* Tex Austin ( 1886 – 1938 ), American rodeo promoter

* 1938 – Paul Daniels, English magician

* 1938 – Roy Thinnes, American actor

* 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit ( a prototype of Bugs Bunny ).

* 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.

* 1938 – Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak director

* 1938 – Gary Collins, American actor

* 1938 – Larry Niven, American author

* 1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor

* 1938 – Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician

* 1938 – Rod Laver, Australian tennis player

* 1938 – Otto Rehhagel, German footballer and coach

* 1938 – Dave " Baby " Cortez, American pianist

The 1938 series was high-scoring affair with many high-scoring draws, resulting in a 1 – 1 result, Australia retaining the Ashes.

The remaining five series were drawn, with Australia retaining the Ashes four times ( 1938, 1962 – 63, 1965 – 66, 1968 ) and England retaining it once ( 1972 ).

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

* 1938 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2007 )

* 1938 – Pierre de Bané, Canadian politician

* 1938 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander soldier ( d. 2006 )

4, No. 1 ( Feb., 1938 ), pp. 14 – 33 in JSTOR

* 1938 – Terry Wogan, Irish-English broadcaster

* Hans Christian Gram ( 1853 – 1938 ), Danish scientist who invented Gram staining

The method is named after its inventor, the Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram ( 1850 – 1938 ), who developed the technique while working with Carl Friedländer in the morgue of the city hospital in Berlin.

* 1849 – Christian Rohlfs, German artist ( d. 1938 )

Bukharin was tried in the Trial of the Twenty One on 2 – 13 March 1938 during the Great Purges, along with ex-premier Alexei Rykov, Christian Rakovsky, Nikolai Krestinsky, Genrikh Yagoda, and 16 other defendants alleged to belong to the so-called " Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites ".

The allocation of seats in the provincial assembly was based on the 1938 census held by the French authorities under international supervision: out of 40 seats, 22 were given to the Turks, nine for Alawi Arabs, five for Armenians, two for Sunni Arabs, and two for Christian Arabs.

In 1938, The Christian leader attributed " the religion of Jesus, not a religion about Jesus " to Unitarians, though the phrase was used earlier by Congregationalist Rollin Lynde Hartt in 1924. and earlier still by US President Thomas Jefferson.

* September 17 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1938 )

Hans Christian Joachim Gram ( September 13, 1850-November 14, 1938 ) was a Danish bacteriologist.

* George Verwer ( born 1938 ), founder and international director of Operation Mobilisation, a Christian missions organization.

* Bruce Logan ( born 1938 ), New Zealand Christian writer and social commentator

Christian Lous Lange ( 17 September 1869 – 11 December 1938 ) was a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist.

Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire ( 31 May 18686 May 1938 ), known as Victor Cavendish until 1908, was a British politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 11th since Canadian Confederation.

* Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire ( 1868 – 1938 )

* Christian Wolff ( actor ) ( born 1938 ), German actor

* 1938 – 40 Reinhold Niebuhr The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation, ( 2 vol set ): ISBN 0-664-25709-7

Denmark's first professor of sociology was a member of the faculty of Aarhus University ( Theodor Geiger, from 1938 – 1952 ), and in 1997 Professor Jens Christian Skou received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the sodium-potassium pump.

The allocation of seats in the sanjak assembly was based on the 1938 census held by the French authorities under international supervision: out of 40 seats, 22 were given to the Turks and 18 for the Arabs and their Armenian allies ( nine for Alawi Arabs, five for Armenians, two for Sunni Arabs, and two for Christian Arabs ).

The Iona Community, founded in 1938 by the Rev George MacLeod, is an ecumenical Christian community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions in the Christian church.

Chauvel frequently led Anzac Day parades through Melbourne but resigned from the leadership of the march in 1938 in protest against at decision by the Returned and Services League of Australia to change the form of service at the Shrine from a Christian to a secular one.

* Ganzer, Christian Die Karpato-Ukraine 1938 / 39: Spielball im internationalen Interessenkonflikt am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkrieges.

He assumed in 1938 by deed poll the additional Christian name of Towneley and the surname of Strachey in lieu of his patronymic.

The Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram ( 1853 – 1938 ), developed the technique now known as Gram staining in 1884 to discriminate between K. pneumoniae and Streptococcus pneumoniae.

George Verwer ( born July 3, 1938 ) is the founder of Operation Mobilisation ( OM ), a Christian missions organization.