List of Famous people who died in 1937

William Morgan Butler was a lawyer and legislator for the State of Massachusetts, and a United States Senator.

Ruth Roland was an American stage and film actress and film producer.

Mélanie Hélène Bonis, known as Mel Bonis, was a prolific French late-Romantic composer. She wrote more than 300 pieces, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, mélodies, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. She attended the Paris Conservatoire, where her teachers included Cesar Franck, Ernest Guiraud, and Auguste Bazille.

Clarence Halliday, also known as Clarence Holiday, was an American musician. He was the father of the singer Billie Holiday.

Ilya Ilf, pseudonym of Iehiel-Leyb Arnoldovich Faynzilberg, was a popular Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin who usually worked in collaboration with Yevgeni Petrov during the 1920s and 1930s. Their duo was known simply as Ilf and Petrov. Together they published two popular comedy novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931), as well as a satirical book Odnoetazhnaya Amerika that documented their journey through the United States between 1935 and 1936.

Captain Alexander Victor Drummond was an English cricketer. Drummond's batting and bowling styles are unknown.

The Honourable Lois Sturt was one of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s. Later the lover of the Earl of Pembroke and the Duke of Kent, she married Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar.

Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen was an English journalist, businessman, and commentator on naval affairs who devised a new computerised fire-control system for use on battleships prior to the First World War. His most important technical innovation was one of the world's first electrically-powered analogue computers, patented as the Argo Clock: a differential analyser which enabled big guns to engage with long-range targets when both ships were moving at speed in different directions.

Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly, PC, DL, JP, styled Lord Strathavon until 1853 and Earl of Aboyne between 1853 and 1863, was a Scottish Liberal politician. He served under William Ewart Gladstone, he was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms between January and June 1881.

Arthur William FitzRoy Somerset was an English first-class cricketer. Though hailing from Chatham, Kent, Somerset moved to Castle Goring, a country house now in the town of Worthing in Sussex, and former home of Sir Bysshe Shelley, grandfather of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.