What Happened In December 1938 In History

Historical Events for December, 1938

• 13th » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
• 17th » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of Nuclear power known as nuclear energy.
• 23rd » Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1938

• 1st » Sandy Nelson, American drummer
• 3rd » Jean-Claude Malépart, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
• 4th » Andre Marrou, American politician
• 4th » Yvonne Minton, Australian soprano
• 5th » JJ Cale, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Leathercoated Minds) (d. 2013)
• 5th » J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (d. 1991)
• 6th » Patrick Bauchau, Belgian-American actor
• 7th » Bud Spangler, American drummer, composer, and producer (d. 2014)
• 9th » John Braheny, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 9th » David Houston (singer) known as David Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
• 9th » Deacon Jones, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2013)
• 10th » Yuri Temirkanov, Russian viola player and conductor
• 11th » Reg Livermore, Australian actor and singer
• 11th » Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 11th » McCoy Tyner, American pianist and composer
• 12th » Connie Francis, American singer and actress
• 13th » Heino, German singer
• 13th » Alvin Curran, American horn player and composer (Musica Elettronica Viva)
• 14th » Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian and author
• 14th » Hal Williams, American actor
• 15th » Michael Bogdanov, Welsh director and screenwriter
• 15th » Billy Shaw, American football player
• 16th » Frank Deford, American journalist and author
• 16th » Liv Ullmann, Japanese-Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter
• 17th » Carlo Little, English drummer (Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages and All-Stars (band) known as All-Stars) (d. 2005)
• 17th » Peter Snell, New Zealand-American runner
• 18th » Chas Chandler, English bass player and producer (The Animals) (d. 1996)
• 18th » Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and composer (d. 2005)
• 18th » Roger E. Mosley, American actor
• 20th » John Harbison, American composer and academic
• 21st » Larry Bryggman, American actor
• 21st » Frank Moorhouse, Australian journalist, author, and screenwriter
• 21st » John Quayle (actor) called John Quayle, English actor
• 22nd » Matty Alou, Dominican-American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 22nd » Lucien Bouchard, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Premier of Quebec
• 23rd » Bob Kahn, American computer scientist and engineer, co-developed the Transmission Control Protocol
• 24th » Bobby Henrich, American baseball player
• 24th » Valentim Loureiro, Portuguese soldier and politician
• 25th » Duane Armstrong, American painter
• 25th » David Borden, American composer and academic
• 25th » Noel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 26th » Bahram Bayzai, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 26th » Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author (d. 2013)
• 26th » Alamgir Kabir (film maker) e.g Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• 27th » Stanislav Stanojevic, Serbian-French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 28th » Dick Sudhalter, American trumpet player, scholar, and critic (d. 2008)
• 29th » Harvey Smith (equestrian) known as Harvey Smith, English horse rider
• 29th » Jon Voight, American actor and producer
• 30th » Mike Auldridge, American guitarist (The Seldom Scene and Chesapeake (band) or Chesapeake) (d. 2012)
• 30th » Gennaro Langella, American mob boss (d. 2013)
• 31st » Rosalind Cash, American actress and singer (d. 1995)
• 31st » Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (d. 2013)

Famous Deaths for December 1938

• 7th » Anna Marie Hahn, German-American murderer (b. 1906)
• 8th » Friedrich Glauser, Swiss author (b. 1896)
• 11th » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Peace Prize called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 19th » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (b. 1873)
• 20th » Annie Armstrong, American missionary (b. 1850)
• 20th » Matilda Howell, American archer (b. 1859)
• 24th » Bruno Taut, German architect and urban planner (b. 1880)
• 25th » Karel Čapek, Czech author and playwright (b. 1890)
• 27th » Calvin Bridges, American geneticist and academic (b. 1889)
• 27th » Osip Mandelstam, Polish-Russian poet and critic (b. 1891)
• 28th » Florence Lawrence, Canadian-American actress (b. 1886)

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