Famous people who died in 1937

Famous people who died on 1937

John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)

American business magnate and philanthropist

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937)

American aviator and writer

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)

American writer

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937)

New Zealand-British physicist

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937)

Italian inventor and developed Marconi's law, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow (1911 - 1937)

American actress

George Gershwin

George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)

American music composer and pianist

J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)

Scottish author

Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith (1894 - 1937)

American singer

Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)

Austrian psychologist

Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)

French composer

J. Bruce Ismay

J. Bruce Ismay (1862 - 1937)

English businessman

Erich Ludendorff

Erich Ludendorff (1865 - 1937)

German general

Ramsay MacDonald

Ramsay MacDonald (1866 - 1937)

Scottish politician

Pierre de Coubertin

Pierre de Coubertin (1863 - 1937)

French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee

Horacio Quiroga

Horacio Quiroga (1878 - 1937)

Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright

Lou Andreas-Salomé

Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861 - 1937)

Russian-German psychoanalyst and author

Elihu Root

Elihu Root (1845 - 1937)

American politician

Wallace Carothers

Wallace Carothers (1896 - 1937)

American organic chemist

Karol Szymanowski

Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937)

Polish composer and pianist

Don Marquis

Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)

American columnist and playwright

Elihu Thomson

Elihu Thomson (1853 - 1937)

American inventor

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

American author

Marta Cunningham

Marta Cunningham (1869 - 1937)

American musician

Antonio Gramsci

Antonio Gramsci (1891 - 1937)

Italian philosopher and theorist