Arthur Phillip was born in 1738, the son of Jacob Phillip, a Frankfurt-born language teacher, and his English wife, Elizabeth Breach.

Corbin Washington ( 1764 – 1799 ), son of Col. John Augustine Washington ( 1736 – 1787 ) and Hannah Bushrod ( 1738 – 1801 ).

In 1738, Sebastião de Melo, the talented son of a Lisbon squire, began a diplomatic career as the Portuguese Ambassador in London and later in Vienna.

Francis Smith, the father of William, was chosen as one of the masons, but died in 1738 and was succeeded by his son near the beginning of building.

In 1738, northern Ridge was settled by widower Samuel Randallof North Stonington, CT ; his only son Stephen Randall and his descendants farmed a farm on a plot of ground that Samuel had always referred to as " the Ridge " based on the geographical terrain.

Peace in Europe was shattered by the War of the Polish Succession ( 1733 – 1738 ), which started as a dispute over the throne of the Poland between Augustus of Saxony, the previous King's elder son, and Stanisław Leszczyński.

In 1738, Augustine Washington recalled his eldest son Lawrence ( George's half-brother ) home from The Appleby School in England and set him up on the family's Little Hunting Creek tobacco plantation, thereby allowing Augustine to move his family back to Fredericksburg at the end of 1739.

In 1731 she had the satisfaction of seeing her favorite scheme realized with the recognition by the powers in the Treaty of Vienna of her son Don Carlos ( afterwards Charles III of Spain ) as the Duke of Parma, and after the Treaty of Vienna ( 1738 ) his accession to the throne of the Two Sicilies.

Michel Ney was born in Saarlouis, the second son of Pierre Ney ( 1738 – 1826 ), a master barrel-cooper and veteran of the Seven Years ' War, and of his wife Margarethe Grewelinger ( 1739 – 1791 ).

John Singleton Copley ( 1738 – 1815 ) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish.

In 1738 the father – son duo nearly simultaneously published separate works on hydrodynamics.

Three generations of the Bartholin family made significant contributions to anatomical science and medicine in the 17th and 18th centuries: Thomas Bartholin's father, Caspar Bartholin the Elder ( 1585-1629 ), his brother Rasmus Bartholin ( 1625-1698 ), and his son Caspar Bartholin the Younger ( 1655 – 1738 ).

* William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland ( 1738 – 1809 ), eldest son of the 2nd Duke

Fota House was originally a hunting lodge and became the family's main residence in the 1820s when the architect, Sir Richard Morrison ( 1767 – 1849 ) and his son Vetruvius Morrison ( 1794 – 1738 ), created the present regency mansion with over 70 rooms.

They had one child, a son John born in 1738.

A poor Welsh miller's son from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, James ran away to sea in 1732 and by 1738 was commanding his own ship and serving in the West Indies.

Born in Vila Rica ( Rich Town ), whose name was later changed to Ouro Preto ( Black Gold ), Minas Gerais, Brazil, in 1738 ( sometimes said to be in 1730 ) he was the son of Manuel Francisco da Costa Lisboa, a Portuguese man and his African slave, Isabel.

Nanyehi was born as " Tsituna-Gus-Ke " ( Wild Rose ) around 1738 in the Cherokee capital, Chota ( Cherokee: “ City of Refuge ”) in what today is known as Monroe County, Tennessee, as a daughter of Tame Doe and Francis Ward “ Fivekiller ”, son of Francis Ward of Ireland.

* Kaikhosro, son ( 1738 – 69 )

Paul Jules ' son, Guy Jules Paul de La Porte, duc Mazarin et de La Meilleraye ( 1701 – 1738 ), married Louise Françoise de Rohan in 1716.

Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link ( 1738 – 1783 ), who taught him love of nature through collection of ' natural objects '.

* Susannah Randolph ( born September 25, 1738 ) married Carter Henry Harrison I ( the brother of Benjamin Harrison V, the son of Benjamin Harrison IV, and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison III and Robert " King " Carter ) and had six children.

However, his expenses were also high, and on his death his son and successor Anton ( Antal, 1738 – 1794 ) was forced to retrench financially.

Prince Boris Grigorievich Yusupov, Chamberlain in 1730, General Governor of Moscow in 1738, Senator ( June 18, 1695, Moscow-March 3, 1759, Moscow ), son of Prince Grigori, was sent to study with the French Navy at the age of 20 and soon became the Tsar's advisor, and eventually served three sovereigns.

* 1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1809 )

Richard married first on December 5, 1757, Anne Aylett ( 1738 – 1768 ), daughter of William Aylett and Elizabeth Eskridge ( 1719 ).

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

* October 30 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1738 )

* August 25 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer ( b. 1738 )

* 1738 – Metallic zinc processed by distillation from calamine and charcoal patented by William Champion

His father, William Turner ( 1738 – 7 August 1829 ), was a barber and wig maker, His mother, Mary Marshall, came from a family of butchers.

* William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland ( 1738 – 1809 ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

* William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland ( 1738 – 1809 )

The first architect of the gardens at Chiswick appears to have been the King's gardener, Charles Bridgeman ( 1690 – 1738 ), who was believed to have worked on the gardens with Lord Burlington around 1720, and subsequently with William Kent, whom Lord Burlington had brought back with him on his return from his second Grand Tour in 1719.

William Card ( 1710 – 1784 ), born in Rhode Island, settled in Pownal perhaps as late as 1773 ( though his sons settled there between 1762 – 1766 ) fought for the British at the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777, along with four of his sons: Jonathan ( 1734 – 1818 ), Elisha ( 1738 – 1805 ), Philo ( 1754 – 1837 ) --- NOTE: This is an error ... No Philo Card has been found to exist.

Karnak was visited and described in succession by Claude Sicard and his travel companion Pierre Laurent Pincia ( 1718 and 1720 – 21 ), Granger ( 1731 ), Frederick Louis Norden ( 1737 – 38 ), Richard Pococke ( 1738 ), James Bruce ( 1769 ), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt ( 1777 ), William George Browne ( 1792 – 93 ), and finally by a number of scientists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798 – 1799.

Although some contemporary sources suggest there was coal mining in Oldham at a commercial scale by 1738, older sources attribute the commercial expansion of coal mining with the arrival in the town of two Welsh labourers, John Evans and William Jones, around 1770.

Early histories claimed his birth year as 1738, a date widely propagated even in modern biographic summaries ; according to biographer William Willcox, Clinton claimed in a notebook found in 1958 to be born in 1730, and that evidence from English peerage records places the date of birth as 16 April.

In 1738, he married Isabella, daughter of Professor William Law, with whom he had six children.

* Prince George William Frederick, later George III of the United Kingdom ( 1738 – 1820 )

William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC ( 14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809 ) was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and twice Prime Minister of Great Britain, serving in 1783 and again from 1807 to 1809.

This series was written by William Guthrie, Samuel Johnson, and John Hawkesworth, and was printed in Edward Cave's periodical The Gentleman's Magazine from 1738 to 1746.

* Sir William Herschel ( 1738 – 1822 ), astronomer and composer, discoverer of Uranus

William Townshend b. 1702, d. 29 Jan 1738

* William Craven, 6th Baron Craven ( 1738 – 1791 )

* William Ross, 12th Lord Ross ( died 1738 ), Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician