* 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.

After an unsuccessful attempt to kill him by two Eritreans on 19 February 1937 ( and after other murders of Italians in occupied Ethiopia ), Graziani ordered a bloody and indiscriminate reprisal upon the conquered country, later remembered by Ethiopians as Yekatit 12: up to thirty thousand civilians of Addis Ababa were killed indiscriminately ; another 1, 469 were summarily executed by the end of the next month, and over one thousand Ethiopian notables were imprisoned and then exiled from Ethiopia.

By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )

In 1937 Bombardier sold 12 snowmobiles — named the B7 and, in 1942, created l ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée company.

Hira Ratan Manek ( born 12 September 1937 ) claims that since 18 June 1995, he has lived on water, and, occasionally, tea, coffee, and buttermilk.

On 12 July 1937 he married Simone Melchior, with whom he had two sons, Jean-Michel ( born 1938 ) and Philippe ( 1940 – 1979 ).

Vladimir Igorevich Arnold ( alternative spelling Arnol'd,, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010 ) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.

Soviet calendar 12 December 1937 ( Below 12 :) " Sixth day of the six-day week " ————————— " Election day for the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "

The team then proceeded to win their first league championship, the 1937 NFL Championship Game, on December 12, 1937, against the Chicago Bears, their first year in D. C.

* December 12 – Magic Sam, American musician ( b. 1937 )

* October 12 – Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1937 )

* February 12 – Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born author ( d. 1937 )

* December 12 – J. Bruce Ismay, Shipping line magnate, White Star Line, ( d. 1937 )

* December 12 – Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist ( d. 1937 )

* April 12 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

George VI and Elizabeth were crowned King and Queen of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions, and Emperor and Empress of India on 12 May 1937, the date already nominated for the coronation of Edward VIII.

George VI's coronation took place on 12 May 1937, the date previously intended for Edward's coronation.

In spite of the League of Nations ' approach, the new state was diplomatically recognised by El Salvador ( 3 March 1934 ) and the Dominican Republic ( 1934 ), the Soviet Union ( de facto 23 March 1935 ; de jure 13 April 1941 ), Italy ( 29 November 1937 ), Francoist Spain ( 2 December 1937 ), Germany ( 12 May 1938 ) and Hungary ( 9 January 1939 ).

Stalin allowed Chiang Ching-kuo to return to China with his Belarusian wife and two children in April 1937 after living in the USSR for 12 years.

Following the disastrous preview, Capra made extensive cuts and, on January 12, 1937, reshot scenes involving the High Lama written by Sidney Buchman, who declined screen credit for his work, which placed more emphasis on the growing desperation of the world situation at the time.

Blast at the Gate of China, December 12, 1937

That evening, on December 12, 1937, Tang Shengzhi escaped from the city through the Yijiang Gate on the northern side of the city walls, the only gate that was still available as an escape route, without officially announcing to the Japanese military authorities any intention of surrendering the city.

* Mengjiang, set up in Inner Mongolia on May 12, 1936, as the Mongol Military Government ( 蒙古軍政府 ) was renamed in October 1937 as the Mongol United Autonomous Government ( 蒙古聯盟自治政府 ).