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In the year 1938
443 Notable deaths
Ernst vom Rath
German diplomat (1909-1938).
Born June 3rd, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main.
Died November 9th, 1938 at 29 years old in Paris.
Béla Kun
Hungarian communist revolutionary and politician, the de facto leader of the hungarian soviet republic in 1919, people's commissar of foreign affairs.
Born February 20th, 1886 in Cehu Silvaniei. [ref]
Died August 29th, 1938 at 52 years old in Moscow (execution). [ref]
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia
Head of the house of romanov (1924-1938).
Born October 12th, 1876 in Pushkin.
Died October 12th, 1938 at 62 years old in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Hans Christian Gram
Danish scientist (1853-1938).
Born September 13th, 1853 in Copenhagen.
Died November 14th, 1938 at 85 years old in Copenhagen.
Harvey Samuel Firestone
American businessman.
Born December 20th, 1868 in Columbiana.
Died February 7th, 1938 at 69 years old in Miami Beach (coronary thrombosis).
Carl von Ossietzky
German journalist, author, pacifist and recipient of the 1935 nobel peace prize (1889–1938).
Born October 3rd, 1889 in Hamburg.
Died May 4th, 1938 at 48 years old in Berlin (tuberculosis).
Osip Mandelstam
Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938).
Born January 15th, 1891 in Warsaw. [ref]
Died December 27th, 1938 at 47 years old (typhus). [ref]
Joe Ball
American serial killer (1892–1938).
Born January 6th, 1892 in Texas.
Died September 24th, 1938 at 46 years old in Elmendorf (gunshot wound).
King Oliver
American jazz cornet player and bandleader.
Born December 19th, 1881 in New Orleans.
Died April 10th, 1938 at 56 years old in Savannah (myocardial infarction).
Lady Ottoline Morrell
British aristocrat (1873-1938).
Born June 16th, 1873 in Royal Tunbridge Wells. [ref]
Died April 21st, 1938 at 64 years old in London. [ref]
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard