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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Samuel Alexander
Philosopher
6-Jan-1859 13-Sep-1938 Space, Time, and Deity
Kemal Ataturk
Head of State
12-Mar-1881 10-Nov-1938 President of Turkey, 1923-38
Otto Bauer
Politician
5-Sep-1881 4-Jul-1938 Austrian Marxist
Ernest W. Brown
Astronomer
29-Nov-1866 22-Jul-1938 Tables of the Motion of the Moon
Nikolai Bukharin
Economist
9-Oct-1888 15-Mar-1938 Soviet theoretical economist
William W. Campbell
Astronomer
11-Apr-1862 14-Jun-1938 Stellar Motions
Karel Capek
Author
9-Jan-1890 25-Dec-1938 R.U.R.
Benjamin Cardozo
Judge
24-May-1870 9-Jul-1938 US Supreme Court Justice, 1932-38
Feodor Chaliapin
Singer
13-Feb-1873 12-Apr-1938 Operatic bass
John Bates Clark
Economist
26-Jan-1847 21-Mar-1938 Philosophy of Wealth
Con Conrad
Songwriter
18-Jun-1891 28-Sep-1938 The Continental
Royal S. Copeland
Politician
7-Nov-1868 17-Jul-1938 US Senator from New York, 1923-38
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Author
12-Mar-1863 1-Mar-1938 Anarchist Dictator of Fiume, 1919-20
Clarence Darrow
Attorney
18-Apr-1857 13-Mar-1938 Scopes Monkey Trial (monkey side)
George Draper Dayton
Business
6-Mar-1857 18-Feb-1938 Founder of what is now Target Stores
Joseph M. Devine
Politician
15-Mar-1861 31-Aug-1938 Governor of North Dakota, 1898-99
Harvey Firestone
Business
20-Dec-1868 7-Feb-1938 Rubber tire baron
Pauline Frederick
Actor
12-Aug-1883 19-Sep-1938 This Modern Age
Zona Gale
Novelist
26-Aug-1874 27-Dec-1938 Miss Lulu Bett
Leopold Godowsky
Pianist
13-Feb-1870 21-Nov-1938 Exceptional Polish-American pianist
Charles Édouard Guillaume
Physicist
15-Feb-1861 13-Jun-1938 Invented alloys Invar and Elinvar
George Ellery Hale
Astronomer
29-Jun-1868 21-Feb-1938 Palomar Observatory founder, astronomer
Edwin Hall
Physicist
7-Nov-1855 20-Nov-1938 Discovered the Hall Effect
Wilford B. Hoggatt
Politician
11-Sep-1865 26-Feb-1938 Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1906-09
Edward M. House
Diplomat
26-Jul-1858 28-Mar-1938 Advisor to Woodrow Wilson
Edmund Husserl
Philosopher
8-Apr-1859 26-Apr-1938 Phenomenological philosopher
James Weldon Johnson
Author
17-Jun-1871 26-Jun-1938 God's Trombones
Robert Johnson
Guitarist
8-May-1911 16-Aug-1938 Influential blues guitarist
Jigoro Kano
Sports Figure
28-Oct-1860 4-May-1938 Founder of Judo
Karl Kautsky
Politician
16-Oct-1854 17-Oct-1938 Proponent of Marxism
Fred Kohler
Actor
20-Apr-1888 28-Oct-1938 The Iron Horse
Barney Kroger
Business
24-Jan-1860 21-Jul-1938 Founder of Kroger grocery empire
Nikolai Krylenko
Government
2-May-1885 29-Jul-1938 Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge
Christian Lange
Activist
17-Sep-1869 11-Dec-1938 Peace activist, Nobel Prize recipient
Edmund C. Lynch
Business
19-May-1885 12-May-1938 The Lynch of Merrill-Lynch
Osip Mandelshtam
Poet
1891 27-Dec-1938 Acmeist Russian poet
Typhoid Mary
Chef
22-Sep-1869 11-Nov-1938 Notorious typhoid carrier
Aylmer Maude
Translator
28-Mar-1858 25-Aug-1938 Translator of Tolstoy
W. B. Maxwell
Novelist
1866 4-Aug-1938 The Ragged Messenger
William McDougall
Psychologist
22-Jun-1871 28-Nov-1938 An Introduction to Social Psychology
Philip Musica
Business
1884 16-Dec-1938 Bootlegger, drug magnate, arms smuggler
Harry Myers
Actor
5-Sep-1882 25-Dec-1938 City Lights
Warner Oland
Actor
3-Oct-1879 6-Aug-1938 Charlie Chan
King Oliver
Jazz Musician
11-May-1885 10-Apr-1938 King Oliver Creole Jazz Band
Lyda Roberti
Actor
20-May-1906 12-Mar-1938 Million Dollar Legs
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Actor
5-Jan-1863 7-Aug-1938 Inventor of "method" acting
Conway Tearle
Actor
17-May-1878 1-Oct-1938 Stella Maris
James Thornton
Songwriter
5-Dec-1861 27-Jul-1938 When You Were Sweet Sixteen
Carl von Ossietzky
Activist
3-Oct-1889 4-May-1938 German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient
Pearl White
Actor
4-Mar-1889 4-Aug-1938 Heroine of silent serial films
Richard A. Whiting
Composer
12-Nov-1891 10-Feb-1938 Ain't We Got Fun?
Robert Wiene
Film Director
24-Apr-1873 17-Jul-1938 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Owen Wister
Author
14-Jul-1860 21-Jul-1938 The Virginian
Thomas Wolfe
Novelist
3-Oct-1900 15-Sep-1938 Look Homeward, Angel


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