1937 in Iran

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The following lists events that happened during 1937 in Pahlavi Iran.

Incumbents

• Shah: Reza Shah
• Prime Minister: Mahmoud Djam

Events

• 1937 Iranian legislative election.

Births

• January 5 – Bahram Sadeghi, Iranian poet and writer.
• January 29 – Hassan Habibi, Iranian politician.
• February 2 – Mohammad Salimi, Commander-in-chief of the Iranian Army.
• February 22 – Homa Mirafshar, Iranian poet.
• March 5 – Kamran Diba, Iranian architect.
• March 16 – Houshang Golshiri, Iranian writer.
• March 24 – Parviz Tanavoli, Iranian sculptor and painter.
• March 30 – Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani, Iranian ayatollah.
• April 9 – Mahshid Amirshahi, Iranian writer.
• April 10 – Faramarz Pilaram, Iranian painter and calligrapher.
• May 3 – Mohammad Hoqouqi, Iranian writer.
• May 5 – Homayun (actor), Iranian actor.
• May 27 – Vida Ghahremani, Iranian actress.
• June 19 – Majid Samii, Iranian neurosurgeon.
• June 22 – Siavash Teimouri, Iranian architect and artist.
• July 25 – Hooshmand Aghili, Iranian singer.
• August 25 – Forouzan, Iranian actor and film producer.
• September 10 – Fereydoun Tonekaboni, Iranian writer.
• September 25 – Abbas Shafiee, Iranian pharmaceutical chemist.
• September 26 – Mehdi Karroubi, Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party.
• September 29 – Reza Ostadi, Iranian ayatollah.
• October 3 – Behrouz Servatian, Iranian literary, translator, essayist and writer.
• October 12 – Loris Tjeknavorian, Armenian-Iranian conductor and composer.
• October 16 – Yousef Saanei, Iranian grand ayatollah.
• December 16 – Ahmad Tafazzoli, Iranian academic.
• December 23 – Mohammad Heydari, Iranian composer and musician.
• December 24 – Hassan Ali Mehran, Persian politician.
• December 31 – Alireza Ghelichkhani, Iranian sport wrestler.
• ? – Ali Akbar Sadeghi, Iranian animator.
• ? – Ali Mohammad Momeni, Iranian amateur wrestler.
• ? – Ali Shahbazi, Commander-in-chief of the Iranian Army.
• ? – Bijan Samandar, Iranian poet and songwriter.
• ? – Gholam A. Peyman, American physician.
• ? – Hamid Mowlana, Iranian politician.
• ? – Hashem Sabbaghian, Iranian politician.
• ? – Hossein Zenderoudi, Iranian painter and printmaker.
• ? – Leyly Matine-Daftary, Iranian artist.
• ? – Mahmoud Anbarani, Iranian poet, writer, scholar.
• ? – Mohammad-Reza Zarrindast, pharmacologist.
• ? – Mohsen Kharazi, Iranian ayatollah.

Deaths

• January 30 – Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi, Iranian Grand Ayatollah.
• February 10 – Ali-Akbar Davar, Iranian politician.
• May 6 – Majd ed-Dowleh Qajar-Qovanlu Amirsoleimani, Persian prince and politician.
• December 1 – Hassan Modarres, Prime Minister of Iran.
• ? – Amanullah Mirza Qajar, Iranian prince.
• ? – Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari, Iranian politician.
• ? – Hasan Badi', Iranian-Iraqi writer, poet and journalist.
• ? – Mohammad Aghazadeh Khorasani, Iran Scientist.
• ? – Reza Khan Arfa Danesh, Iranian diplomat and poet.
• ? – Shahrzad (Reza Kamal), Iranian writer.
• ? – Firouz Nosrat-ed-Dowleh III, Qajar prince and Iranian politician.