About the day » Saturday September 4, 1937Calender converter

• Dan Wallace LADAGE, Alton, Sioux, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• Georg Hans von Trümbach, Gronau († 1937)
• J. P. E. Hugo Monfrère, Sint-Truiden, België († 1992)
• Dorothy Nell Binion, Collin, Texas († 1995)
• Hendrika Cornelia Maria van der Kolk, Haarlem,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Elizabeth Mantel, Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Andreas Antonius Theophilius Lacroix, Brustem, België († 1989)
• Ivo Neyens, Neeroeteren, België († 1996)
• Frederick Theodore Melberg Jr, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States († 1989)
• Alfons Jan Frans Sprangers, Merksplas, België († 2021)

• Charles W. Schwab (59), Kendallville, Noble, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Berentzen, Bernzen (47), Barger-Compascuum
• Anna Maria Snoeren (72), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth van Osnabrugge (77), Bodegraven
• AREND JOHANNES DE VRIES (67), APELDOORN
• Anthonius Peter Butzelaar (50), Utrecht
• Christine Elisabeth AUSTERMÜHLE (73), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth VAN OSNABRUGGE (78), Bodegraven, Bodegraven-Reeuwijk, Hollande-Méridionale, Pays-Bas
• Anna Maria (Ouders:Johann Heinrich Bernsen, Maria Adelheid Bernsen (born Berens)) Bernsen (47), Barger Compascuum, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Lauwen (81), Etten

• 1934 » Antoine Redin, French footballer and manager († 2012)
• 1934 » Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)
• 1934 » Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer († 2012)
• 1935 » Charles A. Hines, American general and academic († 2013)
• 1935 » Dallas Willard, American philosopher and academic († 2013)
• 1937 » Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer and politician
• 1937 » Gene Ludwig, American organist and composer († 2010)
• 1937 » Les Allen, English footballer and manager
• 1937 » Virgil A. Richard, American general († 2013)
• 1939 » Denis Lindsay, South African cricketer and referee († 2005)

• 1907 » Edvard Grieg, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1843)
• 1909 » Clyde Fitch, American playwright and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1911 » John Francon Williams, Welsh-born writer, journalist, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Péguy, French poet and philosopher (b. 1873)
• 1940 » George William de Carteret, French-English journalist and author (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Erich Fellgiebel, German general (b. 1886)
• 1963 » Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French politician, 130th Prime Minister of France (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1974 » Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Marcel Achard, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1899)

• 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 11 » The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
• May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
• July 29 » Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
• August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
• 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 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

The temperature on September 4, 1937 was between 10.5 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.