* 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 )

* 1908 – Józef Gosławski, Polish artist ( d. 1963 )

* January 23 – Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist ( b. 1908 )

* Józef Gosławski, ( 1908 – 1963 ), sculptor and medallic artist

Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS ( born Józef Rotblat on 4 November 1908, died 31 August 2005 ), was a Polish-born, British-naturalised physicist.

Józef Rotblat was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, on November 4, 1908, as one of seven children ( two not surviving childbirth ).

He was a member of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party and in 1908 Sławek had taken part in the Bezdany raid organized and led by Józef Piłsudski — a train robbery that had financed Piłsudski's organization.

* August 31 – Sir Joseph Rotblat ( b. 1908 ), physicist.

The date of its première, October 22, 1908, is considered the founding date of Polish film industry.

* 1834 – Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet ( d. 1908 )

According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 ( which is also Ian Fleming's birthday ) to a Polish father and a Greek mother in Gdynia, Poland ( then Germany ).

Jan Betley ( 1908 – 1980 ) was a Polish painter.

* Jan Smółko ( b. 1907, AK alias Lokalizator ), wife Władysława ( b. 1908 ), Polish Righteous among the Nations-produced over a hundred fake IDs for Tykocin Jews during World War II, based on Catholic parish records.

Of architectural interest in Greenpoint are: The Episcopal Church of the Ascension ( Ascension Greenpoint ) ( 1853 ) the oldest church in Greenpoint on Kent Street, The Astral Apartments ( 1885 ) ( NRHP ) on Franklin Street, the Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church ( 1875 ) on Manhattan Avenue, the Eberhard-Faber Pencil Factory on Greenpoint Ave at Franklin St., the Polish Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord ( 1921 ) ( NRHP ) on North 12th Street, the Oliver Hazard Perry School () ( 1867 ) on Norman Avenue ( the oldest continuously operating public school building in New York City ); the Capital One ( formerly Green Point ) Savings Bank ( 1908 ), the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church ( 1896 )() on Humboldt Street, which serves as a Catholic shrine for the Polish community, and the synagogue building of Congregation Ahavas Israel ( 1903 ) on Noble Street ( the sanctuary, with stained glass windows and a torah shrine with turn-of the century wood carvings, is currently open only during services on Saturday mornings ).

Henryk Zygalski (; 15 July 1908, Poznań – 30 August 1978, Liss ) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II.

The legislation of 1908 allowed the confiscation of Polish landed property.

Adam Marczyński ( 24 December 1908 – 13 January 1985 ) was a Polish painter.

St. Casimir's Church was founded under Polish auspices in 1908.

Włodzimierz Puchalski ( March 6, 1908 – January 19, 1979 ) was a Polish photographer and film director.

* Herby Rodów Polskich ( Polish Coats of Arms )-Mieczysław Paszkiewicz ISBN 0-901149-34-9, reprint of " Herby Szlachty Polskiej "-Zbigniew Leszczyc, 1908

In 1908 the Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski became the first to ascribe the phenomenon of critical opalescence to large density fluctuations.

Roman Szymański ( 4 August 1840, Kostrzyn-18 December 1908, Poznań ) was a Polish political activist, publicist, editor of Orędownik magazine.

Another conflict developed in the years 1901 – 1908 around Lviv University, where Ukrainian students demanded a separate Ukrainian university, while Polish students and faculty attempted to suppress the movement.

Grabowski was a longstanding president of the Warsaw Esperanto Society, founded in 1904, and of the Polish Esperanto Society, founded in 1908.

Their granddaughter Jadwiga Łuszczewska ( 1834 – 1908 ) was a Polish poet and novelist.

He was a hereditary member of the Austrian House of Lords ( Herrenhaus ) from 1908 and an elected Senator of the Polish Republic ( 1922-1928 )

Since 1905 the organisation also proposed and lobbied for a law that would allow forced eviction of Polish owners of land, and succeed in 1908 when the law was eventually passed.

Jadwiga Łuszczewska ( pseudonym: Deotyma ( Diotima ); July 1, 1834 – September 23, 1908 ) was a Polish poet and novelist.