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In the year 1938

1,358 Notable birthdays

Giorgetto Giugiaro

Italian automobile designer (born 1938).

Born August 7th, 1938 (age 87 years) in Garessio.

Hariprasad Chaurasia

Indian bansuri player.

Born July 1st, 1938 (age 87 years) in Prayagraj.

Eleanor Bron

British stage, film and television actress and author.

Born March 14th, 1938 (age 88 years) in Stanmore.

Mary Jo Catlett

American actress.

Born September 2nd, 1938 (age 87 years) in Denver.

Lee Morgan

American jazz trumpeter (1938–1972).

Born July 10th, 1938 in Philadelphia.

Died February 19th, 1972 at 33 years old in New York City.

Arvind Trivedi

Indian actor.

Born November 8th, 1938 in Indore.

Died October 6th, 2021 at 82 years old in Mumbai.

Leonid Kuchma

The second president of ukraine.

Born August 9th, 1938 (age 87 years) in Chaikyne.

Chas Chandler

English musician, record producer and manager (1938–1996).

Born December 18th, 1938 in Heaton.

Died July 17th, 1996 at 57 years old in Newcastle upon Tyne (heart failure).

Lynn Margulis

American evolutionary biologist (1938–2011).

Born March 5th, 1938 in Chicago.

Died November 22nd, 2011 at 73 years old in Amherst. [ref]

Millie Perkins

American actress (born 1938).

Born May 12th, 1938 (age 88 years) in Passaic.

Patrick Bauchau

Belgian actor.

Born December 6th, 1938 (age 87 years) in Etterbeek.

Frank Kelly

Irish actor.

Born December 28th, 1938 in Blackrock.

Died February 28th, 2016 at 77 years old in Dublin (myocardial infarction). [ref]

Kathryn Beaumont

British actress.

Born June 27th, 1938 (age 87 years) in London.

Birju Maharaj

Indian dancer (1938–2022).

Born February 4th, 1938 in Lucknow.

Died January 16th, 2022 at 83 years old in Delhi. [ref]

Machiko Soga

Japanese actress and voice actress (1938-2006).

Born March 18th, 1938 in Hachiōji-shi.

Died May 7th, 2006 at 68 years old in Kunitachi (pancreatic cancer). [ref]

Robert Rubin

American banking executive, 70th us treasury secretary.

Born August 29th, 1938 (age 87 years) in New York City.

Clive Wearing

British musicologist.

Born May 11th, 1938 (age 88 years).

Larry Scott

American bodybuilder (1938–2014).

Born October 12th, 1938 in Blackfoot.

Died March 8th, 2014 at 75 years old in Salt Lake City (Alzheimer's disease).

Astrid Kirchherr

German photographer and artist (1938-2020).

Born May 20th, 1938 in Hamburg. [ref]

Died May 12th, 2020 at 81 years old in Hamburg. [ref]

Tom Lester

American actor and evangelist (1938-2020).

Born September 23rd, 1938 in Laurel.

Died April 20th, 2020 at 81 years old in Nashville (Parkinson's disease). [ref]

Rex Reed

American film critic (1938–2026).

Born October 2nd, 1938 in Fort Worth.

Died May 12th, 2026 at 87 years old in New York City. [ref]

McCoy Tyner

American jazz pianist (1938–2020).

Born December 11th, 1938 in Philadelphia.

Died March 6th, 2020 at 81 years old in Bergenfield. [ref]

Jack Jones

American singer and actor (1938–2024).

Born January 14th, 1938 in Los Angeles. [ref]

Died October 23rd, 2024 at 86 years old in Rancho Mirage (leukemia). [ref]

Reni Santoni

American actor (1938–2020).

Born April 21st, 1938 in New York City. [ref]

Died August 1st, 2020 at 82 years old in Los Angeles. [ref]

Ananda Krishnan

Malaysian businessman.

Born April 1st, 1938 in Brickfields.

Died November 28th, 2024 at 86 years old [ref]

Birthdays 151 to 175 of 1358

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