* 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 – 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 )

* 1908 – Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor ( d. 2008 )

and Frank Bursley Taylor ( 1908 ).

Some sort of continental drift without expansion was proposed by Frank Bursley Taylor, who suggested in 1908 ( published in 1910 ) that the continents were dragged towards the equator by increased lunar gravity during the Cretaceous, thus forming the Himalayas and Alps on the southern faces.

Frank Hann was looking for gold in this area between 1903 and 1908.

* 1908 – Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1990 )

The " Great Southern Journey ", as Frank Wild called it, began on 19 October 1908.

The theatre was designed by Cecil Aubrey Masey and Roy Young ( possibly following a 1908 design by Frank H Jones ).

In March 1908, at the end of a series of trials relating to a Coeur d ' Alene miners ' uprising and the Colorado Labor Wars, Albert Horsley, better known by his pseudonym Harry Orchard, pleaded guilty in District Court in Caldwell to the assassination of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg.

* Annie Oakley and her husband Frank Butler lived at 22 Eppirt Street between 1905 and 1908

Burton and Orpha Westcott however, are better known for having contracted the world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design their home in 1908 at 1340 East High Street.

Meccano was invented in 1901 in England by Frank Hornby and manufactured by the British company, Meccano Ltd, between 1908 and 1980.

The L48, nicknamed Samson, became famous there in the venue's first two years ; in 1908, Napier's Frank Newton turned a half-mile ( 800 m ) at 119. 34 mph ( 190. 05 km / h ) in a stroked ( 178 mm, 7 in ) L48.

( with Frank D. Watson ) New York: Macmillan, 1908.

The pre-history of the Vienna Circle began with meetings on the philosophy of science and epistemology from 1908 on, promoted by Philipp Frank, Hans Hahn and Otto Neurath.

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

Willard Frank Libby ( December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980 ) was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology.

* Frank Bridge used the melody as basis for his An Irish Melody, H. 86 for string quartet ( 1908 ) or string orchestra ( 1938 ).

In 1908, after Captain Mahoney ( of the New York City Police Department ) crashed one of Goldman ’ s lectures in Chicago, newspaper headlines read that every popular anarchist had been present for the spectacle, “ with the single exception of Lucy Parsons, with whom Emma Goldman is not on the best of terms .” Goldman reciprocated Parsons ’ s absence by endorsing Frank Harris ' book The Bomb, which was a largely fictional account of the Haymarket Affair and its martyrs road to death.

Recognising the potential of the Jones Road sportsground a journalist and GAA member, Frank Dineen, borrowed much of the £ 3, 250 asking price and bought the ground personally in 1908.

In 1908 L. Frank Baum adapted his early Oz novels as The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, with Romola Remus as Dorothy.

After a 9-month apprenticeship, Frank returned to the United States on August 1, 1908, for a short stay with his family in Brooklyn.

On August 4, 1908, Frank departed for Atlanta, arriving on August 6, and began working at the National Pencil Company on 37 to 41 South Forsythe Street on August 10, 1908.

In August 1908, Selfridge, along with Lieutenants Frank P. Lahm and Benjamin Foulois, was instructed in flying a dirigible purchased by the US Army in July.