Famous People Who Died in 1937

Feb 13 Carl Albrecht Bernoulli, Swiss writer, dies at 69
Feb 14 Erkki Melartin, Finnish composer (Juhlamarssi; Summer Symphony; Fantasia Apocaliptica), dies at 62
Feb 18 Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, dies at 50
Feb 20 Barlow Carkeek, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (6 Tests, 6 dismissals; Victoria), dies when struck by a car at 58
Feb 23 Claude Buckenham, cricketer (21 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
Mar 2 Gustav Wohlgemuth, German composer, dies at 73
Mar 6 Frank Vosper, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rome Express), dies at sea at 37
Mar 8 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71

Howie Morenz (1902-1937)

Mar 8 Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame center (Montreal Canadiens, 3-time Stanley Cup winner), dies of a heart attack at 34

Mar 9 Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist, dies at 72
Mar 10 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer and Soviet dissident (We), dies at 53
Mar 11 Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
Mar 11 Paul Scheinpflug, composer, dies at 61
Mar 12 Charles-Marie Widor, French organist (Saint-Sulpice, 1870-1933), composer (10 organ symphonies), and professor (American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, 1921-34), dies at 93
Mar 12 Jenő Hubay [Huber], Hungarian violinist, composer, and educator (Budapest Conservatory, 1886-1934), dies at 78
Mar 15 H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (At the Mountains of Madness, Weird Tales), dies at 46
Mar 16 J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
Mar 18 Charles Haslewood Shannon, English lithographer and painter, dies at 73
Mar 19 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (Anaconda, El Crimen del Otro), commits suicide at 58

Harry Vardon (1870-1937)

Mar 20 Jersey golfer (6 time British Open champion, US Open 1900), dies of lung cancer at 66

Mar 22 Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English aviator and ornithologist, dies at 71
Mar 23 Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66
Mar 25 John Drinkwater, English poet and playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
Mar 26 Albert Relf, English cricket all-rounder (13 Tests, 1 x 50, 25 wickets, BB 5/85; Sussex CCC, Auckland CA), commits suicide at 52
Mar 29 Karol Szymanowski, Polish pianist and composer (Symphony No. 3 - Song Of The Night), dies of tuberculosis at 54
Apr 2 Nathan Birnbaum, Austria philosopher (Zionism), dies at about 72
Apr 4 Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic, dies at 69
Apr 8 Arthur Foote, American classical organist, composer, and member of the "Boston Six" (Suite for Strings in E), dies at 84
Apr 8 William Henry Hadow, British educational reformer and musicologist (Oxford History of Music, Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77
Apr 10 Algernon Ashton, British composer, dies at 77
Apr 15 Ned Hanlon, American Baseball HOF center fielder (NL pennant 1887 Detroit Wolverines) and manager (5 × NL pennant Baltimore Orioles, Brooklyn Superbas), dies at 79
Apr 15 Nikolai Artzibushev, Russian jurist & composer, dies at 79
Apr 17 Yi Sang, Korean author and poet (Dying Words, Wings, Child’s Bone), dies of tuberculosis in a Japanese prison camp at 26
Apr 19 William Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English historian and explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81
Apr 25 Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to open
Apr 25 Michał Drzymała, Polish peasant rebel (Drzymała's wagon), dies at 79

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)

Apr 27 Italian philosopher and Marxist theorist, dies at 46

Apr 29 Wallace Carothers, American chemist and inventor (nylon), commits suicide at 41
Apr 29 William Gillette, American stage and silent film actor (Sherlock Holmes), and playwright (Secret Service), dies at 83
May 1 Snitz Edwards [Edward Neumann], Hungarian-American stage and silent film actor ("Phantom of the Opera"; "College"), dies at 69
May 2 Arthur Somervell, English composer, dies at 73
May 4 Noel Rosa, Brazilian guitrist, mandolin player, and songwriter, dies of tuberculosis at 26

Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937)

May 9 Swiss aviation pioneer (Swiss Air) and aerial photographer, dies in a climbing accident on an expedition in Styria at 43 [1]

May 10 William Tedmarsh, British silent movie actor (Two Beds and No Sleep), dies at 61
May 11 Ellen Hansell, American tennis player (US National champion 1887), dies at 67
May 11 Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, Slovak composer, dies at 62
May 15 Phillip Snowden, British politician first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, dies at 72

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937)

May 23 American industrialist and founder of Standard Oil, dies at 97

May 25 Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist, dies at 77
May 27 Frank Grant, American Baseball HOF 2nd baseman (International League; pioneer early Negro leagues; considered greatest African-American player of 19th century), dies at 71
May 28 Alfred Adler, Austria psychiatrist (Individual Psychology), dies at 67
Jun 2 Louis Vierne, French organist (Notre-Dame, 1900-37), and composer (Messe solennelle), dies at the console at 66
Jun 4 Keke Geladze, Russian seamstress who was the mother of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, dies at 78 or 81

Jean Harlow (1911-1937)

Jun 7 American actress and 1930s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8; Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26

Robert Borden (1854-1937)

Jun 10 Canadian politician and 8th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 1911-20), dies at 82

Jun 11 R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)
Jun 12 Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
Jun 18 Al Boasberg, American vaudeville, radio and film comedy writer (Jack Benny; Bob Hope; The Marx Brothers), dies of a heart attack at 44
Jun 18 Gaston Doumergue, 60th Prime Minister of France (1913-14 and 1934) and 1st protestant French President (1924-31), dies at 73
Jun 19 J. M. [James Matthew] Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (Peter Pan), dies at 77
Jun 25 Colin Clive, British actor (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Mad Love), dies from complications of tuberculosis at 37
Jun 26 Adolf Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82
Jun 28 Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64
Jul 2 Fred L Noonan, US navigator, disappeared over Pacific Ocean

Chester Greenwood (1858-1937)

Jul 5 American inventor (invented earmuffs at 15), dies at 78

Jul 9 Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899)
Jul 10 Attilio Brugnoli, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 56
Jul 10 Johan Bernard Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga), dies at 71

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Jul 11 American composer (An American in Paris, Porgy And Bess, Summertime), dies from a brain tumor at 38

Jul 13 Emmett Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang in the American Old West, dies at 66
Jul 15 Walter Gay, artist, dies
Jul 17 Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, French composer, dies at 73
Jul 18 Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)

Jul 20 Italian inventor and electrical engineer who pioneered work on long distance radio transmission (Nobel 1909), dies of a heart attack at 63

Jul 22 Ted McDonald, Australian cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 43 wickets, BB 5/32; Tasmania, Victoria, Lancashire CCC), dies in car crash at 46
Jul 26 Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle), German-born war photojournalist, dies covering Spanish Civil War aged 26
Jul 28 Joseph Lee, American Father of Playgrounds movement, dies at 88
Jul 28 Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani-Soviet composer, dies at 51

Charles E. Hires (1851-1937)

Jul 31 American pharmacist, inventor and manufacturer of the Hires Root Beer beverage, dies at 85

Aug 6 Annie Horniman, English theater owner (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), dies at 76
Aug 6 Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72
Aug 11 Bakr Sidqi, Iraqi general and dictator, assassinated at 47

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Aug 11 American Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome, House of Mirth), dies at 75

Aug 11 George Morrison, American entrepreneur (owner of Mammoth Caves), commits suicide at 71 [1]
Aug 13 Arthur Plunkett, English civil engineer (designed Sydney Harbour Bridge) (b. 1890)
Aug 14 Sapper, British soldier, novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48
Aug 21 George Wright, American Baseball HOF shortstop (NA pennant 1872-75 Boston Red Stockings; NL pennant 1877-78 Boston Red Caps, 1879 Providence Grays), dies at 90
Aug 22 David C Salas, Antillian writer (Josephina), dies
Aug 23 Albert Roussel, French composer (Rapsodie Flamende), dies at 68

Andrew Mellon (1855-1937)

Aug 26 American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), dies at 82

Aug 27 John Russell Pope, American architect (Jefferson Memorial, National Archives and Records Administration), dies at 63
Aug 28 Frederick Burr Opper, American pioneering cartoonist (Happy Hooligan), dies at 80
Sep 2 Esther de Farmer-of Rich, actress (Kniertje-On hope of blessing), dies
Sep 2 Pierre de Coubertin, French educator and historian (founder International Olympic Committee; President IOC 1896–1925), dies of a heart attack at 74
Sep 4 Giovanni Salviucci, Italian composer, dies at 29
Sep 6 Henry Kimball Hadley, American composer (Bianca; Streets of Pekin), and conductor (San Francisco Symphony, 1915-18), dies of cancer at 65
Sep 10 Sergei Tretyakov, Russian constructivist writer, playwright and special correspondent for Pravda, executed by Stalinist regime at 47
Sep 13 Ellis Parker Butler, American author (Pigs is Pigs), dies at 67

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937)

Sep 14 Czech philosopher and 1st President of Czechoslovakia (1918-35), dies at 87

Sep 15 Clifford Heatherley, English actor (For Love or Money, Cash), dies at 48
Sep 21 Henri Capitant, French lawyer (Loi Falcidie), dies at 72
Sep 23 Caro Roma [Carrie Northey], American composer and singer, dies at 68
Sep 24 Clarence Larkin, American prison warden (Folsom Prison, California), dies from injuries inflicted during attempted prison break at 46
Sep 26 Bessie Smith, American blues singer known as the "Empress of the Blues" (recorded over 200 songs), dies of injuries sustained in car crash at 43
Sep 26 Edward A. Filene, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, dies at 77
Sep 29 Ray Ewry, American track and field athlete (8 Olympic golds 1900, 04, 08), dies at 63
Oct 9 August de Boeck, Flemish composer, dies at 72
Oct 9 George August Alexander Alting von Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73
Oct 15 James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail), dies from a heart attack at 70
Oct 16 Jean de Brunhoff, French children's book author (Babar the Elephant), dies at 37
Oct 16 William Sealy Gosset, English statistician (Student's t-distribution), dies at 61
Oct 19 Betty Carver, wife of English WWII Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, dies

Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)

Oct 19 New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), dies of intestinal paralysis at 66

Oct 21 Lucy Diggs Slowe, American educator (Dean of Women, Howard University, 1922-37), tennis champion (American Tennis Association, 1917), and sorority co-founder (Alpha Kappa Alpha, 1908), dies at 52
Oct 22 Frank Damrosch, German-born American author and music teacher (founded New York Musical Institute of Musical Art, later Julliard), dies at 88
Oct 26 Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies, dies at 70
Nov 2 Maude Valérie White, French-born English composer, dies at 82
Nov 3 Winthrop Ames, American theatrical director (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), dies at 66
Nov 4 Rogelio del Villar, Spanish composer, dies at 61
Nov 5 Jack McAuliffe, Irish-American boxer and undefeated World Lightweight champion (1886-93), dies at 71
Nov 6 Johnston Forbes-Robertson, British actor and theatre director (Kathleen), dies at 84

Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937)

Nov 9 British Prime Minister (Labour: 1924, 1929-35), dies of natural causes at sea on board the liner Reina del Pacifico at 71

Nov 10 Nikolai Batalov, Russian actor (Tretya meshchanskaya, Mother), dies from tuberculosis at 37
Nov 13 Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress and writer (Rocky Mountain Mystery, The Heart of Maryland), dies at 75
Nov 14 Jack O'Connor, American baseball catcher (Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Browns) and manager (St. Louis Browns), dies at 71
Nov 17 Jack Worrall, Australian cricket batsman (11 Tests, 5 x 50s; Victoria CA) and VFL premiership coach (Carlton 1906, 07, 08; Essendon 1911, 12), dies at 76
Nov 23 George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
Nov 23 Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, ploymath and writer, dies at 78
Nov 23 Louis Victor Saar, Dutch-American composer, dies at 68
Nov 25 Lilian Mary Baylis, English theatrical manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater), dies at 63
Dec 3 Prosper Poullet, Belgian politician (Prime Minister of Belgium 1925-26), dies at 69

Gustaf Dalén (1869-1937)

Dec 9 Swedish physicist and industrialist (AGA, Nobel Prize in Physics 1912), dies at 68

Dec 12 Alfred Abel, actor (Dr Mabuse, Metropolis), dies at 57
Dec 18 Sandford Schultz, English cricket all-rounder (1 Test, 1 wicket, 20 runs; Cambridge University, Lancashire CCC), dies at 80

Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937)

Dec 20 German general during World War I, dies of liver cancer at 72

Frank Kellogg (1856-1937)

Dec 21 American politician and diplomat (US Secretary of State, 1925-29), tried to outlaw war (Kellogg–Briand Pact: Nobel Peace Prize, 1929), dies at 80

Dec 21 Ted Healy [Ernest Nash], American vaudeville, stage, and screen actor, comedian (Mad Love, San Francisco, Soup to Nuts), and developer of the Three Stooges, dies from complications of alcoholism at 41
Dec 26 Ivor Gurney, English composer and poet, dies of tuberculosis at 47

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Dec 28 French composer, pianist and conductor (Daphnis et Chloé; Boléro), dies at 62

Dec 29 Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)

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