List of Famous people who died in 1937

Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton was a British composer, pianist, and Professor of piano at the Royal College of Music 1884–1910.

Nikolai Petrovich Batalov was a Russian actor. He performed in a number of notable films between 1924 and 1931.

Henry Augustus Milles was an English cricketer who played in four first-class cricket matches towards the end of the 19th century. Milles a member of the Sondes family and was styled The Honourable Henry Augustus Milles from 1880 when the title was created for his father. In 1900 he changed his surname to Henry Augustus Milles-Lade.

William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel,, known as The Viscount Peel from 1912 to 1929, was a British politician.

Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist, the most celebrated Polish composer of the early 20th century. He is considered a member of the late 19th-/early 20th-century modernist movement Young Poland and widely viewed as one of the greatest Polish composers.

Sergey Ivanovich Syrtsov was a Russian Soviet politician and statesman. Syrtsov is best remembered for having served as the head of the republic government of the Russian SFSR from 1929 until his removal in 1930 for political plotting for the removal of Joseph Stalin as head of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks).