Receiving the archives of Henry Chadwick in 1908, Spalding combined these records with his own memories ( and biases ) to write America's National Game ( published 1911 ) which, despite its flaws, was probably the first scholarly account of the history of baseball.

* 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

* Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1899 – 1908

* Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith ( 1925 ) 1908 – 1916

His father was Henry Attlee ( 1841 – 1908 ), a solicitor, and his mother was Ellen Bravery Watson ( 1847 – 1920 ).

Henry Chadwick ( October 5, 1824 – April 20, 1908 ), often called the " father of baseball ," was a sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian.

* 1964 – Henry ( Hank ) Sylvern, American organist ( b. 1908 )

His parents were Henry Kern ( 1842 – 1908 ), a Jewish German immigrant, and Fannie Kern née Kakeles ( 1852 – 1907 ), who was an American Jew of Bohemian parentage.

The two haploid and diploid terms were borrowed from German through William Henry Lang's 1908 translation of a 1894 textbook by Eduard Strasburger and colleagues.

* 1836 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1908 )

According to historian and Herald for Wales, Major Francis Jones, 1908 – 1993, the introduction of the recipe can be attributed to Captain Henry Lewis Edwardes 1788 – 1866.

* July 4 – Henry ( Hank ) Sylvern, U. S. radio personality ( b. 1908 )

* November 28 – Henry Lomb, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb ( d. 1908 )

* September 7 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1908 )

* October 5 – Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian ( d. 1908 )

In April 1908, during Edward's annual stay at Biarritz, he accepted the resignation of British Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

Unable to produce the design himself due to lack of funding, he sold the patent in 1908 to William Henry Hoover who had Spangler's machine redesigned with a steel casing, casters, and attachments.

* 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 ).

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was simultaneously Father of the House and Prime Minister from May 1907 until shortly before his death in April 1908.

William Henry Hartnell ( 8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975 ) was an English actor.

* 1908 – Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing

* Equestrian statue by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown at Valley Forge, 1908

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC, KC ( 12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928 ) served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

* Another Dr. Gahagan, Henry Cole Gahagan, Sr. ( December 1, 1908 – December 17, 1996 ), was an Ashland native who graduated from the Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans and completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland.

* Frances Ford Seymour ( 1908 – 1950 ), wife of actor Henry Fonda and mother of actress Jane Fonda and actor Peter Fonda ; lived in Fairhaven for several years with family members and attended Fairhaven High School

Image: TexasRichardson_depot. jpg | Richardson Interurban Depot, 1908

He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1908 and, apart from three years as Richardson Lecturer in the University of Manchester, his entire career was spent in the University of Cambridge.

Richardson Memorial Hall, constructed 1908, home of the Tulane School of Architecture.

* John Wigham Richardson ( 1837 – 1908 ), shipbuilder

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

Bloembergen belongs to prolific J. J. Thomson academic lineage tree, following in footsteps of other Nobel Laureates beginning with Lord Rayleigh ( Physics Nobel Prize in 1904 ) and J. J. Thomson ( Nobel 1906 ), and continued with Ernest Rutherford ( Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 ), Owen Richardson ( Physics Nobel, 1928 ) and finally Bloembergen's advisor, Edward Purcell ( Physics Nobel 1952 ).

* John Richardson ( cricketer ) ( 1908 – 1985 ), First class cricketer for Yorkshire County Cricket Club

* John Wigham Richardson ( 1837 – 1908 ), British shipbuilder

John Wigham Richardson ( 7 January 1837 – 15 April 1908 ) was one of the great figures of British industrial life, and a leading shipbuilder on Tyneside during the late 19th and early 20th century.

Barnett was motivated by a prediction by Owen Richardson in 1908, later named the Einstein-de Haas effect, that magnetizing a ferromagnet can induce a mechanical rotation.

* Charles Leslie Richardson ( 1908 – 1994 ), British Army General

* John Wigham Richardson ( 1837 – 1908 ), shipbuilder

* Henry B. Richardson, won bronze medals in archery at the 1904 and 1908 Summer Olympics

The Thomas Crane Public Library was built in four stages: the original building ( 1882 ) by architect H. H. Richardson ; an additional ell with stack space and stained glass ( 1908 ) by William Martin Aiken in Richardson's style ; a major expansion ( 1939 ) by architects Paul A. and Carroll Coletti, with stone carvings by sculptor Joseph A. Coletti of Quincy ; and a recent addition ( 2001 ) by Boston architects Childs, Bertman, and Tseckares, which doubled the size of the library.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

* 1908 – Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer

The result were two volumes ( J. S. Bach ), which was published in 1908 and translated in English by Ernest Newman in 1911.

* 1989 – Edward Underdown, English actor ( b. 1908 )

* 1995 – Hopper Levett, English cricketer ( b. 1908 )

* 1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator ( b. 1908 )

** Drake: An English Epic ( 1905 – 1908 ), The Torch-Bearers ( 1917 – 1930 ) by Alfred Noyes

Mrs Garrett Anderson: first English woman physician ; mayor of Aldeburgh, November 1908

* 1908 – Alf Gover, English cricketer ( d. 2001 )

* 1908 – Sir John Mills, English actor ( d. 2005 )

* 1908 – Peg Entwistle, English actress ( d. 1932 )

* 1908 – Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist ( d. 1999 )

The Raggs ' English version was quickly re-translated into Arabic by Khalil Saadah, in an edition published in Egypt in 1908.

* 1908 – Jill Esmond, English actress ( d. 1990 )

* 1981 – Bernard Lee, English actor ( b. 1908 )

* 1908 – Bernard Lee, English actor ( d. 1981 )

* 1908 – Diana Morgan, English playwright and screenwriter ( d. 1996 )

* 1908 – Robert Morley, English actor ( d. 1992 )

* 1908 – Ian Fleming, English author ( d. 1964 )

* 1908 – Sir David Lean, English film director ( d. 1991 )

* 1828 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1908 )

* 1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer ( d. 1983 )

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.

* George Rochester ( 1908 – 2001 ), English physicist

* 1908 – Lou Kenton, English soldier and potter ( d. 2012 )