Who Was Alive in 1937
166 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1937
John D. RockefellerAge 98
Sigmund FreudAge 81
Nikola TeslaAge 81
George Bernard ShawAge 81
Max PlanckAge 79
Rabindranath TagoreAge 76
David HilbertAge 75
Henry FordAge 74
Edvard MunchAge 74
H.G. WellsAge 71
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 70
Mahatma GandhiAge 68
Henri MatisseAge 68
Orville WrightAge 66
Ernest RutherfordAge 66
Bertrand RussellAge 65
Guglielmo MarconiAge 63
Winston ChurchillAge 63
Carl JungAge 62
Albert SchweitzerAge 62
Thomas MannAge 62
Lise MeitnerAge 59
Joseph StalinAge 59
Albert EinsteinAge 58
Leon TrotskyAge 58
Helen KellerAge 57
Pablo PicassoAge 56
Alexander FlemingAge 56
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkAge 56
Virginia WoolfAge 55
James JoyceAge 55
Igor StravinskyAge 55
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 55
Coco ChanelAge 54
Benito MussoliniAge 54
John Maynard KeynesAge 54
Eleanor RooseveltAge 53
Harry S. TrumanAge 53
Niels BohrAge 52
Diego RiveraAge 51
Erwin SchrödingerAge 50
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 50
Chiang Kai-shekAge 50
Le CorbusierAge 50
T. S. EliotAge 49
Charlie ChaplinAge 48
Jawaharlal NehruAge 48
Adolf HitlerAge 48
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 48
Ho Chi MinhAge 47
Agatha ChristieAge 47
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 47
Charles de GaulleAge 47
Haile SelassieAge 45
J.R.R. TolkienAge 45
Mao ZedongAge 44
Aldous HuxleyAge 43
Nikita KhrushchevAge 43
Babe RuthAge 42
Buster KeatonAge 42
F. Scott FitzgeraldAge 41
Amelia EarhartAge 40
Golda MeirAge 39
C. S. LewisAge 39
Duke EllingtonAge 38
Ernest HemingwayAge 38
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 38
Alfred HitchcockAge 38
Humphrey BogartAge 38
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 37
Werner HeisenbergAge 36
Louis ArmstrongAge 36
Walt DisneyAge 36
Enrico FermiAge 36
HirohitoAge 36
Marlene DietrichAge 36
George OrwellAge 34
Bob HopeAge 34
Robert OppenheimerAge 33
Salvador DalíAge 33
Pablo NerudaAge 33
Jean-Paul SartreAge 32
Hannah ArendtAge 31
Frida KahloAge 30
Rachel CarsonAge 30
Simone de BeauvoirAge 29
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 29
Kwame NkrumahAge 28
Dorothy HodgkinAge 27
Mother TeresaAge 27
Akira KurosawaAge 27
Jacques CousteauAge 27
Ronald ReaganAge 26
Naguib MahfouzAge 26
Alan TuringAge 25
Jackson PollockAge 25
Rosa ParksAge 24
Jesse OwensAge 24
Richard NixonAge 24
Albert CamusAge 24
Gerald FordAge 24
Hedy LamarrAge 23
Orson WellesAge 22
Frank SinatraAge 22
Billie HolidayAge 22
Ingrid BergmanAge 22
Roald DahlAge 21
John F. KennedyAge 20
Ella FitzgeraldAge 20
Indira GandhiAge 20
Ingmar BergmanAge 19
Nelson MandelaAge 19
Richard FeynmanAge 19
Eva PerónAge 18
Edmund HillaryAge 18
Jackie RobinsonAge 18
Rosalind FranklinAge 17
Pope John Paul IIAge 17
Toshiro MifuneAge 17
Stan LeeAge 15
Marlon BrandoAge 13
James BaldwinAge 13
Jimmy CarterAge 13
George H. W. BushAge 13
Patrice LumumbaAge 12
Margaret ThatcherAge 12
B.B. KingAge 12
Malcolm XAge 12
Marilyn MonroeAge 11
Fidel CastroAge 11
Elizabeth IIAge 11
Gabriel García MárquezAge 10
Pope Benedict XVIAge 10
James WatsonAge 9
Andy WarholAge 9
Stanley KubrickAge 9
Maya AngelouAge 9
Che GuevaraAge 9
Vera RubinAge 9
Noam ChomskyAge 9
Anne FrankAge 8
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 8
Audrey HepburnAge 8
Grace KellyAge 8
Chinua AchebeAge 7
Neil ArmstrongAge 7
Ray CharlesAge 7
Tu YouyouAge 7
James DeanAge 6
Desmond TutuAge 6
Toni MorrisonAge 6
Mikhail GorbachevAge 6
Johnny CashAge 5
Elizabeth TaylorAge 5
Sylvia PlathAge 5
Yoko OnoAge 4
Wole SoyinkaAge 3
Yuri GagarinAge 3
Carl SaganAge 3
Jane GoodallAge 3
Dalai LamaAge 2
Elvis PresleyAge 2
Woody AllenAge 2
Pope FrancisAge 1
Jack NicholsonAge 0
Saddam HusseinAge 0
Born in 1937
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq 1979–2003
Jack Nicholson
Actor in The Shining and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Also Born in 1937
President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
Russian cosmonaut and politician (born 1937)
American actor and filmmaker (born 1937)
American actor and producer (born 1937)
American actress and activist (born 1937)
American diplomat and political scientist (1937–2022)
King of Norway from 1991 to 2026
American actor (born 1937)
President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019
American stand-up comedian (1937–2008)
Finnish politician and diplomat, President of Finland (1937–2023)
English filmmaker (born 1937)
Died in 1937
Ernest Rutherford
Father of nuclear physics
Guglielmo Marconi
Pioneer of long-distance radio
Amelia Earhart
First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil tycoon, among the richest Americans in history
Also Died in 1937
New Zealand physicist and chemist (1871–1937)
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
American writer (1890–1937)
French educator and historian (1863–1937)
Austrian psychotherapist (1870–1937)
French composer (1875–1937)
Scottish novelist and playwright (1860–1937)
American writer and designer (1862–1937)
American composer and pianist (1898–1937)
Swedish engineer and inventor (1869–1937)
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1924; 1929–1935)
German general and politician (1865–1937)
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- 1937 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
- John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
- Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
- Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
- George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
- Max Planck — Wikipedia
- Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
- David Hilbert — Wikipedia
- Henry Ford — Wikipedia
- Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
- H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
- Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
- Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
- Wright brothers — Wikipedia
- Ernest Rutherford — Wikipedia
- Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
- Guglielmo Marconi — Wikipedia
- Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
- Carl Jung — Wikipedia
- Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
- Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
- Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
- Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
- Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
- Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
- Helen Keller — Wikipedia
- Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
- Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Wikipedia
- Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
- James Joyce — Wikipedia
- Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
- Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
- John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
- Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
- Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
- Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
- Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
- Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
- Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
- Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
- J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
- Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
- F. Scott Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Amelia Earhart — Wikipedia
- Golda Meir — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
- Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
- Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
- Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
- Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
- Hirohito — Wikipedia
- Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
- George Orwell — Wikipedia
- Bob Hope — Wikipedia
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
- Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
- Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
- Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
- Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
- Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
- Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
- Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Alan Turing — Wikipedia
- Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
- Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
- Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
- Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
- Albert Camus — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
- Orson Welles — Wikipedia
- Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
- Billie Holiday — Wikipedia
- Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
- Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
- Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
- Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
- Eva Perón — Wikipedia
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
- Rosalind Franklin — Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
- Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
- Stan Lee — Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
- James Baldwin — Wikipedia
- Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
- George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Patrice Lumumba — Wikipedia
- Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
- B. B. King — Wikipedia
- Malcolm X — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- James Watson — Wikipedia
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
- Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
- Che Guevara — Wikipedia
- Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
- Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
- Anne Frank — Wikipedia
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
- Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
- Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
- Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Ray Charles — Wikipedia
- Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
- James Dean — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
- Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
- Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
- Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
- Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
- Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
- Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
- 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Woody Allen — Wikipedia
- Pope Francis — Wikipedia
- Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
- Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia