1937 births

Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. He previously served as the vice president from 1968 to 1979 and also as the prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. A leading member of the Ba'ath Party, he was a proponent of Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. The policies and ideologies he championed are collectively known as Saddamism, a right-wing variant of Ba'athism.

Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born 1937)

Morgan Freeman is an American actor, producer, and narrator. In a career spanning six decades, he has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. He was honored with the Kennedy Center Honor in 2008, an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2011, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2018. In a 2022 readers' poll by Empire, he was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time.

Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda is also the recipient of various honorary awards including the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025.

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor. Considered one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actors, he is known for his performances on the screen and stage. Hopkins has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He has also received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005 and the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2008. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama in 1993.

United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001

American actor (born 1937)

President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019

President of Finland from 1994 to 2000

King of Norway since 1991

American stand-up comedian (1937–2008)

English filmmaker (born 1937)

American general and diplomat (1937–2021)

Russian chess player (1937–2025)

American actor and comedian

English association football player and manager (1937–2023)

American novelist (born 1937)

American actor and filmmaker

American actor, author and activist (born 1937)

American journalist and author (1937–2005)

British actress and activist (born 1937)

former General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia

Italian architect (1937-)

nigerian president (1999-2007) and military leader (1976–79)

93rd Prime Minister of France (1997–2002)

Sir Tom Stoppard was a British playwright and screenwriter. He wrote for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covered the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical bases of society. Stoppard, a playwright of the Royal National Theatre, was one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation and was critically compared with William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. He was knighted for his contribution to theatre in 1997 and awarded the Order of Merit in 2000.

American physicist

American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)

American composer (born 1937)

Irish politician from Northern Ireland (1937–2020)

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and film producer

Russian mathematician who studied integrable systems and differential equations (1937–2010)

Bulgarian politician and royal (born 1937)

Indian activist (born 1937)

molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate

2nd President of Rwanda (1937–1994)

6th President of Latvia

American singer and actress (1937–2025)

Prime Minister of Japan from 2000 to 2001

American economist (1937–2023)

Australian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate (1937–2024)

English association football player (1937–2019)

French writer and philosopher

American actress (1937-2008)

French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer (born 1937)

Australian author (1937-2015)

German politician, communist leader of East Germany

Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor (born 1937)

actor and President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001

U.S. science fiction and fantasy writer and poet (1937–1995)

3rd President of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008

German chemist (1937-)

Welsh singer

French philosopher and writer

Queen of Norway since 1991

General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (2016-2021)

American singer (1937–2025)

president of Argentina from 1999 to 2001

82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan (1937-2006)

Japanese association football player and manager (born 1937)