* 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 – 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

In 1938, the German chemist Otto Hahn, a student of Rutherford, directed neutrons onto uranium atoms expecting to get transuranium elements.

In September 1944, after German forces left, legal power was briefly restored as Otto Tief formed a new government in accordance with the 1938 constitution.

In December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting they had detected the element barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons ; simultaneously, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner.

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

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

* September 5 – Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician ( d. 1938 )

* 21 July 1937 – April 1938: Dr. Otto Schmidt ( lord mayor ; NSDAP )

After the 1938 Anschluss, monarchists were severely persecuted in Austria, and — sentenced to death by the Nazis — Otto fled to the United States, with a visa issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

He continued to enjoy considerable public support in Austria ; from 1931 to 1938, 1, 603 Austrian municipalities named Otto an honorary citizen.

On the 2008 anniversary of the Anschluss, Otto von Habsburg made a very controversial statement, as part of his " 1938 Remembrance Day " address before Parliament that " there is no country in Europe that has a better claim to be a victim of the Nazis than Austria ".

He has claimed he was born in 1938, by Elisabeth ( born Bahlman ) and his Swedish father Otto Lagerfeldt.

In its current design it was created by Otto Hupp in 1938.

She was launched in 1964 and named in honour of Otto Hahn, the German chemist and Nobel prizewinner, who was credited with the discovery of nuclear fission of uranium 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

The Vienna Circle published a collection, called Einheitswissenschaft ( Unified science ), edited by Rudolf Carnap, Philipp Frank, Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath, Joergen Joergensen ( after Hahn's death ) and Charles W. Morris ( from 1938 ), whose aim was to present an unified vision of science.

* Otto Neurath, Niels Bohr, John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, Rudolf Carnap, Charles Morris, Encyclopedia and unified science, 1938, vol. 1 n. 1

Edward Lee Morgan was born in Philadelphia on July 10, 1938, the youngest of Otto Ricardo and Nettie Beatrice Morgan's four children.

In December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann sent a manuscript to Naturwissenschaften reporting they had detected the element barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons ; Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch correctly interpreted these results as being nuclear fission.

Nobel Laureate Otto Loewi taught at the University of Graz from 1909 until 1938.

* Otto Loewi, 1936 in medicine – in Graz 1909 to 1938

* Otto Warburg ( botanist ) ( 1859 – 1938 ), German botanist

* Otto Dempwolff ( 1871 – 1938 ), linguist and anthropologist