List of Famous people who died in 1937

Charles A. Sellon was an American stage and film actor.

Frederic-Hans von Rosenberg was a German diplomat and politician. He served as Reichsaußenminister in the cabinet of Wilhelm Cuno in 1922–1923.

William Sealy Gosset was an English statistician, chemist and brewer who served as Head Brewer of Guinness and Head Experimental Brewer of Guinness and was a pioneer of modern statistics. He pioneered small sample experimental design and analysis with an economic approach to the logic of uncertainty. Gosset published under the pen name Student and developed most famously Student's t-distribution – originally called Student's "z" – and "Student's test of statistical significance".

Robert "Robin" John Tillyard FRS was an English–Australian entomologist and geologist.

Lucy Beaumont was an English actress of the stage and screen from Bristol.

Snitz Edwards was a stage and character actor of the early years of the silent film era into the 1930s.

Ross Alexander was an American stage and film actor.

Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon.