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In the year 1938
444 Notable deaths
Paul Morgan
Austrian actor and comedian (1886-1938).
Born October 1st, 1886 in Vienna.
Died December 10th, 1938 at 52 years old in Buchenwald concentration camp.
Sultan Majid Afandiyev
Revolutionary, statesman (1887-1938).
Born May 26th, 1887 in Shamakhi.
Died April 21st, 1938 at 50 years old in Baku.
Theodor Fischer
German architect (1862-1938).
Born May 28th, 1862 in Schweinfurt. [ref]
Died December 25th, 1938 at 76 years old in Munich. [ref]
Adolf Jülicher
German scholar and biblical exegete (1857–1938).
Born January 26th, 1857 in Falkenberg.
Died August 2nd, 1938 at 81 years old in Marburg.
Olga Taratuta
Ukrainian anarchist (1876–1938).
Born January 21st, 1876 in Novodmytrivka Persha.
Died February 8th, 1938 at 62 years old in Kommunarka shooting ground.
Friedrich Salomon Krauss
Austrian-jewish sexologist.
Born October 7th, 1859 in Požega.
Died May 30th, 1938 at 78 years old in Vienna.
Rudolf G. Binding
German writer and poet.
Born August 13th, 1867 in Basel. [ref]
Died August 4th, 1938 at 70 years old in Starnberg (tuberculosis). [ref]
Cyril Rootham
English organist, teacher, conductor and composer.
Born October 5th, 1875 in Redland.
Died March 18th, 1938 at 62 years old in Cambridge.
Josiah O. Wolcott
American politician and jurist (1877-1938).
Born October 31st, 1877 in Dover.
Died November 11th, 1938 at 61 years old in Dover.
John Kunkel Small
American botanist (1869-1938).
Born January 31st, 1869 in Harrisburg.
Died January 20th, 1938 at 68 years old in Manhattan.
Deaths 281 to 290 of 444
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe