In the year 1938
515 Notable deaths
Knut Agathon Wallenberg
Swedish banker, politician and diplomat (1853-1938).
Born May 19th, 1853 in Stockholm.
Died June 1st, 1938 at 85 years old in Skeppsholm church parish.
Cecilio Apóstol
Filipino writer (1877–1938).
Born November 22nd, 1877 in Manila.
Died September 8th, 1938 at 60 years old in Caloocan.
Joseph Bédier
French philologist and writer (1864-1938).
Born January 28th, 1864 in 6th arrondissement of Paris.
Died August 29th, 1938 at 74 years old in Le Grand-Serre (stroke).
Alice Bailly
Swiss artist (1872–1938).
Born February 25th, 1872 in Geneva.
Died January 1st, 1938 at 65 years old in Lausanne (tuberculosis).
Jēkabs Peterss
Latvian revolutionary (1886–1938).
Born December 3rd, 1886 in Aizpute.
Died April 25th, 1938 at 51 years old in Kommunarka shooting ground.
Ernest William Brown
English-american astronomer and mathematician.
Born November 29th, 1866 in Kingston upon Hull.
Died July 23rd, 1938 at 71 years old in New Haven.
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn
Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer (1882–1938).
Born July 13th, 1882 in Liepāja.
Died August 15th, 1938 at 56 years old in Johannesburg.
Emil Fey
Austrian politician and warrior (1886-1938).
Born March 23rd, 1886 in Vienna.
Died March 16th, 1938 at 51 years old in Vienna (gunshot wound). [ref]
Robert McWade
American actor (1872–1938).
Born January 25th, 1872 in Buffalo.
Died January 19th, 1938 at 65 years old in Culver City.
Osip Piatnitsky
Russian bolshevik (1882-1938).
Born January 29th, 1882 in Ukmergė.
Died July 29th, 1938 at 56 years old in Moscow.
Marion Butler
American politician (1863-1938).
Born May 20th, 1863 in Clinton.
Died June 3rd, 1938 at 75 years old in Takoma Park.
Aleksander Michałowski
Polish musician (1851–1938).
Born May 17th, 1851 in Kamianets-Podilskyi.
Died October 17th, 1938 at 87 years old in Warsaw.
Édouard-Alfred Martel
French cave explorer (1859–1938).
Born July 1st, 1859 in Pontoise.
Died June 3rd, 1938 at 78 years old in Saint-Thomas-la-Garde.
Yakov Alksnis
Russian military personnel of latvian origin (1897–1938).
Born January 26th, 1897 in Naukšēni Parish.
Died July 29th, 1938 at 41 years old in Moscow.
Volodymyr Zatonsky
Ukrainian politician (1888–1938).
Born August 8th, 1888 in Lisec.
Died July 29th, 1938 at 49 years old in Kyiv (gunshot wound).
John Pepper
Hungarian politician (1886-1938).
Born November 8th, 1886 in Budapest.
Died February 8th, 1938 at 51 years old in Moscow.
Yakov Yakovlev
Soviet politician (1896-1938).
Born June 21st, 1896 in Hrodna.
Died July 29th, 1938 at 42 years old in Kommunarka shooting ground (execution by shooting).
Georg Schrimpf
German artist (1889-1938).
Born February 13th, 1889 in Munich.
Died April 19th, 1938 at 49 years old in Berlin.
Viktor Kosenko
Ukrainian composer, pianist, and educator (1896–1938).
Born November 23rd, 1896 in Saint Petersburg.
Died October 3rd, 1938 at 41 years old in Kyiv.
Konstantin Kalinin
World war i aviator and soviet aircraft designer (1887–1938).
Born February 5th, 1887 in Warsaw.
Died October 22nd, 1938 at 51 years old in Voronezh.
Samuel Maykapar
Russian composer (1867-1938).
Born December 18th, 1867 in Kherson.
Died May 8th, 1938 at 70 years old in Saint Petersburg.
Anastasia Bitsenko
Politician (1875–1938).
Born October 29th, 1875 in Bakhmutsky Uyezd.
Died June 16th, 1938 at 62 years old in Kommunarka shooting ground.
Oskar Böhme
German composer and trumpeter (1870–1938).
Born February 24th, 1870 in Dresden.
Died October 23rd, 1938 at 68 years old in Orenburg.
Susan Macdowell Eakins
American photographer (1851-1938).
Born September 21st, 1851 in Philadelphia.
Died December 27th, 1938 at 87 years old in Philadelphia.
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Charlotte Brontë