* 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 – 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 )

* January 22 – Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States ( b. 1908 )

Lyndon Baines Johnson ( August 27, 1908 –&# 32 ; January 22, 1973 ), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States ( 1963 – 1969 ), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States ( 1961 – 1963 ).

* 1908 Future President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson is born in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River.

* Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1908 – 1973 ), 36th President of the United States

* Lyndon B. Johnson: ( 1908 – 1973 ) 36th President Of the United States

B. Scherer, a literary scholar untutored in science but a capable administrator and fund raiser, to Throop's presidency in 1908.

* 1908 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician ( d. 1990 )

* Ludwig von Pastor, The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages, Ralph Francis Kerr, ed., 1908, B. Herder, St. Louis, Volume 7, pp. 347 – 348.

* 1990 – Robert B. Meyner, American politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey ( b. 1908 )

John Singer Sargent, Portrait of W. B. Yeats, 1908

Early in 1908, the only two Republican contenders running nationwide campaigns for the presidential nomination were Secretary of War William Howard Taft and Governor Joseph B. Foraker, both of Ohio.

Today, the Station stands just two-doors from one of the city's oldest home ( rebuilt in 1908 ), which still boasts some of John B. Ford's original plate glass works.

Of particular note are the Lancaster Building designed by E. B. Blaisdell and built in 1895, Trinity Episcopal Church designed by H. J. Hardenbergh and built in 1908, and the York Harbor Reading Room designed by James Purdon and built in 1910.

* Robert B. Meyner ( 1908 – 90 ), Governor of New Jersey from 1954 to 1962.

Mrs. Lettie B. Morrill, in a talk given to the Daughters of the American Revolution chapter in Silver City on September 19, 1908, stated, " John Bullard was placed in the first grave dug in Silver City, having been killed while punishing the Indians for an attack upon the new town ; the brothers were Prospectors about the country for many years.

In 1908, John Closner, William Briggs, Argyle McAllen, Plutarco de la Viña and Dennis B. Chapin developed a new community ( the town square of which is now located at the crossroads of U. S. Highway 281 and State Highway 107 ).

* James B. Clark ( director ) ( 1908 – 2000 ), American film director, film editor, and television director

1908 Studebaker-Garford B limousine

From June 1906 to August 1908, Komura served as ambassador to Great Britain, during which time he was made a K. C. B.

While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.

# Samuel B. Donnelly ( 1908 – 1913 )

Along Broadway are several Beaux-Arts apartment houses: The Belnord ( 1908 ) – the fronting block of which was co-named in honor of longtime resident I. B.

* Hako, B., Wilhelm Müller, Leben und Dichten ( Berlin, 1908 )

The flash point for this division was Cummins ' effort in 1908 to join Dolliver in the Senate by challenging legendary Senator William B. Allison in the Republican primary.

In early 1920 Brookhart announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate seat held since 1908 by Republican Albert B. Cummins.

* H. B. Acton ( 1908 – 1974 ), a political philosopher