* 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 – 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

* 1864 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest ( d. 1938 )

In November 1938, Hungary, having never really accepted the separation of Slovakia from its control in 1918, took advantage of the situation and persuaded Germany and Italy to cede one third of Slovak territory to Hungary in the Vienna Award.

He made Slovak autonomy the cornerstone of his policy until his death in August 1938.

In September 1938, the party was pressured by Hitler to press its demands for Slovak autonomy.

In early November 1938, under the first Vienna Award, which was a result of the Munich agreement, Czechoslovakia ( and later Slovakia ) — after it had failed to reach a compromise with Hungary and Poland — was forced by Germany and Italy to cede southern Slovakia ( one third of Slovak territory ) to Hungary, while Poland invaded Zaolzie territory shortly after.

The executive committee of the Slovak People's Party met at Žilina on 5 October 1938, and with the acquiescence of all Slovak parties except the Social Democrats formed an autonomous Slovak government under Jozef Tiso.

* 1918 – 1938 The Czechoslovak Social Democratic Worker's Party ( Československá sociálně demokratická strana dělnická ) – merged with Slovak Social Democrats.

Slovak and Ruthenian demands for independence grew after Czechoslovakia's central government was forced to give up Sudetenland to Germany according to the Munich agreement of September 29, 1938.

In late September 1938, Hungary had supported Nazi Germany by mobilizing between 200, 000 and 350, 000 ill-trained and ill-equipped men on the Slovak and Ruthenian borders, ready to invade Czechoslovakia in case of war between Germany and Czechoslovakia.

On November 8, 1938, the Slovak National Unity Party got 97. 5 % of the Slovak votes, and a one-party state was instituted.

File: Flag of First Slovak Republic 1939-1945. svg | Unofficial flag of Slovakia before 1938.

It was founded in 1938 and originally became a member of FIFA in 1939, but disbanded after World War II because Czech and Slovak football competitions combined, and so did the national teams.

Czechoslovak Republic ( Czech and Slovak: Československá republika ) was the official name of Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1938 and between 1945 and 1960.

In 1938, a part of the Czech membership entered into the Party of National Unity led by Rudolf Beran, while few of its Slovak members joined the Hlinka Slovak People's Party led by Josef Tiso.

The Slovak People's Party (, SĽS ; after 1925 Hlinka's Slovak People's Party,, HSĽS ; after 1938 Hlinka's Slovak People's Party – Party of Slovak National Unity,, HSĽS-SSNJ ) was a Slovak right-wing party and was described as a fascist and clerical nationalist group.

Party chairmen were the Slovak priests Andrej Hlinka ( 1913 – 1938 ) and later then Jozef Tiso ( 1938 – 1945 ).

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

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 – Bahram Beizai, Iranian playwright and film director

* 1938 – Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director ( d. 1989 )

* 1938 – Stanislav Stanojevic, Serbian-born French film director and actor

* 1938 – Paul Morrissey, American film director

* 1938 – István Szabó, Hungarian film director

Earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with his graduation from Pitt in 1933, he remained active with the Cap and Gown Club, serving as its director from 1934 to 1938, while at the same time enrolling in the University of Pittsburgh Law School.

He filmed the cave scene for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ) and, following the firing of its original director Richard Thorpe, Cukor spent a week on the set of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

In 1938 he was appointed professor and director of the university psychiatric and neurological division in Kiel.

* 1938 – Paul Verhoeven, Dutch director, screenwriter, and producer

Liv Johanne Ullmann ( born 16 December 1938 ) is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the " muses " of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

* 2011 – Joseph Brooks, American composer, screenwriter, director, and producer ( b. 1938 )

* 1938 – Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter

* December 8 – Georges Méliès, French film director ( d. 1938 )

* November 3 – Jean Eustache, French film director ( b. 1938 )

When director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin adapted it for the screen in 1938, the film won the Best Picture Oscar and Capra won for Best Director.

Her next picture was Jezebel ( 1938 ), and during production Davis entered a relationship with director William Wyler.

After 1938, however, much of Anouilh's later work was directed by the prominent Paris scenic designer André Barsacq, who had taken over as director of the Théâtre de l ' Atelier after Charles Dullin's retirement in 1940.

Paul Verhoeven (; born 18 July 1938 ) is a Dutch film director, screenwriter, and producer who has made movies in both the Netherlands and the United States.

In 1938, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe began his 20-year tenure as director of IIT's School of Architecture ( 1938 – 1959 ).