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1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-February
April-June
1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-February
April-June
July-December
unknown dates
- First Zionist colony in Palestine
- British suffragettes begin a campaign for female suffrage
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected mayor (of Aldeburgh)
- Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Leopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in Congo, which is his personal colony
- Danish minister of Justice, Alberti, is revealed to be an embezzler
- The Children's Encyclopedia
- Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of FBI, founded
- Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks
- Isak Saba, the first Sami in the Norwegian parliament
- Henri Matisse open his own art academy
- Serial killer Belle Guinness disappears in Laporte
- Young Turks revolution in the Ottoman Empire
- Change of Emperor of Qing Dynasty from Guangxu Emperor of China (1875-1908) to Henry Puyi (1909-1911)
- Henry Ford produces its first Model T automobile.
- A 40,000-year-old Neandertal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France.
- The Child Labour Act of Ontario is passed.
- The Irish Universities Act, 1908 is passed and creates the National University of Ireland at Dublin and the Queen's University of Belfast.
- First Ideal Home Exhibition held.
- De Meester's Dutch government resigns.
- Discovery of oil deposits near the Persian city of Abadan.
- Abd al-Aziz IV, sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafiz.
- The Young Turks rebel and force sultan Abd al-Hamid II to adhere to the constitution of 1876.
- The University of the Philippines was founded at Manila.
- The University of Alberta was founded in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Births
January
- January 8 - William Hartnell, British actor (d. 1975)
- January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (d. 1986)
- January 12 - Jean Delannoy, French film director
- January 14 - Russ Columbo, singer, bandleader, and composer (d. 1934)
- January 15 - Edward Teller, American physicist (d. 2003)
- January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
- January 26 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer (d. 1997)
- January 27 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, American jazz musician (d. 1954)
February
- February 1 - George Pál, Hungarian-born animator (d. 1980)
- February 5 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969)
- February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (d. 1987)
- February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer
- February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (d. 1999)
- February 11 - Josh White, musician
- February 15 - HAP Grieshaber, artist (d. 1981)
- February 17 - Red Barber, American baseball announcer and sports journalist (d. 1992)
- February 22 - John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
- February 23 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia, (d. 1988)
- February 26 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)
- February 26 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (d. 1949)
- February 29 - Balthus, Polish-French painter (d. 2001)
- February 29 - Dee Brown, American writer and historian (d. 2002)
March
- March 2 - Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
- March 5 - Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
- March 7 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
- March 13 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2002)
- March 17 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
- March 20 - Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (d. 1985)
- March 22 - Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)
- March 23 - Joan Crawford, American actor (d. 1977)
- March 25 - Helmut Käutner, German actor and film director (d. 1980)
- March 25 - David Lean, English film director (d. 1991)
- March 29 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
April
- April 1 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)
- April 2 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)
- April 5 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
- April 5 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
- April 6 - John P. Davies, American diplomat
- April 7 - Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, musician (d. 1976)
- April 15 - Eden Ahbez, American hippie musician (d. 1995)
- April 20 - Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 2002)
- April 25 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
May
- May 5 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)
- May 7 - Max Grundig, industrialist (d. 1989)
- May 8 - Cristian Vasile, Romanian tango singer (d. 1974)
- May 19 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
- May 20 - James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
- May 23 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
- May 28 - Ian Fleming, English writer (d. 1964)
- May 30 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- May 30 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)
- May 31 - Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)
June-July
August-September
- August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
- August 5 - Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (d. 1967)
- August 20 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager
- August 27 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
- August 28 - Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, artist, and educator (d. 1996)
- August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (d. 1996)
- September 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Soviet mathematician (d. 1988)
- September 6 - Louis Essen, English physicist (d. 1997)
- September 7 - Paul Brown, American football coach (d. 1991)
- September 13 - Mae Questel, American actress (d. 1998)
- September 29 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
- September 30 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinst (d. 1974)
October-December
- October 14 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
- October 15 - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
- October 16 - Enver Hoxha, dictator of Albania (d. 1985)
- October 19 - Sydney MacEwan, Scottish singer (d. 1990)
- October 19 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
- October 23 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
- November 2 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
- November 12 - Harry Blackmun, American Judge (d. 1999)
- November 18 - Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001)
- November 20 - Alistair Cooke, English journalist and broadcaster (d. 2004)
- November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born anthropologist
- December 6 - Pierre Graber, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2003)
- December 10 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (d. 1992)
- December 11 - Elliot Carter, American composer
- December 31 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter
Deaths
- January 25 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
- February 1 - King Charles of Portugal (b. 1863)
- April 20 - Henry Chadwick, English-born baseball writer and historian (b. 1824)
- April 22 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
- May 26 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Punjabi founder of the Ahmadi sect (b. 1835)
- June 21 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
- July 5 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
- July 20 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835)
- August 25 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1852)
- August 26 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville and theater impresario (b. 1837)
- September 20 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
- October 30 - Caroline Astor, American socialite (b. 1830)
- November 14 - The Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)
- November 15 - Empress Dowager Cixi, de facto ruler of China for over 40 years (b. 1835)
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