Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov was a Soviet official who became a Russian banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Born in the city of Moscow, then part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Pavlov began his political career in the Ministry of Finance in 1959. Later, during the Brezhnev Era, he became head of the Financial Department of the State Planning Committee. Pavlov was appointed to the post of Chairman of the State Committee on Prices during the Gorbachev Era, and later became Minister of Finance in Nikolai Ryzhkov's second government. He went on to succeed Ryzhkov as head of government in the newly established post of Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.

1937Jerry Weintraub, American film producer and agent (died 2015)^[†]

Jerome Charles Weintraub was an American film producer, talent manager and actor whose television films won him three Emmys.

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1937Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (born 1894)^[†]

Bessie Smith was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues" and formerly Queen of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on fellow blues singers, as well as jazz vocalists.

Headlines from September 26, 1937

Flower Hill Land, Once Free Pasture, Sold as Site for New Home Community; Once Vast Free Pasture

EXETER ADDS SIX TO STAFF; Academy, Now in 156th Year, Has Enrollment of 723

LOYALIST BOMBERS HALT FRANCO DRIVE; Government Says Insurgent Concentrations Near Huesca Have Been Annihilated

A. F. L. MAY ASK BOLT FROM GENEVA BODY IN DELEGATE FIGHT; Plea for Congress Action Is Possible as Naming of Watt Stirs Up Bitter Row

SET 1941 TO END LOAN MORATORIUM; Realty Men Would Put Mort gage Business on Normal Basis in That Year

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