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Events on Sunday 26 December 1937 2
1937Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)Died 26 December 1937, aged 47English poet and composer who served on the Western Front in the First World War. He spent his last fifteen years in mental hospitals.
1937 – 2020John Conway (1937-2020)Died 11 April 2020, aged 82John Conway was a British mathematician known for the Game of Life cellular automaton, group theory work and numerous contributions to recreational mathematics. He died of COVID-19 on 11 April 2020.