page_title: 1937 in the United States
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1937 in the United States / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Jean Harlow from the front cover of the New York Sunday News magazine.
context_page_description: Events from the year 1937 in the United States.
context_section_description: January 1 – John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian theologian (born 1881)
  January 2 – Ross Alexander, actor (born 1907)
  January 13 – Martin Johnson, adventurer and filmmaker (born 1884)
  February 7 – Elihu Root, statesman and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912 (born 1845)
  February 11 – Walter Burley Griffin, architect and town planner (born 1876)
  March 15 – H. P. Lovecraft, horror fiction author (born 1890)
  March 29 – William Edward White, African American baseball player (born 1860)
  April 10 – Ralph Ince, film director (born 1887)
  April 14 – Ned Hanlon, baseball manager (born 1857)
  April 16 – Jay Johnson Morrow, military engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (born 1870)
  May 14 – John Burke, 24th Treasurer of the United States (born 1859)
  May 23 – John D. Rockefeller, oil industry business magnate and philanthropist (born 1839)
  June 7 – Jean Harlow, actress and sex symbol (born 1911)
  July 2 – Amelia Earhart, aviator, missing on flight (born 1897)
  July 9 – Oliver Law, labor organizer and Army officer, killed in Spanish Civil War (born 1899)
  July 11 – George Gershwin, popular composer (born 1898)
  July 14 – Joseph Taylor Robinson, politician (born 1872)
  August 11 – Edith Wharton, novelist (born 1862)
  August 27 – Andrew W. Mellon, banker and Secretary of the Treasury (born 1855)
  September 8 – Anna Hempstead Branch, poet (born 1875)
  September 13 – Ellis Parker Butler, humorist (born 1869)
  September 21 – Osgood Perkins, actor (born 1892)
  September 22 – Ruth Roland, actress (born 1892)
  September 26 – Bessie Smith, African American blues singer (born 1894)
  September 29 – Ray Ewry, field athlete (born 1873)
  October 22 – George Horace Lorimer, newspaper editor (born 1867)
  November 6 – Colin Campbell Cooper, painter (born 1856)
  November 25 – Raymond Stanton Patton, admiral (born 1882)
  November 30 – James O. McKinsey, accountant and pioneer of management consulting (born 1889)
  December 6 – Florence Griswold, curator (born 1850)
  December 21
  Ted Healy, vaudeville actor (born 1896)
  Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929 (born 1856)
  December 25 – Newton D. Baker, United States Secretary of War (born 1871)
  December 29 – Don Marquis, poet (born 1878)
  Undated – Redoshi, last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade (born c. 1848 in West Africa)
caption: Jean Harlow shortly before her death in 1937
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