List of Famous people who died in 1937

Frank Billings Kellogg was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authored the Kellogg–Briand Pact, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alfred Cholmeley Earle Welby was a Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton from 1895 until 1906. He had previously served in the British Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1892. He stood unsuccessfully for the Conservatives in 1885, 1886 and 1892 prior to gaining his seat in Taunton. In 1906 he opted not to stand again in Taunton, but to contest the seat in East Finsbury, but was defeated. He was a London County Councillor from 1907 to 1910, and during the First World War, he was secretary of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation.

Nikolai Nikolayevich Durnovo was a Russian linguist. He was sentenced to death and shot during the Great Purge.

Sir Alexander Nelson Hood, 5th Duke of Bronte of Castello di Maniace, Bronte and La Falconara, Taormina, both in Sicily, and of 13 Pelham Crescent, South Kensington, London, was a British courtier and Sicilian nobleman. "Discreetly homosexual" and described by his Sicilian biographer as "intelligent and refined", he was well-respected and liked by the Brontese, and spent six months of each year resident at Maniace until his old age. He was, like many contemporaries in his pre-World War II aristocratic circle, a "great admirer of Mussolini and the Fascist regime".

Admiral Sir Arthur Murray Farquhar, was a British Royal Navy officer in the years before the First World War.

William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.

Charles Henderson was the 35th Governor of Alabama from 1915 to 1919 and a member of the Democratic Party. Before serving as governor, Henderson was mayor of Troy, Alabama from 1886 to 1906 and played a key role in Troy’s business and civic development. After his term as governor, Henderson remained active in the community. In 1937, after a bout with influenza, Henderson suffered a stroke and died at age 76. The public high school and middle school in Troy bear his name.

Feodor Feodorovich Koenemann was Russian pianist, composer and music teacher.

Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky or Volodymyr Ipolytovych Lypsky was a Ukrainian scientist, botanist; a member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the Director of the Botanical Gardens of the Odessa University.