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

* 1938 – Roy Thinnes, American actor

* 1938 – Gary Collins, American actor

* 1938 – Larry Niven, American author

* 1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1938 – Peter Bonerz, American actor

* 1938 – Dave " Baby " Cortez, American pianist

* 1938 – Connie Stevens, American actress, singer, and director

* 1938 – Rich Rollins, American baseball player

* Adrian Cronauer ( born 1938 ), American lawyer and radio speaker

* 1938 – Maxine Waters, American politician

* 1883 – Pauline Frederick, American actress ( d. 1938 )

* 1938 – Joe Frank, American radio host

* 1938 – Diana Muldaur, American actress

* 1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor ( The New Christy Minstrels and The First Edition )

* 1938 – David Canary, American actor

* 1938 – Booker Little, American jazz trumpeter ( d. 1961 )

* 1938 – Al Weis, American baseball player

* 1859 – Matilda Howell, American archer ( d. 1938 )

* 1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor

* 1938 – Robert Rubin, American politician, 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury

* 1857 – Clarence Darrow, American attorney ( d. 1938 )

* 1938 – Ben Barnes, American politician

* 1938 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, American theorist, co-founder of Discordianism

* 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player ( d. 1938 )

From November 8, 1937 to January 31, 1938, the Library of the German Museum in Munich held an art exhibition titled The Eternal Jew, showing works that the Nazis considered to be ' degenerate art '.

Porky in Wackyland ( 1938 ) was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2000, deemed " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

As a result of the Association's efforts, in 1938 the Board of Education voted to give use of a small room in the former Lansingburgh Academy for a branch of the Troy Public Library, and to furnish the necessary heat, light and custodial service.

* American Library Association: Caldecott Medal Winners for 1938 to the present.

In 1938, the War Library revealed building plans for Hoover Tower, which was to be its permanent home independent of the Stanford Library system.

* ( 1938 ) The Wisdom of Confucius, Random House, The Modern Library

Folklorists who have collected traditional music of Massachusetts include Eloise Hubbard Linscott, whose field recordings from 1938 and 1941 are in the Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

In his editorial capacity he closely adhered to this dictum. Upon Lomax's departure this work was continued by Benjamin A. Botkin, who succeeded Lomax as the Project's folklore editor in 1938, and at the Library in 1939, resulting in the invaluable compendium of authentic slave narratives: Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery, edited by B.

According to the New York Public Library, the first original cast album, a set of songs recorded by the cast of The Cradle Will Rock, by Marc Blitzstein, was released in 1938 on Musicraft.

* Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials: 1850 — 1938, Compiled under Direction of Municipal Reference Library City Hall, Los Angeles March 1938 ( Reprinted 1966 )

To reflect a growth in civic pride, several municipal buildings were erected: the Town Hall and Library building in Clemson Street in 1866, and a public baths in 1938.

Wilmon Brewer served as a trustee of the Hingham Public Library from 1938 until 1985.

* Puritan City, The Story of Salem, by Frances Winwar, King County Library System, 917. 44, copyright 1938, Robert M. McBride & County, New York.

* The Salem witchcraft papers: verbatim transcripts of the legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692 / compiled and transcribed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, under the supervision of Archie N. Frost ; edited and with an introduction and index by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum ; Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library ; pg.

* Library Building ( now Smullin Hall ) at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 1938

Its State Register of Heritage Buildings includes the Gaol, Connor's Mill, Toodyay Public Library ( built 1874 ), the old Toodyay Post Office ( designed by George Temple-Poole and built 1897 ) and the old Toodyay Fire Station ( designed by Ken Duncan, built 1938 ), as well as several other historic sites.

* 1938 – Opening of M. J. Library.

* Halt the railroad wage-cut New York: Workers ' Library Publishers 1938

Cashen of the Switchmen's Union of North America New York: Workers ' Library Publishers 1938

Foster New York: Workers ' Library Publishers 1938

Foster New York: Workers ' Library Publishers 1938

* Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials: 1850 — 1938, Compiled under Direction of Municipal Reference Library City Hall, Los Angeles March 1938 ( Reprinted 1966 )