Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).

* Imperial Governor: The Great Novel of Boudicca's Revolt by George Shipway

In his 1969 novel Knight in Anarchy George Shipway describes the life of Humphrey de Visdelou as he follows de Mandeville to his doom.

* George Shipway Knight in Anarchy ( Cox & Wyman Ltd., London, 1969 )

* George Shipway gives a fictional account of the Battle of the Standard in his 1969 novel " Knight In Anarchy "

In his novel Knight in Anarchy, George Shipway describes the process of training for a judicial duel using the guisarme, where he favours the double-socketed axe interpretation of the weapon.

In his historical novel Imperial Governor, ISBN 0-432-14750-0, George Shipway maintains that Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, then governor of Britain, conceived draining the fens as a way of denying Icenian rebels a place to hide.

* George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon 1905 – 1908

* David George Ian Alexander Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair ( 1908 – 1974 )

" The Binding of Fenrir " ( 1908 ) by George Hand Wright | George Wright

Soddy married Winifred Beilby, the daughter of Sir George Beilby, in 1908.

The Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust ), founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major American film companies ( Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, Kalem, American Star, American Pathé ), the leading film distributor ( George Kleine ) and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak.

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

* Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, On Consideration, ( addressed to Pope Eugene III ), George Lewis, trans., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908.

Then the Awful Fight Began ( depiction by George Hand Wright | George Wright, 1908 )

* George Rochester ( 1908 – 2001 ), English physicist

The modern understanding of sunspots starts with George Ellery Hale, who first linked magnetic fields and sunspots in 1908.

Image: Gylfe stood boldly before Odin by George Wright. jpg |" Gylfe stood boldly before Odin " ( 1908 ) by Hamilton Wright Mabie.

* February 8 – George Dolenz, American actor, heart attack ( b. 1908 )

* March 15 – George Sherman, American film director ( b. 1908 )

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.

Four kings: Edward VII ( far right ), his son George, Prince of Wales, later George V ( far left ), and grandsons Edward, later Edward VIII ( rear ), and Albert, later George VI ( foreground ), c. 1908.

David Lloyd George in 1908

* Ladd, George T. ( 1908 ).

* French — Burguet, Paul Henry: The Imprint, or The Red Hand ( 1908 ; Gaston Séverin plays Pierrot ); Carné, Marcel: Children of Paradise ( 1945 ; see above under The Pantomime of Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules ); Carré fils, Michel: The Prodigal Son a. k. a. Pierrot the Prodigal ( 1907 ; the first feature-length film and the first film of a stage-play Carré's pantomime of 1890 ; George Wague plays Pierrot père ); Feuillade, Louis: Pierrot's Projector ( 1909 ), Pierrot, Pierrette ( 1924 ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1951 ; based upon Guitry's own stage-play # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guy, Alice: Pierrot, Murderer ( 1904 ); Leprince, René: Pierrot Loves Roses ( 1910 ); Méliès, Georges: By Moonlight, or The Unfortunate Pierrot ( 1904 ).

* 1908 — George Hale discovers the Zeeman splitting of spectral lines from sunspots

* George Sherman ( 1908 – 1991 ), American film director

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* George Orwell's Animal Farm – MP3 Audio ( web archive )

* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.