Year 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1908
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Undated
- British suffragettes begin a campaign for female suffrage.
- Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Léopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in Congo, which is his personal colony.
- The Children's Encyclopedia is first published.
- Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI, is founded.
- Blackball, New Zealand coal miners strike for 11 weeks, an important step in the formation of the New Zealand Labour Party.
- Henri Matisse opens his own art academy.
- Change of Emperor of Qing Dynasty from Guangxu Emperor of China (1875-1908) to Henry Puyi (1909-1911).
- A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal 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.
- The Manila Business School was made into national school since the majority of its student came from different parts of the Philippines; renaming as the Philippine School of Commerce; which later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- The University of the Philippines is founded at Manila.
- First year of rugby league in Australia.
- American Temperance University closes.
- Panathinaikos, the Athenian sports club, is founded.
- Club Union becomes Chivas de Guadalajara.
- Vimto is invented by John Noel Nichols. Originally sold under the name Vimtonic, Nichols shortened it to Vimto in 1912.
Ongoing
Births
January-February
- 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, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003)
- January 22 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize 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 1 - George Pál, Hungarian-born animator (d. 1980)
- February 2 - Justice M. Chambers, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1982)
- February 5 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twin actresses (d. 1969)
- February 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (d. 1999)
- February 12
- February 17
- February 22 - John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
- February 23 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
- February 26
- February 29
March-April
- March 2 - Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990)
- March 4 - T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader & surgeon (d. 1976)
- March 5 - Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
- March 7 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
- March 12 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
- March 13 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (d. 2002)
- March 17 - Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
- March 20
- March 22 - Louis L'Amour, American author (d. 1988)
- March 25
- March 27 - Semprini, English musician (d. 1990)
- March 29 - Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
- April 1 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)
- April 2 - Buddy Ebsen, American actor and dancer (d. 2003)
- April 4
- April 5
- April 6 - John P. Davies, American diplomat (d. 1999)
- April 7 - Percy Faith, Canadian-born composer, musician (d. 1976)
- April 8 - Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and film actor (d. 1999)
- April 15 - eden ahbez, American musician (d. 1995)
- April 20 - Lionel Hampton, American musician and bandleader (d. 2002)
- April 24 - Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (d. 1963)
- April 25 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
- April 28 - Oskar Schindler, Austria-Hungary industrialist (d. 1974)
- April 29 - Jack Williamson, American science fiction author (d. 2006)
- April 30 - Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d. 1970)
May-June
- May 1 - Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born heroine of World War II (d. 1952)
- May 5 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)
- May 7 - Max Grundig, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1989)
- May 8 - Cristian Vasile, Romanian singer (d. 1974)
- May 19 - Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982)
- May 20 - James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
- May 23
- May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
- May 28 - Ian Fleming, English writer (d. 1964)
- May 30
- May 31 - Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)
- June 12 - Marina Semenova, Russian ballerina
- June 18 - Bud Collyer, American voice actor and game show host (d. 1969)
- June 20 - Billy Werber, American baseball player
- June 21 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (d. 1932)
- June 24 - Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942)
- June 26 - Salvador Allende, President of Chile (d. 1973)
- June 26 - William F. Knowland, Americian politician, U.S. Senate Leader, newspaperman (d. 1974)
- June 27 - Bill Kennedy, American actor (d. 1997)
- June 29 - Leroy Anderson, American composer (d. 1975)
- June 30 - Winston Graham, English writer (d. 2003)
July-August
- July 12 - Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002)
- July 25
- July 27 - Joseph Mitchell, American writer (d. 1996)
- August 2 - Al Alquist, California politician (d. 2006)
- August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
- August 5 - Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
- August 9 - A. I. Bezzerides, American screenwriter (d. 2007)
- August 10 - Rica Erickson, Australian botanist
- August 16 - William Maxwell, American novelist and editor (d. 2000)
- August 20 - Al Lopez, baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
- August 21 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
- August 22 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- August 23 - Hannah Frank, Scottish artist and sculptor
- August 27
- August 28
- August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (d. 1996)
September-October
- September 2 - Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer/astrophysicist. (d.1983)
- September 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (d. 1988)
- September 4 - Richard Wright, American author (d. 1960)
- September 6
- September 7
- September 10 - Raymond Scott, composer, bandleader, electronic music pioneer (d. 1994)
- September 12 - Reginald C. Fuller, Roman Catholic priest and writer in England
- September 13 - Mae Questel, American actress (d. 1998)
- September 15 - Penny Singleton, American actress (d. 2003)
- towards September 15 - Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (d. 1983)
- September 19 - Paul Bénichou, French intellectual (d. 2001)
- September 21 - Charles Upham, New Zealand soldier (d. 1994)
- September 29 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
- September 30 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 1974)
- October 1 - Umar Dimayev, Chechen folk singer (d. 1972)
- October 6 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d.1942)
- October 9 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
- October 14 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)
- October 15 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (d. 2006)
- October 16 - Enver Hoxha, dictator of Albania (d. 1985)
- October 17 - Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (d. 2007)
- October 19
- October 20 Carl Stuart Hamblen, American musician and Presidential candidate (d. 1989)
- October 21 - Jorge Oteiza, Spanish painter (d. 2003)
- October 22 - John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
- October 23
- October 25
- October 28 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (d. 1995)
November-December
- November 2 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
- November 4 - Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2005)
- November 10 - Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II (d. 2000)
- November 12 - Harry Blackmun, American judge (d. 1999)
- November 16 - Sœur Emmanuelle, French nun
- November 18 - Imogene Coca, American actress (d. 2001)
- November 20 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (d. 2004)
- November 23 - Nelson S. Bond, American science fiction writer (d. 2006)
- November 26 - Charles Forte, Scottish businessman (d. 2007)
- November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born anthropologist
- December 3 - Edward Underdown, film and stage veteran (d. 1989)
- December 4 - Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)
- December 6 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003)
- December 10 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (d. 1992)
- December 11
- December 17 - Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
- December 22 - Kočo Racin, Macedonian poet and revolutionary (d. 1943)
- December 23 - Sol Carter, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- December 31 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter (d. 2005)
- date unknown
Deaths
January - June
- January 9 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter and poet (b. 1832)
- January 17 - Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
- January 25 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
- February 1 - King Carlos I 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)
- April 26 - Karl Möbius, ecologist (b. 1825)
- May 26 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam (b. 1835)
- June 13 - Henry Lomb, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (b. 1848)
- June 14 - Frederick Stanley, founder of the Stanley Cup, the NHL Championship Trophy (b. 1841)
- June 21 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (b. 1844)
- June 24 - Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837)
July - December
- July 3 - Joel Chandler Harris, author (b. 1848)
- July 5 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833)
- July 6 - Felipe Calderón y Roca, Filipino politician (b. 1868)
- July 10 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn composer (b. 1839)
- July 20 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835)
- July 22 - William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1828)
- August 4 - Radoje Domanović, controversial Serbian writer (b. 1873)
- August 25 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- August 26 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville and theater impresario (b. 1837)
- September 20 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (b. 1844)
- September 29 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Brazilian author (b. 1839)
- October 30 - Caroline Astor, American socialite (b. 1830)
- November 3 - Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (b. 1861)
- November 4
- November 14 - The Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)
- November 15 - Empress Dowager Cixi, ruler of China (b. 1835)
Nobel prizes
See also
Notes
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