Celebrity Deaths in 1938
70 notable figures died in 1938. Listed below in order of date of death.
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Gösta Ekman
1890 – 1938 · Actors Jan 1 -
Jane Toppan
1857 – 1938 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities, Serial Killer Jan 1 -
Maurice Black
1891 – 1938 · Actors Jan 1 -
Myrtle Stedman
1889 – 1938 · Actresses Jan 1 -
Émile Cohl
1857 – 1938 · Artists and Architects Jan 1 -
Georges Méliès
1861 – 1938 · Actors, Celebrities, Film Director Jan 21 -
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Alexander Drevin
1889 – 1938 · Artists and Architects Feb 2 -
Gustav Klutsis
1895 – 1938 · Artists and Architects Feb 2 -
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Hans Achim Litten
1903 – 1938 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Feb 2 -
Harvey Samuel Firestone
1868 – 1938 Feb 2 -
Marija Leiko
1887 – 1938 · Actresses Feb 2 -
Gabriele D’Annunzio
1863 – 1938 · Politicians Mar 1 -
Adele Belgrade
1866 – 1938 · Actresses Mar 3 -
Clarence Darrow
1857 – 1938 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Mar 3 -
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Ernst Dryden
1887 – 1938 · Artists and Architects Mar 3 -
Gabriele D’Annunzio
1863 – 1938 · Authors and Writers Mar 3 -
Lyda Roberti Ernst
1912 – 1938 · Actresses Mar 3 -
Mathias J. Alten
1871 – 1938 · Artists and Architects Mar 3 -
George Offerman Sr
1879 – 1938 · Actors Mar 5 -
Lyda Roberti
1906 – 1938 · Actresses, Singer Mar 12 -
Oscar Apfel
1878 – 1938 · Actors, Director Mar 21 -
Archie “Grey Owl” Belaney
1888 – 1938 · Authors and Writers Apr 4 -
Bertram Mills
1873 – 1938 · Business Magnates Apr 4 -
George Grey Barnard
1863 – 1938 · Artists and Architects Apr 4 -
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Guy Dawber
1861 – 1938 · Artists and Architects Apr 4 -
Sergei Budantsev
1896 – 1938 · Authors and Writers Apr 4 -
Simon J. Michelson
1879 – 1938 · Business Magnates Apr 4 -
Muhammad Iqbal
1877 – 1938 · Politicians Apr 21 -
Charles Hamlin
1861 – 1938 · Attorney At Law Apr 24 -
Francisco Martino
1884 – 1938 · Blues Singer May 5 -
George Charles Aid
1872 – 1938 · Artists and Architects May 5 -
Jack A. Dougherty
1895 – 1938 · Actors May 5 -
Royal C. Cline
1902 – 1938 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers May 5 -
Thelma Hill
1906 – 1938 · Actresses May 5 -
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William Glackens
1870 – 1938 · Artists and Architects May 5 -
Odon Von Horvath
1901 – 1938 · Authors and Writers Jun 1 -
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
1874 – 1938 Jun 6 -
Henry Nicolaus
1850 – 1938 · Business Magnates Jun 6 -
Bert E Collyer
1876 – 1938 · Authors and Writers Jul 7 -
Ella M. Backus
1865 – 1938 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Jul 7 -
Joseph Griesedieck
1863 – 1938 Jul 7 -
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
1870 – 1938 · Politicians, US Supreme Court Justices Jul 9 -
Robert Wiene
1873 – 1938 · Director, Film Director, Movie/TV Producer, Producer Jul 17 -
Tom Crean
1877 – 1938 · Explorers and Adventurers Jul 27 -
Warner Oland
1880 – 1938 Aug 5 -
Constantine Stanislavsky
1863 – 1938 · Actors, Celebrities, Film Director Aug 7 -
John G. Blystone
1892 – 1938 · Actors Aug 8 -
Max Factor
1877 – 1938 Aug 8 -
Pearl White
1889 – 1938 · Actresses Aug 8 -
Robert Johnson
1911 – 1938 · Musicians and Composers Aug 16 -
Curtis Benton
1880 – 1938 · Actors Sep 9 -
Ivana Mazuranic Brlic
1874 – 1938 · Authors and Writers Sep 9 -
Otto Fries
1887 – 1938 · Actors Sep 9 -
Joe Ball
1896 – 1938 · Serial Killer Sep 24 -
Irving Milberg
1903 – 1938 · Gangster Sep 29 -
Frank Hatch
1870 – 1938 · Actors Oct 10 -
E. C. Segar
1894 – 1938 · Artists and Architects Oct 13 -
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
1881 – 1938 · Politicians Nov 10 -
Sumner Hunt
1865 – 1938 · Artists and Architects Nov 11 -
Anna Marie Hahn
1906 – 1938 · Criminals, Eccentrics and Oddities Dec 7 -
Florence Lawrence
1890 – 1938 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Joseph Cattarinich
1881 – 1938 Dec 12 -
Nina Visaroff
1885 – 1938 · Actresses Dec 12 -
Virginia Frazer Boyle
1863 – 1938 · Authors and Writers Dec 12 -
Walter Ackerman
1881 – 1938 · Actors Dec 12 -
Raita Fujiyama
1863 – 1938 · Business Magnates, Founder Dec 19 -
Karel Capek
1890 – 1938 · Authors and Writers Dec 25 -
Sanae Takada
1859 – 1938 -
Tousuke Fukuzawa
1868 – 1938 -
Adele Belgrade
1866 – 1938 · Actresses Oct 12