List of Famous people who born in 1937

Nancy Wilson

Nancy Sue Wilson
First Name Nancy
Last Name Wilson
Born on February 20, 1937
Died on December 13, 2018 (aged 81)

Nancy Sue Wilson was an American singer and actress whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist". She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice".

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Trini Lopez

First Name Trini
Last Name Lopez
Born on May 15, 1937
Died on August 11, 2020 (aged 83)

Trinidad López III was an American singer, guitarist, and actor. His first album included a cover version of Pete Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer", which earned a Golden Disc for him. His other hits included "Lemon Tree", "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy" and "Sally Was a Good Old Girl". He designed two guitars for the Gibson Guitar Corporation, which are now collectors’ items.

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Emi Wada

First Name Emi
Last Name Wada
Born on March 18, 1937
Died on November 13, 2021 (aged 84)

Emi Wada is an Academy Award-winning theatrical, movie and ballet costume designer from Japan. Her work for the 2015 production of The Peony Pavilion was described by The Washington Post as "some of the loveliest ballet creations in memory" with the newspaper further noting that: "Skirt hems flickered like flames as the dancers moved, and the leading ballerina’s sheer overdress floated around her like an afterglow."

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Boris Cyrulnik

First Name Boris
Last Name Cyrulnik
Born on July 26, 1937 (age 88)

Boris Cyrulnik is a French doctor, ethologist, neurologist, and psychiatrist.

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Jim Bowen

Peter Williams
First Name Jim
Last Name Bowen
Born on August 20, 1937
Died on March 14, 2018 (aged 80)

James Brown Whittaker, known professionally as Jim Bowen, was an English stand-up comedian and television personality. He was the long-time host of the ITV game show Bullseye, which he presented from its beginning in 1981 through to the end of its original run in 1995.

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Derek Fowlds

First Name Derek
Last Name Fowlds
Born on September 2, 1937
Died on January 17, 2020 (aged 82)

Derek James Fowlds was an English actor, known for his appearances in popular TV series including The Basil Brush Show, Yes Minister and Heartbeat.

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Jill Gascoine

First Name Jill
Born on April 11, 1937
Died on April 28, 2020 (aged 83)

Jill Viola Gascoine was an English actress and novelist. She was Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series The Gentle Touch and its spin-off series C.A.T.S. Eyes. In the 1990s, she also became a novelist and published three books.

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Sobhan Babu

First Name Sobhan
Last Name Babu
Born on January 14, 1937
Died on March 20, 2008 (aged 71)
Born in India

Sobhan Babu was an Indian film actor known for his works exclusively in Telugu cinema. He made his film debut in Bhakta Shabari (1959), but Daivabalam (1959), was released earlier at the box office. Sobhan babu has garnered five state Nandi Awards for Best Actor, and four Filmfare Awards for Best Telugu Actor.

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Linda Lavin

First Name Linda
Last Name Lavin
Born on October 15, 1937 (age 88)
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Linda Lavin is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing the title character in the sitcom Alice and she is also known for her stage performances, both on and Off-Broadway. After acting as a child, Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s. She began acting on Broadway in the 1960s, earning notice in It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman in 1966 and receiving her first Tony Award nomination in Last of the Red Hot Lovers in 1970. She moved to Hollywood in 1973 and began to work on television, making recurring appearances on the sitcom Barney Miller before getting the title role on the hit comedy Alice, which ran from 1976 to 1985. She appeared in many telefilms and later she appeared in other TV works. She has also played roles in several feature films. In 1987, she returned to Broadway, starring in Broadway Bound, Gypsy (1990), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993), The Diary of Anne Frank (1997–1998) and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2000–2001), among others. In 2010, she appeared as Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories, garnering her fifth Tony nomination. She starred in NBC's short-lived sitcom, Sean Saves the World as Lorna and the CBS sitcom 9JKL.

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Klaus-Michael Kühne

First Name Klaus-Michael
Born on June 2, 1937 (age 88)
Born in Germany
Net Worth $26.3B

Klaus-Michael Kühne is a german billionaire businessman. He is the honorary chairman and majority owner (53.30%) of the international transport company Kühne + Nagel, co-founded by his grandfather, August Kühne (1855-1932). In 1963, he joined his father Alfred Kühne (1895–1981) as a junior partner and has lived in Switzerland since 1975, in the city Schindellegi, the location of the Kühne + Nagel headquarters. He became CEO of the company in 1996.

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