* 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 – Roland Burris, American politician

* 1937 – Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani cricketer

* 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica ( or Gernika in Basque ), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.

Steven Berkoff ( born 3 August 1937 ) is an English actor, writer and director.

Berkoff was born Leslie Steven Berks, in Stepney, in the East End of London, on 3 August 1937, the son of Pauline ( Hyman ), a housewife, and Alfred Berks ( Berkovitch ), a tailor.

Steven J. Rosenthal has described the fund as a: " A Nazi endowment specializing in production of justifications for eugenics since 1937, the Pioneer Fund is embedded in a network of right-wing foundations, think tanks, religious fundamentalists, and global anti-Communist coalitions ".

* James C. Hsiung and Steven I. Levine, eds., China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937 – 1945 ( Armonk, N. Y .: M. E. Sharpe, 1992 )

Edward Steven Phillip Shack ( born February 11, 1937 ), also known by the nicknames " The Entertainer " and " The Nose " is a retired Canadian hockey player who played for six National Hockey League teams from 1959 to 1975.

* 1857 – Sandford Schultz, English cricketer ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – David Bedford, English keyboardist and composer ( d. 2011 )

Sir Robert " Bobby " Charlton CBE ( born 11 October 1937 ) is an English former football player.

* 1937 – Gordon Banks, English footballer

Gordon Banks, OBE ( born 30 December 1937 ) is a retired English football goalkeeper.

* 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress

* 1876 – William Sealey Gosset, English chemist and statistician ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – John Ogdon, English pianist ( d. 1989 )

* 1937 – David Hockney, English painter, designer, and photographer

* 1937 – John Price, English cricketer

* 1853 – Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager ( d. 1937 )

* 1864 – Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician ( d. 1937 )

In September 1937, the British Consul in Munich, writing about the group Ribbentrop had brought to the Nuremberg Party Rally, reported that there were some " serious persons of standing among them " and that an equal number of Ribbentrop's British contingent were " eccentrics and few, if any, could be called representatives of serious English thought, either political or social, while they most certainly lacked any political or social influence in England ".

* 1937 – Delia Derbyshire, English composer ( d. 2001 )

* 1873 – Lucy Beaumont, English actress ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Beryl Burton, English cyclist ( d. 1996 )

* 1937 – Susan Hampshire, English actress

* 1937 – Trevor Baylis, English stunt man and inventor, invented the wind-up radio

* 1937 – Roger McGough, English poet

* 1937 – Peter Cook, English comedian ( d. 1995 )

* 1937 – Bobby Charlton, English footballer

* 1937 – Brian Blessed, English actor