About the day » Sunday March 7, 1937Calender converter

• Christian Delort, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France († 1996)
• Daniël Dewyse, Klerken,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2013)
• Albertus Goosen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1995)
• Gary Lee Staley, Denver, Colorado († 2006)
• Aleida Hendrika Borgman, Klazienaveen, Emmen († 2024)
• Gerrigje Polman, Doorn († 1937)
• Albertus Goosen, Amsterdam, nh.nld († 1995)
• Gerrit Vels, IJsselmuiden, Overijssel, Nederland († 1937)
• Eugeen Janssens, Kasterlee (B), België († 2019)
• Cornelis Marinus Bloemendaal, Monster († 2018)

• Albert Nieboer (1), Groningen
• Adriana de Koning (91), 's-Gravenhage
• Catharina VANVOORDEN (1), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Adriana van den Heuvel (81), Hoogland
• Cornelia de Greef (77), Wateringen
• Antonia IJzermans (81), Breda,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Cecil Joseph Figge (0), Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Ottens (80), Emmen
• Clara Wolfert (66), Zaamslag
• Arendje Stronkhorst (85), Harderwijk

• 1933 » Ed Bouchee, American baseball player († 2013)
• 1933 » Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and accountant († 1998)
• 1934 » Willard Scott, American television personality and actor
• 1936 » Florentino Fernández, Cuban-American boxer and coach († 2013)
• 1936 » Georges Perec, French author and screenwriter († 1982)
• 1938 » David Baltimore, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 » Janet Guthrie, American professional race car driver, first woman to qualify and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500
• 1939 » Danyel Gérard, French singer-songwriter
• 1940 » Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
• 1941 » Piers Paul Read, English historian and author

• 1920 » Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
• 1928 » Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)
• 1932 » Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1934 » Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1938 » Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1947 » Lucy Parsons, American communist anarchist labor organizer (b. c 1853)
• 1949 » Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 » Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1893)
• 1954 » Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic (b. 1882)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
• February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
• March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
• August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
• December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
• December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
• December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

The temperature on March 7, 1937 was between -1.3 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.