1937 deaths

Malagasy poet who is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar. (1901–1937)

Russian economist and politician (1886–1937)

Ukrainian and Soviet actor, theatre director, film director (1887—1937)

Czech politician, political prisoner and lawyer (1860-1937)

Soviet Ukrainian politician (1890-1937)

German mathematician (1859–1937)

Turkish playwright and statesperson (1852–1937)

mother of Joseph Stalin

French composer (1858-1937)

Japanese symbolist poet (1907–1937)

British actor (1900–1937)

German-born British philosopher

Italian entrepreneur and racecar driver

Soviet military commander (1896–1937)

Polish writer (1877–1937)

Austrian football coach (1881–1937)

Anglo-Hungarian artist (1869-1937)

Canadian actress (1898–1937)

Ukrainian printmaker (1884-1937)

Soviet military officer (1896-1937)

Australian anatomist (1871–1937)

Hungarian musician (1858–1937)

German actor (1879–1937)

Finnish realist painter (1863-1937)

Catalan astronomer (1868-1937)

Ukrainian painter (1882-1937)

Mongolian politician (1892-1937)

German general (1852-1937)

Romanian footballer (1909-1937)

French composer, conductor, and organist (1863–1937)

German Egyptologist and lexicographer (1854-1937)

Russian poet

French writer (1863-1937)

Azerbaijani poet (1892-1937)

Soviet-Russian legal scholar (1891-1937)

Hungarian poet (1883-1937)

Ukrainian writer and playwright (1892–1937)

American lawyer, eugenicist, and conservationist (1865–1937)

Ukrainian poet, translator, classical and literature scholar (1890–1937)

Kazakh statesman, politician, publicist, teacher, writer and environmental scientist who was a founder and led the Alash party (1866–1937)

Polish theatre and film director, actor (1889–1937)

Ukrainian writer (1901–1937)

Kazakh intellectual (1872-1937)

aeronautical engineer; designer of the Spitfire

American humorist

Italian philosopher (1897–1937)

Austrian philosopher (1864-1937)

Uruguayan soldier, lawyer and president (1859-1937)

African-American painter (1859–1937)

Georgian poet

Greek architect and sport shooter (1862–1937)

German noble (1906–1937)

Crimean Tatar intellectual (1893–1937)

German swimmer (1878–1937)

German-Dutch zoologist (1852–1937)

Swiss geologist (1849-1937)

Finnish conductor and composer (1875-1937)

Japanese philosopher and right-wing activist

Ukrainian writer and poet (1892-1937)

Ukrainian geographer & ethnographer (1877-1937)