In the year 1937
401 Notable deaths
William Gillette
American actor, inventor and writer.
Born July 24th, 1863 in Hartford.
Died April 29th, 1937 at 73 years old in Hartford (pulmonary hemorrhage). [ref]
Walter Burley Griffin
American architect and landscape architect (1876-1937).
Born November 24th, 1876 in Maywood.
Died February 11th, 1937 at 60 years old in Lucknow (peritonitis).
Wallace Carothers
American organic chemist.
Born April 27th, 1896 in Burlington.
Died April 29th, 1937 at 41 years old in Wilmington (poison).
Ross Alexander
Actor (1907-1937).
Born July 27th, 1907 in Brooklyn. [ref]
Died January 2nd, 1937 at 29 years old in Los Angeles (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Elihu Thomson
American inventor.
Born March 29th, 1853 in Manchester. [ref]
Died March 13th, 1937 at 83 years old in Swampscott. [ref]
Gaston Doumergue
French lawyer and statesman (1863-1937).
Born August 1st, 1863 in Aigues-Vives. [ref]
Died June 18th, 1937 at 73 years old in Aigues-Vives (pulmonary embolism). [ref]
Pavel Florensky
Russian orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and neomartyr.
Born January 21st, 1882 in Yevlakh.
Died December 8th, 1937 at 55 years old in Leningrad Oblast. [ref]
Joseph Taylor Robinson
American politician (1872–1937).
Born August 26th, 1872 in Lonoke.
Died July 14th, 1937 at 64 years old in Washington, D.C..
Louis Vierne
French organist and composer (1870–1937).
Born October 8th, 1870 in Poitiers.
Died June 2nd, 1937 at 66 years old in Paris (myocardial infarction).
Deaths 51 to 60 of 401
There is only one god and his name is Death, and there is only one thing we say to Death: ‘Not today’. Syrio Forel