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Month January 1938 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

  • January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).

    January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1938

  • Day of Week 3rd » The March of Dimes is established by President of the United States known as President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • Day of Week 9th » Paul of Greece marries Frederica of Hanover in Athens.
  • Day of Week 14th » Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
  • Day of Week 28th » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of convert 432.7 km/h mph.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1938

  • 1st » Clay Cole, American television host and producer (d. 2010)
  • 1st » Robert Jankel, British businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (d. 2005)
  • 1st » Frank Langella, American actor
  • 2nd » Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
  • 2nd » Goh Kun, South Korean politician, 31st Prime Minister of South Korea
  • 2nd » Robert Smithson, American sculptor and photographer (d. 1973)
  • 3rd » Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, English politician
  • 3rd » K. Ganeshalingam, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2006)
  • 5th » Juan Carlos I of Spain
  • 5th » Jim Otto, American football player
  • 6th » Adriano Celentano, Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and director
  • 6th » Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist and academic
  • 6th » Mario Rodríguez Cobos, Argentinian philosopher (d. 2010)
  • 6th » William E. Connolly, American political theorist
  • 7th » Lou Graham, American golfer
  • 7th » Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, and actor (d. 1997)
  • 7th » Fred Whitfield, American baseball player (d. 2013)
  • 8th » Bob Eubanks, American game show host
  • 8th » Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens, English sociologist
  • 8th » Fred J. Lincoln, American porn actor, director, and producer (d. 2013)
  • 8th » Nanda, Indian actress
  • 8th » Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian opera singer
  • 9th » Claudette Boyer, Canadian politician (d. 2013)
  • 9th » Peter Edelman, American lawyer and educator
  • 9th » Stuart Woods, American author
  • 10th » Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and author
  • 10th » Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
  • 10th » Willie McCovey, American baseball player
  • 11th » Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995)
  • 11th » Fred Jones (footballer born 1938) e.g Fred Jones, Welsh footballer (d. 2013)
  • 11th » Vladimir Krpan, Croatian pianist
  • 11th » Gavin Millar, Scottish director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 11th » Alastair Morton, English businessman (d. 2004)
  • 11th » Arthur Scargill, English politician
  • 11th » John August Swanson, American painter
  • 12th » Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and politician (d. 2013)
  • 12th » Lewis Fiander, Australian actor
  • 13th » Richard Anthony (singer) known as Richard Anthony, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter
  • 13th » William B. Davis, Canadian actor and director
  • 13th » Dave Edwards (Wyoming politician) called Dave Edwards, American captain and politician (d. 2013)
  • 13th » Tord Grip, Swedish footballer and manager
  • 13th » Anna Home, English screenwriter and producer
  • 13th » Shivkumar Sharma, Indian santoor player and composer
  • 14th » Morihiro Hosokawa, Japanese politician, 79th Prime Minister of Japan
  • 14th » Jack Jones (singer) known as Jack Jones, American singer and actor
  • 14th » Allen Toussaint, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
  • 15th » Ashraf Aman, Pakistani engineer and mountaineer
  • 15th » Estrella Blanca, Mexican wrestler
  • 15th » Chuni Goswami, Indian footballer and cricketer
  • 16th » Michael Pataki, American actor (d. 2010)
  • 16th » Jô Soares, Brazilian comedian, actor, and talk show host
  • 16th » Marina Vaizey, American journalist and critic
  • 17th » John Bellairs, American author (d. 1991)
  • 17th » Percy Qoboza, South African journalist (d. 1988)
  • 20th » William Berger (actor) e.g William Berger, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
  • 20th » Liz Calder, English publisher
  • 20th » Derek Dougan, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
  • 21st » Sandy Barr, American wrestler and referee (d. 2007)
  • 21st » Ken Maginnis, Irish politician
  • 21st » Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers called Nicholas Phillips, British judge, President of The Supreme Court
  • 21st » John Savident, English actor
  • 21st » Wolfman Jack, American radio host and actor (d. 1995)
  • 22nd » Peter Beard, Australian photographer and author
  • 22nd » Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer
  • 23rd » Shohei Baba, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999)
  • 23rd » Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
  • 25th » Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 1998)
  • 25th » Etta James, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
  • 25th » Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese illustrator
  • 25th » Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1980)
  • 28th » Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
  • 29th » Shuji Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast
  • 30th » Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan
  • 31st » Beatrix of the Netherlands
  • 31st » James G. Watt, American politician, 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior

Famous Deaths for January 1938

  • 8th » Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (b. 1880)
  • 12th » Gösta Ekman (senior) known as Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1890)
  • 16th » Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author (b. 1876)
  • 19th » Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1864)
  • 21st » Georges Méliès, French actor, director, and producer (b. 1861)
  • 23rd » Albertson Van Zo Post, American fencer (b. 1866)
  • 28th » Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (b. 1909)

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