* 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.

* 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 Constitutional Force, by Colonel George Jackson Hay 1908, reprint Ray Westlake Military Books ( 1987 ) ISBN 0-9508530-7-0.

* Ray Heindorf ( 1908 – 1980 ), composer

The most influential theologians within the Church of the Nazarene have been Edgar P. Ellyson, author of Theological Compend ( 1908 ); A. M. Hills, author of Fundamental Christian Theology ( 1931 ); H. Orton Wiley, author of the three-volume Christian Theology ( 1940 – 1943 ); Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, author of A Theology of Love ( 1972 ) and Foundations of Wesleyan-Arminian Theology ( 1972 ); Richard S. Taylor, author of A Right Conception of Sin ( 1945 ) and Exploring Christian Holiness, Vol. 3: The Theological Formulation ( 1985 ); H. Ray Dunning, author of Grace, Faith & Holiness ( 1988 ); and J. Kenneth Grider, author of A Wesleyan-Holiness Theology ( 1994 ).

Three great poets and prose writers, Kabibar Radhanath Ray ( 1849 – 1908 ), Fakir Mohan Senapati ( 1843 – 1918 ) and Madhusudan Rao ( 1853 – 1912 ) made Oriya their own.

She also worked with Ray Stannard Baker and influenced the content of his book, Following the Color Line, published in 1908.

* Ray Brown ( Negro leagues pitcher ) ( 1908 – 1965 ), Negro league baseball pitcher

In Following the Color Line ( 1908 ), Ray Stannard Baker criticized race relations.

H. Fewin 1920, Vic Anderson, 1909 John Grant, Jim Murphy, Wayne Bennett, Ray Higgs, Brad Tessmann, John Grice, Robert Nicholson 1909, Len Pegg, Alan Hornery, Frank Drake, Alan Gil, Reg Kay, Alan Thompson, Henry Holloway, Claude O ' Donnell, Greg Veivers ( Captain ), ( Greg's Father Jack represented Queensland ), Mick Veivers, Neville Broadfoot, Dave Brown, Bill Tyquin ( Captain ), Tom Tyquin, Peter Jackson, Harold ' Mick ' Crocker, Elton Rasmussen, Lew Platz, Gary Belcher, Jason Smith, Bob Lindner, Mal Meninga ( Captain ) William ( Bill ) Heidke 1908 / 9 Kangaroo tour.

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

* 1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French writer ( b. 1908 )

* 1992 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer ( b. 1908 )

Albert Calmette, a French bacteriologist, and his assistant and later colleague, Camille Guérin, a veterinarian, were working at the Institut Pasteur de Lille ( Lille, France ) in 1908.

with a trans, of the Martyrology, 1908 ), French and German.

* 1852 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1908 )

* 1997 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian ( b. 1825 )

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

* 1908 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver ( d. 1949 )

* Penguin Island, a 1908 French satirical novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Anatole France, narrates the fictional history of a Great Auk population that is mistakenly baptized by a nearsighted missionary.

* 1842 – François Coppée, French poet and novelist ( d. 1908 )

* 1908 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist ( Quintette du Hot Club de France ) ( d. 1997 )

From 1904 to 1908, Ribbentrop took French courses in a school at Metz, the German Empire's most powerful fortress.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty () ( 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961 ) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre ( who later stated he had been " converted " to Marxism by Merleau-Ponty ) and Simone de Beauvoir.

* 1908 – Hélène Boucher, French pilot ( d. 1934 )

* 1908 – René Daumal, French writer ( d. 1944 )

* 1908 – Loulou Gasté, French composer ( d. 1995 )

* 1982 – Jacques Tati, French actor and director ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist ( d. 2009 )

* 1908 – Marijac, French cartoonist ( d. 1994 )

* 1839 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet ( d. 1908 )

Robert Stanley Weir wrote in 1908 another English version, which is the official and most popular version, one that is not a literal translation of the French.