List of Famous people who died in 1937

Tekla Wilhelmina Nordström, née Lindeström was a Swedish xylographer.

William Hunter was a Scottish professional football player and manager. He managed the Dutch national side, Austrian club side Hakoah Vienna, Swiss club side Lausanne Sports, the Turkish national side and Galatasaray.

Ahmed Izzet Pasha, , known as Ahmet İzzet Furgaç after the Turkish Surname Law of 1934, was an Ottoman general of ethnic Albanian descent during World War I. He was also one of the last Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire and its last Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Florence Emily Dugdale was a writer of children's stories and the second wife of Thomas Hardy. She was credited as the author of Hardy's posthumously published biography, The Life of Thomas Hardy, although it was written by Thomas Hardy himself in his old age.

Alaksandar Ćvikievič was a Belarusian politician, historian, jurist, philosopher and a victim of Stalin's purges. He served as a Prime Minister of Belarus in exile for two years from 23 August 1923 until October 1925. His interest featured philosophy and history. He worked as a jurist and lawyer. He was also a professor in National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Ahmad Javad was an Azerbaijani poet. Javad is most remembered for writing the words of the National Anthem of Azerbaijan, which was used during the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan between 1918–1920, and which has been reinstated now that Azerbaijan has regained its freedom, since 1991, and another poem named Çırpınırdı Qaradəniz.

Eero Haapalainen was a Finnish politician, trade unionist and journalist, who was one of the most prominent figures of the Finnish socialist movement in the first two decades of the 1900s. In the 1918 Finnish Civil War he served as the commander-in-chief of the Red Guards. After the war, Haapalainen fled to Soviet Russia where he joined the exile Communist Party of Finland and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was executed during the Great Purge in 1937.

Mírzá Muhammad ʻAlí was one of the sons of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. He was the eldest son of his father's second wife, Fatimih Khanum, later known as Mahd-i-'Ulya, whom Baháʼu'lláh married in Tehran in 1849. Muhammad ʻAlí received the title from his father of G͟husn-i-Akbar.