Born in 1937
People born in 1937 turn 89 in 2026. A dollar in 1937 buys what $23.43 buys in September 2026, and about 2.22 billion people were alive. Every figure below links to the source it came from.
Your birthday in 1937
1937
What things cost in 1937
| U.S. average | 1937 | in today’s dollars | latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| One dollar | $1.00 | $23.43 | CPI-U |
1937 figures are annual averages of the published monthly (or quarterly) values. “Today’s dollars” uses the Consumer Price Index for September 2026; “latest” is the most recent published price. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, via FRED. Average retail prices are only published from 1976 on; 1937 has the CPI alone.
Who was in charge in 1937
- United States
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (President)
- United Kingdom
- George VI (King); Stanley Baldwin, then Neville Chamberlain (Prime minister)
- Soviet Union
- Joseph Stalin (General Secretary); Mikhail Kalinin (Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets); Vyacheslav Molotov (Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars)
- Republic of China (1916–1949)
- Chiang Kai-shek (Premier)
- French Third Republic
- Albert François Lebrun (President); Léon Blum, then Camille Chautemps (President of the Council of ministers)
- Nazi Germany
- Adolf Hitler (Führer); Adolf Hitler (Chancellor)
- Empire of Japan
- Hirohito (Emperor); Kōki Hirota, then Senjūrō Hayashi, then Fumimaro Konoe (Prime minister)
From Wikipedia’s List of state leaders in the 20th century (1901–1950) (revision 1377869146), each name checked against Wikidata. Every country in 1937 →
Famous people born in 1937
- January 1 – Philip Akot Akok Kiir, South Sudanese pastor, former educator and politician source
- 24 December — Viacheslav Chornovil, Soviet dissident and Ukrainian politician (died 1999) source
- December 21 – Jane Fonda, American actress and political activist source
- February 8 – Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (died 2016) source
- 8 February — Manfred Krug, German actor (died 2016) source
- April 5 – Colin Powell, American politician (died 2021) source
- June 1 – Morgan Freeman, African-American actor source
- January 3 – Nadia Lutfi, Egyptian actress (died 2020) source
- December 29 – Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives (1978–2008) source
- 29 December — Dieter Thomas Heck, German actor (died 2018) source
- December 3 – Bobby Allison, American race car driver (died 2024) source
- July 12 – Bill Cosby, African-American actor, comedian, educator and convicted sex offender source
- March 24 – Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th Prime Minister of Barbados (died 2023) source
- March 9 – Paciano Aniceto, Archbishop-emeritus of Archdiocese of San Fernando. source
- March 16 – William L. Armstrong, American politician (died 2016) source
What happened in 1937
- January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. source
- January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. source
- 1 February – The 1937 New Year Honours are announced. source
- January 10: two paved highways are opened by the Minister of Communication: Kraków - Wieliczka (12 km) and Kraków - Katowice (64 km). Warsaw police arrest 13 activists of National Radical Camp (1934), source
- January 14 — Wang Jingwei took a German passenger boat to Shanghai. source
- January 31 – February 2: The 25th Congress of the Polish Socialist Party takes place in Radom. Four people die in a rail crash near Mikołów, source
- 5 January – The founding of the kibbutz Sde Nahum by members of the Sadeh group from the Mikveh Israel agricultural school, as well as Jewish immigrants from Austria, Germany and Poland. source
- January 15 – The Empire Exhibition, South Africa closes in Johannesburg. source