List of Famous people who died in 1937

Angelo Giacinto Scapardini, O.P. was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent a decade preaching throughout Italy, then served as a papal diplomat in Latin America for ten years, and ended his career leading the Diocese of Vigevano from 1921 to 1937.

Gina Oselio was a Norwegian operatic mezzo-soprano. Her signature role was the title heroine in Georges Bizet's Carmen.

Robert Fernand Bernard, Viscount de Montessus de Ballore was a French mathematician, known for his work on continued fractions and Padé approximants.

Josef Pekař was a prominent Czech historian of the turn of 19th and 20th century, professor and rector of Charles University in Prague.

Joseph Bruce Ismay was an English businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line. In 1912, he came to international attention as the highest-ranking White Star official to survive the sinking of the company's new flagship RMS Titanic, for which he was subject to severe criticism.

Rowland Edmund Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle, was a British agricultural expert, administrator, journalist, author and Conservative politician. He played first-class cricket between 1875 and 1883.

Al Boasberg was an American comedy writer in vaudeville, radio, and film, as well as being a film director.

Viggo Dorph-Petersen was a Danish architect He is best known for designing French chateaus including Château d'Aubiry.

Adrien Buttafocchi was a French racing cyclist. He rode the Tour de France in 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1934, but he never finished one.

Alessandro Lustig or Alessandro Lustig Piacezzi was an Austrian-Italian pathologist who worked on a number of infectious diseases and their management. He developed approaches to boost immunity against plague, worked on approaches in the management of malaria and established the Institute of General Experimental Pathology and Bacteriology at the Royal University of Florence in 1923. He served as a senator from 1911, holding important positions in several universities.