* 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 )

* 1845 – Joel Chandler Harris, American writer ( d. 1908 )

* December 9 – Joel Chandler Harris, American writer ( d. 1908 )

William Chandler Bagley taught in elementary schools before becoming a professor of education at the University of Illinois, where he served as the Director of the School of Education from 1908 until 1917.

* Louise Chandler Moulton ( 1835 – 1908 ), poet, story-writer, and critic, was born in town.

Louise Chandler Moulton ( 1835-August 10, 1908 ) was an American poet, story-writer and critic.

In 1908 the Archbishop of Utrecht Gerardus Gul, consecrated Father Arnold Harris Mathew, a former Catholic priest, as Regionary Bishop for England.

From 1908 to 1914 Harris concentrated on working as a novelist, authoring a series of popular books such as The Bomb, The Man Shakespeare, and The Yellow Ticket and Other Stories.

* T. H. Harris, pioneer educator and state education superintendent from 1908 to 1940, was born in the Arizona community in Claiborne Parish in 1869, the son of a Baptist minister.

The Carnegie Heritage and Arts Center of Greene County is responsible for preserving and maintaining the historic 1908 Margaret Cooper Public Library building ( a Carnegie library ), which also houses the city's Phil Harris and Alice Faye memorabilia collection.

* T. H. Harris, state superintendent of education ( 1908 – 1940 ), educated at the former Homer College in the late 19th century

In the late 19th century Lisbon was the location of the former Lisbon Academy, attended for a brief time by T. H. Harris, state superintendent of education from 1908 to 1940.

* T. H. Harris, state education superintendent from 1908 – 1940, was principal of St. Landry High School in Opelousas prior to 1900.

* T. H. Harris, the Louisiana state education superintendent from 1908 – 1940, studied at NSU but received his bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

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.

Charles Cahan was on the Editorial Staff, as chief editorial writer, of the Halifax Herald and Mail, 1886 – 94 ; called to Nova Scotia Bar, 1893 ; called to Quebec Bar, 1907 ; designated K. C., Nova Scotia, 1907 ; designated K. C., Quebec, 1909 ; practised corporate law at Halifax, Nova Scotia as a partner at Harris, Henry & Cahan, 1893 – 1908 ; and in Montreal, Quebec, from 1908.

From 1908 to 1909 Eltinge toured with Cohan and Harris Minstrels.

Mary Harris " Mother " Jones organized the first youth activism in the U. S., marching 100, 000 child miners from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the U. S. Capitol in Washington, D. C. in 1908.

' In 1908 the name was changed back to Penngrove and has remained so since " ( Harris 1980 ).

# Lloyd Harris, Liberal ( 1908 – 1911 )

She thus became stepmother to Swanzey's two children: Mary Swanzey ( born in 1904, married Monroe Harris, 0 children ) and Harold Swanzey ( 1908 – 1936 ).

Frank Harris Hitchcock ( October 5, 1867 – August 25, 1935 ), was chairman of Republican National Committee from 1908 to 1909.

Augustus John ( Gus ) Harris ( July 1908 – February 20, 2000 ) was a Canadian politician.

Harris got married in 1908, and after his honeymoon he built a summer home in Fortune Bridge, Prince Edward Island, also helping set up an artist colony there.

Frieda and Percy Harris had two sons: Jack ( born 1906, later Sir Jack Harris ) and Thomas ( born 1908 ).

Along with Elmer Blaney Harris, she wrote the play Sham in 1908.