Timeline Wednesday 15 June 1938

Events on Wednesday 15 June 1938 2

• 1880 – 1938 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Died 15 June 1938, aged 58 Kirchner was a German Expressionist painter and a founder of Die Brücke. The Nazis condemned his work as degenerate, and he took his own life in Switzerland.
• 1938 Bíró patents the ballpoint pen László Bíró files a British patent Hungarian journalist László Bíró and his brother György patented a pen that used quick-drying ink and a rotating ball. The design was later developed in Argentina and spread worldwide.