November 17, 1938

1938Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, Scottish general^[†]

Field Marshal Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, was a senior officer of the British Army who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1994 to 1997 and Chief of the Defence Staff from 1997 until his retirement in 2001.

1938Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)^[†]

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, he had numerous gold and platinum albums, and his songs have been covered by many of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings wrote, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness."