* 1908 – Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster ( d. 1994 )

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 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 )

Ryder was born in India in 1908 to Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder, CB, CIE, DSO, Surveyor General of India, and Ida Josephine Grigg.

Wilson and Ida Waldran in 1908.

Earle Gilmore Wheeler was born on January 13, 1908 in Washington, D. C. to Dock Stone and Ida Gilmore.

Garet Garrett was married three times: to Bessie Hamilton in 1900, to Ida Irvin in 1908, and to Dorothy Williams Goulet in 1947.

Franklin Engelmann was born in Wood Green, London, in 1908, the son of Friedrich August E. Engelmann, a German importer, 1874-1950, and his wife, Ida Josephine Cox, born 1875 in Worcester.

Frank Fitzsimmons was born in April 1908, in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, to Frank and Ida May Fitzsimmons.

In 1999 Crowe paid A $ 42, 000 at auction for the brass bell used to open the inaugural rugby league match in Australia in 1908 at a fund-raiser to assist Souths ' legal battle for re-inclusion in the League.

It is accepted by Pollock and Maitland ( History of English Law ), who discuss the question at length ; by Mr JF Baldwin in his Scutage and Knight-service in England ( University of Chicago Press, 1897 ), a valuable monograph with bibliography ; and by Petit-Dutaillis, in his Studies supplementary to Stubbs ' Constitutional History ( Manchester University Series, 1908 ).

Together they had two children: Mary Alberta Snead ( 1908 ); and David Pollock Snead ( 1909 – 1910 ).

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

The result were two volumes ( J. S. Bach ), which was published in 1908 and translated in English by Ernest Newman in 1911.

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

* 1995 – Hopper Levett, English cricketer ( b. 1908 )

* 1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator ( b. 1908 )

** Drake: An English Epic ( 1905 – 1908 ), The Torch-Bearers ( 1917 – 1930 ) by Alfred Noyes

Mrs Garrett Anderson: first English woman physician ; mayor of Aldeburgh, November 1908

* 1908 – Alf Gover, English cricketer ( d. 2001 )

* 1908 – Sir John Mills, English actor ( d. 2005 )

* 1908 – Peg Entwistle, English actress ( d. 1932 )

* 1908 – Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist ( d. 1999 )

The Raggs ' English version was quickly re-translated into Arabic by Khalil Saadah, in an edition published in Egypt in 1908.

* 1908 – Jill Esmond, English actress ( d. 1990 )

* 1981 – Bernard Lee, English actor ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Bernard Lee, English actor ( d. 1981 )

* 1908 – Diana Morgan, English playwright and screenwriter ( d. 1996 )

* 1908 – Robert Morley, English actor ( d. 1992 )

* 1908 – Ian Fleming, English author ( d. 1964 )

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

* 1828 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1908 )

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

Robert Stanley Weir wrote in 1908 another English version, which is the official and most popular version, one that is not a literal translation of the French.

* George Rochester ( 1908 – 2001 ), English physicist

* 1908 – Lou Kenton, English soldier and potter ( d. 2012 )