Who Was Alive in 1938
163 of 492 historical figures were alive in 1938
Sigmund FreudAge 82
Nikola TeslaAge 82
George Bernard ShawAge 82
Max PlanckAge 80
Rabindranath TagoreAge 77
David HilbertAge 76
Henry FordAge 75
Edvard MunchAge 75
H.G. WellsAge 72
Frank Lloyd WrightAge 71
Mahatma GandhiAge 69
Henri MatisseAge 69
Orville WrightAge 67
Bertrand RussellAge 66
Winston ChurchillAge 64
Carl JungAge 63
Albert SchweitzerAge 63
Thomas MannAge 63
Lise MeitnerAge 60
Joseph StalinAge 60
Albert EinsteinAge 59
Leon TrotskyAge 59
Helen KellerAge 58
Pablo PicassoAge 57
Alexander FlemingAge 57
Mustafa Kemal AtatürkAge 57
Virginia WoolfAge 56
James JoyceAge 56
Igor StravinskyAge 56
Franklin D. RooseveltAge 56
Coco ChanelAge 55
Benito MussoliniAge 55
John Maynard KeynesAge 55
Eleanor RooseveltAge 54
Harry S. TrumanAge 54
Niels BohrAge 53
Diego RiveraAge 52
Erwin SchrödingerAge 51
Georgia O'KeeffeAge 51
Chiang Kai-shekAge 51
Le CorbusierAge 51
T. S. EliotAge 50
Charlie ChaplinAge 49
Jawaharlal NehruAge 49
Adolf HitlerAge 49
Ludwig WittgensteinAge 49
Ho Chi MinhAge 48
Agatha ChristieAge 48
Dwight D. EisenhowerAge 48
Charles de GaulleAge 48
Haile SelassieAge 46
J.R.R. TolkienAge 46
Mao ZedongAge 45
Aldous HuxleyAge 44
Nikita KhrushchevAge 44
Babe RuthAge 43
Buster KeatonAge 43
F. Scott FitzgeraldAge 42
Golda MeirAge 40
C. S. LewisAge 40
Duke EllingtonAge 39
Ernest HemingwayAge 39
Jorge Luis BorgesAge 39
Alfred HitchcockAge 39
Humphrey BogartAge 39
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAge 38
Werner HeisenbergAge 37
Louis ArmstrongAge 37
Walt DisneyAge 37
Enrico FermiAge 37
HirohitoAge 37
Marlene DietrichAge 37
George OrwellAge 35
Bob HopeAge 35
Robert OppenheimerAge 34
Salvador DalíAge 34
Pablo NerudaAge 34
Jean-Paul SartreAge 33
Hannah ArendtAge 32
Frida KahloAge 31
Rachel CarsonAge 31
Simone de BeauvoirAge 30
Lyndon B. JohnsonAge 30
Kwame NkrumahAge 29
Dorothy HodgkinAge 28
Mother TeresaAge 28
Akira KurosawaAge 28
Jacques CousteauAge 28
Ronald ReaganAge 27
Naguib MahfouzAge 27
Alan TuringAge 26
Jackson PollockAge 26
Rosa ParksAge 25
Jesse OwensAge 25
Richard NixonAge 25
Albert CamusAge 25
Gerald FordAge 25
Hedy LamarrAge 24
Orson WellesAge 23
Frank SinatraAge 23
Billie HolidayAge 23
Ingrid BergmanAge 23
Roald DahlAge 22
John F. KennedyAge 21
Ella FitzgeraldAge 21
Indira GandhiAge 21
Ingmar BergmanAge 20
Nelson MandelaAge 20
Richard FeynmanAge 20
Eva PerónAge 19
Edmund HillaryAge 19
Jackie RobinsonAge 19
Rosalind FranklinAge 18
Pope John Paul IIAge 18
Toshiro MifuneAge 18
Stan LeeAge 16
Marlon BrandoAge 14
James BaldwinAge 14
Jimmy CarterAge 14
George H. W. BushAge 14
Patrice LumumbaAge 13
Margaret ThatcherAge 13
B.B. KingAge 13
Malcolm XAge 13
Marilyn MonroeAge 12
Fidel CastroAge 12
Elizabeth IIAge 12
Gabriel García MárquezAge 11
Pope Benedict XVIAge 11
James WatsonAge 10
Andy WarholAge 10
Stanley KubrickAge 10
Maya AngelouAge 10
Che GuevaraAge 10
Vera RubinAge 10
Noam ChomskyAge 10
Anne FrankAge 9
Martin Luther King Jr.Age 9
Audrey HepburnAge 9
Grace KellyAge 9
Chinua AchebeAge 8
Neil ArmstrongAge 8
Ray CharlesAge 8
Tu YouyouAge 8
James DeanAge 7
Desmond TutuAge 7
Toni MorrisonAge 7
Mikhail GorbachevAge 7
Johnny CashAge 6
Elizabeth TaylorAge 6
Sylvia PlathAge 6
Yoko OnoAge 5
Wole SoyinkaAge 4
Yuri GagarinAge 4
Carl SaganAge 4
Jane GoodallAge 4
Dalai LamaAge 3
Elvis PresleyAge 3
Woody AllenAge 3
Pope FrancisAge 2
Jack NicholsonAge 1
Saddam HusseinAge 1
Kofi AnnanAge 0
Born in 1938
Also Born in 1938
UN Secretary-General from 1997 to 2006
President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018
King of Spain from 1975 to 2014
Soviet entertainer and poet (1938–1980)
Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013
American actor (born 1938)
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Leader of Uzbekistan from 1989 to 2016
President of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005
Italian-Tunisian actress (1938–2025)
Italian musician and actor (born 1938)
President of Peru from 1990 to 2000
Died in 1938
Also Died in 1938
President of Turkey from 1923 to 1938
Czech science fiction writer and playwright (1890–1938)
Italian writer (1863–1938)
Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician (1859–1938)
Russian actor and theatre director (1863–1938)
French filmmaker and illusionist (1861–1938)
German expressionist painter (1880–1938)
Russian and Soviet poet (1891–1938)
Austro-German Marxist theorist (1854–1938)
German journalist and pacifist (1889–1938)
Peruvian writer & poet (1892–1938)
Nun and saint from Poland
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- 1938 — Wikipedia. Births, deaths and events of the year
- Sigmund Freud — Wikipedia
- Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
- George Bernard Shaw — Wikipedia
- Max Planck — Wikipedia
- Rabindranath Tagore — Wikipedia
- David Hilbert — Wikipedia
- Henry Ford — Wikipedia
- Edvard Munch — Wikipedia
- H. G. Wells — Wikipedia
- Frank Lloyd Wright — Wikipedia
- Mahatma Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Henri Matisse — Wikipedia
- Wright brothers — Wikipedia
- Bertrand Russell — Wikipedia
- Winston Churchill — Wikipedia
- Carl Jung — Wikipedia
- Albert Schweitzer — Wikipedia
- Thomas Mann — Wikipedia
- Lise Meitner — Wikipedia
- Joseph Stalin — Wikipedia
- Albert Einstein — Wikipedia
- Leon Trotsky — Wikipedia
- Helen Keller — Wikipedia
- Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
- Alexander Fleming — Wikipedia
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Wikipedia
- Virginia Woolf — Wikipedia
- James Joyce — Wikipedia
- Igor Stravinsky — Wikipedia
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Coco Chanel — Wikipedia
- Benito Mussolini — Wikipedia
- John Maynard Keynes — Wikipedia
- Eleanor Roosevelt — Wikipedia
- Harry S. Truman — Wikipedia
- Niels Bohr — Wikipedia
- Diego Rivera — Wikipedia
- Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia
- Chiang Kai-shek — Wikipedia
- Le Corbusier — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Jawaharlal Nehru — Wikipedia
- Adolf Hitler — Wikipedia
- Ludwig Wittgenstein — Wikipedia
- Ho Chi Minh — Wikipedia
- Agatha Christie — Wikipedia
- Dwight D. Eisenhower — Wikipedia
- Charles de Gaulle — Wikipedia
- Haile Selassie — Wikipedia
- J. R. R. Tolkien — Wikipedia
- Mao Zedong — Wikipedia
- Aldous Huxley — Wikipedia
- Nikita Khrushchev — Wikipedia
- Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
- Buster Keaton — Wikipedia
- F. Scott Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Golda Meir — Wikipedia
- C. S. Lewis — Wikipedia
- Duke Ellington — Wikipedia
- Ernest Hemingway — Wikipedia
- Jorge Luis Borges — Wikipedia
- Alfred Hitchcock — Wikipedia
- Humphrey Bogart — Wikipedia
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — Wikipedia
- Werner Heisenberg — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Enrico Fermi — Wikipedia
- Hirohito — Wikipedia
- Marlene Dietrich — Wikipedia
- George Orwell — Wikipedia
- Bob Hope — Wikipedia
- J. Robert Oppenheimer — Wikipedia
- Salvador Dalí — Wikipedia
- Pablo Neruda — Wikipedia
- Jean-Paul Sartre — Wikipedia
- Hannah Arendt — Wikipedia
- Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
- Rachel Carson — Wikipedia
- Simone de Beauvoir — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Kwame Nkrumah — Wikipedia
- Dorothy Hodgkin — Wikipedia
- Mother Teresa — Wikipedia
- Akira Kurosawa — Wikipedia
- Jacques Cousteau — Wikipedia
- Ronald Reagan — Wikipedia
- Naguib Mahfouz — Wikipedia
- Alan Turing — Wikipedia
- Jackson Pollock — Wikipedia
- Rosa Parks — Wikipedia
- Jesse Owens — Wikipedia
- Richard Nixon — Wikipedia
- Albert Camus — Wikipedia
- Gerald Ford — Wikipedia
- Hedy Lamarr — Wikipedia
- Orson Welles — Wikipedia
- Frank Sinatra — Wikipedia
- Billie Holiday — Wikipedia
- Ingrid Bergman — Wikipedia
- Roald Dahl — Wikipedia
- John F. Kennedy — Wikipedia
- Ella Fitzgerald — Wikipedia
- Indira Gandhi — Wikipedia
- Ingmar Bergman — Wikipedia
- Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
- Richard Feynman — Wikipedia
- Eva Perón — Wikipedia
- Edmund Hillary — Wikipedia
- Jackie Robinson — Wikipedia
- Rosalind Franklin — Wikipedia
- Pope John Paul II — Wikipedia
- Toshiro Mifune — Wikipedia
- Stan Lee — Wikipedia
- Marlon Brando — Wikipedia
- James Baldwin — Wikipedia
- Jimmy Carter — Wikipedia
- George H. W. Bush — Wikipedia
- Patrice Lumumba — Wikipedia
- Margaret Thatcher — Wikipedia
- B. B. King — Wikipedia
- Malcolm X — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Fidel Castro — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth II — Wikipedia
- Gabriel García Márquez — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- James Watson — Wikipedia
- Andy Warhol — Wikipedia
- Stanley Kubrick — Wikipedia
- Maya Angelou — Wikipedia
- Che Guevara — Wikipedia
- Vera Rubin — Wikipedia
- Noam Chomsky — Wikipedia
- Anne Frank — Wikipedia
- Martin Luther King Jr. — Wikipedia
- Audrey Hepburn — Wikipedia
- Grace Kelly — Wikipedia
- Chinua Achebe — Wikipedia
- Neil Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Ray Charles — Wikipedia
- Tu Youyou — Wikipedia
- James Dean — Wikipedia
- Desmond Tutu — Wikipedia
- Toni Morrison — Wikipedia
- Mikhail Gorbachev — Wikipedia
- Johnny Cash — Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Taylor — Wikipedia
- Sylvia Plath — Wikipedia
- Yoko Ono — Wikipedia
- Wole Soyinka — Wikipedia
- Yuri Gagarin — Wikipedia
- Carl Sagan — Wikipedia
- Jane Goodall — Wikipedia
- 14th Dalai Lama — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Woody Allen — Wikipedia
- Pope Francis — Wikipedia
- Jack Nicholson — Wikipedia
- Saddam Hussein — Wikipedia
- Kofi Annan — Wikipedia