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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