* 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 – 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.

Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra took over comedian Jack Pearl's radio show in 1937.

The most trademark use of the solo-tone mute was in Tommy Dorsey's trombone solo in " Song of India ", recorded January 1, 1937.

* Tommy Koh, ( born 1937 ), international lawyer, professor and Ambassador-At-Large for the Government of Singapore

Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, was also influenced by Miller ( see the sound file above with Will's singer Tommy Duncan singing " Blue Yodel No. 1 " in 1937 ) In the early 1920s African American Winston Holmes started a record label, Merritt Records, and was a performer himself.

His 1937 Bears ' team is often regarded as the best minor league team in history with future all-stars George McQuinn, Charlie Keller, Tommy Henrich, Babe Dahlgren, and Spud Chandler joining Gordon to lead the team to an incredible 110 wins in 158 games.

This Irving Berlin tune had been a # 1 smash for Tommy Dorsey ( with Jack Leonard on vocal ) in 1937, and was later a hit for Irish group The Bachelors.

* Tommy Wilson ( umpire ) ( born 1937 ), former English cricket umpire

* Tailspin Tommy and the Hooded Flyer, 1937

After several years as a radio juvenile, Billy was cast as " Tommy Gordon " in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's Dead End in 1935, and traveled to Hollywood with the rest of the Dead End Kids when Samuel Goldwyn produced a film version of the play in 1937.

His role as the bully in the series was taken over by Tommy Bond ( as " Butch ") in 1937, and Leonard's younger brother Sidney Kibrick portrayed Butch's sidekick, " The Woim ".

From 1937 to 1939, he portrayed " Woim ", the sidekick of the neighborhood bully " Butch ", played by Tommy Bond.

* Tommy Bond ( left in 1934, would return in 1937 as " Butch ")

* Tommy " Butch " Bond ( replaced Leonard in 1937 )

* Tommy Sands ( born 1937 ), American pop music singer and actor

The fraternity's membership roster includes United States President James A. Garfield ( Williams 1856 ), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes ( Colgate and Brown 1881 ), United States Senator-Vermont Justin S. Morrill ( Middlebury 1860 ), Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winner Lester B. Pearson ( Toronto 1919 ), President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos ( Kansas 1973 ), former Commander in Chief of the US Central Command Tommy Franks ( Texas 1963 ), Actor Alan Thicke ( Western Ontario 1967 ), Author Stephen Crane ( Lafayette and Syracuse 1894 ), Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ( Cornell 1944 ), former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co. Michael D. Eisner ( Denison 1964 ), and Nobel Prize winners Charles Dawes ( Marietta 1884 ), Christian B. Anfinsen ( Swarthmore 1937 ), and Edward C. Prescott ( Swarthmore 1962 ).

Tommy Adrian Sands ( born August 27, 1937 ) is an American pop music singer and actor.

This was the first British world title bid since Tommy Farr had fought Joe Louis in 1937.

* " The Morning After " ( 1937 song ), a 1937 song recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra

* Tommy Hunter ( born 1937 ), country singer

Tommy Bond, an off-and-on member of the gang since 1932, returned to the series as Butch beginning with the 1937 short Glove Taps.