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Birthdays

January 1 - Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995)
January 3 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
January 4 - Grace Bumbry, American singer
January 4 - Dyan Cannon, American actress
January 6 - Doris Troy, American singer (d. 2004)
January 6 - Paolo Conte, Italian singer
January 6 - Lou Holtz, American football coach
January 8 - Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
January 10 - Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
January 12 - Marie Dubois, French actress
January 12 - Shirley Eaton, British actress
January 12 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (d. 2002)
January 14 - Ken Higgs, English cricketer
January 14 - Erland Kops, Danish badminton player
January 14 - Shoban Babu, Indian actor
January 15 - Margaret O'Brien, American actress
January 16 - Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress
January 16 - Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver
January 18 - John Hume, Northern Irish politician
January 20 - Dorothy Provine, American singer
January 21 - Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
January 22 - Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, American author
January 25 - Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic
January 25 - Judith Ann Mayotte, American humanitarian
January 26 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)
January 27 - John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
January 30 - Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
January 30 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
January 30 - Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
January 31 - Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
January 31 - Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
January 31 - Philip Glass, American composer
January 31 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)
February 1 - Don Everly, American musician (Everly Brothers)
February 1 - Garrett Morris, American comedian
February 1 - Ray Sawyer, American singer (Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show)
February 2 - Don Buford, American
February 2 - Remak Ramsay, American actor
February 2 - Tom Smothers, American musician and comedian
February 4 - David Newman, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
February 5 - Stuart Damon, American actor
February 5 - Gaston Roelants, Belgian athlete
February 5 - Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist (d. 2006)
February 7 - Juan Pizarro, Major League Baseball pitcher
February 8 - Manfred Krug, German actor
February 9 - Clete Boyer, American baseball player (d. 2007)
February 10 - Roberta Flack, American singer
February 11 - Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
February 11 - Eddie Shack, Canadian ice hockey player
February 12 - Charles Dumas, American athlete (d. 2004)
February 13 - Ali El-Maak, Sudanese writer (d. 1992)
February 15 - Gregory Mcdonald, American author
February 16 - Yuri Manin, Russian mathematician
February 19 - Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr., American blues guitarist
February 20 - Robert Huber, German chemist
February 20 - Roger Penske, American racing driver
February 20 - Nancy Wilson, American singer
February 21 - King Harald V of Norway,
February 21 - Gary Lockwood, American actor
February 23 - Tom Osborne, American football coach and politician
February 25 - Tom Courtenay, English actor
February 25 - Bob Schieffer, American broadcast journalist
February 25 - Barbara Piasecka Johnson, widow of John Seward Johnson I
February 26 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
February 27 - David Ackles, American singer songwriter (d. 1999)
February 27 - Barbara Babcock, American actress
March 1 - Jed Allan, American actor
March 2 - Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
March 3 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)
March 4 - Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
March 4 - Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
March 4 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
March 4 - Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
March 5 - Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, President of Nigeria
March 6 - Ivan Boesky, American stock trader
March 6 - Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
March 8 - Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
March 9 - Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003
March 9 - Brian Redman, English racing driver
March 10 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)
March 11 - Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor
March 16 - Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996)
March 17 - Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (Dolemite) (d. 2008)
March 17 - Adam Wade, American singer and actor
March 18 - Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)
March 18 - Rudi Altig, German cyclist
March 19 - Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American musician
March 19 - Egon Krenz, President of East Germany
March 20 - Jerry Reed, American singer and actor
March 22 - Angelo Badalamenti, American composer
March 22 - Armin Hary, German athlete
March 23 - Craig Breedlove, American land speed record holder
March 23 - Robert Gallo, American physician
March 24 - Billy Stewart, American singer (d. 1970)
March 25 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
March 26 - Wayne Embry, American basketball player
March 27 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
March 28 - Liz Trotta, American journalist
March 29 - Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (d. 1988)
March 30 - Warren Beatty, American actor and director
April 2 - Dick Radatz, American baseball player (d. 2005)
April 5 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
April 5 - Allan R. Thieme, American inventor
April 6 - Merle Haggard, American musician
April 6 - Billy Dee Williams, American actor
April 8 - Seymour Hersh, American journalist
April 9 - Marty Krofft, Canadian children's television producer
April 10 - Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet
April 13 - Edward Fox, English actor
April 13 - Lanford Wilson, American playwright
April 15 - Bob Luman, American country singer (d. 1978)
April 17 - Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive
April 18 - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin
April 19 - Elinor Donahue, American actress
April 19 - Joseph Estrada, actor and 13th President of the Philippines
April 20 - George Takei, American actor
April 22 - Jack Nicholson, American actor
April 22 - Jack Nitzsche, American composer (d. 2000)
April 24 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
April 27 - Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
April 27 - Robin Eames, Northern Irish clergyman
April 28 - Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006)
April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh, English writer
May 1 - Una Stubbs, English actress
May 2 - Lorenzo Music, American actor (d. 2001)
May 3 - Nélida Piñon, Brazilian writer
May 4 - Ron Carter, American jazz bassist
May 4 - Dick Dale, American guitarist
May 4 - Mr. Fuji, Former professional wrestler
May 5 - Johnnie Taylor, American singer (d. 2000)
May 6 - Rubin Carter, American boxer
May 7 - Claude Raymond, Quebec baseball player
May 8 - Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian politician
May 8 - Thomas Pynchon, American novelist
May 8 - Mike Cuellar, baseball player
May 9 - José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
May 9 - David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (d. 1988)
May 10 - Tamara Press, Soviet athlete
May 10 - Jim Hickman, American baseball player
May 12 - Beryl Burton, British cyclist (d. 1996)
May 12 - George Carlin, American comedian (d. 2008)
May 12 - Susan Hampshire, British actress
May 13 - Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
May 13 - Roger Zelazny, American author (d. 1995)
May 13 - Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio
May 13 - Zohra Lampert, American actress
May 15 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
May 15 - Trini López, American musician
May 16 - Yvonne Craig, American actress
May 17 - Hazel R. O'Leary, United States Secretary of Energy
May 18 - Brooks Robinson, American baseball player
May 18 - Jacques Santer, Luxembourg statesman
May 19 - Pat Roach, English actor and wrestler (d. 2004)
May 27 - Allan Carr, American film producer and writer (d. 1999)
May 29 - Charles W. Pickering, American judge
May 29 - Irmin Schmidt, German musician (Can)
May 30 - Harry Statham, American basketball coach
June 1 - Morgan Freeman, American actor
June 1 - Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
June 1 - Colleen McCullough, Australian novelist (The Thorn Birds)
June 2 - Sally Kellerman, American actress
June 2 - Jimmy Jones (singer), American singer and songwriter
June 3 - Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician
June 3 - Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)
June 4 - Freddy Fender, American musician (d. 2006)
June 4 - Robert Fulghum, American author
June 4 - Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
June 4 - Mortimer Zuckerman, American publisher
June 7 - Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
June 9 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
June 11 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist
June 11 - Johnny Brown, American comic
June 12 - Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician
June 12 - Antal Festetics, Austrian biologist
June 13 - Erich Ribbeck, German football player/manager
June 14 - Jørgen Leth, Danish film director
June 15 - Waylon Jennings, American singer (d. 2002)
June 16 - Erich Segal, American author
June 16 - Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tsar of Bulgaria
June 18 - Wray Carlton, American football player
June 18 - John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator
June 18 - Vitali Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
June 20 - Jerry Keller, pop singer and songwriter
June 23 - Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland
June 23 - Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets)
June 26 - Sombat Metanee, Thai film actor
June 26 - Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist
June 28 - Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
June 28 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
June 28 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (d. 1995)
July 2 - Polly Holliday, American actress
July 2 - Richard Petty, American race car driver
July 3 - Tom Stoppard, Czech-born
July 4 - Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway (spouse of King Harald V of Norway)
July 4 - Thomas Nagel, American philosopher
July 6 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian-born pianist and conductor
July 6 - Ned Beatty, American actor
July 6 - Gene Chandler, American singer
July 7 - Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator
July 9 - David Hockney, English artist
July 11 - Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
July 12 - Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor
July 12 - Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France 1997-2002
July 12 - Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer
July 14 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
July 16 - Richard Bryan, American politician
July 18 - Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist
July 18 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
July 19 - George Hamilton IV, American country singer
July 20 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008)
July 22 - Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
July 22 - John Price, Former England cricketer
July 22 - Vasant Ranjane, Former Indian cricketer
July 23 - Dave Webster, Led his football team to a National Championship in 1958
July 24 - Manoj Kumar, Indian actor
July 25 - Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
July 27 - Don Galloway, American actor
July 28 - Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
July 29 - Daniel McFadden, American economist
August 1 - Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York
August 2 - Billy Cannon, American football player
August 2 - Garth Hudson, Canadian musician (The Band)
August 3 - Steven Berkoff, English actor
August 3 - Duncan Sharpe, Former Pakistani cricketer
August 4 - David Bedford, English musician
August 5 - Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (d. 2003)
August 6 - Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
August 6 - Barbara Windsor, English actress
August 7 - Don Wilson, England cricketer
August 8 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
August 10 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician
August 12 - Walter Dean Myers, African-American author
August 16 - David Anderson, Canadian politician
August 20 - Jim Bowen, English comedian
August 20 - El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
August 20 - Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director
August 21 - Robert Stone, American novelist
August 24 - Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
August 27 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (d. 2007)
August 27 - Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
August 29 - James Florio, American politician
August 30 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team (d. 1970)
August 31 - Warren Berlinger, American actor
August 31 - Bobby Parker, American blues musician/guitarist
September 1 - Al Geiberger, American golfer
September 1 - Ron O'Neal, American actor
September 2 - Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive
September 2 - Derek Fowlds, British actor
September 4 - Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
September 4 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor and director (d. 2006)
September 5 - Antonio Valentin Angelillo, Argentinian footballer
September 5 - Colin Wesley, South African cricketer
September 5 - William Devane, American actor
September 6 - Sergio Aragon¨¦s, Spanish-born illustrator
September 6 - Brigid Berlin, American actor
September 6 - Jo Anne Worley, American actress
September 7 - John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
September 7 - Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
September 7 - Oleg Lobov, Prime Minister of Russia
September 8 - Barbara Frum, Canadian news anchor (d. 1992)
September 8 - Virna Lisi, Italian actress
September 8 - Sam Nunn, American politician
September 10 - Jared Diamond, American biologist and author
September 11 - Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
September 11 - Queen Paola Ruffo di Calabria of Belgium,
September 11 - Robert Crippen, American astronaut
September 12 - George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
September 13 - Don Bluth, American animator
September 14 - Renzo Piano, Italian architect
September 15 - Robert Lucas, Jr.
September 15 - Fernando de la Rúa, 51st President of Argentina
September 16 - Alexander Medved, Russian wrestler
September 17 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
September 18 - Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player
September 19 - Abner Haynes, American football player
September 20 - Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician
September 20 - Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
September 26 - Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician (d. 2003)
September 26 - Jerry Weintraub, American film producer
September 28 - Alice Mahon, English politician and labor leader
September 28 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
September 30 - Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer
October 2 - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., American attorney (d. 2005)
October 4 - Jackie Collins, British author
October 4 - Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
October 5 - Barry Switzer, American football coach
October 7 - Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
October 9 - Brian Blessed, English actor
October 11 - Sir Bobby Charlton, English footballer
October 11 - R. H. W. Dillard, American poet
October 12 - Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (d. 1969)
October 12 - Robert Mangold, American artist
October 13 - Sami Frey, French actor
October 16 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza
October 17 - Paxton Whitehead, English actor
October 18 - Cynthia Weil, American songwriter
October 19 - Peter Max, American artist
October 19 - Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer
October 20 - Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
October 20 - Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer
October 22 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982)
October 24 - Santo Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny)
October 27 - Lara Parker, American actress
October 28 - Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player and coach
October 30 - Claude Lelouch, French film director
October 31 - Tom Paxton, American singer-songwriter
November 1 - Bill Anderson, American country music singer and songwriter
November 2 - Earl Carroll, lead vocalist of The Cadillacs
November 4 - Loretta Swit, American actress
November 4 - Michael Wilson, Canadian politician
November 5 - Harris Yulin, American actor
November 6 - Joe Warfield, American actor
November 7 - Mary Travers, American folk singer (Peter
November 9 - Roger McGough, English poet
November 9 - Clyde Wells, Canadian politician
November 10 - Albert Hall, American actor
November 11 - Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat
November 14 - Murray Oliver, Canadian ice hockey player
November 15 - Little Willie John, American singer (d. 1968)
November 15 - Yaphet Kotto, American actor
November 17 - Peter Cook, British comedian (d. 1995)
November 20 - René Kollo, German tenor
November 20 - Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005)
November 20 - Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish cross-country skier
November 20 - Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright
November 21 - Marlo Thomas, American actress
November 26 - Boris Yegorov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1994)
November 27 - Gail Sheehy, American writer
November 30 - Ridley Scott, British film director
November 30 - Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Writer
November 30 - Frank Ifield, Australian/British singer
November 30 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (d. 1967)
December 1 - Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2005)
December 1 - Chuck Low, American actor
December 1 - Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia
December 3 - Bobby Allison, American race car driver
December 3 - Binod Bihari Verma, Indian linguist
December 4 - Max Baer, Jr.
December 6 - Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2006)
December 7 - Thad Cochran, American politician
December 8 - James MacArthur, American actor
December 8 - Arne Næss Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004)
December 9 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
December 11 - Jim Harrison, American writer
December 12 - Buford Pusser, American sheriff (d. 1974)
December 13 - Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player
December 16 - Joyce Bulifant, American actress
December 17 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
December 17 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
December 17 - Calvin Waller, US Army general (d. 1996)
December 21 - Jane Fonda, American actress
December 21 - Donald F. Munson, American politician
December 22 - Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer
December 23 - Edward Irving Wortis, American author
December 23 - Barney Rosenzweig, American television producer
December 24 - Félix Miéli Venerando, Brazilian football player
December 25 - O'Kelly Isley, Jr.
December 26 - John Horton Conway, British mathematician
December 26 - Jay Heimowitz, American poker player
December 28 - Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
December 29 - Wayne Huizenga, American football team owner
December 29 - Barbara Steele, British actress
December 30 - Gordon Banks, English footballer
December 30 - John Hartford, American musician (d. 2001)
December 30 - Jim Marshall, American football player
December 30 - Noel Paul Stookey, American folk singer (Peter
December 31 - Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist
December 31 - Sir Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor

Deaths

January 5 - Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864)
January 6 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
January 14 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet
January 21 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
January 23 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
January 28 - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862)
February 3 - Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (b. 1887)
February 5 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
February 7 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat
March 8 - Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
March 9 - Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
March 10 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
March 11 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
March 12 - Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
March 12 - Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (b. 1858)
March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
March 17 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman
March 29 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
April 17 - Yi Sang, Korean Poet (b. 1910)
April 19 - William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
April 25 - Micha³ Drzyma³a, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
April 27 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
April 29 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
May 1 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (b. 1868)
May 4 - Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
May 10 - William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (b. 1876)
May 13 - Ekaterina Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin (b. 1858)
May 15 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
May 23 - John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1839)
May 28 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
June 2 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
June 7 - Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
June 10 - Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
June 11 - R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell, British aircraft designer (b. 1895)
June 12 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
June 18 - Gaston Doumergue, French statesman (b. 1863)
June 19 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (b. 1860)
June 25 - Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
July 9 - Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899)
July 11 - George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
July 18 - Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)
July 20 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor
August 11 - Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)
August 13 - Arthur Plunkett, Australian civil engineer (b. unknown)
August 23 - Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)
September 2 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
September 10 - Sergei Tretyakov, Russian writer (b. 1892)
September 14 - Tomáš Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
September 26 - Bessie Smith, American singer (b. 1894)
September 29 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (b. 1873)
October 16 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
October 19 - Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
October 26 - Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
November 6 - Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
November 9 - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
November 14 - Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)
November 17 - Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer (b. 1860)
November 23 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
November 23 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
December 9 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist
December 20 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
December 21 - Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State
December 28 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)
December 29 - Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878)

Events

January 1 - Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain.
January 19 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
January 20 - Franklin Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4.
January 23 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
January 25 - The Guiding Light airs on radio for the first time. Also went to television making this show the longest running broadcast program in United States radio and television history.
February 11 - A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers Union.
February 16 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.
February 19 - During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
February 21 - Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.
February 21 - The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
March 2 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a surprise collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
March 14 - Pope Pius XI officially issued the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge to Nazi Germany.
March 18 - The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
March 18 - Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
March 18 - The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Milan.
March 21 - Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-yr-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed PR Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
April 1 - Aden becomes a British crown colony.
April 9 - The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London
April 12 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England.
April 26 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
April 30 - The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
May 3 - Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
May 6 - Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
May 7 - Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
May 12 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey.
May 21 - A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
May 27 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
May 28 - The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
May 28 - Neville Chamberlain becomes British Prime Minister.
June 3 - The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
June 11 - Great Purge: The Soviet Union executes eight army leaders under Joseph Stalin.
June 14 - Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
June 14 - U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
June 29 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
July 2 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
July 5 - Spam, the luncheon meat, was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
July 5 - Highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan: 45°C (113°F).
July 7 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge
July 22 - New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
July 24 - Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys".
July 26 - End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
July 29 - Tongzhou Incident
August 1 - Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
August 2 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
August 13 - Battle of Shanghai begins.
August 14 - The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases. 14 August has thus become acknowledged and celebrated as Chinese Air Force Day.
August 24 - In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
August 28 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
September 5 - Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls.
September 6 - Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
September 21 - J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
September 22 - Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
September 27 - Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
November 1 - Stalinists executed by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community (including three women).
November 5 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
November 8 - The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
November 9 - Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
December 9 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing
December 11 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
December 12 - Panay incident: Japanese aircraft shell and sink US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River in China.
December 13 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing
December 13 - Nanjing Massacre. Japanese troops begin carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of Nanjing.
December 16 - Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
December 22 - The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
December 23 - First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
December 29 - The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

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