Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Ph. D., FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot ( born 25 July 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees ) is a prominent British archaeologist and highly regarded academic, noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites.

He was a prominent supporting character in the 1937 film Fire Over England, starring Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Flora Robson.

Huxley was a prominent member of the British Eugenics Society, and was Vice-President ( 1937 – 1944 ) and President ( 1959 – 1962 ).

Mengistu Haile Mariam (, pronounced ; born 21 May 1937 ) is an Ethiopian politician who was the most prominent officer of the Derg, the Communist military junta that governed Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987, and President of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991.

David C. Korten ( born 1937 ) is an American economist, author, and former Professor of the Harvard Business School, political activist, prominent critic of corporate globalization, and " by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems ".

In 1937 News-Week merged with the weekly journal Today, which had been founded in 1932 by future New York Governor and diplomat W. Averell Harriman, and Vincent Astor of the prominent Astor family.

During the period 1934 to 1937, Chamberlain was, with Winston Churchill, Roger Keyes and Leo Amery, the most prominent voice calling for British rearmament in the face of a growing threat from Nazi Germany.

Archie Shepp ( born May 24, 1937 ) is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist.

He was forced out of the government by disagreements with Hitler and other prominent Nazis in December 1937, and had no role during World War II.

Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (; – June 12, 1937 ) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, commander in chief of the Red Army ( 1925 – 1928 ), and one of the most prominent victims of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

His grandfather Muslim Magomayev ( 1885 – 1937 ), a friend and contemporary of the prominent Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov, was one of the founders of modern Azerbaijani classical music.

They were discovered in 1937 and 1938 by a team of architectural historians including the prominent early 20th century historian Liang Sicheng.

Daniel Defert ( born September 10, 1937 ) is a prominent French AIDS activist and the founding president ( 1984-1991 ) of the first AIDS awareness organization in France, AIDES.

He also established the coverage of prominent sporting events, including the first ever televising of Wimbledon ( 21 June 1937 ), the Boat Race ( 2 April 1938 ), the FA Cup Final ( 30 April 1938 ) and test match cricket ( 24 June 1938 ).

Swami Ghanananda ( born 1937 ) is a prominent swami of the indigenous Hindu community in Ghana, and is the first Hindu swami of African ancestry.

Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider ( November 19, 1937 – August 31, 1967 ), better known as Tania or Tania the Guerrilla, was an Argentine-born East German communist revolutionary and spy who played a prominent role in the Cuban government after the Cuban Revolution and in various Latin American revolutionary movements.

Tan was one of the prominent ethnic Chinese Malayans to financially support Chinese efforts in the Second Sino-Japanese War which broke out in 1937 and organized many relief funds under his name.

In 1937 a prominent Salt Lake City lawyer, Joe Quinney, along with other local businessmen, formed the Utah Winter Sports Association to oversee the development of skiing at Alta.

However, Suzuki became an increasingly prominent target of the government, and he was arrested in 1937.

The party gradually disintegrated, and many of the most prominent leaders such as Kilbom, left the party in 1937.

Simultaneously, he began to take an ever more prominent involvement in the many royal visits to Portsmouth ; when Haile Selassie visited the dockyard in September 1937, he acted as his personal escort and French interpreter.

He is the first Liberal to win election in the provincial seat since 1937, and the first ever MPP from the city's prominent Italian community.

Nonetheless, Kun maintained a prominent position with Comintern until 1937, when he was arrested and executed during one of Joseph Stalin ’ s purges.

In Stella Dallas ( 1937 ), directed by King Vidor, the same kind of relationship is also prominent, thought here the mother, Stella, is neither artist nor businesswoman but a lower class woman who has social aspirations for her daughter.

Image: EST-Tanks-TSK. jpg | Estonian TKS tankettes on the republic's anniversary parade on 24th of February, 1937.

* Mati Hint ( born 1937 ), Estonian linguist, social scientist and politician

The Head of State of Estonia or State Elder () ( a literal translation: Elder of State ) was the official title of the Estonian head of state and head of government from 1920 to 1937.

The period from 1933 to 1937 was characterized by the systematic elimination of non-Nazi organizations that could potentially influence people, such as trade unions and political parties.

* 1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader ( d. 2003 )

* 1891 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher, and political theorist ( 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 ".

The CAM was reconstituted as a nationalist political party to gain mass support for more radical demands, but the French suppressed the party in 1937.

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (; January 20 ( Julian ) / February 1 ( Gregorian ), 1884 – March 10, 1937 ) was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire.

The Hindenburg disaster in 1937, along with political and economic issues, hastened the demise of the Zeppelin.

He also wrote poetry, his first works being published in 1937, as well as many books on classical and political subjects.

In March 1937, Nasser applied for entry to the Royal Military Academy, temporarily abandoning his political activities in favor of studying to become an army officer.

He rose to the leadership of the Indian National Congress and was at the forefront of rebellions and political events, organising the party for elections in 1934 and 1937, and promoting the Quit India movement.

* Nara Party or National Radical Camp, a Polish political party from 1937 to 1939

In 1937, Stalin again unleashed what Trotskyists say was a political terror against their Left Opposition and many of the remaining ' Old Bolsheviks ' ( those who had played key roles in the October Revolution in 1917 ), in the face of increased opposition, particularly in the army.

Jane Fonda ( born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda ; December 21, 1937 ) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru.

Vanessa Redgrave, CBE ( born 30 January 1937 ) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist.

Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin ( 1937 – 22 March 2004 ) ( ) was a founder of Hamas, an Islamist Palestinian paramilitary organization and political party.

In 1937 Liu traveled to the Communist base at Yanan ; and, in 1941, Liu became a political commissar of the New Fourth Army.

He joined UFA ( Universum Film AG ) in 1934, but left Germany in 1937 because of his political leanings and Jewish wife.

The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and murder in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1937 to 1938.

* André Glucksmann ( born 1937 ), political philosopher, writer

The political development of a young miner is the subject of Cwmardy ( 1937 ), Lewis Jones's ( 1897 – 1939 ) largely autobiographical novel.

Ciano is remembered for his famous Diaries 1937 – 1943, a daily record of his meetings with Mussolini, Hitler, von Ribbentrop, foreign ambassadors and other political figures that proved embarrassing to the Nazi leadership and the Fascist diehards.

He eventually enrolled in the Totul pentru Ţară (" Everything for the Fatherland " Party ), the political expression of the Iron Guard, and contributed to its 1937 electoral campaign in Prahova County — as indicated by his inclusion on a list of party members with county-level responsibilities ( published in Buna Vestire ).

There are two exceptions to this: no Jamboree was held between 1937 and 1947 because of the Second World War, and the 1979 Jamboree, which was to be held in Iran, was cancelled due to the political upheaval in the region at that time.