1937: The Year in People

The Silent Generation · Year of the Ox 🐂 · Born in 1937 turn 89 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$0.20

US population

2.21B

US president

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Top song

"A-Tisket, A-Tasket" — Ella Fitzgerald

Top film

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Best Picture

The Life of Emile Zola

In the news: Hindenburg disaster; Golden Gate Bridge opens

What happened in 1937

1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1937th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1930s decade.

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Born in 1937

164 people in our data · most viewed first

Bill Cosby

b. 1937 · July 12

American entertainer

Morgan Freeman

b. 1937 · June 1

American actor and producer

Colin Powell

1937–2021 · April 5

American general, diplomat and statesman

Dyan Cannon

b. 1937 · January 4

American actress and filmmaker

Edward Fox (actor)

b. 1937 · April 13

British actor

Richard Petty

b. 1937 · July 2

American racing driver

Harald V

b. 1937 · February 21

King of Norway since 1991

Bobby Charlton

1937–2023 · October 11

English footballer and manager

Bruce McLaren

1937–1970 · August 30

New Zealand racing driver and motorsport executive

Chad Everett

1937–2012 · June 11

American actor

Polly Holliday

1937–2025 · July 2

American actress

Gary Lockwood

b. 1937 · February 21

American actor

Alice Coltrane

1937–2007 · August 27

American jazz musician

Gorilla Monsoon

1937–1999 · June 4

American professional wrestler

Freddy Fender

1937–2006 · June 4

American Tejano singer

Dick Dale

1937–2019 · May 4

American surf rock guitarist

Barbara Babcock

b. 1937 · February 27

American actress

Garth Hudson

1937–2025 · August 2

Canadian multi-instrumentalist

Allan Carr

1937–1999 · May 27

American producer

Anna Massey

1937–2011 · August 11

English actress

Boris Spassky

1937–2025 · January 30

Russian chess grandmaster

Egon Krenz

b. 1937 · March 19

Leader of East Germany in 1989

Lorenzo Music

1937–2001 · May 2

American actor, producer, and writer

Ron Carter

b. 1937 · May 4

American musician and composer

Died in 1937

Amelia Earhart1897–1937 · American aviation pioneer
Antonio Gramsci1891–1937 · Albanian-Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician
George Gershwin1898–1937 · American composer and pianist
Erich Ludendorff1865–1937 · German general and politician
Edith Wharton1862–1937 · American writer and designer
Bessie Smith1894–1937 · American blues singer
Alfred Adler1870–1937 · Austrian psychotherapist
Andrew Mellon1855–1937 · American businessman and politician
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse1868–1937 · Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 1892 to 1918
Austen Chamberlain1863–1937 · British politician
Colin Clive1900–1937 · English actor
André Bessette1845–1937 · Canadian Catholic brother and saint