* 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.

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

In 1937, the studio hired Midwestern radio announcer Ronald Reagan.

' The Nature of the Firm ' ( 1937 ), is an influential article by Ronald Coase.

She married the play's author Ronald Gow, fifteen years her senior, in 1937 ( the same year as she made her film debut in Lancashire Luck, scripted by Gow ).

* Ronald Coase ( 1937 ).

Merle Ronald Haggard ( born April 6, 1937 ) is an American country music song writer, singer, guitarist, fiddler and instrumentalist.

Other Capra-directed hits followed, including the original version of Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), with Ronald Colman, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), which made James Stewart a major star.

Presidential prayer services were held the day after the inaugurations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937, Ronald Reagan in 1985, George H. W.

Ronald Coase set out his transaction cost theory of the firm in 1937, making it one of the first ( neo-classical ) attempts to define the firm theoretically in relation to the market.

She starred opposite Gary Cooper in the adventure The General Died at Dawn and with Ronald Colman in the 1937 box-office success The Prisoner of Zenda.

* 1937 in art-Birth of David Hockney, Ronald Davis, Red Grooms, Robert Mangold, Larry Zox, Pablo Picasso paints Guernica ; Death of Joseph-Maurice Ravel, French composer and pianist

These included Pennies from Heaven ( the 1936 film starring Bing Crosby and Madge Evans ) and Lost Horizon ( the 1937 film starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt and Sam Jaffe ).

This economic theorem, along with his 1937 paper on the nature of the firm ( which also emphasizes the role of transaction costs ), earned Ronald Coase the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics.

* Ronald H. Walker ( born 1937 ), first Director of the White House Office of Presidential Advance and American executive

The Petrified Forest was performed on CBS's Lux Radio Theater in 1937, with Herbert Marshall, Margaret Sullavan, and Donald Meek in the principal roles ; and again on the same program in 1945, with Ronald Coleman, Susan Hayward, and Lawrence Tierney .< ref >

In arguably her most famous role, she co-starred as Ronald Colman's character's love interest in Frank Capra's Columbia Pictures film Lost Horizon ( 1937 ).

Robert Carl " Bud " McFarlane ( born July 12, 1937 ) was a National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, serving from 1983 through 1985.

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

Ronnie Browne (" The Voice ") ( born Ronald Grant Browne, 20 August 1937 in Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland ), is a Scottish folk musician and founding member of The Corries.

Julliberrie's Grave was partially excavated between 1936 and 1937 by Ronald Jessup.

Ronald Michael Luciano ( June 28, 1937 – January 18, 1995 ) was an American Major League Baseball umpire from 1969 to 1979 in the American League.

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

He also appeared in the 1937 Three Stooges ' Cash and Carry, as well as such films as Love is in the Air ( Ronald Reagan's first film ), The Renegade Trail, Annie Oakley ( with Barbara Stanwyck ), Kid Millions,

The Prisoner of Zenda, with its tale of lookalikes, has a long tradition of dual roles: from Lewis Stone ( 1922 ) to Ronald Colman ( 1937 ) to Stewart Granger ( 1952 ) to Peter Sellers ( 1979 ).