* 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 )

By 1908, Sydney Chaplin had become a star of Fred Karno's prestigious comedy company.

* 1908 – Fred Gipson, American author ( d. 1973 )

* 1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer ( d. 1983 )

* 1991 – Fred MacMurray, American actor ( b. 1908 )

The book, published by Hal Leonard Books, included a CD with 16 different recordings of the song from various points in time, ranging from a 1908 recording by Fred Lambert, to a seventh-inning-stretch recording by Harry Caray.

** Fred MacMurray, American actor ( b. 1908 )

Frederick Bean " Fred / Tex " Avery ( February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980 ) was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation.

Frederick Martin " Fred " MacMurray ( August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991 ) was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s.

The Railway and the Fred Harvey Company built the elegant Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts style El Garces Hotel and Santa Fe Station in 1908, was considered the " Crown Jewel " of the entire Fred Harvey chain.

* Fred Gipson ( 1908 – 1973 ) Novelist: Old Yeller and its sequel Savage Sam, was a native of Mason.

* Fred MacMurray ( 1908 – 1991 ), actor

Studebaker's president, Fred Fish, had purchased one-third of the E-M-F stock in 1908 and followed up by acquiring all the remainder from J. P. Morgan in 1910 and buying E-M-F's manufacturing plants at Walkerville, Ontario, Canada, and across the river in Detroit.

* Fred Norcross: played for Michigan ( 1903 – 1905 ), head coach at Oregon Agricultural ( 1906 – 1908 )

Fred Bakewell ( Alfred Harry Bakewell ; 2 November 1908, Walsall, Staffordshire, England – 23 January 1983, Westbourne, Dorset, England ) was a Northamptonshire and England opening batsman who was renowned as one of the most exciting players of his time, largely owing to his unorthodox methods, which allowed him to play some of the most brilliant innings in county cricket, despite the fact that his county, Northamptonshire, was exceptionally weak throughout his career: he was always the only class batsman in the team in the years before his career was ended by a serious car accident in 1936.

With financing from their uncle, on July 22, 1908 Fred and Charles Fisher established the Fisher Body Company.

Frederick Benjamin " Fred " Gipson ( February 7, 1908 – August 14, 1973 ) was an American author.

The original CCV consisted of the Westhampton Course in Richmond, which was built by Herbert Barker in 1908, renovated in 1921 by Donald Ross, and renovated again in 1931 by Fred Findlay.

Fred Machetanz ( February 20, 1908 – October 6, 2002 ) was an Alaskan painter who first came to the territory in 1935, when he traveled to Unalakleet to visit his uncle, Charles Traeger, who ran a trading post there.

Daniel William Fry was born on July 19, 1908 near a small steamboat landing on the Mississippi River called Verdon Township in the northern part of Aitkin County, Minnesota to Fred Nelson Fry and Clara Jane Baehr.