page_title: 1938
section_title: January–February
hierarchical_section_title: 1938 / Births / January–February
caption_attribution_description: English: Etta James at the 2006 Common Ground Festival in Lansing, Michigan
context_page_description: 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1938th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 938th year of the 2nd millennium, the 38th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1930s decade.
context_section_description: January 1
  Frank Langella, American actor
  Fuad Masum, 9th President of Iraq
  January 2
  Goh Kun, Korean politician, Mayor of Seoul and 31st Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea)
  Bohumil Nemecek, Czechoslovakian Olympic boxer (d. 2010)
  January 4 – Mohamed Rahmat ("Tok Mat"), Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
  January 5 – King Juan Carlos I of Spain
  January 7 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
  January 9 – Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japanese filmmaker (d. 2020)
  January 10 – Donald Knuth, American mathematician, computer scientist
  January 13 – Shivkumar Sharma, Indian musician
  January 14
  Morihiro Hosokawa, Japanese politician, 50th Prime Minister of Japan
  Jack Jones, American singer
  Allen Toussaint, American musician, composer (d. 2015)
  January 22 – Peter Beard, American zookeeper and diarist
  January 23 – Georg Baselitz, German painter, sculptor
  January 25
  Etta James, African-American singer (d. 2012)
  Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist, father of "Henshin Heroes" (d. 1998)
  Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, poet and actor (d. 1980)
  January 28 – Tomas Lindahl, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  January 29 – Shuji Tsurumi, Japanese men's artistic gymnast
  January 30 – Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (d. 2016)
  January 31 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
  February 1 – Sherman Hemsley, African-American comedian, actor (d. 2012)
  February 2 – Pilar Pellicer, Mexican actress (d. 2020)
  February 3 – Emile Griffith, American welterweight boxer (d. 2013)
  February 11 – Mohammed Gammoudi, Tunisian Olympic athlete
  February 12 – Judy Blume, American author
  February 13 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
  February 18 – István Szabó, Hungarian film director
  February 19 – René Muñoz, Cuban-Mexican actor and screenwriter (d. 2000)
  February 24
  James Farentino, American actor (d. 2012)
  Phil Knight, American sportswear entrepreneur
  February 25 – Herb Elliott, Australian runner
  February 27 – Pascale Petit, French actress
caption: Etta James
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