* 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

* 1938 – Michael Murphy, American actor

Michael's father died in 1938 when Michael was 16 years old.

* Thomsett, Michael C. The German Opposition to Hitler: The Resistance, the Underground, and Assassination Plots, 1938 – 1945 ( 2nd ed 2007 ) 278 pages

* 1961 – Michael Rockefeller, American scion ( b. 1938 )

( In 1938, Michael Curtiz was nominated twice, for Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters, but did not win for either film.

Other portrayals include Malcolm Keen ( Sixty Glorious Years, 1938 ), Stephen Murray ( The Prime Minister, 1941 ), Arthur Young ( The Lady with the Lamp, 1951 ), Ralph Richardson ( Khartoum, 1966 ), Graham Chapman ( Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1969 ), Michael Hordern ( Edward the Seventh, 1975 ) and Martin Wady ( Queen Victoria's Empire, 2001 ).

After his divorce in 1938 he married Netta, née McCullough, previously Brigit's daughter-in-law as Mrs. Michael Patmore.

* Michael Bar-Zohar ( b. 1938 ), historian, former Knesset member

* The tune was whistled, as an insult, by Michael Redgrave in Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film The Lady Vanishes, which may be the first time it was heard in a film.

The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley.

The Complete Later Poems 1923 – 1938 ( Translators: Michael Smith, Valentino Gianuzzi ).

* Gene Michael ( born 1938 ), former player, manager and executive in Major League Baseball.

Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O ' Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft.

When Dean left in 1938 to be replaced by Michael Balcon from MGM, about 60 films had been made at the studios.

Parry died in 1918 and was succeeded as director by Sir Hugh Allen ( 1919 – 37 ), Sir George Dyson ( 1938 – 52 ), Sir Ernest Bullock ( 1953 – 59 ), Sir Keith Falkner ( 1960 – 74 ), Sir David Willcocks ( 1974 – 84 ), Michael Gough Mathews ( 1985 – 93 ), Dame Janet Ritterman ( 1993 – 2005 ) and Colin Lawson ( 2005 –).

The Heritage Foundation's Michael Johns, for instance, wrote in 1987 that " seven years after Ronald Reagan's arrival in Washington, the United States government and its allies are still dominated by the culture of appeasement that drove Neville Chamberlain to Munich in 1938.

* Michael R. Krätke, University of Amsterdan, Otto Bauer ( 1881 – 1938 )-The Problems of the Third Way ( Austrian ), on Otto Bauer and his Third Way as an Early Inspiration to the Eurocommunist Movement

Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE, DL ( born 3 August 1938 ), also known as Terry Wogan, is an Irish radio and television broadcaster who holds dual Irish and British citizenship.

Other commemorative works written around this time include the Concerto for Strings ( written in 1938 ), the slow movement of which is in joint memory of Michael and Edward Elgar ; the hymn tune Michael ( to the words " All My Hope on God is Founded " by Robert Bridges ); and the unfinished Cello Concerto, on which Howells had been working at the time of the boy's death and which he found himself unable to complete.

* Michael Bradshaw ( 1933 – 2001 ) English / Canadian actor grew up in Boxmoor from 1938 until the mid-50s

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.

* Mickie Most ( 1938 – 2003, born Michael Peter Hayes ), English record producer

Originally founded by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu on July 24, 1927, as the Legion of the Archangel Michael (" Legiunea Arhanghelului Mihail "), and led by him until his assassination in 1938, adherents to the movement continued to be widely referred to as " legionnaires " ( sometimes " legionaries "; ) and led to the organization of the " Legion " or the " Legionary Movement " (" Mişcarea Legionară "), despite various changes of the ( intermittently banned ) organization's name.