* 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

* April 17 – Eddie Cochran, American rock singer ( b. 1938 )

In 1938, the airline was purchased by World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker from General Motors.

* Eddie King, was born on April 21, 1938, in Talladega, and played as a sideman to many other blues musicians including Sonny Boy Williamson II and Koko Taylor.

Edward Alan John George, Baron George, GBE, PC, DL ( 16 September 1938 – 18 April 2009 ), known as Eddie George, or " Steady Eddie ", was Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 2003 and sat on the board of Rothschild.

On July 12, 1938, with the support of radio stars Eddie Cantor, Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, and others, AFRA members negotiate the first collectively bargained agreement on a national scale – with NBC and CBS – resulting in a wage increase of 125 %.

This collaboration lasted until 1938 when her heavy workload for Universal Studios made it imperative for Durbin to discontinue her weekly appearances on Eddie Cantor's radio show.

* Eddie Jones ( American football executive ) ( 1938 – 2012 ), former General Manager and President of the Miami Dolphins

Twenty years later ( 1938 ), Ray and a grown-up Quick ( Eddie Murphy ) now run a highly successful nightclub called " Club Sugar Ray ", a speakeasy with a brothel in back run by tough-talking madam Vera ( Della Reese ).

In 1938 Hertz was prepared to buy Eastern Air Lines from General Motors but the airline's General Manager, Eddie Rickenbacker, was able to raise the necessary financing to acquire Eastern before Hertz could exercise his option.

In 1938, McSpaden played in the second Bing Crosby Pro-Am and was partnered with Eddie Lowery, who had been Francis Ouimet's caddie in the 1913 U. S. Open.

Eddie began his pro career in 1938 playing for the Worumbo Indians, a semi-pro team sponsored by Worumbo Woolen Mill in Lisbon Falls, Maine.

* Adrian Jones ( 1845 – 1938 ), English sculptor and painter who specialized in animals, particularly horses

Jones became a director ( or " supervisor ", the original title for an animation director in the studio ) himself in 1938 when Frank Tashlin left the studio.

* 1938 – Deacon Jones, American football player

* 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player ( b. 1938 )

* 6-Ben A. Jones ( 1938, 1941, 1944, 1948, 1949, 1952 )

* 1938 – Mack Jones, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

Following the Anschluss of March 1938, Jones flew into Vienna at considerable personal risk to play a crucial role in negotiating and organising the emigration of Freud and his circle to London.

Jones attended Monte Cassino, a girls ' school and junior college in Tulsa and then Northwestern University in Illinois, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, before transferring to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1938.

* Bumpus Jones ( Charles Leander Jones, 1870 – 1938 ), 1890s baseball pitcher

Jones debuted the character in the 1939 short Naughty But Mice ( which is quite similar to Disney's " The Country Cousin " itself ) though he has nearly identical traits to the hero kitten in the 1938 short The Night Watchman.

* William Roberts Jones ( 1870 – 1938 ), Aberystwyth F. C.

* Jack Jones ( singer ) ( born 1938 ), American jazz and pop singer

* Deacon Jones ( David D. Jones, born 1938 ), American football player

It produced about forty books by more than twenty poets, including Pete Brown, Ed Dorn ( Gunslinger 1 & 2, 1970 ), Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Paul Evans, Roy Fisher, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Donald Gardner (* 1938, For the flames, 1974 ), Allen Ginsberg, Michael Hamburger, Lee Harwood, Spike Hawkins, Alan Jackson, David Jones, Christopher Middleton, Lorine Niedecker, Jeff Nuttall, George Oppen, Tom Pickard ( with a preface by Bunting ), Omar S. Pound, F. T. Prince, Tom Raworth, Jerome Rothenberg and Gary Snyder.

Stephen Barry Jones, Baron Jones, PC ( born 26 June 1938 ) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Elia Kazan directed Robert Ardrey's plays Casey Jones and Thunder Rock in 1938 and 1939-40 for the Group Theatre.

John Allan " Jack " Jones ( born January 14, 1938 ) is an American jazz and pop singer.

* Casey Jones ( 1938 )-Produced by Group Theatre

* Thomas H. Jones ( 1938 – 1948 )

David D. " Deacon " Jones ( born December 9, 1938 in Eatonville, Florida ) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers, and the Washington Redskins.