Historical figures in 1938

The atlas holds 74 people and 109 moments here, in 1938. The most recorded lives are Gabriela Mistral, Adolf Hitler and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Educators.

Notable people

  1. Adolf Hitler

    in 1938

    5 moments here

    Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), became German…

  2. Agatha Christie

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    English novelist, playwright, and memoirist, internationally known for detective fiction featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.…

  3. Alan Turing

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…

  4. Albert Luthuli

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Albert John Luthuli was a South African teacher, traditional leader, anti-apartheid activist, and President-General of the African National Congress.…

  5. Alberto Fujimori

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Peruvian agricultural engineer, university rector, and president of Peru from 1990 to 2000. His presidency combined market reforms and…

  6. Alfred Hitchcock

    in 1938

    2 moments here

    English filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), known as the “Master of Suspense,” worked in British cinema before relocating to Hollywood in 1939.…

  7. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) pioneered airmail flying in Europe, Africa, and South America, wrote works including…

  8. Anwar Sadat

    in 1938

    2 moments here

    Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian army officer, Free Officer, politician, and president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.…

  9. Benito Mussolini

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Italian journalist, Fascist leader, and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his removal in 1943.…

  10. Bertrand Russell

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…

  11. Bhumibol Adulyadej

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) was King of Thailand from 1946 to 2016. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he grew up partly in Thailand and Switzerland,…

  12. Claudia Cardinale

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Italian-Tunisian actress whose career ranged from postwar Tunis through Italian, French, British, American, and international cinema, as well as…

  13. Dolores del Río

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Mexican actress Dolores del Río (María de los Dolores Asúnsolo y López Negrete) was a major star of silent-era Hollywood and the Golden Age of…

  14. Édith Piaf

    in 1938

    3 moments here

    French singer and lyricist Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, rose from street performance in Paris to international prominence in chanson…

  15. Eisaku Satō

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Japanese politician and prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972. A former railway bureaucrat, Satō led Japan during rapid economic growth, pursued…

  16. Enrico Fermi

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Italian and naturalized-American physicist whose documented movements trace a path from Rome and Pisa through European study in Göttingen and Leiden,…

  17. Ernest Hemingway

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Hemingway’s documented movements ranged from Illinois and Michigan to Italy in World War I,…

  18. Erwin Schrödinger

    in 1938

    2 moments here

    Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate whose work on wave mechanics and the Schrödinger equation became foundational to quantum…

  19. Federico Fellini

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Italian film director and screenwriter whose career developed from caricature and comic writing in Rimini and Rome into internationally influential…

  20. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    in 1938

    2 moments here

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…

  21. Frank Lloyd Wright

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    American architect, designer, writer, and educator whose career spanned more than seven decades.…

  22. Frida Kahlo

    in 1938

    1 moment here

    Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón) was born in Coyoacán and spent much of her life in Mexico City.…

  23. Fulgencio Batista

    in 1938

    2 moments here

    Cuban army officer and politician who became a central power in Cuba after the 1933 Sergeants’ Revolt, served as president from 1940 to 1944,…

  24. Gabriela Mistral

    in 1938

    8 moments here

    Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…

Moments

  1. 1938 Acquired Greenway as summer residence Agatha Christie
  2. 1938 International missionary conference delegation Albert Luthuli
  3. 1938 Military-college graduation Anwar Sadat
  4. 1938 Signal Corps posting in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Anwar Sadat
  5. 1938 Visiting professor at the University of Chicago Bertrand Russell
  6. 1938 Family return to Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej
  7. 1938 Portrait sitting in New York Dolores del Río
  8. 1938 Railroad-construction assignment in China Eisaku Satō
  9. 1938 Nobel Prize visit Enrico Fermi
  10. 1938 Refuge in Rome Erwin Schrödinger
  11. 1938 First cartoon published Federico Fellini
  12. 1938 Arrival at Taliesin West site Frank Lloyd Wright
  13. 1938 Guest of the Pan American Union in Washington Gabriela Mistral
  14. 1938 Lecture tour in Peru Gabriela Mistral
  15. 1938 Two-month stay in St. Augustine Gabriela Mistral
  16. 1938 Visit to Cuba Gabriela Mistral
  17. 1938 Visit to Jacksonville Gabriela Mistral
  18. 1938 Visit to Mobile Gabriela Mistral
  19. 1938 Visit to New Orleans Gabriela Mistral
  20. 1938 Visit to Tallahassee Gabriela Mistral
  21. 1938 Yale Law School admission Gerald Ford
  22. 1938 Quiet Wedding at Wyndham's Theatre Glynis Johns
  23. 1938 Eighth Route Army branch office Ho Chi Minh
  24. 1938 Quran study in Semuto Idi Amin
  25. 1938 Visit to Taliesin I. M. Pei
  26. 1938 Birth in Samarkand Islam Karimov
  27. 1938 AVRO tournament tour José Raúl Capablanca
  28. 1938 Paris tournament victory José Raúl Capablanca
  29. 1938 Cavendish Professor at Cambridge Lawrence Bragg
  30. 1938 Teaching in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Léopold Sédar Senghor
  31. 1938 Visit to Ireland Ludwig Wittgenstein
  32. 1938 Farmhouse at Libertyville Marlon Brando
  33. 1938 Doctoral research at Birmingham Maurice Wilkins
  34. 1938 Residence in Riverside Township Miriam Makeba
  35. 1938 Military education in Tehran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
  36. 1938 Falls seriously ill at Yalova Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
  37. 1938 Ministry of Islamic Endowments service Naguib Mahfouz
  38. 1938 Birth in Kamiriithu Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  39. 1938 Arrival as Ukrainian party head Nikita Khrushchev
  40. 1938 Brazilian Pavilion team at New York World's Fair Oscar Niemeyer
  41. 1938 Nobel Prize ceremony Pearl S. Buck
  42. 1938 Move to Kraków for university Pope John Paul II
  43. 1938 Residence at Compton House Prajadhipok
  44. 1938 Confinement at the Salt Tax Palace Puyi
  45. 1938 Gurukul training under Allauddin Khan Ravi Shankar
  46. 1938 Wingert and Bewley branch office Richard Nixon
  47. 1938 Henry Wood jubilee concert Sergei Rachmaninoff
  48. 1938 China Defence League work in Hong Kong Soong Ching-ling
  49. 1938 Middle-school study in Yogyakarta Suharto
  50. 1938 High point on the 1938 Everest expedition Tenzing Norgay

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