* 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 )

The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America.

Mother's Day was founded in Grafton on May 10, 1908 ; the city is the home to the International Mother's Day Shrine.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

* 1908 – Marceline Day, American actor ( d. 2000 )

In fact, earlier in the 1908 season, the identical situation had been brought to the umpires ' attention by Evers ; the umpire that day was the same Hank O ' Day.

On August 13, 1908, the league celebrated " Cy Young Day.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.

A " Father's Day " service was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church.

Also two events overshadowed this event: the celebration of Independence Day July 4, 1908, with 12, 000 attendants and several shows including a hot air balloon event, which took over the headlines in the following days, and the death of a 16-year-old girl on July 4.

Johnson held the title until it was vacated when he won the world heavyweight title from Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia on Boxing Day 1908.

* The site of the first Father's Day on July 5, 1908, originally celebrated in honor of the more than 200 fathers lost in the Monongah Mining disaster several months earlier.

He subsequently produced some of his most important works, A History of Criticism ( 3 vols., 1900 – 1904 ), with the companion volume Loci Critici, Passages Illustrative of Critical Theory and Practice ( Boston, U. S. A., and London, 1903 ), and A History of English Prosody from the 12th Century to the Present Day ( i., 1906 ; ii., 1908 ; iii., 1910 ); also The Later Nineteenth Century ( 1909 ).

Homer Lea ’ s principal writings included three books, The Vermilion Pencil ( 1908 ), The Valor of Ignorance ( 1909 ), and The Day of the Saxon ( 1912 ).

* Alexander, b & d 1853 ; Ellen Day, 1854 – 1939 ; Arthur, 1859 – 1939 ; Charles Alexander, 1861 – 1867 ; Edward Everett, Jr., 1863 – 1932 ; Philip Leslie, 1865 – 1931 ; Herbert Dudley, 1866 – 1908 ; Henry Kidder, 1868 – 1876 ; Robert Beverly, 1869-1895.

In 1908, Fairchild gave cherry saplings to boys from each school in the District to plant in schoolyards on Arbor Day.

The first match after work was finished took place on Christmas Day 1908, when 36, 000 fans saw City host Bristol City.

He umpired in 10 World Series – a total exceeded only by the 18 worked by Bill Klem, whose hiring O ' Day had recommended – including four of the first five played ; for the first three, he was the only NL umpire for the Series: 1903, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1923 and 1926.

On September 23, 1908, O ' Day was involved in the most controversial field decision in major league history.

When Albert Henry Baskerville's NZ All Golds with their guest Australian star Dally Messenger arrived in Britain for the inaugural tour by a southern hemisphere side, the first full international was against Wales on New Year's Day 1908.

Alfred Day Hershey ( December 4, 1908 – May 22, 1997 ) was an American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and geneticist.

It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous.

In 1908, Fairchild donated cherry saplings to every D. C. school to plant on its school grounds in observance of Arbor Day.

* John Charles Day ( 1826 – 1908 ), English judge