Marilyn Grace Bell Di Lascio is a Canadian retired long distance swimmer. She was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario and later swam the English Channel and Strait of Juan de Fuca.

1937Peter Max, German-American illustrator^[†]

Peter Max is a German-American artist known for using bright colors in his work. Works by Max are associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, particularly psychedelic art and pop art.

1937Terence Thomas, Baron Thomas of Macclesfield, English banker and politician (died 2018)^[†]

Terence James Thomas, Baron Thomas of Macclesfield, was a British politician and banker, member of the Labour and Co-operative parties.

Notable Deaths

1937Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)^[†]

Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson was a New Zealand physicist and chemist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. He has been described as "the father of nuclear physics", and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday". In 1908, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances." He was the first Oceanian Nobel laureate, and the first to perform Nobel-awarded work in Canada.