3 Attila József, Hungarian poet (b. 1905) Prosper Poullet, Belgian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1868) Yue Yiqin, Chinese flying ace (b. 1914) December 4 Ralph Lewis, American actor (b. 1872) Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, Indian politician and educationist (b. 1863) December 8 Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist (b. 1856) Akhmet Baitursynov, Kazakh poet, politician, turkologist (b. 1872) December 9 Lilias Armstrong, British phonetician (b. 1882) Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869) December 10 – Robert Bolder, British actor (b. 1859) December 12 – Alfred Abel, German actor (b. 1879) December 14 – Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter (b. 1869) December 16 – Giorgi Mazniashvili, Soviet general (b. 1870) December 17 – Dimitrie Călugăreanu, Romanian physician, naturalist and physiologist (b. 1868) December 18 – Robert Worth Bingham, American politician (b. 1871) December 20 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865) December 21 Meliton Balanchivadze, Soviet composer (b. 1862) Ted Healy, American actor (b. 1896) Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1856) December 22 – Joseph Darby, British jumper (b. 1861) December 23 – Osman Nuri Hadžić, Bosnian writer (b. 1869) December 25 – Newton D. Baker, 37th Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, United States Secretary of War (b. 1871) December 27 – Sir Coote Hedley, British army officer and sportsman (b. 1865) December 28 Herbert Bullmore, Scottish Rugby Union international player, grandfather of Kerry Packer (b. 1874) Maurice Ravel, French composer (Boléro) (b. 1875) Sir Algernon Thomas, New Zealand scientist (b. 1857) December 29 Frederik Beichmann, Norwegian jurist (b. 1859) Don Marquis, American poet (b. 1878) December 30 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852) December 31 – Dezső Czigány, Hungarian painter (b. 1883) Nobel Prizes Physics – Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson Chemistry – Walter Haworth, Paul Karrer Physiology or Medicine – Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt Literature – Roger Martin du Gard Peace – Robert Cecil References Links 1937 WWII Timeline The 1930s Timeline: 1937 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia