* 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

4, No. 1 ( Feb., 1938 ), pp. 14 – 33 in JSTOR

* 1938 – Terry Wogan, Irish-English broadcaster

* 2006 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War ( b. 1938 )

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

The Custer Creek train wreck, the worst rail disaster in Montana history, occurred near Terry along this line in 1938.

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.

After interning at the Hillman Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, and serving a residency in Cleveland Hospitals, Terry moved to Washington University in St. Louis in 1938 for an internship in pathology.

* Terry Stratton ( born 1938 ), Canadian politician

Terrance Richard " Terry " Stratton ( born March 16, 1938 ) is a Canadian Senator.

It has often been mocked: Terry Castle says that " like many bookish lesbians I seem to have spent much of my adult life making jokes about it ", and Mary Renault, who read it in 1938, remembered laughing at its " earnest humourlessness " and " impermissible allowance of self-pity ".

* November 14 – Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician ( d. 1938 )

In his memoirs ( 1938 ) Lloyd George wrote, " Passchendaele was indeed one of the greatest disasters of the war .... No soldier of any intelligence now defends this senseless campaign ....".

* Sir Sidney Peel, 1st Baronet ( 1870 – 1938 ), British soldier, financier and politician

In 1922 Singleton published his memoir of going from slavery to being a Union soldier ; he marched in a Grand Army of the Republic ( GAR ) reunion in 1938 at the age of 95.

As an admiral, Ōnishi was also very interested in psychology, particularly as related to soldier ′ s reactions under critical circumstances ( in 1938 he published a book on this subject: " War Ethics of the Imperial Navy ").

* Monument to the Unknown Hero-dedicated to the unknown Serbian soldier from World War I ; sculptured by Ivan Meštrović in the form of mausoleum with 8 caryatides ( columns shaped like female figures, in this case each one representing a woman from a different historical region of Yugoslavia ), it was completed in 1938.

* Ruppert L. Sargent ( 1938 – 1967 ), American soldier

Reverend Major James Craig Tolmie ( October 8, 1862-May 15, 1938 ) was a Canadian politician, presbyterian clergyman, military chaplain and soldier.

Major-General Sir James Howden MacBrien, KCB, CMG, DSO, CStJ ( 30 June 1878 – 5 March 1938 ) was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Militia ( renamed the Canadian Army in 1940 ) from 1920 until 1927.

* Alarms and excursions: reminiscences of a soldier ( Longmans & Co, London, 1938 )

Major-General Thomas Victor Anderson DSO CD ( July 4, 1881 – 1972 ) was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Army from 21 November 1938 until 6 July 1940.

Lieutenant-General Ernest Charles Ashton CB CMG VD ( 1873 – 1957 ) was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Army from 1935 until 21 November 1938.