* 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.

* 1937 – Tom Osborne, American football coach and politician

* 1937 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-English playwright

* 1937 – Tom Monaghan, American fast-food entrepreneur, founded Domino's Pizza

* 1937 – Tom Flores, American Football player

* 1937 – Tom Paxton, American singer-songwriter

His successes continued with classics such as The Garden of Allah ( 1936 ), The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ), A Star Is Born ( 1937 ), Nothing Sacred ( 1937 ), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ), The Young in Heart ( 1938 ), Made for Each Other ( 1939 ), Intermezzo ( 1939 ) and Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), which remains the highest grossing film of all time ( adjusted for inflation ).

A number of animated cartoons were produced, including the Bugs Bunny cartoon Southern Fried Rabbit ( 1953 ), in which Bugs disguises himself as Uncle Tom and sings My Old Kentucky Home in order to cross the Mason-Dixon line ; Uncle Tom's Bungalow ( 1937 ), a Warner Brothers cartoon supervised by Tex Avery ; Eliza on Ice ( 1944 ), one of the earliest Mighty Mouse cartoons produced by Paul Terry ; and Uncle Tom's Cabaña ( 1947 ), an eight-minute cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

:: Arcadia ( play ), 1993 ( Tom Stoppard, 1937 -)

* Tom Ament ( born 1937 ), American politician

The Smothers Brothers are Thomas (" Tom "-born February 2, 1937 ) and Richard (" Dick "-born November 20, 1939 ), American singers, musicians, comedians and folk heroes.

Tom was born on February 2, 1937, and Dick was born on November 20, 1939.

Tom Smothers ( born Thomas Bolyn Smothers III on February 2, 1937 ) is an American comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick.

* Tom Smothers ( born Thomas Bolyn Smothers III on February 2, 1937 ) American comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick.

* Sir Tom Courtenay ( born 1937 ), film, stage and television actor

Sir Thomas Daniel " Tom " Courtenay (; born 25 February 1937 ) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ), Billy Liar ( 1963 ), and Dr. Zhivago ( 1965 ).

She played the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ), Countess Vronsky in Anna Karenina ( 1936 ), Aunt Elizabeth in Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ), and a sharp-tongued Granny in A Star Is Born ( 1937 ).

The 1937 version starred Errol Flynn ( as Hendon ) and twins Billy and Bobby Mauch as Tom Canty and Edward Tudor respectively.

Thomas R. " Tom " Flores ( born March 21, 1937 ) is a retired American football quarterback and coach.

Thomas William " Tom " Osborne ( born February 23, 1937 ) was one of the most successful and highly regarded coaches in college football history, due to his tenure as head coach of the University of Nebraska football team.

Tom makes a couple of references to Guernica in his soliloquies ; the event happened in April 1937.

However, as the play is a memory play, Tom could be narrating in the spring of 1937 events that occurred in years previous to 1936.

* Most League goals in a season: 33 Tom Davis, Division 3 ( North ), 1936 – 1937