1937 Deaths
- Davidson, Harold (30 July)
- Earhart, Amelia (2 July)
- Gershwin, George (11 July)
- Lovecraft, H.P. (15 March)
- Marconi, Guglielmo (20 July)
- Rockefeller, John D. Sr. (23 May)
- Rutherford, Ernest (19 October)
- Smith, Bessie (26 September)
- Wharton, Edith (11 August)