Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1937
William Temple Hornaday
William Temple Hornaday, Sc.D. was an American zoologist, conservationist, taxidermist, and author. He served as the first director of the New York Zoological Park, known today as the Bronx Zoo, and he was a pioneer in the early wildlife conservation movement in the United States.
Harry Vardon
Harry Vardon fue uno de los más famosos jugadores ingleses de golf.
Eric Campbell Geddes
Sir Eric Campbell Geddes was a British businessman and Conservative politician. With a background in railways, he served as head of Military Transportation on the Western Front, with the rank of major-general. He then served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1917 and 1919. He then served as the first Minister of Transport between 1919 and 1921, in which position he was responsible for the deep public spending cuts known as the "Geddes Axe".
Charles Manley Smith
Charles Manley Smith was an American politician from Vermont. He served as the 63rd Governor of Vermont from 1935 to 1937, and as the 58th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1933 to 1935.
Gottfried Huppertz
Gottfried Huppertz was a German composer who is perhaps most known for his scores to German expressionist silent films such as the science fiction epic Metropolis (1927). He collaborated with legendary director Fritz Lang on multiple occasions.
Frank Damrosch
Frank Heino Damrosch was a German-born American music conductor and educator. In 1905, Damrosch founded the New York Institute of Musical Art, a predecessor of the Juilliard School.
Paul Émile Chabas
Paul Émile Chabas fue un pintor e ilustrador francés y miembro de la Academia de Bellas Artes.
Lev Karajan
Lev Mijáilovich Karaján fue un revolucionario ruso de origen armenio y diplomático soviético, viceministro de Asuntos Exteriores de 1925 a 1934 y embajador en varios países. Falleció en la Gran Purga en 1937.
Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick
Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick was a German ophthalmologist who invented the contact lens. He was the nephew of the German physiologist Adolf Eugen Fick, and the son of the German anatomy professor Franz Ludwig Fick.
Charles Homer Haskins
Charles Homer Haskins was a history professor at Harvard University. He was an American historian of the Middle Ages, and advisor to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. He is widely recognized as the first academic medieval historian in the United States.