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1937
Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1937
January
February
March
April
May
- May - Dáil Éireann passes the Executive Authority (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937, which retrospectively abolishes the office of Governor-General of the Irish Free State. The abolition is retrospectively dated to December 1936.
- May 1 - General strike in Paris, France
- May 6 - In United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
- May 7 - Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
- May 12 - Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes place at Westminster Abbey, London.
- May 13 - Canadian writer Roch Carrier is born in Sainte-Justine, Quebec.
- May 21 - a Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
- May 21 - As one of the reprisals for the attempted assassination of Italian viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, a detachment of Italian troops massacre the entire community of Debre Libanos. 297 monks and 23 laymen are killed.
- May 27 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington, DC signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the Golden Gate Bridge.
- May 28 - Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January-February
- January 1 - Anne Aubrey, British actress
- January 4 - Dyan Cannon, American actress
- January 6 - Underwood Dudley, American mathematician
- January 8 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
- January 13 - George Reisman, American economist
- January 14 - Ken Higgs, English cricketer
- January 15 - Margaret O'Brien, American actress
- January 18 - John Hume, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
- January 21 - Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, heir to Bavarian Royal House
- January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, American author
- January 27 - John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
- January 30
- January 31
- February 1
- February 2
- February 8 - Manfred Krug, German actor and singer
- February 9 - Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr., American blues guitarist
- February 10 - Roberta Flack, American soul singer
- February 11 - Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
- February 12 - Charles Dumas, American athlete
- February 20
- February 21 - King Harald V of Norway
- February 25 - Tom Courtenay, English actor
March-April
- March 2 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
- March 4
- March 6 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
- March 8 - Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
- March 17 - Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian
- March 20 - Jerry Reed, American musician
- March 22 - Armin Hary, German athlete
- March 23 - Craig Breedlove, American race car driver
- March 27 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
- March 30 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
- April 5 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
- April 6
- April 7 - Louise Faulkner, Missing Australian woman
- April 10 - Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet
- April 16 - Joseph Whipp, American actor
- April 18 - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin
- April 22 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
- April 24 - Rafi' Daham Al-Tikriti, Directror of the Iraqi Intelligence Service
- April 27
- April 28 - Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006)
- April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh, English novelist
May-June
- May 1 - Una Stubbs, British actress
- May 3
- May 4 - Ron Carter, jazz musician
- May 6 - Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, American boxer
- May 8
- May 12 - George Carlin, American comedian
- May 13
- May 15
- May 17 - Hazel R. O'Leary, U.S. Secretary of Energy
- May 18
- May 21 - Sofiko Chiaureli - Georgian actress (d. 2008)
- June 1 - Morgan Freeman, American actor
- June 3 - Solomon P. Ortiz, U.S. Congressman from Texas
- June 4 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler and announcer (d. 1999)
- June 7 - Neemi Järvi, Estonian conductor
- June 9 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
- June 10 - Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress
- June 11 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- June 15
- June 18
- June 23 - Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland
- June 25 - Keizo Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
- June 26 - Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- June 28 - Ron Luciano, baseball umpire and writer (d. 1995)
July-August
- July 4 - Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway and wife to King Harald V of Norway.
- July 6
- July 7 - Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator
- July 9 - David Hockney, English-born artist
- July 12
- July 14 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
- July 18 - Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 18 - Hunter S. Thompson, American author and journalist (d. 2005)
- July 20 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
- July 27 - Don Galloway, American actor
- July 29 - Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 4 - David Bedford, American musician
- August 5 - Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (d. 2003)
- August 6 - Barbara Windsor, English actress
- August 8 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
- August 16 - David Anderson, Canadian politician
- August 18
- August 20 - Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality
- August 21
- August 29 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
- August 31 - Bobby Parker, American blues musician/guitarist
September-October
- September 4
- September 6 - Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada (Keith Gordon Ham), Hare Krishna guru
- September 7 - Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
- September 11 - Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Queen of the Belgians
- September 15 - Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 15 - Fernando de la Rúa, President of Argentina
- September 16 - Keith Bosley, broadcaster (retired), poet and translator.
- September 17 - Ilarion Ionescu-Galati Romanian conductor
- September 19 - Abner Haynes, American football player
- September 28 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
- October 2 - Johnnie Cochran, American attorney (d. 2005)
- October 5 - Barry Switzer, American football coach
- October 7 - John C. Davis, Oil tycoon and Kris Frey's true biological father
- October 10 - Bobby Charlton, English footballer
- October 17 - Paxton Whitehead, English actor
- October 28 - Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
November-December
- November 1 - "Whisperin" Bill Anderson American country music singer-songwriter
- November 2 - Earl Carroll, lead vocalist for The Cadillacs
- November 4 - Michael Wilson, Canadian politician and diplomat
- November 6 - Joe Warfield, American actor
- November 8 - Paul Mackintosh Foot, British journalist
- November 11 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
- November 17 - Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (d. 1995)
- November 26 - Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut
- December 1 - Chuck Low, American actor
- December 3 - Bobby Allison, American race car driver
- December 8 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountaineer and businessman (d. 2004)
- December 9 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
- December 11 - Jim Harrison, American writer
- December 15 - Donald Goines, original African American novelist (d. 1973)
- December 17 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
- December 21 - Jane Fonda, American actress and social activist
- December 26 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (d. 2005)
- December 28 - Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
- December 29 - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives
- December 30
- December 31
Deaths
January - June
- January 2 - Ross Alexander, American actor (b. 1907)
- January 6 - André Besette, Canadian religious leader (b. 1845)
- January 23 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
- February 5 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
- February 7 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1845)
- February 11 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and town planner (b. 1876)
- February 27 - Charles Donnelly, Irish poet (b.1915)
- March 9 - Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
- March 11 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco (b. 1860)
- March 12 - Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1840)
- March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
- March 17 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
- March 20 - Harry Vardon, English Golf Professional (b. 1870)
- March 22 - Alfred Dyke Acland, British military officer (b. 1858)
- March 29 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
- April 19 - William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
- April 21 - Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (b. 1913)
- April 25 - Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
- April 27 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
- May 4 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
- May 23 - John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839)
- May 28 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
- June 7 - Jean Harlow, American film actress (b. 1911)
- June 10 - Robert Laird Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
- June 19 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and dramatist (b. 1860)
July - December
- July 9 - Oliver Law, American labor organizer and Army officer (killed in battle) (b. 1899)
- July 11 - George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
- July 20 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian-born inventor (b. 1874)
- July 21 - Louis Vierne, French composer (b. 1870)
- August 11 - Edith Wharton, American writer (b. 1862)
- September 2 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
- September 26 - Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)
- September 29 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
- October 16 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
- October 19 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1871)
- October 26 - Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
- November 9 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
- November 17 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1860)
- November 23 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
- November 23 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
- December 9 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- December 20 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
- December 21 - Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856)
- December 25 - Newton D. Baker, United States Secretary of War (b. 1871)
- December 28 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)
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