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In the year 1938
444 Notable deaths
Lau Lauritzen
Danish film director.
Born March 13th, 1878 in Silkeborg.
Died July 2nd, 1938 at 60 years old in Copenhagen.
George Gaidzik
Diver.
Born February 22nd, 1885 in Chicago.
Died August 25th, 1938 at 53 years old in Lake Michigan.
Nikolay Demyanov
Russian chemist.
Born March 27th, 1861 in Tver.
Died March 19th, 1938 at 76 years old in Moscow.
Chris Fridfinnson
Canadian ice hockey player (1898-1938).
Born June 14th, 1898 in Baldur.
Died November 10th, 1938 at 40 years old in Selkirk.
Arthur Hotaling
American film director (1873–1938).
Born February 3rd, 1873 in New York City.
Died July 13th, 1938 at 65 years old in California (myocardial infarction).
Maria Vérone
French suffragist (1874-1938).
Born June 20th, 1874 in 2nd arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Died May 4th, 1938 at 63 years old in Paris. [ref]
Alexander Zahlbruckner
Austrian botanist and lichenologist (1860-1938).
Born May 31st, 1860 in Svätý Jur.
Died May 8th, 1938 at 77 years old in Vienna.
Georg Kuphaldt
German landscape architect and dendrologist (1853-1938).
Died April 14th, 1938 at 84 years old in Berlin.
Paluta Badunova
Politician (1885-1938).
Born September 7th, 1885 in Novaja Bielica.
Died November 29th, 1938 at 53 years old in Minsk.
Ğäziz Älmöxämmädev
Russian opera singer (1895-1938).
Born October 29th, 1895 in Orenburg Uyezd, Novomuraptalovo.
Died July 10th, 1938 at 42 years old in Ufa.
Deaths 401 to 410 of 444
When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed. Ovid