1937 births

François Boutin (21 January 1937 – 1 February 1995) was a French Thoroughbred horse trainer.The son of a farmer, he was born in the village of Beaunay in the northerly Seine Maritime département. He began riding horses at a young age and competed in show jumping and cross-country equestrianism. He began his professional racing career driving horses in harness racing then after serving as a flat racing apprentice, obtained his license as a trainer in 1964.
François Boutin was the trainer for the stables of Jean-Luc Lagardère and for the Stavros Niarchos family. During his more than thirty-year career he was the leading money winner in France seven times (1976, 1978–81, 1983–84). Although victory eluded him in France's most prestigious horse race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Boutin won the Poule d'Essai des Poulains on six occasions and most every other important race in the country multiple times.
Racing outside France Boutin's horse Sagaro was the first to win England's Ascot Gold Cup three years in a row. As well, Boutin-trained horses won the 1982 English 2,000 Guineas, the 1987 1,000 Guineas and the Matron Stakes in Ireland (Nureyev, ridden by stable jockey Philippe Paquet, finished first in the 1980 Two Thousand Guineas, but was later disqualified). François Boutin trained April Run for Diana M. Firestone who won in France plus had back-to-back wins in the 1981-82 Grade I Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational at Belmont Park.
Boutin is best remembered in the United States as the trainer of the Hall of Fame filly Miesque who had back-to-back wins in the Breeders' Cup Mile in 1987 and 1988 and for Arazi, whose breathtaking victory in the 1991 Breeders' Cup Juvenile was followed by his shocking upset in the 1992 Kentucky Derby.
From his first marriage he had one son, Eric, and two daughters, Patricia and Nathalie. A widower, he remarried in 1989 to Princess Lucy Young Ruspoli, the daughter of William T. Young of Lexington, Kentucky. Patricia is currently in the racing business.
In 1995, François Boutin died from liver cancer in Paris. The Prix François Boutin at Hippodrome Deauville-La Touques race course in Deauville is named in his honor. His grand children give back the trophy.

Michel Demazure (French: [dəmazyʁ]; born 2 March 1937) is a French mathematician. He made contributions in the fields of abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and computer vision, and participated in the Nicolas Bourbaki collective. He has also been president of the French Mathematical Society and directed two French science museums.

Michel Pollien (22 August 1937 − 15 January 2013) was a French Roman Catholic bishop.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1966, Pollien was appointed titular bishop of Pulceriopolis and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris, France and retired in 2012.

Monsignor Guy-Marie Bagnard, born Guy Claude Bagnard (born April 14, 1937), is a former French Roman Catholic Bishop of Belley-Ars, from July 16, 1987 (date of his nomination) to June 15, 2012 (date of resignation).

Henri Sérandour (April 15, 1937 in Le Mans - November 12, 2009 in Dinard) was a former international water polo player. He was a past president of the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF) during 16 years (1993-2009) and from 2000 to 2007, a member of the International Olympic Committee.

Bernard Cassen (born 2 November 1937 in Paris) is a French journalist.

Michel Georges Francois Peissel (February 11, 1937 – October 7, 2011) was a French ethnologist, explorer and author. He wrote twenty books mostly on his Himalayan and Tibetan expeditions. Peissel was an emeritus member of the Explorers Club and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Lucien Léger, born in Paris on March 30, 1937, and died in Laon in July 2008, was a French criminal, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a child in 1964. He was the oldest detainee in France before being released on October 3, 2005, after 41 years of imprisonment, which constitutes one of the longest detentions in Europe (it does not, however, equal that of serial killer John Straffen who was detained for 55 years in the United Kingdom).He was nicknamed the Strangler by the press because of the signature "Strangler No. 1" affixed to the bottom of anonymous letters sent to the police.

Xavier Le Pichon (born 18 June 1937 in Qui Nhơn, French protectorate of Annam (later South Vietnam and today Vietnam)) is a French geophysicist. Among many other contributions, he is known for his comprehensive model of plate tectonics (1968), helping create the field of plate tectonics. In 1968 he combined the kinematic ideas of W. J. Morgan, D. McKenzie and R. L. Parker with the large data sets collected by Lamont, and especially with the respective magnetic profiles, to show that Plate Tectonics could accurately describe the evolution of the major ocean basins. He is professor at the Collège de France, holder of the Chair of Geodynamics (1986–2008). He is a lifelong devout Catholic, and has come to think of caring attention to others' weakness as an essential quality that allowed humanity to evolve. He lives with his wife and has five children and eleven grandchildren.

Alain Chapel (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ ʃapɛl]; 30 December 1937 – 10 July 1990) was a French chef, credited with being one of the originators of Nouvelle Cuisine. He earned three Michelin stars.