* 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 )

Image: Claude Monet 039. jpg | Palace From Mula, Venice, 1908, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

A. and C. Black, 1908.

#* C. D. Cobham, Excerpta Cypria: materials for a history of Cyprus ( Cambridge 1908 ).

He tried to liquefy the last remaining gas, Helium, which condenses into a liquid at − 268. 9 ° C, but owing to a number of factors, including a lack of Helium with which to work, Dewar was preceded by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes as the first person to produce liquid helium, in 1908.

* April 15, 1908: Asheville, North Carolina Dr. C. O. Swinney shot and fatally wounded his 16-year-old daughter Nellie in a reception room at Normal and Collegiate Institute.

* USS C-5 ( SS-16 ), a 1908 United States Navy C class submarine

The club was formed in 1882, as Hotspur F. C., and played in the Southern League until 1908, when it was elected into the Football League Second Division.

The club's two best wins were 10 goals to 2 over Norwich City on 5 September 1908 and 10 goals to 1 over Farnham United Breweries F. C.

In 1916, William C. Durant, who founded General Motors in 1908, had retaken GM from bankers who had taken over the company.

In 1904, local entrepreneur William C. Durant was brought in to manage Buick, which became the largest manufacturer of automobiles by 1908.

The grounds once housed a football ground, which hosted the FA Cup final from 1895 to 1914 as well as London County Cricket Club games from 1900 to 1908, when they folded, and Crystal Palace F. C.

The Magoffin County Institute, Salyersville's first high school, was founded in 1908 by A. C. Harlowe.

Miss Ethel Peele was the first female graduate in 1908, while Mr. C. Abram Roberson was the first male graduate.

In 1908 or 1909, a town site was surveyed by C. F. H.

* Miss Mary C. Borgman, ( b. November 10, 1908 ), is the oldest living resident at age 100.

* C. P. Narcross ( 1908 – 1913 )

Huddersfield today is a town of higher education, the media and sports, being home to the rugby league team, Huddersfield Giants, founded in 1895, who currently play in the European Super League and Football League Championship football team Huddersfield Town F. C., founded in 1908.

* Sonata in C minor for violin and piano ( 1908 )

The Sixteenth Edition ( October 1905 ) was edited by J. C. DaCosta, and the Seventeenth ( September 1908 ) by DaCosta and E. A. Spitzka.

* Macaulay, G. C. ( 1908 ) " John Gower ," in Ward, A. W., and Waller, A. R., eds.

* C. G. Mannerheimin Valokuvia Aasian-Matkalta 1906 – 1908 ( Photographs By C. G. Mannerheim From His Journey Across Asia 1906 – 1908 ), ( Otava, Keuruu: 1990 ) ISBN 951-1-11357-7.