* 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 )

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

* 1989 – Edward Underdown, English actor ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Edward Lansdale, American United States Air Force, CIA and OSS officer ( d. 1987 )

In 1908, Edward Gordon Craig designed the Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet | MAT production of Hamlet ( 1911 – 12 ).

* 1908 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist ( d. 2003 )

He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward ( Alec ) Cook ( 1906 – 1984 ), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo ( 1908 – 1994 ).

* Original lyric, sung by Edward Meeker, recorded in 1908 on a phonograph cylinder

** Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American film director ( b. 1908 )

* December 15 – Edward Underdown, stage and film veteran ( b. 1908 )

In June 1908, Edward became the first reigning British monarch to visit the Russian Empire, despite refusing to visit in 1906, when Anglo-Russian relations were strained in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, the Dogger Bank incident, and the Tsar's dissolution of the Duma.

Four kings: Edward VII ( far right ), his son George, Prince of Wales, later George V ( far left ), and grandsons Edward, later Edward VIII ( rear ), and Albert, later George VI ( foreground ), c. 1908.

* 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 ).

* Sir Edward Seaborne Clouston, 1st Baronet, of Montreal, in the Dominion of Canada ( 1908 ), extinct 1912

The RSA was granted a Royal Charter in 1847, i. e. the right to use the term Royal in its name by King Edward VII in 1908.

The White City Stadium in the north of the area, known as the Great Stadium, was officially opened by King Edward VII on April 27, 1908 for the Olympics.

Another source, " A history of the origin of the place names connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railways ( 1908, p115 )" claims the village was named after " Edward Powers, a civil engineer engaged in constructing the railroad there.

The estate would later become an important site in the history of modern American ballet, when on June 10, 1934, their son Edward M. M. Warburg ( 1908 – 1992 ) helped produce the first American performance of George Balanchine's masterpiece " Serenade ".

The noted scientist Edward Alexander Bouchet, the first African American to earn a doctorate from an American university, served as principal of the city's Lincoln High School from 1908 to 1913.

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 1908, a much larger dock, the Royal Edward Dock, was opened.

* Das hohe Lied (" The Song of Songs ", 1908 ; translated by T. Seltzer in 1910 and by Edward Sheldton in 1914 )