1938 deaths

American author and playwright (1874-1938)

Norwegian artist (1855-1938)

German artist (1849-1938)

Polish artist (1859-1938)

Croatian politician (1864-1938)

Soviet politician (1887-1938)

German jurist, law theorist, philosopher (1856-1938)

German racecar driver and icon of national-socialism

Canadian writer and lecturer (1888–1938) who passed as half Indian in the latter years of his life

Swedish-American actor (1879–1938)

French composer

American businessman (1872–1938)

Indonesian composer and songwriter

British diplomat and academic (1874–1938)

American actor (1882–1938)

First Premier of the Republic of China (1862-1938)

American diplomat with important role in WW I peace negotiations (1858-1938)

Finnish artist, editor (1857-1938)

Crimean Tatar writer, journalist, historian, archaeologist, ethnographer, and teacher

Russian mathematician (1905–1938)

suffragist and feminist (1856–1938)

American writer (1860–1938)

Austrian artist and writer (1858-1938)

American businessman

Spanish writer (1853-1938)

Polish Catholic cardinal and archbishop (1862–1938)

(1867-1938) American cardinal and Archbishop of New York

Baltic German metallurgist (1861-1938)

Azerbaijani writer (1908-1938)

Bulgarian politician (1867-1938)

Armenian politician (1867-1938)

French cave explorer (1859–1938)

Polish writer (1901–1938)

Abdulhamid Sulaymon oʻgʻli Yunusov (, 1893 – 4 October 1938), most commonly known by his penname Choʻlpon (sometimes spelled Cholpán in English), was an Uzbek poet, playwright, novelist, and literary translator. Choʻlpon was one of Central Asia's most popular poets during the first half of the 20th century. He was also the first person to translate William Shakespeare's plays into the Uzbek language.

American ragtime composer (1885–1938)

Russian-born Moldovan-French Yiddish poet of Jewish descent and anarchist (1886-1938)

British politician (1868-1938)

French physicist (1863–1938)

Uzbek and Soviet poet, literary translator, and writer (1894–1938)

Italian princess (1851-1938)

Swedish artistic gymnast and athlete (1884-1938)

President of Liberia (1854-1938)

American structural engineer (1870–1938)

French theologian (1855–1938)

American rower (1867–1938)

Chilean footballer (1905–1938)

Greek politician (1875-1938)

French politician and journalist (1876–1938)

"Captain" Virgulino Ferreira da Silva (; 7 June 1897 – 28 July 1938), better known as Lampião (older spelling: Lampeão, , meaning "lantern" or "oil lamp"), was probably the twentieth century's most successful traditional bandit leader. The banditry endemic to the Northeast of Brazil was called Cangaço. Cangaço had origins in the late 19th century but was particularly prevalent in the 1920s and 1930s. Lampião led a band of up to 100 cangaceiros, who occasionally took over small towns and who fought a number of successful actions against paramilitary police when heavily outnumbered. Lampião's ex

Spanish saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1911-1938)

Russian sculptor (1866-1938)

German general (1868–1938)

American botanist (1869-1938)

German architect (1862-1938)

American actor (1887-1938)

American singer (1884–1938)

Russian politician and diplomat (1889-1938)

French individualist anarchist philosopher, activist, and novelist (1861-1938)

Swiss linguist (1853-1938)

Russian writer (1902–1938)