List of Famous people who died in 1938

Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, also known as Mavromichalis-Pierrakos, was a Greek military officer and politician.

Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick was a campaigning socialist who supported many schemes to aid the less well off in education, housing, employment, and pay. She established colleges for the education of women in agriculture and market gardening, first in Reading, then in Studley. She established a needlework school and employment scheme in Essex as well as using her ancestral homes to host events and schemes for the benefit of her tenants and workers. She was a long-term confidant or mistress to the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.

Marianne von Werefkin, born Marianna Wladimirowna Werewkina, was a Russian-German-Swiss Expressionist painter.

Jean-Laurent-Frederick Longuet (1876–1938) was a French socialist politician and journalist. He was Karl Marx's grandson.

Ernest William Brown FRS was an English mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States and became a naturalised American citizen in 1923.

Lewis Clive was a British rower who won a gold medal in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He volunteered to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in action.

Otokar Fischer was a Czech translator, playwright, poet and critic.