Famous People Born in 1938

• Annan, Kofi (April 8)

  The 7th U.N. Secretary-General, 1997-2006

• Armgard, Beatrix (January 31)

  Queen of The Netherlands, 1980-2013

• Blume, Judy (February 12)

  The author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

• Breyer, Stephen (August 15)

   Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1994

• Brown, Jerry (April 7)

  The governor of California from 1975-83 and 2011-2019

• Buchanan, Pat (November 2)

  Pugnacious political talker on CNN

• Carver, Raymond (May 25)

  American short-story writer

• Dean, John (October 14)

  Nixon's lawyer who squealed about Watergate

• Goss, Porter (November 26)

  The CIA director who resigned suddenly in 2006

• Guthrie, Janet (March 7)

  The first woman to drive in the Indy 500

• Jaglom, Henry (January 26)

   The idiosyncratic filmmaker who did "Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?"

• James, Etta (January 25)

  R&B singing legend who did "At Last" and "Roll With Me, Henry"

• Jennings, Peter (July 29)

  Anchor of ABC's World News Tonight 1983-2005

• Juan Carlos, King (January 5)

  King of Spain, 1975-2014

• Kerry, Teresa Heinz (October 5)

  The wife of Secretary of State John Kerry

• Knievel, Evel (October 17)

  The motorcyclist who tried to jump the Snake River Canyon

• Knight, Phil (February 24)

  Founder of the athletic shoe and clothing company Nike

• Madoff, Bernard (April 29)

  The Wall Street money manager who swindled $50 billion

• Nico (October 16)

  Spooky vocalist who was with the Velvet Underground

• Oates, Joyce Carol (June 16)

  The author of Bellefleur and Them

• Panetta, Leon (June 28)

  U.S Secretary of Defense, 2011-13

• Reno, Janet (July 21)

  78th Attorney General of the United States

• Rigg, Diana (July 20)

  Mrs. Emma Peel on TV's The Avengers

• Rogers, Kenny (August 21)

  The country star who sang "The Gambler"

• Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson (October 29)

  The Nobel Prize-winning president of Liberia

• Superman

  "The Man of Steel"

• Turner, Ted (November 19)

  That loud-mouthed rich guy who founded CNN

• Tyner, McCoy (December 11)

  The piano player in The John Coltrane Quartet in the 1960s

• Williamson, Fred (March 5)

  Pro-football star who starred in '70s "blaxploitation" films

• Withers, Bill (July 4)

  The singer of "Leon On Me" and "Ain't No Sunshine"

• Wood, Natalie (July 20)

  The girl who doubts Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street

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