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(''' MCMXXXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Friday (link will take you to calendar).
- 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.
- Condor Legion Fighter Group , equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes arrive 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 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 - 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.
- Dominion Road School Opens in --- New Zealand
- December 3 - The Dandy , the world's longest running comic, was first published.
- December 12 - Panay Incident
- December 12 - Mae West 's risque performance on the NBC ''Chase & Sanborn Hour'' results in her being banned from radio.
- December 13 - Battle Of Nanjing ends and the Nanjing Massacre begins. Japanese troops would slaughter over 250,000 civilians and prisoners over three months.
- December 21 - Walt Disney 's Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs , the first feature-length animated Cartoon , opens and becomes a smash hit.
- December 25 - Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra on Radio for the first time, beginning his successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. Millions tune in to listen, including U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt .
- December 29 - New Irish Constitution, Bunreacht Na HÉireann comes into force. The Irish Free State becomes Éire . Eamon De Valera becomes the first Taoiseach (prime minister) of the new state. A Presidential Commission (made up the Irish Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann and the President of the High Court) assumes the powers of the new presidency of Ireland pending the election of the first president in June 1938.
- December - The Marijuana Tax Act is signed, ending the US Hemp industry just as it was about to benefit from a mechanised brake and compete with Cotton and wood pulp.
- January 1 - Anne Aubrey , British actor
- January 4 - Dyan Cannon , American actress
- January 6 - Underwood Dudley , American mathematician
- January 8 - Shirley Bassey , Welsh singer
- 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 27 - John Ogdon , English pianist (d. 1989 )
- January 30 - Vanessa Redgrave , English actress
- January 30 - Boris Spassky , Russian chess player
- January 31 - Suzanne Pleshette , American actress
- January 31 - Philip Glass , American composer
- February 1 - Garrett Morris , American comedian
- February 1 - Don Everly , American musician
- February 2 - Tom Smothers , American musician and comedian
- February 2 - Magic Sam , American musician (d. 1969 )
- February 8 - Manfred Krug , German actor and singer
- February 10 - Roberta Flack , American soul singer
- February 11 - Bill Lawry , Australian cricketer
- February 12 - Charles Dumas , American athlete
- February 20 - Robert Huber , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 20 - Roger Penske , American race car driver
- February 20 - Nancy Wilson , American singer and actress
- February 21 - King Harald V Of Norway
- February 25 - Tom Courtenay , English actor
- March 2 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika , President Of Algeria
- March 4 - Graham Dowling , New Zealand cricketer
- March 4 - Leslie Gelb , President Emeritus of the Council On Foreign Relations
- March 4 - Yuri Senkevich , Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003 )
- March 6 - Valentina Tereshkova , cosmonaut
- March 8 - Juvénal Habyarimana , President Of Rwanda (d. 1994 )
- March 9 - Mickey Gilly , American musician
- 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 30 - Warren Beatty , American actor and director
- April 5 - Colin Powell , U.S. Secretary Of State
- April 6 - Merle Haggard , American musician
- April 6 - Billy Dee Williams , American actor
- April 10 - Bella Akhmadulina , Russian poet
- April 16 - Joseph Whipp , American actor
- April 22 - Jack Nicholson , American actor
- April 27 - Robin Eames , Northern Irish clergyman
- April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh , English novelist
- May 1 - Una Stubbs , British actor
- May 8 - Thomas Pynchon , American writer
- May 6 - Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter , American boxer
- May 12 - George Carlin , American comedian
- May 13 - Roch Carrier , Canadian writer
- May 13 - Roger Zelazny , American writer (d. 1995 )
- May 13 - Trevor Baylis , English inventor of the Wind-up Radio
- May 15 - Madeleine Albright , U.S. Secretary Of State
- May 15 - Trini López , American musician
- May 17 - Hazel R. O'Leary , U.S. Secretary Of Energy
- May 18 - Brooks Robinson , baseball player
- May 18 - Jacques Santer , Luxembourg politician, President Of The European Council
- 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
- June 7 - Neemi Järvi , Estonian conductor
- June 9 - Harald Rosenthal , German biologist
- June 11 - Robin Warren , Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- June 18 - Wray Carlton , American football player
- June 18 - Vitali Zholobov , cosmonaut
- 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 6 - Vladimir Ashkenazy , Russian pianist
- July 6 - Ned Beatty , American actor
- July 7 - Tung Chee-Hwa , Hong Kong administrator
- July 9 - David Hockney , English-born artist
- July 12 - Lionel Jospin , Prime Minister Of France
- July 12 - Bill Cosby , American actor and comedian
- July 14 - Yoshiro Mori , Japanese politician
- July 18 - Roald Hoffmann , Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 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 8 - Dustin Hoffman , American actor
- August 16 - David Anderson , Canadian politician
- August 18 - Robert Redford , American actor
- August 18 - Willie Rushton , English comedian and cartoonist (d. 1996 )
- August 21 - Donald Dewar , First Minister Of Scotland (d. 2000 )
- August 29 - James Florio , Governor of New Jersey
- September 4 - Dawn Fraser , Australian swimmer
- Septmeber 4 - Mikk Mikiver , Estonian actor, director (d. 2006 )
- September 15 - Robert Lucas, Jr. , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 15 - Fernando De La Rúa , President Of Argentina
- 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 10 - Bobby Charlton , English footballer
- November 4 - Michael Wilson , Canadian politician and diplomat
- November 8 - Paul Mackintosh Foot , British journalist
- November 11 - Stephen Lewis , Canadian politician and diplomat
- November 15 - Yaphet Kotto , American actor
- November 17 - Peter Cook , English comedian and writer
- 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 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 - John Hartford , American musician and composer (d. 2001 )
- December 30 - Jim Marshall , American football player
- December 31 - Avram Hershko , Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry
- December 31 - Sir Anthony Hopkins , Welsh actor
- January 5 - Marie Booth , the third daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864 )
- January 6 - Brother Andre , 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 )
- March 9 - Paul Elmer More , American critic and essayist (b. 1864 )
- 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 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 )
- 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 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 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 )
- 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 28 - Maurice Ravel , French composer (b. 1875 )
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