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<html> <head> <title>Died in 1938</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died in 1938 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000196274/">Samuel Alexander</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1938</tt></td> <td>Space, Time, and Deity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/449/000092173/">Kemal Ataturk</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-1938</tt></td> <td>President of Turkey, 1923-38</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000196244/">Otto Bauer</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Sep-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td>Austrian Marxist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/540/000168036/">Ernest W. Brown</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td>Tables of the Motion of the Moon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/106/000159626/">Nikolai Bukharin</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td>Soviet theoretical economist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000168267/">William W. Campbell</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1938</tt></td> <td>Stellar Motions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000113612/">Karel Capek</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1938</tt></td> <td>R.U.R.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/102/000104787/">Benjamin Cardozo</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1932-38</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/701/000206083/">Feodor Chaliapin</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Apr-1938</tt></td> <td>Operatic bass</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000113198/">John Bates Clark</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jan-1847</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td>Philosophy of Wealth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/503/000205885/">Con Conrad</a></td> <td><center>Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1938</tt></td> <td>The Continental</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/876/000161393/">Royal S. Copeland</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td>US Senator from New York, 1923-38</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/525/000029438/">Gabriele D'Annunzio</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td>Anarchist Dictator of Fiume, 1919-20</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/813/000082567/">Clarence Darrow</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td>Scopes Monkey Trial (monkey side)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000167070/">George Draper Dayton</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1938</tt></td> <td>Founder of what is now Target Stores</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/143/000208516/">Joseph M. Devine</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td>Governor of North Dakota, 1898-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000086530/">Harvey Firestone</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Feb-1938</tt></td> <td>Rubber tire baron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/904/000115559/">Pauline Frederick</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-1938</tt></td> <td>This Modern Age</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/343/000099046/">Zona Gale</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-1938</tt></td> <td>Miss Lulu Bett</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/691/000280848/">Leopold Godowsky</a></td> <td><center>Pianist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Feb-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Nov-1938</tt></td> <td>Exceptional Polish-American pianist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/557/000099260/">Charles Édouard Guillaume</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-1938</tt></td> <td>Invented alloys Invar and Elinvar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/672/000036564/">George Ellery Hale</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Feb-1938</tt></td> <td>Palomar Observatory founder, astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000099830/">Edwin Hall</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1855</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1938</tt></td> <td>Discovered the Hall Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/000/000054835/">Wilford B. Hoggatt</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Sep-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1938</tt></td> <td>Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1906-09</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/072/000111736/">Edward M. House</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jul-1858</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td>Advisor to Woodrow Wilson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/247/000059070/">Edmund Husserl</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1938</tt></td> <td>Phenomenological philosopher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/830/000101527/">James Weldon Johnson</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1938</tt></td> <td>God's Trombones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/293/000098996/">Robert Johnson</a></td> <td><center>Guitarist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td>Influential blues guitarist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/464/000130074/">Jigoro Kano</a></td> <td><center>Sports Figure</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1938</tt></td> <td>Founder of Judo</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/825/000196237/">Karl Kautsky</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1854</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Oct-1938</tt></td> <td>Proponent of Marxism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/614/000135209/">Fred Kohler</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1938</tt></td> <td>The Iron Horse</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/033/000170520/">Barney Kroger</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td>Founder of Kroger grocery empire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/163/000159683/">Nikolai Krylenko</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td>Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/751/000091478/">Christian Lange</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Sep-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Dec-1938</tt></td> <td>Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/611/000203002/">Edmund C. Lynch</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1938</tt></td> <td>The Lynch of Merrill-Lynch</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/790/000029703/">Osip Mandelshtam</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-1938</tt></td> <td>Acmeist Russian poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/129/000104814/">Typhoid Mary</a></td> <td><center>Chef</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Sep-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1938</tt></td> <td>Notorious typhoid carrier</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/202/000114857/">Aylmer Maude</a></td> <td><center>Translator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1858</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td>Translator of Tolstoy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/201/000114856/">W. B. Maxwell</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td>The Ragged Messenger</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/031/000115683/">William McDougall</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1938</tt></td> <td>An Introduction to Social Psychology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/109/000159629/">Philip Musica</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1938</tt></td> <td>Bootlegger, drug magnate, arms smuggler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/899/000281056/">Harry Myers</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Sep-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1938</tt></td> <td>City Lights</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/915/000091642/">Warner Oland</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td>Charlie Chan</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/329/000205711/">King Oliver</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1938</tt></td> <td>King Oliver Creole Jazz Band</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/091/000133689/">Lyda Roberti</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td>Million Dollar Legs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/290/000205672/">Konstantin Stanislavsky</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jan-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td>Inventor of "method" acting</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/574/000278737/">Conway Tearle</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-May-1878</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Oct-1938</tt></td> <td>Stella Maris</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/529/000205911/">James Thornton</a></td> <td><center>Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td>When You Were Sweet Sixteen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/551/000091278/">Carl von Ossietzky</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1938</tt></td> <td>German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/391/000066193/">Pearl White</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td>Heroine of silent serial films</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/528/000205910/">Richard A. Whiting</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1938</tt></td> <td>Ain't We Got Fun?</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/217/000174692/">Robert Wiene</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/200/000103888/">Owen Wister</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td>The Virginian</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/239/000084984/">Thomas Wolfe</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1938</tt></td> <td>Look Homeward, Angel</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=106130" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/169/000003160/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/169/3160/s3160.jpg" width=128> Patterns, Peta, Pot, and Politically Incorrect</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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