page_title: 1937
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1937 / Deaths / October
caption_attribution_description: English: New Zealand chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
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: October 1 – Prince Kuni Taka of Japan (b. 1875)
  October 3
  Baden Baden-Powell, American aviator pioneer (b. 1860)
  Richard Hertwig, German zoologist (b. 1850)
  October 6 – Angelo Musco, Italian actor (b. 1872)
  October 9
  August de Boeck, Flemish composer (b. 1865)
  Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, German prince (b. 1868
  October 10 – Peter of Krutitsy, Soviet Orthodox priest, martyr and metropolitan (b. 1862)
  October 13 – Kazimierz Nowak, Polish traveller (b. 1897)
  October 14 – Salvatore Micalizzi, Italian Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b.  1856)
  October 15 – James Marcus, American actor (b.  1867)
  October 16 – Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
  October 17
  J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
  Antônio Parreiras, Brazilian painter, illustrator (b. 1860)
  October 19
  Pedro Chutro, Argentine physician (b. 1880)
  Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient (b. 1871)
  October 23 – Nikolai Klyuev, Russian poet (b. 1884)
  October 26 – Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
  October 27
  Joseph-Félix Bouchor, French painter (b. 1853)
  Abdul Karim Khan, Indian classical singer (b. 1872)
  October 29 – Kazimierz Cichowski, Polish-born Soviet politician (b. 1887)
  October 30
  Mendel Khatayevich, Soviet politician (b. 1893)
  Ivan Zhukov, Soviet politician (b. 1889)
caption: Ernest Rutherford
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