* 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

The first such exhibition match, on the Isle of Man in 1938, marked the first appearance of Kathleen Cody, who became one of the stars of the 1940s.

* Kathleen Ferrier CBE ( 1912 – 1953 )-Won the prestigious Gold Cup at the 1938 Workington Musical Festival.

The Rev'd Kathleen Margaret Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow OBE ( born 24 February 1938 ) is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords.

In 1938, he married the poet Kathleen Raine ( previously married to Hugh Sykes Davies ), and in 1942 Inez Spender ( née Inez Maria Pearn, previously married to Stephen Spender ).

Kitty Lorgnette wrote in the Saturday, August 13, 1938 edition of The Evening News ( Tampa ) that the first dollhouse was purchased by Oraleze O ' Brien ( Mrs. Frank J. Knight ) in 1916 when Moore ( then Kathleen ) left Tampa.

Orlando ( The Marmalade Cat ) is the eponymous hero of a series of 19 illustrated children's books written by Kathleen Hale between 1938 and 1972 by various publishers including Country Life.

In 1938, he married Kathleen Beatrice White.

Kathleen and her husband, Gene, occasionally starred opposite each other, most notably as Mr. and Mrs. Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol ( 1938 ).

Richards was born in Hollywood, California, the daughter of Kenneth E. Richards ( 1935 – 1998 ) and Kathleen Dugan ( 1938 – 2002 ).

Henry Ford's siblings include Margaret Ford ( 1867 – 1938 ); Jane Ford ( c. 1868 – 1945 ); William Ford ( 1871 – 1917 ) and Robert Ford ( 1873 – 1934 ).

Wyler was briefly married to Margaret Sullavan ( November 25, 1934 – March 13, 1936 ) and married Margaret " Talli " Tallichet on October 23, 1938.

After Show Boat she had major roles in MGM's Saratoga ( 1937 ), starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, The Shopworn Angel ( 1938 ) with Margaret Sullavan, and The Mad Miss Manton ( 1938 ), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

Rennie was married twice: first to Joan England ( 1938 – 1945 ), then to actress Margaret ( Maggie ) McGrath ( 1947 – 1960 ); their son, David Rennie, is an English circuit judge in Lewes, Sussex, England.

Margaret Sullavan in her Oscar nominated role as Pat Hollmann ( Three Comrades, 1938 ).

( Peter ) Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, PC ( born 2 February 1938 ) is a British Conservative politician who was from 1981 to 1990 a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.

In 1938 he married Ella Margaret Tiley whom he had known since his schooldays.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher invoked the example of Churchill during the Falklands War of 1982: " When the American Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, urged her to reach a compromise with the Argentines she rapped sharply on the table and told him, pointedly, ' that this was the table at which Neville Chamberlain sat in 1938 and spoke of the Czechs as a faraway people about whom we know so little '.

The novel was made into an American film of the same title in 1938 starring Franchot Tone, Robert Taylor, Robert Young and Margaret Sullavan and is also believed to have been the inspiration for director Michael Cimino's 1978 film The Deer Hunter.

They had two daughters: Madeline Rosten and Margaret Ramsey Rosten ; and a son, Philip Rosten ( 1938 – 1996 ), who in turn had 6 grandchildren: Josh and Ben Lee ( Madeline ), Seth Muir ( Margaret ), and Alexander, Carrie and Pamela Rosten ( Phillip ).

Margaret Forster ( born 25 May 1938 ) is a British author.

Earlier works were Fanny Kemble ( 1933 ) by Leota Stultz Driver and Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian ( 1938 ) by Margaret Armstrong.

* Edgar Wallace, The Biography of a Phenomenon by Margaret Lane ( W. Heinemann, October 1938 ).

Margaret Lucy Sharp, Baroness Sharp of Guildford ( born 21 November 1938 ) is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.

Born Maria O ' Neill on 25 November 1938 to James O ’ Neill and Margaret Lacey, she became a member of the Labour Party in 1960.

In 1938 her other daughter, actress Margaret Shelby ( who was by then suffering from both clinical depression and alcoholism ), openly accused her mother of the murder during an argument.

He married as his first wife, Elinor Stewart Gates, the granddaughter of Frederick Taylor Gates ; Gertrude King ( 1916 – 1969 ), Vassar College class of 1938, and Margaret King ( 1917 – 1923 ).

His first appearance on Broadway was in Romeo and Juliet opposite Katharine Cornell in 1936, but he made his biggest impact in Shakespeare's Richard II, a production whose unexpected success was the surprise of the 1937 theatre season and allowed Evans to play Hamlet ( 1938 ) ( the first time that the play was performed uncut on the New York stage ), Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 ( 1939 ), Macbeth ( 1941 ) and Malvolio in Twelfth Night ( 1942 ) opposite the Viola of Helen Hayes, all under the direction of Margaret Webster.

Weldon was born in Birmingham, England to a literary family, with both her maternal grandfather, Edgar Jepson ( 1863 – 1938 ), and her mother Margaret writing novels ( the latter under the nom de plume Pearl Bellairs, alter-ego of the eponymous character in Aldous Huxley's short story, " Farcical History of Richard Greenow ").

He then worked for a few years as a farm labourer for Margaret Leigh in Scotland and later in Cornwall before joining the School of Rural Economy at the University of Oxford in 1938.