List of Famous people who died in 1938

Joseph Bédier was a French writer and scholar and historian of medieval France.

Eva Dickson, born Eva Lindström, was a Swedish explorer, rally driver, aviator and travel writer. She was the first woman to have crossed the Sahara desert by car. She was perhaps the first female rally driver in Sweden (1925), and the third Swedish female aviator (1923).

Rafael Calleja Gómez was a Spanish composer, best known for the song "Adiós Granada".

Kazimierz Jerzy Skrzypna-Twardowski was a Polish analytic philosopher, logician, and rector of the Lwów University. He was initially affiliated with Alexius Meinong's Graz School of object theory.

Munírih K͟hánum was the wife of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, a prominent figure in the Baháʼí Faith. She was entitled the Holy Mother. Her memoirs, first published in 1924, are regarded as one of the first published memoirs by a Persian woman in the 20th century.

Uladzimier Teraŭski was a Belarusian composer, choirmaster and a victim of Stalin’s purges. He wrote music to a number of popular Belarusian songs such as Vajacki Marš and Kupalinka.

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, alternatively spelt as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century. Most of his works deal with the lifestyle, tragedy and struggle of the village people and the contemporary social practices that prevailed in Bengal. He remains the most popular, translated, and adapted Indian author of all time.

Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, FRS, FRSE was a British chemist and archaeologist.

Rinaldo Piaggio (1864-1938) was an Italian entrepreneur, senator, and founder of Piaggio.