* 1908 – Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster ( d. 1994 )

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1908 – Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer

* 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress ( d. 1990 )

* 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1970 )

* 1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian airman and politician ( d. 1997 )

* 1908 – Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer ( d. 2001 )

* 1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States ( d. 1973 )

* 1908 – Kurt Wegner, German artist ( d. 1985 )

* 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player ( d. 1997 )

* 1908 – Will Lee, American actor ( d. 1982 )

* 1908 – Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter ( d. 1941 )

* 1908 – Gene Raymond, American actor ( d. 1998 )

* 1908 – The Territorial Force ( renamed Territorial Army in 1920 ) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.

* 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1908 )

* 1979 – Barbara Luddy, American actress ( b. 1908 )

* 2001 – Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player ( b. 1908 )

* 2004 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.

* 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American politician and jurist, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( d. 1990 )

* 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.

* 1908 – Ray Ventura, French bandleader ( d. 1979 )

* 1871 – Guangxu Emperor of China ( d. 1908 )

* 1908 – Manos Katrakis, Greek actor ( d. 1984 )

* 1844 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician ( d. 1908 )

Alfred Alistair Cooke KBE ( 20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004 ) was a British / American journalist, television personality and broadcaster.

** Alistair Cooke-English-born journalist and broadcaster ( born 1908 )

* Alistair Cooke KBE ( 1908 – 2004 ), journalist and broadcaster

The crews met on April 6, 1908 beneath Cooke St, one day earlier than expected, and their alignments were off by only 3 / 8 ".

In 1908, he commissioned ( at no pay ) Napoleon Hill, then a journalist, to interview more than 500 wealthy achievers to find out the common threads of their success.

* 1965 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist ( d. 1965 )

* 1908 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator ( b. 1844 )

* James S. Free ( 1908 – 1996 ), American journalist

In a 1908 interview with U. S. journalist James Creelman published in Pearson's Magazine, Porfirio Díaz said that Mexico was ready for a democracy and that the 1910 presidential election would be a free election.

* M. Karagatsis ( 1908 – 1960 ), novelist, journalist

* 1908 – Alvar Lidell, English journalist ( d. 1981 )

* October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist ( b. 1908 )

UEA was founded in 1908 by the Swiss journalist Hector Hodler and others, and is now headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

* Alexander Posey ( 1873 — 1908 ), Muscogee Creek poet, humorist, journalist, and politician

* Harrison Salisbury ( 1908 – 1993 ), an American journalist who was the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II

Dreyfus was present at the ceremony removing Zola's ashes to the Panthéon in 1908, when he was wounded in the arm by a gunshot from Louis Gregori, a disgruntled journalist, in an assassination attempt.

Scottish journalist Leopold Horace Ognall ( 1908 – 1979 ) authored over ninety novels as Hartley Howard and Harry Carmichael.

In 1905, William Randolph Hearst purchased the magazine for US $ 400, 000 ( approximately $ 11, 000, 000 in 2007 prices ) and brought in journalist Charles Edward Russell, who contributed a series of investigative articles, including " The Growth of Caste in America " ( March 1907 ), " At the Throat of the Republic " ( December 1907-March 1908 ) and " What Are You Going to Do About It?

In a 1908 interview with U. S. journalist James Creelman, Díaz stated that Mexico was ready for democracy and elections and that he would step down to allow other candidates to compete for the presidency.

Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (; May 1, 1908 – July 22, 1968 ) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose most famous creation is the priest Don Camillo.

* May 24-Joseph Mitchell, American journalist ( born 1908 )

In 1908, he wrote the book Following the Color Line, becoming the first prominent journalist to examine America's racial divide.

From 1908 – 9, in London, he took speech therapy, studied part-time at the London School of Economics, and tried to find employment as a journalist, with the help of recommendations from more family friends, including Australia's Prime Minister Alfred Deakin.

Then, in 1908, in his article " A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God ", mentioning both James and the journalist, pragmatist, and literary author Giovanni Papini, Peirce wrote:

* Amy Vanderbilt ( 1908 – 1974 ), journalist, etiquette authority