List of Famous people who died in 1938

Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst was a Dutch painter, draftsman, lithographer, book cover designer, etcher and writer. Many of his works were in a modified Symbolist style.

César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. He was always a step ahead of literary currents, and each of his books was distinct from the others, and, in its own sense, revolutionary. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.

Octavian Goga was a nationalistic and, later, far-right Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.

Franz Beda Riklin was a Swiss psychiatrist.

William Slavens McNutt, was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 28 films between 1922 and 1939. He was nominated for an Academy Award on two separate occasions. At the 5th Academy Awards, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for Lady and Gent. In 1936, he was nominated for Adapted Screenplay for the film The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. He was born in Urbana, Illinois and died in San Fernando, California.

Lev Vladimirovich Pisarzhevsky was a Ukrainian Soviet chemist who studied peroxides, peracids, and solutions.

Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman who held high office in the government of the Soviet Union.

Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel was a Spanish Balearic poet, who wrote in Catalan.