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In the year 1938
430 Notable deaths
Alexandre Beloborodov
Russian politician (1891-1938).
Born October 26th, 1891 in Alexandrovsk.
Died February 10th, 1938 at 46 years old in Moscow.
Boris Shumyatsky
Soviet film producer (1886-1938).
Born November 16th, 1886 in Ulan-Ude.
Died July 29th, 1938 at 51 years old in Kommunarka shooting ground (gunshot wound).
Bruno Jasieński
Polish writer.
Born July 17th, 1901 in Klimontów, Sandomierz County. [ref]
Died September 17th, 1938 at 37 years old in Moscow. [ref]
Alice Bailly
Swiss artist (1872–1938).
Born February 25th, 1872 in Geneva. [ref]
Died January 1st, 1938 at 65 years old in Lausanne (tuberculosis). [ref]
Oscar Florianus Bluemner
American painter (1867-1938).
Born June 21st, 1867 in Prenzlau. [ref]
Died January 12th, 1938 at 70 years old in Massachusetts. [ref]
Abdulla Qodiriy
Uzbek and soviet poet, literary translator, and writer.
Born April 10th, 1894 in Tashkent.
Died October 4th, 1938 at 44 years old in Tashkent.
Edward Meyrick
English entomologist and schoolmaster (1854-1938).
Born November 24th, 1854 in Ramsbury.
Died March 31st, 1938 at 83 years old in Marlborough.
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Prominent soviet bolshevik leader/diplomat (1883-1938).
Born March 21st, 1883 in Chernihiv.
Died February 10th, 1938 at 54 years old in Moscow (ballistic trauma).
Georg Schrimpf
Artist (1889-1938).
Born February 13th, 1889 in Munich. [ref]
Died April 19th, 1938 at 49 years old in Berlin. [ref]
Robert McWade
American actor.
Born January 25th, 1872 in Buffalo.
Died January 19th, 1938 at 65 years old in Culver City.
Deaths 211 to 220 of 430
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Kahlil Gibran