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Born in 1938

1,675 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

Jean-Paul L'Allier
politician, journalist
1938–2016 · aged 77
August 12 · 1938
Source: assnat.qc.ca
Gyula Török
coach, boxer
1938–2014 · aged 75
January 24 · 1938
No external source identified
Árpád Orbán
association football coach, association football player
1938–2008 · aged 70
March 14 · 1938
No external source identified
Betsy Snite
alpine skier
1938–1984 · aged 45
December 20 · 1938
No external source identified
Dana Ulery
computer scientist, researcher
88 years old
January 2 · 1938
No external source identified
Peter Grosser
association football coach, association football player
1938–2021 · aged 82
September 28 · 1938
Source: Salzburgwiki
Giulio Saraudi
boxer
1938–2005 · aged 66
July 3 · 1938
No external source identified
Kito Lorenc
playwright, writer
1938–2017 · aged 79
March 4 · 1938
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Mesías Maiguashca
university teacher, composer
87 years old
December 24 · 1938
Source: Integrated Authority File
Durdy Bayramov
painter, photographer
1938–2014 · aged 75
April 14 · 1938
Source: The Fine Art Archive
Alcides Silveira
association football coach, association football player
1938–2011 · aged 72
March 18 · 1938
Source: Argentine Soccer Database
Barry Phillips-Moore
tennis player
1938–2023 · aged 85
June 9 · 1938
No external source identified
Salvatore Morale
athletics competitor
87 years old
November 4 · 1938
Source: World Athletics database
Jacques Stockman
association football player, association football coach
1938–2013 · aged 74
October 8 · 1938
No external source identified
Wieland Kuijken
music educator, conductor
88 years old
August 31 · 1938
Source: Integrated Authority File
Arif Babayev
singer, teacher
1938–2025 · aged 87
February 20 · 1938
No external source identified
Pieter Verhoeff
film director, screenwriter
1938–2019 · aged 81
February 4 · 1938
Source: BnF authorities
Ana Diosdado
actor, screenwriter
1938–2015 · aged 77
May 21 · 1938
Source: FemBio database
Robert Carmody
boxer
1938–1967 · aged 29
September 4 · 1938
No external source identified
Les Tanyuk*
screenwriter, film director
Date disputed
July 8 · 1938
No external source identified
Édouard Brézin
university teacher, physicist
87 years old
December 1 · 1938
Source: Integrated Authority File
Richard Dürr
association football player, association football coach
1938–2014 · aged 75
December 1 · 1938
Source: FBref
Kazım Ayvaz
amateur wrestler
1938–2020 · aged 81
March 10 · 1938
No external source identified
Pete McCaffrey
basketball player
1938–2012 · aged 74
January 24 · 1938
No external source identified
Ričardas Tamulis
boxer
1938–2008 · aged 69
July 22 · 1938
No external source identified
Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard
writer, politician
1938–2009 · aged 70
December 15 · 1938
Source: BnF authorities
Ľudovít Cvetler
association football player
88 years old
September 17 · 1938
Source: Transfermarkt
Shuji Tsurumi
artistic gymnast
88 years old
January 29 · 1938
Source: Olympedia
Margherita Boniver
politician
88 years old
March 11 · 1938
No external source identified
Emile Daems
sport cyclist
1938–2024 · aged 86
April 4 · 1938
No external source identified
Mario Monge
association football player, association football coach
1938–2009 · aged 70
November 27 · 1938
Source: FBref
Keishu Tanaka
politician
1938–2022 · aged 83
March 6 · 1938
No external source identified
Antonio Giménez-Rico
film director, screenwriter
1938–2021 · aged 82
October 20 · 1938
No external source identified
Laila Hirvisaari
writer, playwright
1938–2021 · aged 83
June 7 · 1938
Source: yle.fi
Antonina Kymytval
writer, poet
1938–2015 · aged 77
April 22 · 1938
No external source identified
Manuel Rodríguez*
association football coach, association football player
Date disputed
January 18 · 1938
No external source identified
Dražen Marović
author, chess player
88 years old
January 14 · 1938
Source: Integrated Authority File
Jean-Christian Michel
clarinetist, composer
Born 1938
1938
No external source identified
Viktor Kosichkin
speed skater
1938–2012 · aged 74
February 25 · 1938
No external source identified
Nikolai Manoshin
association football coach, association football player
1938–2022 · aged 83
March 6 · 1938
Source: FBref
Agneta Ekmanner
actor, model
87 years old
December 4 · 1938
Source: IMDb
Milan Čop
association football player
88 years old
October 5 · 1938
Source: Transfermarkt
Iskra Babich
screenwriter, film director
1938–2001 · aged 63
January 10 · 1938
No external source identified
Yvonne Rüegg
alpine skier
88 years old
August 2 · 1938
No external source identified
Rainer Basedow
actor, cabaret performer
1938–2022 · aged 83
May 20 · 1938
Source: Munzinger Personen
Jorge Manicera
association football player
1938–2012 · aged 73
November 4 · 1938
Source: FBref
Velikton Barannikov
boxer
1938–2007 · aged 69
July 4 · 1938
No external source identified
Jairo Arias
association football player
1938–2023 · aged 84
November 2 · 1938
Source: FBref
Viktor Zhdanovich
fencer
88 years old
January 27 · 1938
Source: sports-reference.com
Marjatta Kajosmaa
cross-country skier, ski jumper
88 years old
February 3 · 1938
No external source identified
Giancarlo Danova
association football coach, association football player
1938–2014 · aged 75
November 18 · 1938
Source: Transfermarkt
Eje Thelin
musician, composer
1938–1990 · aged 51
June 9 · 1938
No external source identified
Hasan Mammadov
actor
1938–2003 · aged 64
November 22 · 1938
No external source identified
Dezső Tandori
literary translator, poet
1938–2019 · aged 80
December 8 · 1938
Source: BnF authorities
Ebrahim Seifpour
amateur wrestler
88 years old
July 3 · 1938
No external source identified
Henning Scherf
politician, lawyer
87 years old
October 31 · 1938
Source: Integrated Authority File
Gary Chapman*
swimmer
Date disputed
March 12 · 1938
Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography
Anne Karin Elstad
1938–2012 · aged 74
January 19 · 1938
Source: historical register of persons
Emory Clark
rower
88 years old
March 23 · 1938
Source: World Rowing athlete database
Hans Küppers
association football player
1938–2021 · aged 82
December 24 · 1938
Source: Transfermarkt
Ivan M. Havel
researcher, philosopher
1938–2021 · aged 82
October 11 · 1938
Source: The Fine Art Archive
Francisco Rodríguez
politician
87 years old
November 24 · 1938
No external source identified
Rómulo Méndez
association football referee
1938–2022 · aged 83
December 21 · 1938
No external source identified
Thomas Savundaranayagam
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
88 years old
July 13 · 1938
No external source identified
Ruud van Hemert
program maker, screenwriter
1938–2012 · aged 73
October 29 · 1938
Source: tvrage.com
Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran
amateur wrestler
88 years old
March 18 · 1938
No external source identified
Ivans Bugajenkovs
volleyball player
88 years old
February 18 · 1938
No external source identified
Dorota Terakowska
journalist, writer
1938–2004 · aged 65
August 30 · 1938
Source: ProDetLit
Ivan Kamenec
historian, university teacher
88 years old
August 27 · 1938
Source: Records of persons of interest
Yevgeni Mayorov
ice hockey player, ice hockey coach
1938–1997 · aged 59
February 11 · 1938
No external source identified
Manfred Kinder
athletics competitor, track and field coach
88 years old
April 20 · 1938
Source: World Athletics database
Marron Curtis Fort
university teacher, linguist
1938–2019 · aged 81
October 24 · 1938
Source: BnF authorities
Bohumil Němeček
boxer, coach
1938–2010 · aged 72
January 2 · 1938
Source: Czech National Authority Database
Michael Nudelman
politician
1938–2018 · aged 80
June 30 · 1938
Source: knesset.gov.il
Jan Siebelink
writer, teacher
88 years old
February 13 · 1938
Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Eligio Echagüe*
association football player, association football coach
Date disputed
December 31 · 1938
Source: Transfermarkt
Tadeusz Ross
actor, screenwriter
1938–2021 · aged 83
March 14 · 1938
No external source identified
Karsten Alnæs
teacher, historian
88 years old
May 29 · 1938
Source: Adresseavisen
Ārons Bogoļubovs
judoka
87 years old
December 30 · 1938
No external source identified
Anatoly Kolesov
amateur wrestler
1938–2012 · aged 73
January 18 · 1938
Source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
Dick Cochran
athletics competitor
88 years old
June 23 · 1938
No external source identified
Eddie Southern
athletics competitor
1938–2023 · aged 85
January 4 · 1938
No external source identified
Emidio Greco
screenwriter, film director
1938–2012 · aged 74
October 20 · 1938
No external source identified
Vagrich Bakhchanyan
artist, poet
1938–2009 · aged 71
May 23 · 1938
Source: BnF authorities
Jordi Dauder
poet, television actor
1938–2011
March 5 · 1938
Source: Catalog of the German National Library
Hasanagha Turabov
director, actor
1938–2003 · aged 64
March 24 · 1938
Source: oxu.az
John Monckton
swimmer
1938–2017 · aged 78
October 28 · 1938
No external source identified
Sergey Kvochkin
association football coach, association football player
1938–2007 · aged 69
October 6 · 1938
No external source identified
Edward George Hudson Oliver
botanist
1938–2025 · aged 86
October 14 · 1938
No external source identified
Ricardo Watty Urquidi
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
1938–2011 · aged 73
July 16 · 1938
No external source identified
Brigitte Jordan*
anthropologist, scientist
Date disputed
1938
Source: epicpeople.org
Luciano Federici
association football player
1938–2020 · aged 81
May 16 · 1938
Source: Transfermarkt
Guglielmo Cavallo
philologist, university teacher
88 years old
August 18 · 1938
Source: www.accademiadellescienze.it
Eraldo Pizzo
water polo player, swimmer
88 years old
April 21 · 1938
No external source identified
Josef Duchač
politician, engineer
88 years old
February 19 · 1938
Source: Munzinger Personen
Inge Lønning
politician, Lutheran pastor
1938–2013 · aged 75
February 20 · 1938
Source: Hvem er Hvem? (1973)
Hans Herbjørnsrud
short story writer, writer
1938–2023 · aged 85
January 2 · 1938
Source: Discogs
Jesús Herrera Alonso*
association football player
Date disputed
February 5 · 1938
No external source identified
Jaime González
association football player
1938–1985 · aged 46
April 1 · 1938
No external source identified
Aleksandar Kozlina
association football player
1938–2013 · aged 74
December 20 · 1938
Source: Transfermarkt
Mileva Filipović
university teacher, political scientist
1938–2020 · aged 81
September 4 · 1938
Source: ucg.ac.me
Patricio Rodríguez
tennis player
1938–2020 · aged 81
December 20 · 1938
No external source identified
Franco Testa
sport cyclist
1938–2025 · aged 87
February 7 · 1938
No external source identified
Lahoucine Ibourka
actor, film actor
1938–1999
1938
Source: atigmedia.ma
Juhani Wahlsten
ice hockey player, ice hockey coach
1938–2019 · aged 81
January 13 · 1938
No external source identified
Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko
fencer
1938–2000 · aged 61
February 2 · 1938
No external source identified
F. W. Bernstein
caricaturist, writer
1938–2018 · aged 80
March 4 · 1938
Source: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartsliteratur
Zef Gashi
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
87 years old
December 4 · 1938
No external source identified
Rita Achkina
cross-country skier
88 years old
February 1 · 1938
No external source identified
Emil Schulz
boxer
1938–2010 · aged 71
May 25 · 1938
No external source identified
Max John Rodrigues
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
88 years old
May 29 · 1938
No external source identified
Wolfgang Bötsch
politician, jurist
1938–2017 · aged 79
September 8 · 1938
Source: Munzinger Personen
Motiullah Khan
field hockey player
1938–2022 · aged 84
January 31 · 1938
No external source identified
Jatyr Eduardo Schall*
basketball player
Date disputed
January 18 · 1938
Source: FIBA database
Perch Zeytuntsyan
translator, screenwriter
1938–2017 · aged 79
July 18 · 1938
Source: Armenian Concise Encyclopedia
Igor Luchenok
music educator, composer
1938–2018 · aged 80
August 6 · 1938
No external source identified
Rosa Fontana
actor
88 years old
January 21 · 1938
No external source identified
Mario Pescante
politician, entrepreneur
88 years old
July 7 · 1938
No external source identified
Aydin Ibrahimov
amateur wrestler
1938–2021 · aged 82
September 17 · 1938
No external source identified
Mario Omar Méndez
association football player, association football coach
1938–2020 · aged 82
May 11 · 1938
Source: FBref
Carlo Tognoli
politician, journalist
1938–2021 · aged 82
June 16 · 1938
Source: Catalog of the German National Library
Tibor Csernai
association football player
1938–2012 · aged 73
December 3 · 1938
Source: Transfermarkt
Gabriel Ruhumbika
writer
Born 1938
1938
Source: Integrated Authority File
Gwendoline Konie
writer, poet
1938–2009 · aged 70
October 9 · 1938
No external source identified
Petar Gligorovski
comics artist, animator
1938–1995 · aged 57
February 3 · 1938
Source: maccinema.com
María Luisa Aguilar
astronomer
1938–2015 · aged 77
June 20 · 1938
No external source identified
Stefano Tatai
chess player
1938–2017 · aged 79
March 23 · 1938
No external source identified
Samir Qotb
association football player
1938–2006 · aged 68
March 16 · 1938
No external source identified
Kimiyo Matsuzaki
table tennis player
88 years old
June 18 · 1938
No external source identified
Celestino Rocha da Costa
politician
1938–2010 · aged 72
September 25 · 1938
No external source identified
Marek Piestrak
director, screenwriter
88 years old
March 31 · 1938
No external source identified
Janusz Bolonek
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
1938–2016 · aged 77
December 6 · 1938
Source: historygreatest.com
David Walker
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
87 years old
November 13 · 1938
Source: Catholic-Hierarchy.org
Pierre Rodocanachi
fencer
88 years old
October 2 · 1938
Source: Roglo
Eduard Ivanov
ice hockey player
1938–2012 · aged 73
April 25 · 1938
No external source identified
Ernesto Ferrero
writer, literary critic
1938–2023 · aged 85
May 6 · 1938
No external source identified
Heidi Schmid
athlete, fencer
87 years old
December 5 · 1938
No external source identified
Noel Freeman
athletics competitor
87 years old
December 24 · 1938
Source: Athletics Australia
Tilly van der Zwaard
middle-distance runner, sprinter
1938–2019 · aged 81
January 18 · 1938
No external source identified
Anatoly Samoilenko
mathematician, university teacher
1938–2020 · aged 82
January 2 · 1938
Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
Robert Jashari*
association football player, association football coach
Date disputed
February 2 · 1938
Source: worldfootball.net
Ryszard Parulski
fencer, lawyer
1938–2017 · aged 78
March 9 · 1938
No external source identified
Claudio Nizzi
comics artist, cartoonist
88 years old
September 9 · 1938
Source: Babelio
Vladimir Golovanov
weightlifter
1938–2003 · aged 64
November 29 · 1938
No external source identified
Hartwig Altenmüller
archaeologist, university teacher
88 years old
September 23 · 1938
Source: Freebase Data Dumps
Emmanuel Rakotovahiny
veterinarian, politician
1938–2020 · aged 81
August 16 · 1938
No external source identified
Stefaniia Shabatura
painter, dissident
1938–2014 · aged 76
November 5 · 1938
No external source identified
Vladimír Nadrchal
coach, ice hockey coach
88 years old
March 4 · 1938
Source: Encyclopedia of Brno History
Aleksey Kiselyov
boxing trainer, boxer
1938–2005 · aged 67
March 17 · 1938
No external source identified
Seishiro Shimatani
association football player, association football coach
1938–2001 · aged 62
November 6 · 1938
No external source identified

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