December 26, 1938

1938Bahram Beyzai, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter^[†]

Bahrām Beyzāêi is an Iranian figure renowned for his films, plays, and scholarly works. He is a film director, playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, researcher, and ostād ("master") of Persian literature, mythology and Iranian studies.

1938Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author (died 2013)^[†]

Robert Gerald Hamerton-Kelly was a Christian theologian, ordained United Methodist pastor, ethics scholar, and author and editor of several books on religion and violence. He served as Dean of the Chapel at Stanford Memorial Church at Stanford University for 14 years and was on the faculty of the university for more than 30 years. A leading advocate of the work of René Girard's theory of mimetic desire, Hamerton-Kelly co-founded several organizations dedicated to the study of the theory and edited several important texts about it.

1938Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1989)^[†]

Alamgir Kabir was a Bangladeshi film director and cultural activist. Three of his feature films are featured in the "Top 10 Bangladeshi Films" list by British Film Institute.

1938Mirko Kovač, Yugoslav-Croatian author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2013)^[†]

Mirko Kovač was a Montenegrin writer. In his rich career he wrote novels, short stories, essays, film scripts, TV and radio plays. Among his best known works are the novella Životopis Malvine Trifković, the novels Vrata od utrobe, Grad u zrcalu, the short story collection Ruže za Nives Koen, the book of essays Europska trulež and the scripts for some of the most successful films of Yugoslav cinema like Handcuffs, Playing Soldiers and Occupation in 26 Pictures among others. He was one quarter of the infamous Belgrade quartet, the other three being Danilo Kiš, Borislav Pekić and Filip David.