Monarch - George VI
28 February - Population census in Northern Ireland.
28 July - Assassination attempt on King George VI in Belfast by the Irish Republican Army.
Arts and literature
Louis MacNeice writes the poem Carrickfergus.
Irish League
Irish Cup
18 January - John Hume, former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, MP, MEP and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
10 February - Roy Megarry, businessman and publisher in Canada.
2 April - Denis Tuohy, television presenter.
27 April - Robin Eames, Church of Ireland Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh from 1986 to 2006.
16 December - Given Lyness, cricketer.
24 December - John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, Ulster Unionist Party MP and life peer.
31 January - Samuel Edgar, cricketer (born 1913).
3 February - Thomas Moles, Ulster Unionist politician and journalist (born 1871).
27 February - Charles Donnelly, poet, killed at the Jarama Front, Spanish Civil War (born 1914).
27 June - Arthur Douglas, cricketer and rugby player (born 1902).
Herbert Hughes, musicologist, composer and critic (born 1882).
1937 in Northern Ireland Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
