Famous Birthdays for Year 1937

Months in Year 1937: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 634

Jan 1st - Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995)
Jan 2nd - Marianne McDonald, classicist/philanthropist
Jan 4th - Dyan Cannon, Tacoma Wash, Mrs Cary Grant/actress (Heaven Can Wait)
Jan 4th - Grace Bumbry, St Louis, mezzo-soprano (Venus in Tannhäuser)
Jan 4th - R Surendranath, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in 11 Tests early 60s)
Jan 6th - Doris Troy, [Payne], US soul singer/songwriter (Just One Kiss)
Jan 6th - Lou Holtz, US, football coach (NJ Jets)
Jan 6th - Paolo Conte, Italian singer
Jan 8th - Robert Moran, composer
Jan 8th - Shirley Bassey, Cardiff Wales, singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker)
Jan 9th - K Schlesinger, writer
Jan 10th - Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
Jan 12th - Liliana Cavani, Bologna Italy, director (Berlin Affair)
Jan 12th - Marie Dubois, Paris France, actress (Wise Guys, Jules & Jim)
Jan 12th - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (d. 2002)
Jan 14th - Billie Jo Spears, country singer
Jan 14th - Ken Higgs, cricketer (effective Engld pace-bowler in 15 Tests 1965-68)
Jan 14th - Erland Kops, Danish badminton player
Jan 14th - Shoban Babu, Indian actor
Opera Singer Grace Bumbry (Jan 4th) Jan 15th - Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis)
Jan 16th - Bob Bogle, Portland, rock bassist/guitarist (Ventures-Batman Theme)
Jan 16th - Conny Vandenbos, Dutch singer (My rose, my little rose)
Jan 16th - Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
Jan 16th - Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver
Jan 20th - Dorothy Provine, Deadwood SD, actress (Good Neighbor Sam, Darn Cat)
Jan 21st - Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
Jan 22nd - Joseph Wambaugh, East Pittsburgh Pa, police writer (Onion Fields)
Jan 22nd - Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
Jan 25th - Don Maynard, NFL receiver (NY Jets), #13
Jan 25th - Kathleen Tynan Halton, writer
Jan 25th - Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic
Jan 26th - Gerrit Gerritse, Dutch MP (CDA)
Jan 26th - Joseph Saidu Momoh, gen/president (Sierra Leone)
Jan 26th - S J B Langdale, Headmaster (Shrewsbury School)
Jan 27th - John Ogdon, Manchester England, pianist/composer
Jan 28th - Ken Hill, playwright/director
Jan 29th - Bobby Scott, jazz singer
Jan 30th - Boris Spassky, USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
Jan 30th - Vanessa Redgrave, London, actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express)
Jan 30th - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
Jan 31st - Philip Glass, Baltimore Md, minimal composer (Einstein on the Beach)
Jan 31st - Steve Karmen, Bronx NY, jingle writer (I Love NY, This Bud's for You)
Jan 31st - Suzanne Pleshette, NYC, actress (Birds, Emily-Bob Newhart Show)
Jan 31st - Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
Jan 31st - Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
Feb 1st - Don Everly, Brownie Ky, vocalist (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
Feb 1st - Dr Hook, [Ray Sawyer], Ala, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
Feb 1st - Garrett Morris, New Orleans La, actor (SNL, Martin, Carwash)
Feb 2nd - Martina Arroyo, NYC, opera soprano (NY Met)
Feb 2nd - Tom Smothers, NYC, comedian (Smother Brother Show, Serial)
Feb 2nd - Don Buford, All-Star MLB outfielder
Feb 2nd - Remak Ramsay, American actor
Feb 4th - Collin Wilcox, Highlands NC, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird)
Feb 4th - John Devitt, Australia, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
Feb 4th - Magnar Solberg, Norway, 20K biathalete (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
Feb 4th - David Newman, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
Feb 5th - Cocky van Oost, [Kommertje van Vliet], Dutch dancer (Sylphides)
Feb 5th - Gaston Roelants, Belgium, world cross-country champion
Feb 5th - Stuart Damon, Bkln NY, actor (Alan Quartermaine-General Hospital)
Feb 5th - Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist (d. 2006)
Feb 6th - Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner
Feb 8th - Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street)
Feb 8th - Manfred Krug, Duisburg Germany, actor (Boxer)
Feb 9th - Brian Wenham, media consultant/journalist
Feb 9th - Johnny Sayles, US vocalist (You Made Me Wiggle)
Feb 9th - Clete Boyer, American baseball player (d. 2007)
Feb 10th - Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)
Feb 10th - Lord Justice Rose
Feb 10th - Yuriy Poyarkov, USSR, volleyball player (Oly-2 gold/1 silver-1964-72)
Feb 10th - Roberta Flack, American singer
Feb 11th - Bill Lawry, cricketer (dour Australian lefty opener, Can talk a bit)
Feb 11th - Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist/playwright (The Family)
Feb 11th - Marilyn Butler, Rector (Exeter College-Oxford)
Feb 11th - Peter Lashley, cricketer (4 Tests for West Indies 1960-66)
Feb 12th - Charles Everett Dumas, Tulsa Ok, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
Feb 13th - Sigmund Jaehn, German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31/29)
Feb 13th - Susan Oliver, NYC, actress (Ann-Peyton Place, Star Trek-Cage)
Feb 13th - Ali El-Maak, Sudanese writer (d. 1992)
Feb 14th - John MacGregor, British MP
Feb 14th - Magic Sam, rocker (Chicago Bluesman)
Feb 15th - Nicholas Bayne, diplomat
Feb 15th - P J Squire, British headmaster (Bedford Modern School)
Feb 15th - Terry Everett, (Rep-R-Alabama)
Feb 15th - Zoltan Pesko, composer
Feb 15th - Gregory Mcdonald, American author
Feb 16th - Paul Bailey, novelist
Feb 16th - Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut
Feb 17th - Mickey McGill, US vocalist (Dells-Love is Blue)
Feb 18th - Jeff Farrell, US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1960)
Feb 19th - Norman O'Neill, cricketer (great Aussie bat of 60's Brilliant field)
Feb 20th - David Ackles, Illinois, vocalist/songwriter (American Gothic)
Feb 20th - Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz vocalist (Feel Like Making Love)
Feb 20th - Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist (Nobel 1988)
Feb 20th - Roger Penske, auto racer
Feb 21st - Gary Lockwood, Van Nuys Cal, actor (2001, Survival Zone, Lieutenant)
Feb 21st - Ron Clarke, Australia, runner (held 19 world records)
Feb 22nd - Dubravko Detoni, composer
Feb 22nd - Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
Feb 22nd - Noel Murphy, British(?) rugby player
Feb 22nd - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
Feb 22nd - Tommy Aaron, Gainesville GA, PGA golfer (1973 Masters)
Feb 23rd - David Ward, president (Law Society)
Feb 23rd - Lord Tugendhat
Feb 23rd - Tom Osborne, college football coach
Feb 24th - Jerry Wiggin, British MP
Feb 25th - Basia Johnson, maid (inherited Johnson & Johnson fortune)
Feb 25th - Bob Schieffer, Austin Tx, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
Feb 25th - Tom Courtenay, England, actor (Dresser, Dr Zhivago, To Catch a Spy)
Feb 26th - Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
Feb 27th - Barbara Babcock, Pasadena CA, actr (Dr Quinn, Dallas, Hill St Blues)
Feb 27th - Donald MacKay, CEO (Scottish Enterprise)
Feb 27th - L Jay Silvester, US, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1972)
Feb 27th - Viscount Head
Mar 1st - Jed Allan, Bronx NY, actor (Days of our Lives, CC-Santa Barbara)
Mar 2nd - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
Mar 3rd - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)
Mar 4th - Graeme Dowling, cricketer (New Zealand, 239 v India 1968)
Mar 4th - Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut
Mar 4th - [Bernard Barney Jean] Wilen, musician
Mar 4th - Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
Mar 5th - Stephen Fitz-Simon, entrepreneur
Mar 5th - Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, President of Nigeria
Mar 6th - Doug Dillard, actor (Clem-Popeye)
Mar 6th - Ivan Boesky, Detroit, stockbroker inside trading
Mar 6th - Paul Mefano, composer
Mar 6th - Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
Mar 7th - Anne Kristen, actress (Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr Finlay, Sunset Song)
Mar 7th - Don Bonker, (Rep-D-WA, 1975- )
Mar 8th - Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973-94)
Mar 8th - Pamela McEvoy-Johnston, psychotherapist-board member (WIC)
Mar 8th - Raynoma Gordy, [Mayberry], US orchestra leader (Rayber Voices)
Mar 8th - Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
Mar 9th - Grahame Chevalier, cricketer (one Test for S Afr 1970, 0 & 0*, 5-100)
Mar 9th - Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003
Mar 9th - Brian Redman, English racing driver
Mar 10th - Oscar Abrams, community organizer
Mar 10th - Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)
Mar 11th - John Ward, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68)
Mar 11th - Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor
Mar 12th - Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (Victor-Victoria)
Mar 13th - Fofo I F Sunia, (Rep-D-Amer Samoa, 1981- )
Mar 14th - Peter van der Merwe, cricketer (South African captain of mid-1960's)
Mar 16th - Constanca Capdeville, composer
Mar 16th - David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer)
Mar 16th - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996)
Mar 17th - Adam Wade, actor (Kiss Me Goodbye, Crazy Joe)
Mar 17th - Galina Samsova, ballerina
Mar 17th - Frank Calabrese [Frankie Breeze], Chicago, Illinois, mafia hitman, (d. 2012)
Mar 18th - Mark Donohue, auto racer (1972 Indianapolis 500)
Mar 18th - Robin Wright, race horse trainer