Celebrity Deaths in 1937
69 notable figures died in 1937. Listed below in order of date of death.
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David Hall McConnell
1858 – 1937 · Business Magnates Jan 1 -
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Marie Prevost
1898 – 1937 · Actresses Jan 1 -
Marie Prevost
1898 – 1937 · Actresses Jan 1 -
Ross Alexander
1907 – 1937 · Actors Jan 1 -
Saint André Bessette
1845 – 1937 · Religious Figures Jan 6 -
Lou Andreás Salomé
1861 – 1937 · Authors and Writers Feb 2 -
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Maude “Tillie Doremus” O’Dell
1870 – 1937 · Actresses Feb 2 -
Sydney Barton Booth
1873 – 1937 · Actors Feb 2 -
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Walter Burley Griffin
1876 – 1937 · Artists and Architects Feb 2 -
Bobby Dunn
1890 – 1937 · Actors Mar 3 -
Frederick Louis Maytag
1857 – 1937 · Business Magnates Mar 3 -
Gilbert Heublein
1849 – 1937 Mar 3 -
J. Frank Glendon
1886 – 1937 · Actors Mar 3 -
Joseph Stephen “J.S.” Cullinan
1860 – 1937 Mar 3 -
Elihu Thomson
1853 – 1937 · Scientists and Inventors Mar 13 -
Austen Chamberlain
1863 – 1937 · Politicians Mar 16 -
T. Roy Barnes
1880 – 1937 · Actors Mar 30 -
Arthur Edmund Carewe
1884 – 1937 · Actors Apr 4 -
Helen Burgess
1916 – 1937 · Actresses Apr 4 -
José Benlliure Gil
1855 – 1937 · Artists and Architects Apr 4 -
William A. Davidson
1870 – 1937 Apr 4 -
William Gillette
1853 – 1937 · Actors Apr 4 -
Helen Burgess
1916 – 1937 · Actresses Apr 7 -
Antonio Gramsci
1891 – 1937 · Politicians Apr 27 -
Wallace Carothers
1896 – 1937 · Scientists and Inventors Apr 29 -
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr
1839 – 1937 · Business Magnates May 5 -
Snitz Edwards
1862 – 1937 · Actors May 5 -
Amelia Earhart
1897 – 1937 Jun 2 -
Albert “Al” Boasberg
1891 – 1937 · Authors and Writers Jun 6 -
Charles Bellinger
1875 – 1937 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jun 6 -
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
1860 – 1937 · Authors and Writers Jun 6 -
Jean Harlow
1911 – 1937 · Actresses, Sex Goddess Jun 7 -
Marvel Rea
1901 – 1937 · Actresses, Victims of crime and disaster Jun 17 -
Colin Clive
1900 – 1937 · Actors Jun 25 -
Eve Unsell
1887 – 1937 · Authors and Writers Jul 6 -
Charles Esdale
1873 – 1937 · Actors Jul 7 -
Emmett Dalton
1871 – 1937 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Jul 7 -
Henry Clews, Jr
1876 – 1937 · Artists and Architects Jul 7 -
Ida Conquest
1873 – 1937 · Actresses Jul 7 -
Julius L. Meier
1874 – 1937 · Business Magnates Jul 7 -
George Gershwin
1898 – 1937 · Musicians and Composers Jul 11 -
Guglielmo Marconi
1874 – 1937 · Business Magnates, Politicians, Scientists and Inventors Jul 20 -
Fanchon Frankel
1874 – 1937 · Actresses Aug 8 -
Jane Weir
1916 – 1937 · Actresses Aug 8 -
Adele Sandrock
1863 – 1937 · Actresses Aug 30 -
Pierre de Coubertin
1863 – 1937 · Politicians Sep 2 -
Frank Alexander
1879 – 1937 · Actors Sep 9 -
Mary Blackford
1914 – 1937 · Actresses Sep 9 -
William Henry Crocker
1861 – 1937 Sep 9 -
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
1850 – 1937 · Politicians Sep 14 -
Ruth Roland
1892 – 1937 · Actresses Sep 22 -
Mary Blackford
1914 – 1937 · Actresses Sep 24 -
Bessie Smith
1894 – 1937 · Blues Singer, Jazz Singer Sep 26 -
J. Bruce Ismay
1862 – 1937 · Business Magnates Oct 10 -
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Jean de Brunhoff
1899 – 1937 · Artists and Architects Oct 10 -
Renate Müller
1906 – 1937 · Actresses Oct 10 -
Ernest Rutherford
1871 – 1937 · Scientists and Inventors Oct 19 -
Ramsay MacDonald
1866 – 1937 · Politicians Nov 9 -
Mrs Leslie Carter
1862 – 1937 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Mrs Leslie Carter
1862 – 1937 · Actresses Nov 11 -
Nikolai Batalov
1899 – 1937 · Actors Nov 11 -
Harry Millman
1911 – 1937 · Gangster Nov 25 -
Nils Gustaf Dalén
1869 – 1937 · Scientists and Inventors Dec 9 -
Alma Tell
1898 – 1937 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Pierre Collings
1902 – 1937 · Authors and Writers Dec 12 -
Maurice Ravel
1875 – 1937 · Celebrities, Musicians and Composers Dec 28 -
Kazutoshi Ueda
1867 – 1937 · Educators -
Taichiro Morinaga
1865 – 1937 · Business Magnates -
Umaji Kaneko
1870 – 1937