* 1557 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg ( d. 1608 )

* 1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.

* 1608 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans ( d. 1660 )

*** House of Bourbon-Montpensier ( 1477 – 1608 )

* 1608 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier ( d. 1670 )

* 1608 – Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer ( d. 1697 )

* 1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician ( d. 1666 )

* Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1608 – 1657 )

In 1589, he received the valuable appointment of reversion to the Clerkship of the Star Chamber, although he did not formally take office until 1608 – a post which was worth £ 16, 000 a year.

* 1543 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine ( d. 1608 )

** 1603 – 1608: Joachim I / I / III Frederick ( Regent, also Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf and Elector of Brandenburg )

** 1608 – 1618: John I / III Sigismund ( Regent, also Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg ( b. 1557 )

* 1608 – Québec City is founded by Samuel de Champlain.

* 1608 – Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.

* 1546 – Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg ( d. 1608 )

* 1608 – At Ticonderoga ( now Crown Point, New York ), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs.

* 1608 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat ; his army reportedly kills 12, 000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.

* 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.

# Joachim Frederick ( 27 January 1546 – 1608 )

Joachim III Frederick () ( 27 January 1546 – 18 July 1608 ), of the House of Hohenzollern, was Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1598 until his death.

* John Frederick of Brandenburg ( 18 August 1607 – 1 March 1608 ).

* 1666 – Gaspar Schott, German scientist ( b. 1608 )

* 1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.

In 1608 Ainsworth answered Richard Bernard's The Separatist Schisme, but his greatest minor work in this field was his reply to John Smyth ( commonly called " the Se-Baptist "), entitled Defence of Holy Scripture, Worship and Ministry used in the Christian Churches separated from Antichrist, against the Challenges, Cavils and Contradictions of Mr Smyth ( 1609 ).

* John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ), English poet

* 1674 – John Milton, English poet ( b. 1608 )

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

One of those preparing his inventory in 1608 was John Sterrope, possibly his son-in-law.

* 1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.

In 1608, the city had its first stone church, St. John the Baptist.

* April 22 – John Tradescant the younger, botanist ( b. 1608 )

* November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet noted for Paradise Lost and other works including Lycidas ; On His Blindness ; L ’ Allegro ; On The Late Massacre In Piedmont ; Paradise Regained ( b. 1608 )

* July 13 – John Dee, English mathematician, astronomer, and geographer ( d. 1608 )

An early description of the opossum comes from explorer John Smith, who wrote in Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion in 1608 that " An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat.

# John Casimir (; 25 December 1607 14 January 1608 )

1570s – 1638 ) and John Tradescant the Younger ( 1608 – 1662 ).

In the 1608 Council of monastery Morača on a gathering of the representatives of the Serb clans and the Serbian Church, Charles was elected King of Serbia and invited to switch to Eastern Orthodoxy as a precondition for getting crowned by Patriarch John, as well as vow himself for the protection of Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury ( c. 1521 – 13 February 1608 ), known as Bess of Hardwick, was the daughter of John Hardwick, of Derbyshire and Elizabeth Leeke, daughter of Thomas Leeke and Margaret Fox.

The Native Americans ' first recorded encounter with Europeans in this area was in 1608, with John Smith of the Jamestown Settlement.

When Captain John Smith and other English explorers came to the upper Potomac River beginning in 1608, they reported that the area within present Prince William County was occupied by the Doeg tribe.

Captain John Smith in 1608 crossed the James River and obtained fourteen bushels of corn from the Native American inhabitants, the Warrosquyoackes or Warraskoyaks.

It was part of the Anacostan chiefdom, centered on the lower Anacostia River near present-day Washington, D. C. ( John Smith visited them in 1608 ); the Anacostans were organized under the Piscataway paramount chiefdom ( not part of the Powhatan alliance ), which by the 1630s claimed to have had thirteen successive rulers.

Captain John Smith visited again in 1608.

The area now known as Dundalk was first explored by John Smith in 1608, when while conducting an expedition up the Chesapeake Bay he landed on the area known as the Patapsco Neck.