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What Happened In September 1937 In History

Historical Events for September, 1937

  • 5th » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War) known as Nationalists following a one-day siege.
  • 6th » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of El Mazuco commences.
  • 10th » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
  • 22nd » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
  • 25th » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
  • 27th » Balinese Tiger declared extinct.

Famous Birthdays on September in 1937

  • 1st » Al Geiberger, American golfer
  • 2nd » Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
  • 2nd » Derek Fowlds, English actor
  • 2nd » Peter Ueberroth, American businessman
  • 4th » Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer and politician
  • 4th » Gene Ludwig, American organist and composer (d. 2010)
  • 4th » Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor and director (d. 2006)
  • 4th » Virgil A. Richard, American general (d. 2013)
  • 4th » Les Allen, English footballer and manager
  • 4th » Nicholas Worth, American actor (d. 2007)
  • 5th » Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Argentinian footballer and manager
  • 5th » Meg Beresford, English activist
  • 5th » Dick Clement, English director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 5th » William Devane, American actor, director, and screenwriter
  • 5th » Colin Wesley, South African cricketer
  • 6th » Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-Mexican author and illustrator
  • 6th » Janusz Kurczab, Polish fencer and mountaineer
  • 6th » Jo Anne Worley, American actress
  • 7th » Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 7th » John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
  • 7th » Oleg Lobov, Russian politician, List of heads of government of Russia called Premier of the Russian SFSR
  • 7th » Olly Wilson, American pianist, bassist, and composer
  • 8th » Barbara Frum, American-Canadian journalist (d. 1992)
  • 8th » Archie Goodwin (comics) named Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (d. 1998)
  • 10th » Jared Diamond, American biologist, geographer, and author
  • 11th » Robert Crippen, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
  • 11th » Joseph Kobzon, Ukrainian-Russian singer
  • 11th » Queen Paola of Belgium
  • 12th » George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
  • 12th » Wes Hall, Barbadian cricketer and politician
  • 13th » Don Bluth, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Sullivan Bluth Studios and Fox Animation Studios
  • 14th » Renzo Piano, Italian architect, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building
  • 15th » Fernando de la Rúa, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina
  • 15th » Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist and academic, Nobel Prize in Economics known as Nobel Prize laureate
  • 15th » Pino Puglisi, Italian priest and martyr (d. 1993)
  • 16th » Pavel Bobek, Czech singer (d. 2013)
  • 16th » Aleksandr Medved, Belarusian wrestler and coach
  • 16th » Vince Naimoli, American businessman and philanthropist
  • 17th » Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican baseball player
  • 18th » Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 19th » Abner Haynes, American football player
  • 20th » Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Minister for the Environment (Sweden) named Swedish Minister for the Environment
  • 20th » Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear, English police officer
  • 20th » Garry Johnson, English general
  • 20th » Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (d. 2005)
  • 23rd » Jacques Poulin, Canadian author
  • 26th » Valentin Pavlov, Russian banker and politician, 11th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 2003)
  • 26th » Jerry Weintraub, American actor and producer
  • 27th » Vasyl Durdynets, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, 8th Prime Minister of Ukraine
  • 28th » Alice Mahon, English politician
  • 28th » Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (d. 2003)
  • 30th » Jurek Becker, Polish-German author (d. 1997)
  • 30th » Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ukrainian pianist and composer
  • 30th » Gary Hocking, Rhodesian motorcycle racer (d. 1962)

Famous Deaths for September 1937

  • 2nd » Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863)
  • 10th » Sergei Tretyakov, Russian author and playwright (b. 1892)
  • 13th » David Robertson (golfer) or David Robertson, Scottish rugby player and golfer (b. 1869)
  • 14th » Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
  • 26th » Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (b. 1894)
  • 29th » Ray Ewry, American triple jumper (b. 1873)
  • 29th » Ernst Hoppenberg, German swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
  • 30th » Anthony Sweijs, Dutch target shooter (b. 1852)

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