In the year 1937, Ingrid Christensen becomes the first woman to set foot on Antarctica (Jan 30), John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is published in the U.S. (Feb 6), Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon (Feb 16), Hindenburg disaster takes place in New Jersey (May 6), San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic (May 27), and the next day to vehicles. Volkswagen is established (May 28), the Soviet Union commence one of the largest campaigns of the Great Purge (Aug 5), Japan occupies Beijing (Aug 8), the last Bali tiger dies (Sep 27), Roosevelt gives his famous Quarantine Speech in Chigaco (Oct 5) - and all these fine people were born:
1937-0101 Lenita Airisto* businesswoman/ author - Helsinki, Finland ****
1937-0102 Martin Lauer* athlete/sprinter/OG/country singer - Cologne, Nazi Germany (2019/82)
1937-0106 Harri Holkeri* politician - Oripää, Finland (2011/74)
1937-0106 John Mack* civic leader - Kingstree, SC USA (2018/81)
1937-0108 Shirley Bassey* singer (James Bond)/hostess of her own series Shirley Bassey - Cardiff, Wales ***
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1937-0118 John Hume* politician - Derry, Northern Ireland (2020/83)
1937-0119 Princess Birgitta of Sweden* elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf - Haga palace, Solna, Sweden (2024/87)
1937-0123 Carleton Varney* decorator/ designer/columnist- Lynn, MA USA (2022/85)
1937-0130 Vanessa Redgrave* actress - London, England ****
1937-0130 Boris Spassky* chess grandmaster - Leningrad, Russia, Soviet Union (2025/88)
1937-0131 Philip Glass* composer - Baltimore, MD USA ****
1937-0131 Suzanne Pleshette* actress/ voice actress - Brooklyn Heights, NY USA (2008/70)
1937-0201 Garrett Morris* comedian/actor/ singer - New Orleans, LA USA ****
1937-0203 Billy Meier* photographer/ufo contactee - Bülach, Switzerland ****
1937-0204 Birju Maharaj* dancer/ singer/composer - Handia, United Provinces, British India (2022/84)
1937-0211 Eddie Shack* hockey player - Sudbury, ON Canada (2020/83)
1937-0214 Márta Rudas* athlete (javelin/OS) - Debrecen, Hungary (2017/80)
1937-0216 Nur Hassan Hussein* police officer/ politician/PM - Near Juba River, Somalia (2020/83)
1937-0219 Rupiah Banda* Zambian politician/P - Miko, Gwanda, Southern Rhodesia (2022/85)
1937-0221 Gary Lockwood* actor (2001: A Space Odyssey) - Los Angeles, CA USA ****
1937-0221 Robert Ressler* FBI agent/author/often credited with coining the term serial killer - Chicago, IL USA (2013/76)
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1937-0225 Tom Courtenay* actor - Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England ****
1937-0227 Peter Hamm* author /journalist/editor - Munich, Bavaria, Germany (2019/82)
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1937-0302 Abdelaziz Bouteflika* politician/President of Algeria - Oujda, French Morocco (2021/84)
1937-0305 Olusegun Obasanjo* military leader/politician/P - Abeokuta, British Nigeria ****
1937-0306 Valentina Tereshkova* cosmonaut - Bolshoye Maslennikovo, Russia, Soviet Union ****
1937-0314 Michael Mineo* actor - Bronx, NY USA (1984/47)
1937-0320 Lois Lowry* children’s book author - Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA ****
1937-0323 Craig Breedlove* race car driver - Los Angeles, CA USA (2023/86)
1937-0326 Ahmed Qurei* politician/ Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority - Abu Dis, Mandatory Palestine (2023/85)
1937-0330 Warren Beatty* actor - Richmond, VA USA ****
1937-0331 Claude Allégre* scientist/ politician - Paris, France (2025/87)
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1937-0403 John Arrillaga* billionaire real estate developer/philanthropist - Inglewood, CA USA (2022/84)
1937-0405 Colin Powell* soldier/politician - New York, NY USA (2021/84)
1937-0405 Maryanne Trump Barry* attorney/sister of Donald Trump - New York City, NY USA (2023/86)
1937-0406 Eike Christian Hirsch* German journalist/author/television presenter - Bilthoven, Netherlands (2022/85)
1937-0406 Billy Dee Williams* actor - New York City, NY USA ****
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1937-0413 Edward Fox* actor - Chelsea, London England ****
1937-0414 Paul Kangas* television host/of Finnish descent - Houghton, MI USA (2017/79)
1937-0420 George Takei* actor (Star Trek) - Los Angeles, CA USA ****
1937-0422 Jack Nicholson* actor - Manhattan, NY USA ****
1937-0428 Saddam Hussein* politician/P - Al-Awja, Kingdom of Iraq (2006/69)
1937-0429 Jill Paton Walsh* (b Bliss) novelist/writer of children’s books - London, England (2020/83)
1937-0430 Uttam Nepali* (b Uttam Prasad Karmacharya) painter/ writer/actor - Kathmandu, Nepal (2021/84)
1937-0501 Una Stubbs* dancer/ actress/television personality - Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England (2021/84)
1937-0502 Lorenzo Music* actor/voice actor (Garfield)/producer - Brooklyn, NY USA (2001/64)
1937-0510 Arthur Kopit* playwright - Manhattan, NY USA (2021/83)
1937-0510 Tamara Press* athlete (shot put)/OG/coach - Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union (2021/83)
1937-0512 George Carlin* stand-up comedian - Manhattan, NY USA (2008/71)
1937-0513 Trevor Baylis* inventor of wind-up radio - Kilburn, London, England (2018/80)
1937-0513 Trini Lopez* singer/guitarist/ actor - Dallas, TX USA (2020/83)
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1937-0515 Madeleine Albright* American politician - Prague, Czechoslovakia (2022/84)
1937-0515 Ted Dabney* electrical engineer/co-founder of Atari Inc. - San Francisco, CA USA (2018/81)
1937-0520 Peter von Matt* philologist/authority in literary mediation - Lucerne, Switzerland (2025/87)
1937-0522 Charles Beare* luthier/violin expert and dealer - London, England (2025/87)
1937-0530 Claes Andersson* psychiatrist/poet/politician - Helsinki, Finland (2019/82)
1937-0531 Martha Mason* writer in an iron lung - Lattimore, NC USA (2009/71)
1937-0601 Morgan Freeman* actor/ narrator - Memphis, TN USA ****
1937-0601 Rosaleen Linehan* actress/comedian - Dublin, Ireland ****
1937-0601 Colleen McCullough* author - Wellington, NSW Australia (2015/77)
1937-0602 Sally Kellerman* actress/ author/ activist - Long Beach, CA USA (2022/84)
1937-0608 Seppo Mäki* actor/ husband of Liisa Roine - Tampere, Finland ****
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1937-0615 Waylon Jennings* singer/ songwriter/musician - Littlefield, TX USA (2002/64)
1937-0617 Tom Simcox* actor - Medford, NJ USA ****
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1937-0621 Silver Donald Cameron* journalist/ author/university teacher - Toronto, ON Canada (2020/82)
1937-0623 Martti Ahtisaari* politician/ diplomat/N - Viipuri, Karjala, Finland (2023/86)
1937-0627 Mehdi Hasan* Pakistani journalist/media historian/political analyst - Panipat, British India (2022/84)
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1937-0706 Ned Beatty* actor - Louisville, KY USA (2021/83)
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1937-0711 Adin Steinsaltz* rabbi/social critic/publisher - Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine (2020/83)
1937-0712 Bill Cosby* stand-up comedian/actor - Philadelphia, PA USA ****
1937-0718 Hunter S. Thompson* journalist/ author - Louisville, KY USA (2005/67)
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1937-0724 Manoj Kumar* actor/ film director/lyricist - Abbottabad, British India (2025/87)
1937-0725 Todd Armstrong* actor - St. Louis, MO USA (1992/55)
1937-0725 Kanayi Kunhiraman* sculptor - Kuttamath, Kerala, British India ****
1937-0726 Peter Fleischmann* film director/screenwriter/producer - Zweibrücken, Bavaria, Nazi Germany (2021/84)
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1937-0803 Steven Berkoff* actor/ playwright/theater director - Stepney, London, England ****
1937-0803 Andrés Gimeno* tennis player - Barcelona, Spain (2019/82)
1937-0806 Barbara Windsor* (b Deeks) actress - Shoreditch, London, England (2020/83)
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1937-0808 Dustin Hoffman* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA ****
1937-0808 Sheila Varian* breeder of Arabian horses - Santa Maria, CA USA (2016/78)
1937-0812 Thommy Berggren* actor - Mölndal, Sweden ****
1937-0820 Jim Bowen* stand-up comedian/television host - Heswall, Cheshire, England (2018/80)
1937-0822 Rima Melati* (b Marjolein Tambayong) Indonesian actress/singer - Tondado, Dutch East Indies (2022/84)
1937-0823 Ville-Veikko Salminen* actor - Turku, Finland (2006/68)
1937-0828 Haydée Coloso-Espino* swimmer/teacher - Dueñas, Iloilo, Philippines Commomwealth (2021/83)
1937-0829 James Florio* politician/governor of New Jersey - New York City, NY USA (2022/85)
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1937-0902 Derek Fowlds* actor (Heartbeat) - Wandsworth, London, England (2020/82)
1937-0902 Pentti Saarikoski* poet/ translator/writer - Impilahti, Finland (1983/45)
1937-0904 Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala* actress - Helsinki, Finland (2007/69)
1937-0910 Jared Diamond* geographer/historian/ author - Boston, MA USA ****
1937-0912 Aganetha Dyck* honeycomb sculptor - Marquette, MB Canada ****
1937-0914 Renzo Piano* architect (The Shard) - Genoa, Italy ****
1937-0915 Fernando de la Rúa* politician/P - Córdoba, Argentina (2019/81)
1937-0918 Ralph Backstrom* hockey player/coach/Finnish roots - Kirkland Lake, ON Canada (2021/83)
1937-0922 Richard Marquand* film and television director - Cardiff, Wales (1987/49)
1937-0926 Outi Heiskanen* (b Kanervo) artist/art teacher - Mikkeli, Finland (2022/85)
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1937-1002 Johnnie Cochran* lawyer - Shreveport, LA USA (2005/67)
1937-1004 Jackie Collins* romance novelist - Hampstead, London, England (2015/77)
1937-1005 Iwan Edwards* Welsh-Canadian choral conductor/to Canada at age 27 - Wales (2022/84)
1937-1006 Mario Capecchi* molecular geneticist/N - Verona, Italy ****
1937-1010 Danny Kaleikini* singer/ musical artist/entertainer - Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA (2023/85)
1937-1011 Bobby Charlton* football player - Ashington, Northumberland, England (2023/86)
1937-1011 Ron Leibman* actor - New York, NY USA (2019/82)
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1937-1022 Alan Ladd Jr.* film industry executive/producer/son of Alan Ladd - Los Angeles, CA USA (2022/84)
1937-1031 Tom Paxton* folk singer/songwriter - Chicago, IL USA ****
1937-1031 Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber* journalist - Boulogne-Billancourt, France (2020/83)
1937-1101 Bill Anderson* country music singer/television personality - Columbia, SC USA ****
1937-1101 Titiek Puspa* (b Sudarwati) Indonesian singer/songwriter - Tanjung, Dutch East Indies (2025/87)
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1937-1104 Loretta Swit* actress (M*A*S*H) - Passaic, NJ USA ****
1937-1105 Harris Yulin* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA ****
1937-1120 Eero Mäntyranta* cross-country skier/OG - Turtola, Lapland, Finland (2013/76)
1937-1121 Tina Howe* playwright - New York City, NY USA (2023/85)
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1937-1125 Chuck Peddle* electrical computer engineer - Bangor, ME USA (2019/82)
1937-1130 Ridley Scott* film director - South Shields, County Durham, England ****
1937-1205 Kalevi Laurila* cross-country skier/OGr - Sääksmäki, Finland (1991/53)
1937-1207 Ron Labinski* architect of sports venues - Buffalo, NY USA (2023/85)
1937-1208 Arne Næss Jr.* (b Raab) Norwegian businessman/ mountaineer/ husband of Diana Ross - Germany (2004/66)
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1937-1213 Jutta Lampe* actress - Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Nazi Germany (2020/82)
1937-1215 John Sladek* science-fiction writer - Waverly, IA USA (2000/62)
1937-1221 Jane Fonda* actress - New York, NY USA ****
1937-1224 Viacheslav Chornovil* politician/one of the leaders of Rukh (the People’s Movement of Ukraine)/paving the way for contemporary Ukraine to regain its independence - Yerky, Ukraine, Soviet Union (1999/61)
1937-1228 Ratan Tata* industrialist/investor/philanthropist - Bombay, British India (2024/86)
1937-1230 Gordon Banks* football goalie - Abbeydale, Sheffield, England (2019/81)
1937-1230 Paul Stookey* singer/songwriter (Peter, Paul and Mary) - Baltimore, MD USA ****
1937-1231 Anthony Hopkins* actor - Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales ****
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