List of Famous people who died in 1937

Paul Graetz was a German actor and star of the Weimar cabaret.

Henry McBride was a Washington State pioneer, lawyer, and politician. McBride served as the state's 4th lieutenant-governor from 1900 to 1901 and 4th governor of Washington State in 1901–1905.

Julius Stieglitz was an American chemist of German Jewish origin. He was a teacher and organic chemist with a major interest in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry. He is known for the Stieglitz rearrangement, a rearrangement reaction in organic chemistry which commonly involves the formation of imines from hydroxylamines through a carbon to nitrogen shift, comparable to the key step of a Beckmann rearrangement.

Paul Julius Arndt was a German classical archaeologist born in Dresden.

Vitaliy Markovich Primakov was a Soviet military leader and revolutionary, commander of the Red Cossacks corps, and part of the Red Army. He was a close friend of Kotsiubynsky family and a son-in-law of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky.

Victor Alexandre Frederic Laloux was a French Beaux-Arts architect and teacher.

Newton Diehl Baker Jr. was an American lawyer, Georgist, politician, and government official. He served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915. As U.S. Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921, Baker presided over the United States Army during World War I.