page_title: 1937
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1937 / Births / July
caption_attribution_description: Queen Sonja of Norway
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: July 2 – Richard Petty, American stock car racer, 7-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion
  July 3 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
  July 4 – Queen Sonja of Norway
  July 5 – Jo de Roo, Dutch road racing cyclist
  July 6
  Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist
  Ned Beatty, American actor
  Michael Sata, 5th President of Zambia (d. 2014)
  July 7
  Valery Anisimov, Soviet wrestler
  Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish rowing coxswain
  Nanami Shiono, Japanese author, novelist
  Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong businessman and politician
  Giovanni Arrighi, Italian economist, sociologist and world-systems analyst (d. 2009)
  July 9 – David Hockney, English-born artist
  July 12
  Bill Cosby, African-American actor, comedian, educator and convicted sex offender
  Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France
  July 14 – Yoshirō Mori, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
  July 17 – Jaberi Bidandi Ssali, Ugandan politician, businessman
  July 18
  Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born chemist and Nobel laureate
  Hunter S. Thompson, American author and journalist (d. 2005)
  July 19 – George Hamilton IV, American country singer (d. 2014)
  July 24 – Manoj Kumar, Indian actor and director
  July 27
  Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
  Mirko Marjanović, 63rd Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2006)
  July 29
  Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2006)
  Daniel McFadden, American economist and Nobel laureate
  July 31 – Sab Shimono, Japanese–American actor, and voice actor
caption: Queen Sonja of Norway
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