Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1937

Charles-Marie Widor, fue un compositor y organista francés célebre particularmente por sus diez sinfonías para órgano. El último movimiento, tocata, de su Sinfonía nº. 5 es la pieza más conocida.

Đorđe Vajfert was a Serbian industrialist, Governor of the National Bank of Serbia and later Yugoslavia. In addition, he is considered the founder of the modern mining sector in Serbia and a great benefactor.

Petrus Josephus Johannus Sophia Maria van der Does de Willebois was a Dutch jonkheer and politician affiliated with the General League of Roman Catholic Caucuses. He was mayor of 's-Hertogenbosch and member of the Senate.

Elihu Root. Político estadounidense.

Stéphan Elmas was an Armenian composer, pianist and teacher.

Alessandro Padoa was an Italian mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions. There is an analogous problem in axiomatic theories, namely deciding whether a given axiom is independent of the other axioms.

Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt, also Heinrich Jakob Goldschmidt, was a Jewish Austrian chemist who spent most of his career working in Norway. He studied chemistry at the Charles University in Prague, where he received his PhD in 1881. In the same year, he became professor at the ETH Zürich, where he worked with Victor Meyer. In 1888, his son Victor Goldschmidt was born; Victor later became a renowned mineralogist and founder of modern geochemistry. After working at the University of Amsterdam with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in 1894 and 1895, Heinrich Goldschmidt became full professor at the ETH. He left the ETH in 1901 for the University of Oslo. He worked there until his retirement in 1929 at the age of 72. As his son Victor became professor for mineralogy at the University of Göttingen in 1929, he moved with him to Göttingen, but both had to leave there after the Nazis came to power, and father and son returned to Oslo in 1935. Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt died in Oslo in 1937.

Grigori Konstantínovich Ordzhonikidze, revolucionario bolchevique, más conocido como Sergó Ordzhonikidze fue un político soviético, miembro del Politburó y amigo cercano de Stalin. Ordzhonikidze, Iósif Stalin y Anastás Mikoyán eran el grupo conocido burlescamente como "la camarilla georgiana", aunque Mikoyán, si bien caucásico también, era de nacionalidad armenia al igual que Stepán Shaumián, conocido como "El Lenin del Cáucaso". De hecho, las figuras más destacadas de los bolcheviques georgianos eran Stalin y Ordzhonikidze.