* 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 )

* 1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber ( d. 1934 )

* 1908 – Nelson S. Bond, American writer ( d. 2006 )

* January 26 – Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States ( b. 1908 )

* November 27 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster ( b. 1908 )

The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908 – 1958.

* William T. Nelson ( 1908 – 1994 ), U. S. Navy rear admiral

The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908 – 1958, New York: Doubleday, 1996.

King, Washington Phillips, Fiddlin ' John Carson ( 1868 – 1949 ), Johnny Richardson ( 1908 – present ; children's folk music ), Willie Nelson, and Jean Ritchie.

The Grelling – Nelson paradox is a semantic self-referential paradox formulated in 1908 by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson and sometimes mistakenly attributed to the German philosopher and mathematician Hermann Weyl.

In: Abhandlungen der Fries ’ schen Schule II, Göttingen 1908, S. 301-334. also in: Leonard Nelson: Gesammelte Schriften III.

It was the birthplace of vice-president Nelson Rockefeller on July 8, 1908.

Lester Joseph Gillis ( December 6, 1908 – November 27, 1934 ), known under the pseudonym George Nelson, was a bank robber and murderer in the 1930s.

* George Nelson ( designer ) ( 1908 – 1986 ), American

* Baby Face Nelson ( 1908 – 1934 ), bank robber, also known as George Nelson

* Nelson Rockefeller ** ( 1908 – 1979 ) Governor of New York, 41st Vice President of US (** He was cremated there and his ashes were scattered on his own estate.

Nelson Slade Bond ( November 23, 1908 – November 6, 2006 ) was an American author who wrote extensively for books, magazines, radio, television and the stage.

* Edward William Nelson, 1908 – 1911

* 1908 – 09 Nelson

Abram Louis Fischer, commonly known as Bram Fischer, ( 23 April 1908 Bloemfontein – 8 May 1975 Bloemfontein ) was a South African lawyer of Afrikaner descent, notable for anti-apartheid activism and for the legal defence of anti-apartheid figures, including Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial.

From 1900 to 1950, Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ), John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), Richard Wright ( 1908 – 1960 ), William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981 ), Nelson Algren ( 1909 – 1981 ), Paul Bowles ( 1910 – 1999 ), Jerome Salinger ( 1919 – 2009 ), Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and Gore Vidal ( 1925 – 2012 ).

Unlike more general concepts of autology and self-reference, this particular distinction and opposition of " autological " and " heterological words " is uncommon in linguistics for describing linguistic phenomena or classes of words, but is current in logic and philosophy where it was introduced by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson for describing a semantic paradox, later known as Grelling's paradox or the Grelling-Nelson paradox .< ref > Grelling and Nelson used the following definition when first publishing their paradox in 1908: " Let < big > φ </ big >( M ) be the word that denotes the concept defining M. This word is either an element of M or not.