* 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 )

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

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

* 1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter ( d. 1984 )

Lee De Forest three-element (" Triode ") Audion tube from 1908, the precursor of the triode vacuum ( thermionic ) tube.

* June 19 – Lee Krasner, American painter ( b. 1908 )

* December 7 – Will Lee, American actor who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street ( b. 1908 )

* January 16 – Bernard Lee, English actor ( b. 1908 )

The first Sunday School Superintendent was Professor L. W. Lee ( 1908 – 1916 ).

* 1908 in art-Birth of Lee Krasner, Balthus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ashcan School first exhibit

Harold Hooper ( known almost universally as Mr. Hooper ) was a character on Sesame Street, played by Will Lee ( 1908 – 82 ), who was the original proprietor of Hooper's Store, which still retains his name.

Charles Cameron Kingston, ( 22 October 1850-11 May 1908 ) Australian politician, was an early liberal Premier of South Australia serving from 1893 to 1899 with the support of Labor led by John McPherson from 1893 and Lee Batchelor from 1897 in the House of Assembly, winning the 1893, 1896, and 1899 state elections against the conservatives.

Lee Krasner ( October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984 ) was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century.

Other scholars who have commented on these poems in detail include Hjalmar Falk ( 1893 ), B. Sijmons and Hugo Gering ( 1903 ), Olive Bray ( 1908 ), Henry Bellows ( 1923 ), Otto Höffler ( 1952 ), Lee M. Hollander ( 1962 ), Lotte Motz ( 1975 ), Einar Ólafur Sveinsson ( 1975 ), Carolyne Larrington ( 1999 ), and John McKinnell ( 2005 ).

* Lee Krasner ( 1908 – 1984 )

Lee Wiley ( October 9, 1908 – December 11, 1975 ) was an American jazz singer popular in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

The stadium was designed by Carl Lee of Charlotte, N. C., a Clemson graduate, Class of 1908, and Professor H. E. Glenn of the engineering faculty.

* Robert Lee Scott, Jr. ( 1908 – 2006 ), United States Air Force flying ace in World War II

* Robert E. Lee, the Southerner ( 1908 )

In the spring of 1908, William Jennings Bryan, a front-runner for the Democratic presidential candidacy, announced a visit to Lexington, Virginia, arousing interest in Washington and Lee ’ s already political-minded campus.

John Bernard Lee ( 10 January 1908 – 16 January 1981 ), better known as Bernard Lee, was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films.

Lee was born on 10 January 1908, the son of Nellie ( née Smith ) and Edmund James Lee.