1938 deaths

Canadian-American actress (1886-1938)

American astronomer (1862–1938)

Norwegian figure skater and speed skater (1855–1938)

French philologist and writer (1864-1938)

American physicist (1855–1938)

Prince of Greece and Denmark (1872-1938)

German egyptologist (1863–1938)

Soviet writer (1894-1938)

Irish-American hammer thrower

Soviet diplomat (1883-1938)

Belgian politician (1866-1938)

Head of the House of Romanov (1924-1938)

Crown Prince of Spain (1907–1938); heir apparent to the throne until 1933

Argentine poet

Romanian poet and politician (1881–1938)

Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: , meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking re

German diplomat (1909-1938)

Prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader/diplomat (1883-1938)

Georgian writer (1851–1938)

English-American astronomer and mathematician

Finnish politician and Prime Minister (1860-1938)

Finnish economist and politician (1872-1938)

Chinese general and warlord (1862–1938)

Australian-born British philosopher (1859-1938)

Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser (1885-1938)

Royal Navy officer (1892–1938)

Soviet admiral (1889-1938)

military commander of the UNR army and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement (1891-1938)

French caricaturist (1857-1938)

American pianist, composer, and teacher (1870–1938)

Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862-1938); mother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; maternal grandmother of Elizabeth II

English footballer and manager (1874-1938)

Greek military officer, politician, and Olympic foil fencer (1863-1938)

Slovak Roman Catholic priest and politician (1864-1938)

American cartoonist (1894–1938)

Polish economist, politician and academic (1874–1938)

Polish philosopher, psychologist and logician (1866–1938)

Belarusian public figure, politician, and linguist (1892—1938)

British prince (1883-1938)

Swedish figure skater

Chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II (1878–1938)

Russian-Soviet political revolutionary, Marxist theoretician, and archivist

United States federal judge (1870-1938)

Uzbek politician (1896-1938)

Soviet army commander (1873-1938)

American writer and activist (1871–1938)

American sprinter (1875–1938)

American actress (1889–1938)

Danish scientist (1860-1938).

Russian revolutionary leader (1884-1938)

German botanist (1859-1938)

Soviet linguist and orientalist (1891–1938)

French chemist, painter, sculptor and composer (1872–1938)

Spanish politician (1859–1938)

Swedish actor (1890–1938)

Irish explorer (1877–1938)

American author and playwright (1874-1938)

American biochemist and pharmacologist (1857–1938)

Italian businessman (1876-1938)

Polish artist (1859-1938)