Colin Frederick Jacobsen, better known by his stage name Col Joye, was an Australian pioneer rock and pop singer-songwriter, musician and entrepreneur with a career spanning almost sixty-seven years, starting from the late 1950s.

1937Edward Fox, English actor^[†]

Edward Charles Morice Fox is an English actor and a member of the Fox family.

1937Lanford Wilson, American playwright, co-founded the Circle Repertory Company (died 2011)^[†]

Lanford Wilson was an American playwright. His work, as described by The New York Times, was "earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed". Wilson helped to advance the off-off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced at the Caffe Cino beginning in 1964. He was one of the first playwrights to move from off-off-Broadway to off-Broadway, then Broadway and beyond.

Headlines from April 13, 1937

' Pretty Good Day for Us, Says President of Ruling

LABOR WILL DRIVE FOR A NEW POWER; Federation and C. I. O. Expect to Share Large Gains in Membership

BRITAIN WILL AVOID ANY USE OF FORCE TO CURB SPANIARDS; She Works for a Stalemate in Hostilities--Eden Foresees 'Peace Without Victory'

New Deal's Score in Court; CASES WON (PREVIOUS TERM)

Rand and Bergoff Indicted by Federal Jury For Putting Strike-Breakers in Middletown

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