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
Miriam Makeba
in 1938
1 moment here
South African singer, songwriter, actor, and anti-apartheid activist known as “Mama Africa.” Makeba’s career took her from Johannesburg and Pretoria…
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
in 1938
1 moment here
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) was the last shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 until the Iranian Revolution of 1979.…
Muhammad Iqbal
in 1938
1 moment here
Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) was a South Asian philosopher, poet, lawyer, and political figure.…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1938
5 moments here
Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Naguib Mahfouz
in 1938
1 moment here
Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose fiction made Cairo a central setting of modern Arabic literature.…
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
in 1938
1 moment here
Kenyan novelist, playwright, essayist, language advocate, and academic. Ngũgĩ’s life moved from colonial Kenya through education in Uganda and…
Nikita Khrushchev
in 1938
1 moment here
Soviet Communist Party leader and chairman of the Council of Ministers. Khrushchev rose from industrial work in the Donbas through party posts in…
Oscar Niemeyer
in 1938
1 moment here
Brazilian modernist architect whose career ranged from early work in Rio de Janeiro and New York to Brasília, Paris exile, and later international…
Pearl S. Buck
in 1938
1 moment here
American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…
Pope John Paul II
in 1938
1 moment here
Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920–2005), Pope John Paul II from 1978, was a Polish Catholic priest, bishop, cardinal, and pope.…
Prajadhipok
in 1938
1 moment here
Prajadhipok (Rama VII) was King of Siam from 1925 until his abdication in 1935. Educated in England and trained in the military, he travelled…
Puyi
in 1938
1 moment here
Puyi (1906–1967), the Xuantong Emperor, was the last emperor of Qing China and later the Kangde Emperor of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo.…
Ravi Shankar
in 1938
1 moment here
Indian sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar (1920–2012) was a leading exponent of Hindustani classical music whose performances, teaching, recordings,…
Richard Nixon
in 1938
1 moment here
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Salvador Dalí
in 1938
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1938
1 moment here
Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Sigmund Freud
in 1938
5 moments here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Soong Ching-ling
in 1938
1 moment here
Chinese politician and activist, wife of Sun Yat-sen, leading figure of the Kuomintang’s left wing, and later a senior officeholder of the People’s…
Suharto
in 1938
1 moment here
Indonesian army officer and politician who served as acting president from 1967 and president of Indonesia from 1968 until his resignation in 1998.…
Sukarno
in 1938
1 moment here
Sukarno (1901–1970) was an Indonesian nationalist, revolutionary, engineer, and the first president of Indonesia.…
Tenzing Norgay
in 1938
1 moment here
Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer, born Namgyal Wangdi, who with Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953.…
Thomas Mann
in 1938
3 moments here
German novelist, essayist, public intellectual, and 1929 Nobel laureate. Born in Lübeck, he lived principally in Munich before exile from Nazi…
Võ Nguyên Giáp
in 1938
1 moment here
Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary, and politician. Giáp was a leading commander of the Việt Minh and the People’s Army of Vietnam, served…
Yang Chen-Ning
in 1938
4 moments here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…
Moments
- 1938 First solo exhibition in New York Frida Kahlo
- 1938 Top-billed appearance at Bobino Édith Piaf
- 1938 Battle of the Ebro visit Ernest Hemingway
- 1938 Visit to Washington Fulgencio Batista
- 1938 Washington consultations Fulgencio Batista
- 1938 Dies at Dolmabahçe Palace Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1938 Lecture on Goethe's Faust Thomas Mann
- 1938 Lecture tour in South Jeolla Yun Ch'iho
- 1938 Arrival in Chongqing Zhou Enlai