List of Famous people who died in 1937

Harriet Bagwell was an Irish philanthropist and promoter of local cottage industry.

Henry Hobhouse was an English landowner and Liberal, and from 1886 Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.

Colonel Hercules Arthur Pakenham was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Ernest Louis was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 1892 until 1918.

Orso Mario Corbino was an Italian physicist and politician. He served as the minister for education in 1921 and as the minister for economy in 1921. He also served as professor in Messina (1905) and in Rome (1908). He is noted for his studies of the influence of external magnetic fields on the motion of electrons in metals and he discovered the Corbino effect. Corbino worked with Damiano Macaluso where they discovered the Macaluso-Corbino effect, a strong magneto-rotation of the plane of polarization observed at wavelengths close to an absorption line of the material through which the light is travelling. As director of the Institute of physics he was the supervisor of Enrico Fermi, Edoardo Amaldi, Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segrè, Bruno Pontecorvo, Oscar D'Agostino, Ettore Majorana.

Marie Prevost was a Canadian-born film actress. During her 20-year career, she made 121 silent and sound films.

Anthony Ahasuerus Hendrik Sweijs was a Dutch sports shooter who competed in the early 20th century in pistol shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won a bronze medal with the Dutch pistol team.

Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, politician and the younger sister of Vladimir Lenin and Anna Ulyanova.

Vincenzo Lancia was an Italian racing driver, engineer and founder of Lancia.