* 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 )

* 1844 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician ( d. 1908 )

Manos Katrakis ( 14 August 1908 – 2 September 1984 ) was a Greek actor of theater and film.

** Friedrich Blass, Teubner edition of the Greek text ( 1908 ) online

* 1908 – Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician ( d. 1984 )

* 1835 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author ( d. 1908 )

* 1908 – Karolos Koun, Greek director ( d. 1987 )

* February 15 – Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president ( 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 ).

It was discovered in 1908 by Philibert Jacques Melotte and later named after the mythological Pasiphaë, wife of Minos and mother of the Minotaur from Greek legend.

Knox, a brilliant classicist, won the Craven, the Hertford and the Ireland scholarships in classics, as well as the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse Composition in 1908 and the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse Composition in 1910.

Unlike New York's early skyscrapers, which took the form of towers arising from a lower, blockier mass, such as the contemporary Singer Building ( 1902 – 1908 ), the Flatiron Building epitomizes the Chicago school conception: like a classical Greek column, its facade – limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terra-cotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise – is divided into a base, shaft and capital.

Books written in Albanian before 1908 had used a mixture of alphabets, consisting mostly of combinations of Latin, Greek, and Turkish-Arabic letters.

His father was Georgios Karamanlis, a teacher who fought during the Greek Struggle for Macedonia, in 1904 – 1908.

Demetrios Vikelas, or Bikelas (; February 15, 1835 – July 20, 1908 ) was a Greek businessman and writer ; he was the first president of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ), from 1894 to 1896.

Greek source mentioned in 1908 that the town had 5, 900 inhabitants, of whom 3, 865 Turks, 490 Muslim Gypsies, 595 Christians belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church and 900 Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Exarchate.

Two factors changed attitudes and facilitated permanent immigration: 1 ) Loss of homeland: In 1885, Eastern Rumelia, a Ottoman autonomous territory with a Greek minority became de-facto part of the Principality of Bulgaria ( de-jure from 1908 ).

* SS Athinai ( 1908 ), a ship of Greek registry that burned and sank in the Atlantic on 20 September 1915.

After 1908 he was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford.

* Greek Historical Writing, and Apollo: Two Lectures ( 1908 ) with Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

* On the Greek island of Crete, after the President of the Executive Commission of the Cretan Assembly, Ioannis Sfakianakis ( b. 1848-d. 1924 ), had exercised executive power 20 March-21 December 1898 after evicting the last Ottoman Wāli ( Ottoman governor ), a Supreme Plenipotentiary Commissioner of the ( Christian protecting ) Powers headed the official administration of the 20 March 1898 instituted Cretan State ( formally under Ottoman suzerainty until union with Greece was unilaterally declared on 6 October 1908 ):

The " Magdalen " papyrus was purchased in Luxor, Egypt in 1901 by Reverend Charles Bousfield Huleatt ( 1863 – 1908 ), who identified the Greek fragments as portions of the Gospel of Matthew ( Chapter 26: 23 and 31 ) and presented them to Magdalen College, Oxford, where they are cataloged as P. Magdalen Greek 17 ( Gregory-Aland < sup > 64 </ sup >) and whence they have their name.

* Geschichte der griechischen Literatur ( 5th ed., 1908 f .), a history of Greek literature down to the time of Justinian, one of the best works on the subject

::< p style =" margin-bottom: 1em ; font-size: smaller ">— A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life, British Museum, 1908 </ p >

Founded in 1908, they play in the Super League Greece and are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Greek football history.