* 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

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 ).

* 1938 – Richard Jordan, American actor ( d. 1993 )

The 1938 film, The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, portrayed Robin as a hero on a national scale, leading the oppressed Saxons in revolt against their Norman overlords while Richard the Lionheart fought in the Crusades ; this movie established itself so definitively that many studios resorted to movies about his son ( invented for that purpose ) rather than compete with the image of this one.

* The Terror ( 1938 film ), a film by Richard Bird

Maurice Richard played minor ice hockey at all levels in the Montreal area before playing junior in Verdun, starting in 1938.

This episode furthermore has been treated repeatedly in opera, notably by Jacopo Peri ( Dafne ) in 1597 and Richard Strauss ( Daphne, with a libretto that deviates significantly from Ovid's account ) in 1938.

At the Embassy Theatre in March 1937 he played Anderson in a mystery play, The Bat, before returning to the Old Vic in April, succeeding Marius Goring as Chorus in Henry V. Other roles that year included Christopher Drew in Daisy Fisher's comedy A Ship Comes Home at the St Martin's Theatre in May and Larry Starr in Philip Leaver's comedy Three Set Out at the Embassy in June, before joining John Gielgud's Company at the Queen's Theatre, September 1937 to April 1938, where he played Bolingbroke in Richard II, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal and Baron Tusenbach in Three Sisters.

Richardson's film appearances include Things to Come ( 1936 ), The Citadel ( 1938 ), The Fallen Idol ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ; his first nomination for an Academy Award ), Richard III ( 1955 ; playing Buckingham to Olivier's Richard ), Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ; with Alec Guinness and Noël Coward ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), and Oh!

* 1938 Richard Kuhn ( professor )

Charles Edward Kingsford Smith was born on 9 February 1897 in Hamilton ( a suburb of Brisbane ), Queensland, Australia, and was the youngest of seven children of William Charles Smith ( 1852 – 1930 ), a bank manager, and Catherine Mary Kingsford ( 1857 – 1938 ), daughter of Richard Ash Kingsford, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

* William Richard Johnson ( 1875 – 1938 ), Illinois Congressman

Famous alumni of the Art Academy include Marc Awodey, Ed Bacon, Harry Bertoia, Peter Bohlin, Chunghi Choo, Richard DeVore, Niels Diffrient, Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Ed Fella, Paul Granlund, Leza McVey, Frederic James, Jeffery Keedy, Florence Knoll ( did not graduate ), Walter Hamady, Duane Hanson, Jack Lenor Larsen, P. Scott Makela and Laurie Haycock Makela, Fumihiko Maki, Fred Mitchell, Gyo Obata, Ralph Rapson, Bernard Rosenthal, Eero Saarinen, Joseph Allen Stein, Toshiko Takaezu, Lycia Trouton, Harry Weese ( City Planning fellowship, 1938 – 39 ), Lorraine Wild, Anne Wilson, and Daniel Libeskind ( Architect-in-Residence, Department of Architecture 1978 – 1985 ).

Hunter had earlier played King Richard the Lionheart in the 1938 production The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn.

Composer Alvin Curran ( born December 13, 1938 ), is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter.

Sponsored by an £ 8, 000 bequest from Richard Wheatley in 1939, and £ 7, 500 from the City Council, it was unveiled in 1956, from preliminary designs drawn up in 1938.

Richard Rhodes claims that Volney Wilson invented the ' Dolphin ' after studying fish, and used it to win the 1938 US Olympic Trials, earning him a disqualification.

William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield GBE, CH ( 10 October 1877 – 22 August 1963 ), known as Sir William Morris, Bt, between 1929 and 1934 and as The Lord Nuffield between 1934 and 1938, was a British motor manufacturer and philanthropist.

* Richard Hofstadter, " The Tariff Issue on the Eve of the Civil War ," American Historical Review, 64 ( October 1938 ): 50 – 55, shows Northern business had little interest in tariff in 1860, except for Pennsylvania which demanded high tariff on iron products

Schwarzkopf made her professional debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin ( then called Deutsches Opernhaus ) on 15 April 1938, as the Second Flower Maiden ( First Group ) in act 2 of Richard Wagner's Parsifal.

The reprints were Guy Endore's " Men of Iron " ( 1940 ), Richard Sale's " Perseus Had a Helmet " ( 1938 ), Stuart Palmer's " A Bride for the Devil " ( 1940 ), Perceval Landon's 1908 " Thurnley Abbey ," Oliver Onions ' 1910 " Rooum " and Fitz-James O ' Brien's " The Lost Room " ( 1858 ).

* Richard Russell, Sr. ( 1861 – 1938 ), United States judge and chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court

* Richard Kuhn ( 1900 – 1967 ), Austrian biochemist, winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henry Richard " Huntz " Hall ( August 15, 1920 ; – January 30, 1999 ) was an American radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer noted primarily for his roles in the " Dead End Kids " movies, such as Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), which gave way to the " The Bowery Boys " movie franchise, a prolific and highly successful series of comedies in the 1940s and 1950s.