page_title: 1937
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1937 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: English: French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
context_page_description: 1937 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1937th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1930s decade.
context_section_description: December 1 – Rao Guohua, Chinese general of the National Revolutionary Army (b. 1894)
  December 2 – Josep Comas i Solà, Andorran astronomer (b. 1868)
  December 3
  Attila József, Hungarian poet (b. 1905)
  Prosper Poullet, Belgian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1868)
  Yue Yiqin, Chinese flying ace (b. 1914)
  December 4 – Ralph Lewis, American actor (b. 1872)
  December 8
  Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist (b. 1856)
  Akhmet Baitursynov, Kazakh poet, politician, turkologist (b. 1872)
  December 9
  Lilias Armstrong, British phonetician (b. 1882)
  Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
  December 10 – Robert Bolder, British actor (b. 1859)
  December 12 – Alfred Abel, German actor (b. 1879)
  December 14 – Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter (b. 1869)
  December 16 – Giorgi Mazniashvili, Soviet general (b. 1870)
  December 17 – Dimitrie Călugăreanu, Romanian physician, naturalist and physiologist (b. 1868)
  December 18 – Robert Worth Bingham, American politician (b. 1871)
  December 20 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
  December 21
  Meliton Balanchivadze, Soviet composer (b. 1862)
  Ted Healy, American actor (b. 1896)
  Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1856)
  December 22 – Joseph Darby, British jumper (b. 1861)
  December 23 – Osman Nuri Hadžić, Yugoslav writer (b. 1869)
  December 25 – Newton D. Baker, United States Secretary of War (b. 1871)
  December 27 – Sir Coote Hedley, British army officer and sportsman (b. 1865)
  December 28
  Herbert Bullmore, Scottish Rugby Union international player, grandfather of Kerry Packer (b. 1874)
  Maurice Ravel, French composer (Bolero) (b. 1875)
  Sir Algernon Thomas, New Zealand scientist (b. 1857)
  December 29
  Frederik Beichmann, Norwegian jurist (b. 1859)
  Don Marquis, American poet (b. 1878)
  December 30 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
  December 31 – Dezső Czigány, Hungarian painter (b. 1883)
caption: Maurice Ravel
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