Month December 1938 Calendar

About Month of December Calendar

• December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. It is one of seven months with the length of 31 days. December is the first month of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, December is the seasonal equivalent to June in the Northern hemisphere, which is the first month of summer. December is the month with the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.
  
  December symbols: Its birth flower is the narcissus. The birthstones of December are the turquoise, zircon, and tanzanite. The zodiac signs for the month of December are Sagittarius (until December 21) and Capricorn (December 22 onwards).

Historical Events for December, 1938

• Day of Week 13th » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
• Day of Week 17th » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of Nuclear power known as nuclear energy.
• Day of Week 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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