List of Famous people who died at 38

Luca Coscioni was an Italian economist and politician. He was a Professor of Environmental Economics at Università della Tuscia (Italy) who engaged very actively in the social and political spheres with the political organization Partito Radicale and with the Luca Coscioni Association (LCA), which he presided over from 2002 to 2006. His life was marked by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) which claimed his life at the age of 38.

Svend Pri was a Danish badminton player who won numerous major titles from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s.

Lauren Grandcolas was one of the passengers on board United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, who made calls, providing information about the hijacking of the flight as part of the September 11 attacks. She made a call to her husband on an airphone, and left a message telling him of the "problem with the plane".