In the year 1938
455 Notable deaths
Rosa Welt-Straus
Suffragist and feminist.
Born August 24th, 1856 in Chernivtsi.
Died December 15th, 1938 at 82 years old in Geneva.
Ivan Belov
Politician (1893-1938).
Born June 27th, 1893 in Kalinnikovo.
Died June 29th, 1938 at 45 years old in Moscow.
Kōsaku Hamada
Japanese archaeologist (1881–1938).
Born February 22nd, 1881 in Kishiwada.
Died July 25th, 1938 at 57 years old in Kyoto.
Gustaf Munch-Petersen
Danish artist (1912-1938).
Born February 18th, 1912 in Copenhagen.
Died April 2nd, 1938 at 26 years old in Battle of the Ebro.
Ivan Kleymyonov
Russian engineer.
Born April 11th, 1899 in Surava.
Died January 10th, 1938 at 38 years old in Moscow.
John Exley
American rower.
Born May 23rd, 1867 in Philadelphia.
Died July 27th, 1938 at 71 years old in Milford.
Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas
Spanish politician (1859–1938).
Born November 5th, 1859 in Astorga.
Died March 8th, 1938 at 78 years old in San Sebastián.
Carl Ferdinand Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt
German historian and orientalist (1861–1938).
Born March 11th, 1861 in Hamburg.
Died July 24th, 1938 at 77 years old in Innsbruck. [ref]
Mykola Voronyi
Ukrainian writer, director and actor (1871-1938).
Born December 6th, 1871 in Yekaterinoslav Governorate.
Died June 7th, 1938 at 66 years old in Odesa.
Deaths 381 to 390 of 455
For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. Bram Stoker