Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1937

Walter Simons fue un abogado y político alemán. Ejerció como presidente de la Reichsgericht de 1922 a 1929.

Franz Josef Niedenzu fue un botánico alemán. Gran parte de su carrera transcurrió como profesor y rector en el Lyceum Hosianum en Braunsberg, Prusia Oriental. Niedenzu también estableció un jardín botánico en Braunsberg.

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, fundador de la república de Checoslovaquia. Masaryk sigue siendo un símbolo de la antigua Checoslovaquia, ya que nació de madre checa y padre eslovaco en la frontera de ambos países.

Walter Nelles (1883–1937) was an American lawyer and law professor. Nelles is best remembered as the co-founder and first chief legal counsel of the National Civil Liberties Bureau and its successor, the American Civil Liberties Union. In this connection, Nelles achieved public notice for his legal work on behalf of pacifists charged with violating the Espionage Act during World War I and in other politically charged civil rights and constitutional law cases in later years.

Gustav Gustavovich Shpet was a Russian philosopher, historian of philosophy, psychologist, art theoretician, and interpreter of German-Polish descent. He was a student of a well-known Russian psychologist and philosopher George Chelpanov, a follower of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, who introduced Husserlian phenomenology to Russia, modifying the phenomenology which he found in Husserl. Shpet was a Vice president of the Russian State Academy of Arts in Moscow (1923—1929). Shpet is an author of many books, including his famous A View on the History of Russian philosophy and The Hermeneutics and its problems.

The Rt Rev Wilmot Lushington Vyvyan was an Anglican Bishop in the mid-20th century.