* 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 – 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

* Leonid Borodin ( born 1938 ), Russian novelist

Leonid Danylovych Kuchma () ( born 9 August 1938 ) was the second President of independent Ukraine from 19 July 1994, to 23 January 2005.

* Leonid Kuchma ( b. 1938 ), the second President of Ukraine ( 1994-2005 )

The establishment of an autonomous Ukrainian region in Czecho-Slovakia in October 1938 had promoted a major Soviet media campaign against its existence on the grounds that this was part of a Western plot to support separatism in the Soviet Ukraine.

* Israel Moiseevich Leplevsky ( 1894 – 1938 ), Bundist in 1904-1907, Minister (" People's Commissar ") of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( 1937 – 1938 )

Previously the word praxiology, with the meaning Espinas gave to it, was used by Tadeusz Kotarbiński ( in 1923 ) and some time later by several economists, such as the Ukrainian, Eugene Slutsky ( 1926 ) in his attempt to base economics on a theory of action, the Austrian Ludwig von Mises ( 1933 ), the Russian, Nikolai Bukharin ( 1888 – 1938 ) during the Second International Congress of History of Science and Technology in London ( in 1931 ), and the Pole, Oscar Lange ( 1904 – 1965 ) in 1959, and later.

A Polish report about the popular mood in Volhynia recorded a comment of a young Ukrainian from October 1938 as " we will decorate our pillars with you and our trees with your wives.

Anatoly Maximovich Zlenko ( born 1938 ) is a Ukrainian diplomat.

The final panels of the comic book depict the landing of Kal-L's timeship in a Ukrainian collective in 1938, effectively causing a predestination paradox.

Before he become INO head in May, 1938, on Stalin's direct order, he personally assassinated the Ukrainian nationalist leader Yavhen Konovalets.

* Valentin Mankin ( b. 1938 ), Soviet / Ukrainian sailor

Born in Malonton, Manitoba, the son of Anton Smerchanski and Dora Huley, both of Ukrainian descent, Smerchanski was educated at the University of Manitoba and the Virginia Polytechnical Institute, graduating in 1938.

Valentyn Grigoryevich Mankin () ( born August 19, 1938 in Kiev ) is a retired Soviet / Ukrainian sailor, three times Olympic champion for the USSR team.

In 1938, at nineteen, he won the Ukrainian Championship ; the following year, he won the Ukraine SSR championship, qualified to play in the USSR Chess Championship at the age of 20, and gained his national chess master title.

From 1938 to 1940, he was Research Associate at the Ukrainian Scientific Institute in Berlin.

Volodymyr Zatonsky (; Vladimir Petrovich Zatonsky ) ( July 27, 1888 – July 29, 1938 ) was a Soviet politician, Communist Party activist, member of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences ( since 1929 ).

Larisa Efimovna Shepitko (, ; 6 January 1938, Artemivsk, Ukrainian SSR – 2 June 1979, Kalinin Oblast ) was a Soviet film director.

Poet ; recipient of the highest Soviet awards and orders ; deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR from 1938 and its chairman in 1953 – 9 ; director of the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in 1936 – 9 and 1941 – 3 ; and minister of education of the Ukrainian SSR in 1943 – 8.

* Yevhen Konovalets ( 1891 – 1938 ) leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists between 1929 and 1938.

* 1938 – Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician

* 1938 – Maxine Waters, American politician

* 1938 – Jean-Paul L ' Allier, Canadian politician, 38th Mayor of Quebec City

* 1938 – Paul Martin, Canadian politician

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

* 1938 – Ben Barnes, American politician

* 1938 – Doug Lewis, Canadian politician

* 1938 – Jerry Brown, American politician

* 2007 – Julia Carson, American politician ( b. 1938 )

* 1938 – Valentim Loureiro, Portuguese politician, and former football chairman of Boavista F. C.

* 1938 – Lucien Bouchard, Canadian politician

* 1938 – Pierre Vallières, Canadian politician ( d. 1995 )

* 1938 – Fred Mifflin, Canadian Rear Admiral and politician

* John Harvard ( politician ) ( born 1938 ), the Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba

* 1938 – Goh Kun, South Korean politician

* 1871 – James Weldon Johnson, American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist ( d. 1938 )

* 1938 – Arthur Scargill, British politician

* 1938 – Otto Bauer, Austrian politician ( b. 1881 )

* 2009 – Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician ( b. 1938 )

* 1938 – Hervé de Charette, French politician

* 1938 – Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist and politician

* 1938 – Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian politician

* 1938 – Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician