* Tex Austin ( 1886 – 1938 ), American rodeo promoter

* 1938 – Paul Daniels, English magician

* 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 – Flora Call Disney, mother of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney ( b. 1868 )

In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement ' Independent Progressive ' candidate against the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg, in the Oxford by-election, 1938.

* 1938 – The process for making poly-tetrafluoroethylene, better known as Teflon discovered by Roy Plunkett

" The Beatles would cover " Matchbox ", " Honey Don't " and " Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby " recorded by Perkins but adapted from a song originally recorded by Rex Griffin during 1936 with new music composed by Carl Perkins, a song with the same title also recorded by Roy Newman in 1938.

Roy J. Plunkett ( June 26, 1910 – May 12, 1994 ) was the chemist who discovered polytetrafluoroethylene ( PTFE ), or Teflon by DuPont, in 1938.

* January 22, 1936-February, 1938 -- Major General Lucius Roy Holbrook

Lucius Roy Holbrook ( April 30, 1875 – October 19, 1952 ) was a Major General who commanded of the United States Army's Philippine Department from 1936 to 1938.

Foss worked at a service station to pay for books and college tuition, and to begin flight lessons from Roy Lanning, at the Sioux Skyway Airfield in 1938, scraping up $ 65 to pay for the instruction.

That same year, a palomino colt was foaled in Santa Cietro, CA, named " Golden Cloud ", and later renamed " Trigger " in 1938 after he was acquired by Roy.

In 1938, when Autry temporarily walked out on his movie contract, Slye was immediately rechristened " Roy Rogers ".

Famous alumni of Pomona College include Walt Disney Company Executive Roy E. Disney ( 1951 ), writer, actor, and musician Kris Kristofferson ( 1954 ), Civil Rights activist and NAACP chairman Myrlie Evers ( 1968 ), and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller ( 1970 ), and six-time Grammy Winning conductor Robert Shaw ( 1938 ), as well as several Academy Award-winning screenwriters.

Roy Welensky, a railway trade union leader who had been elected in 1938, set up the Northern Rhodesian Labour Party as a party favouring amalgamation.

Concertos and concert works for two pianos have been written by Bach ( two to four pianos, BWV 1060-65, actually harpsichord concertos, but often performed on pianos ), Mozart ( two, K 242 ( originally for three pianos and orchestra ) and K 365 ), Mendelssohn ( two, 1823-4 ), Bruch ( 1912 ), Béla Bartók ( 1927 / 1932, a reworking of his Sonata for two pianos and percussion ), Poulenc ( 1932 ), Arthur Benjamin ( 1938 ), Peter Mieg ( 1939-41 ), Darius Milhaud ( 1941 and 1951 ), Bohuslav Martinů ( 1943 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( c. 1946 ), Roy Harris ( 1946 ), Gian Francesco Malipiero ( two works, both 1957 ), Walter Piston ( 1959 ), Luciano Berio ( 1973 ), and Harald Genzmer ( 1990 ).

Proby ( born James Marcus Smith, November 6, 1938 ) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor, who has portrayed Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison in musical theater productions as well as recording career in his own right.

It produced about forty books by more than twenty poets, including Pete Brown, Ed Dorn ( Gunslinger 1 & 2, 1970 ), Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Paul Evans, Roy Fisher, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Donald Gardner (* 1938, For the flames, 1974 ), Allen Ginsberg, Michael Hamburger, Lee Harwood, Spike Hawkins, Alan Jackson, David Jones, Christopher Middleton, Lorine Niedecker, Jeff Nuttall, George Oppen, Tom Pickard ( with a preface by Bunting ), Omar S. Pound, F. T. Prince, Tom Raworth, Jerome Rothenberg and Gary Snyder.

Built in 1938, the Roy G. Cullen Building is the first building on campus

In 1938, Hugh Roy Cullen donated $ 335, 000 for the first building to be built at the location.

* Roy, Pierre-Georges ( 1938 ).

In 1938, polytetrafluoroethylene ( DuPont brand name Teflon ) was discovered by accident by a recently-hired DuPont Ph. D., Roy J. Plunkett.

In 1938, Yates created a second American icon by giving Roy Rogers his first starring role in Under Western Stars.

Roy proposed an alternative leadership, seized the crisis following Bose ’ s re-election as the Congress President, in 1938: in Pune, in June, he formed his League of Radical Congressmen.

Roy, First Rajputana-Central India Students ' Conference, Benwar, 1st and 2nd January 1938.

* All-India Sugar Mill Workers ' Conference, Gorakhpur, Held on April 30th and May 1st, 1938: Presidential Address by Manabendra Nath Roy.

His elder brother Roy was a major league corner outfielder from 1929 to 1938.