* 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.

His Soviet controller at the time, Theodore Maly, reported in April 1937 to the NKVD that he had personally briefed Philby on the need " to discover the system of guarding Franco and his entourage.

Gobel graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School in Chicago in 1937.

* The Luray Singing Tower, officially known as the Belle Brown Northcott Memorial, was erected in 1937 in memory of Colonel Theodore Clay Northcott's wife ( Northcott was the owner of the Luray Caverns ).

Theodore Hartman Just ( April 23, 1886 – February 13, 1937 ) was a British athlete.

Theodore A. Peyser ( D ), died August 8, 1937

* Soren Kierkegaard, by Theodore Haecker, translated, and With a Biographical Note, by Alexander Dru, Oxford University Press, 1937 ( The first part was given in the form of a lecture in Zurich in 1924 and the second part the epilogue to his translation of Keirkegaard's Discourses at Communion Service on Friday ( 1851 ).

After George Washington Slept Here ( 1940 ), Kaufman and Hart called it quits, although throughout the 1930s, Hart worked both with and without Kaufman on several musicals and revues, including: Face the Music ( 1932 ); As Thousands Cheer ( 1933 ), with songs by Irving Berlin ; Jubilee ( musical ) ( 1935 ), with songs by Cole Porter ; and I'd Rather Be Right ( 1937 ), with songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

The work of Frank Lloyd Wright is represented by the Kaufmann Office designed and constructed between 1934 and 1937 for the owner of a Pittsburgh department store ;, not currently on display due to the closure of the Cole Wing for redevelopment as the new education centre.

* The Condition of Britain ( with his wife, Margaret Cole, 1937 ) LBC

Edward Nelson Cole ( born Charlotte, North Carolina, March 29, 1937 ) is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly.

The Rockefeller Hospital's first director, Rufus Cole, retired in 1937 and was succeeded by Thomas Milton Rivers, who as director of The Rockefeller Institute's virology laboratory established virology as an independent field apart from bacteriology.

" Irving Berlin was once quoted as saying that he would choose Faye over any other singer to introduce his songs, and George Gershwin and Cole Porter called her the " best female singer in Hollywood in 1937.

* Rosalie, 1937, with Eleanor Powell, offered a score by Cole Porter.

Others such as Elwin Wright, who until 1937 was secretary of the Anglo-German Fellowship called for the shooting of Jews whilst Commander E. H. Cole condemned the House of Commons as being full of " bastardised Jewish swine ".

William ( Bill ) Shadrack Cole ( b. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1937 ) is an American jazz musician and educator.

Moore was an integral part of the Nat King Cole Trio during 1937 – 1947, appearing on virtually all of Cole's records during the period.

* 1937 – Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player

In late 1935, Rothko joined with Ilya Bolotowsky, Ben-Zion, Adolph Gottlieb, Lou Harris, Ralph Rosenborg, Louis Schanker and Joseph Solman to form " The Ten " ( Whitney Ten Dissenters ), whose mission ( according to a catalog from a 1937 Mercury Gallery show ) was " to protest against the reputed equivalence of American painting and literal painting.

Other early Christian radio programs broadcast nationwide in the U. S. beginning in the 1920s – 1930s include ( years of radio broadcast shown ): Bob Jones, Sr. ( 1927 – 1962 ), Ralph W. Sockman ( 1928 – 1962 ), G. E. Lowman ( 1930 – 1965 ), The Lutheran Hour ( 1930 – present ), and Charles E. Fuller ( 1937 – 1968 ).

On September 23, 1952, Frank Fiorini filed a petition in the Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk, Virginia, to change his name to Frank Anthony Sturgis, adopting the surname of his stepfather Ralph Sturgis, whom his mother had married in 1937.

* Ralph Connor ( 1860 – 1937 ), pen name of Rev.

* Ralph Lewis ( actor ), ( 1872 – 1937 )

The group grew, but in 1937, a dispute about the leadership's treatment of Ralph Lee led to the split of several members including Grant.

***** Ralph Emerson Forbes ( 1863 – 1937 ), m. to Elise Cabot Forbes ( daughter of Walter C. Cabot )

Nelson won his first major event at The Masters in 1937, winning by two shots over Ralph Guldahl.

The WIl was formed in 1937 by around members of the Militant Group, who had split due to false allegations from the leadership of that group that Ralph Lee, then a newly arrived South African member, had misled a strike and used the strike funds to move to England.

* From Lenin to Stalin ( 1937 ) Translator: Ralph Manheim ; New York: Pioneer Publishers.

Chief Engineer Ralph Glover discussed phono pickup design's relationship to record wear in a 1937 article in Electronics magazine entitled " A Record-Saving Pickup.

* 1910 – 1937 Ralph Allen Sampson

Ralph Gerald Backstrom ( born September 18, 1937 ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre.