* 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 )

* 1905 – 1908: Captain David Beatty, MVO, DSO

* 1908 – 1910: Captain David Beatty, MVO, DSO, ADC

* David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1908 – 1974 )

* 1908 – Sir David Lean, English film director ( d. 1991 )

Although historically the river was not present on several official maps ( for example, according to David Leboff and Tim Demuth's book ; in 1907, 1908, and 1919 ), from 1921 it was absent for several years ( on pocket maps designed by MacDonald Gill ).

Cricket writer David Frith summed up Grace's legacy to cricket by writing that " his influence lasted long after his final appearance in first-class cricket in 1908 and his death in 1915 ".

* October 24 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist ( b. 1908 )

* April 16 – David Lean, British film director ( b. 1908 )

David Lloyd George in 1908

Against her family's wishes, she married on 17 March 1947 to failed American movie producer David Alfred Sebastian, born in Detroit on 23 November 1908.

Tree often starred in the theatre's dramatizations of popular nineteenth-century novels, such as Sydney Grundy's adaptation of Dumas's Musketeers ( 1898 ); Tolstoy's Resurrection ( 1903 ); Dickens's Oliver Twist ( 1905 ), The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( 1908 ) and David Copperfield ( 1914 ); and Morton's dramatization of Thackeray's The Newcomes, called Colonel Newcome ( 1906 ), among others.

* Christian David Ginsburg, 1894 ; 2nd edition, 1908 – 1926

As a historical footnote, David Ogilvy's granddaughter Clementine Hozier was married to Winston Churchill from 1908 until his death in 1965.

David Roberts ( engineer ) | David Roberts tracked steam tractor c. 1908

When Ebenezer died in 1860, David became editor-in-chief, a position he retained until his death in 1908, although a succession of editors did the day-to-day editorial work.

Later, smaller bulbs became available making internal light possible, for instance in a hysteroscope by Charles David in 1908.

* v1 Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer by David Duncan ( 1908 )

* v2 Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer by David Duncan ( 1908 )

The leading trio from 1908 did make it, and American David Bruce-Brown joined the Benz squad.

A series of performances took place at the Théâtre Gaîté Lyrique Paris in 1908, with Alice Verlet, David Devriès and Félix Vieuille.

* David Syme ( 1827 – 1908 ), a Scottish-Australian newspaper proprietor of The Age

In 1908, two years after David Taylor had left the business, the name " Waitrose " ( a portmanteau of the remaining founders ' names ) was adopted.

* David Davis ( broadcaster ) ( 1908 – 1996 ), head of the BBC's Children's Hour