List of Famous people who died in 1938

Karl Eduard Julius Theodor Rudolf Stammler was an influential German philosopher of law. He distinguished the purely formal concept of law from the ideal, the realization of justice. He felt that rather than simply reacting and adjusting the law to economic pressures, the law should be deliberately steered towards the current ideal.

Cornelius Gustav Gurlitt was a German architect and art historian.

Baron Masuda Takashi , was a Japanese industrialist, investor, and art collector. He was a prominent entrepreneur in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan, responsible for transforming Mitsui into a zaibatsu through the creation of a general trading company, Mitsui Bussan. He also established a newspaper, the Chugai Shōgyō Shimpō (中外商業新報), which was later renamed the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

Ervin Bauer was a Hungarian biologist.