* 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

Frederick Dewayne " Freddie " Hubbard ( April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008 ) was an American jazz trumpeter.

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

Although they were recorded in New York ( in 1938, with a reunion in 1944 ), they are named after the group, the Kansas City Seven, and comprised Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, Basie, Young, Freddie Green, Rodney Richardson, and Jo Jones.

Kidnapped is a 1938 adventure film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Warner Baxter and Freddie Bartholomew.

Folklorists who have collected traditional music of Massachusetts include Eloise Hubbard Linscott, whose field recordings from 1938 and 1941 are in the Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

In 1938, he married Leah Ray Hubbard ( 1915 – 1999 ) of Norfolk, Virginia.

Ten years later, in 1938, Hubbard bought the first television camera available from RCA.

The Roycroft Shops, run by Hubbard's son, Elbert Hubbard II, operated until 1938.

Russell Miller ( born 1938 ) is an award-winning British journalist and author of fifteen books, including biographies of Hugh Hefner, J. Paul Getty and L. Ron Hubbard.

* 1938 – Connie Stevens, American actress, singer, and director

* 1938 – Rich Rollins, American baseball player

* Adrian Cronauer ( born 1938 ), American lawyer and radio speaker

* 1938 – Maxine Waters, American politician

* 1883 – Pauline Frederick, American actress ( d. 1938 )

* 1938 – Joe Frank, American radio host

* 1938 – Diana Muldaur, American actress

* 1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor ( The New Christy Minstrels and The First Edition )

* 1938 – David Canary, American actor

* 1938 – Booker Little, American jazz trumpeter ( d. 1961 )

* 1938 – Al Weis, American baseball player

* 1859 – Matilda Howell, American archer ( d. 1938 )

* 1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor

* 1938 – Robert Rubin, American politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury

* 1857 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney ( d. 1938 )

* 1938 – Ben Barnes, American politician

* 1938 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, American theorist, co-founder of Discordianism

* 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player ( d. 1938 )