* 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 – 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 )

Around 1900, German physicist Arthur Korn invented the Bildtelegraph, widespread in continental Europe especially, since a widely noticed transmission of a wanted-person photograph from Paris to London in 1908, used until the wider distribution of the radiofax.

* 1841 – Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor General of Canada ( d. 1908 )

** Arthur O ' Connell, American actor ( b. 1908 )

John died in 1908 at 85, when Arthur was 57.

* Austrian — Noetzel, Hermann: Pierrot's Summer Night ( 1924 ); Schnitzler, Arthur: The Transformations of Pierrot ( 1908 ), The Veil of Pierrette ( 1910 ; with music by Ernö Dohnányi ; see also " Stuppner " among the Italian composers under Western classical music ( instrumental ) below ); Schreker, Franz: The Blue Flower, or The Heart of Pierrot: A Tragic Pantomime ( 1909 ), The Bird, or Pierrot's Mania: A Pantomimic Comedy ( 1909 ).

* American — Bloch, Albert: Many works, including Harlequinade ( 1911 ), Piping Pierrot ( 1911 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( 1913 ), Three Pierrots and Harlequin ( 1914 ); Bradley, Will: Various posters and illustrations ( see, e. g., " Banning " under Poetry below ); Heintzelman, Arthur William: Pierrot ( n. d .); Hopper, Edward: Soir Bleu ( 1914 ); Kuhn, Walt: The White Clown ( 1929 ); Parrish, Maxfield: Pierrot's Serenade ( 1908 ), The Lantern-Bearers ( 1908 ), Her Window ( 1922 ); Sloan, John: Clown Making Up ( 1909 ).

Arthur Conan Doyle also criticised the ' rubber regime ' in his 1908 work The Crime of the Congo, written to aid the work of the Congo Reform Association.

* 1908 – 1912: Louis Arthur Delobeau

* 1908: # Arthur Boycott, Guybon Damant, and John Haldane publish " The Prevention of Compressed-Air Illness ", detailed studies on the cause and symptoms of decompression sickness, and propose a table of decompression stops to avoid the effects.

The earliest known adaptation is the eleven minute 1908 The Taming of the Shrew directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Arthur V. Johnson and Florence Lawrence.

Examples of these century-old homes are the Arthur O ' Heir House ( 1885 ), Chadburne Hall or High Oaks ( 1890 ), the James Arch House ( 1885 ), the Robert L. Wagner House ( 1881 ) and the Hill-Stone House ( 1908 ).

In 1908 Healy acted as counsel for Sir Arthur Vicars, former Ulster King of Arms, in connection with the 1908 investigation of the previous year's theft of the Irish Crown Jewels.

* Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby ( 1841 – 1908 )

It was observed again in 1908, by the German meteorologist Arthur Berson, who saw that winds blow from the west at altitude in tropical Africa from his balloon experiments.

* 1908 – 1909: Arthur Kautzenbach

In December 1908 he convinced three partners ; James Allison, Arthur Newby and Frank Wheeler, to join in purchasing the property for $ 72, 000.

In 1908, Hardie resigned as leader of the Labour Party and was replaced by Arthur Henderson.

The Zionist Organisation ( ZO ) founded the Palestine Bureau ( also known as " Eretz Yisrael Office ") in Jaffa in 1908, under Arthur Ruppin, and began to adopt a systematic effort to buy and settle land in Ottoman Palestine.

* Arthur Adamov ( 1908 – 1970 ), Russian-born French playwright

It became popular in a 1908 instrumental version renamed " Teddy Bears ' Picnic ", performed by the Arthur Pryor Band.

* Jean Arthur ( 1900 – 1991 ), comedy actress of the 1930s and 1940s and the star of her own CBS television series in 1966, The Jean Arthur Show, was born in Plattsburgh and lived there from 1900 to 1908.