hall ( now the site of Olin Library ) to its present-day location at Myron Taylor Hall in 1937.

Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor, usually known as Teddy Taylor ( born 18 April 1937 in Glasgow ), is a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) from 1964 to 1979 for Glasgow Cathcart and from 1980 to 2005 for Rochford and Southend East.

Wilding had four wives, Kay Young ( married 1937, divorced 1951 ), actress Elizabeth Taylor ( married 1952, divorced 1957 ), Susan Nell ( married 1958, divorced 1962 ), and actress Margaret Leighton ( married 1964 until her death in 1976 ).

* Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881 ( purchased by Taylor by 1937, sold in 1961 to Annenberg, bequest to The Met in 2002 ).

Bernie Naylor Medallists: ( 13 total ) 1923: Dinney Coffey ( 36 ), 1933: George Doig ( 106 ), 1934: George Doig ( 152 ), 1935: George Doig ( 113 ), 1936: George Doig ( 109 ), 1937: George Doig ( 144 ), 1941: George Doig ( 141 ), 1949: George Prince ( 82 ), 1966: Bob Johnson ( 92 ), 1979: Kevin Taylor ( 102 ), 1989: Neil Lester-Smith ( 90 ), 1999: Rod Tregenza ( 57 ), 2000: Rod Tregenza ( 86 )

The book New York to Nome by Rick Steber details the story of Sheldon Taylor and Geoffrey Pope who paddled from New York City April 25, 1936 to Nome, Alaska August 11, 1937.

* Follow in my Footsteps-Eleanor Powell / Robert Taylor / George Murphy / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from ( Broadway Melody of 1938 ) 1937

* Teddy Taylor ( born 1937 ), British conservative politician

By one measure Taylor was determined to be the second most liberal member of the United States Senate ( trailing only Wayne Morse of Oregon ), and the fourth most liberal member of Congress overall between 1937 and 2002.

# Sir James Braid Taylor ( 1 July 1937 – 17 February 1943 )