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1908 (''' MCMVIII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-February
March
April-June
July-December
- July 6 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic North Pole .
- July 11 - 12 night - Explosion of a ship '' Amalthea '' in the Malmö harbor in Sweden , housing 80 British Strikebreaker s. 1 dead, 20 injured.
- July 13 - Women compete in modern Olympics for the first time.
- July 19 - Feyenoord Rotterdam was founded.
- July 22 - Albert Fisher establishes the Fisher Body Company to manufacture carriage and Automobile bodies.
- July 26 - United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau Of Investigation ).
- August 15 - Winston Churchill is ordained as a Druid in England .
- August 24 - After an intense power struggle, Abd Al-Aziz IV , sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abd Al-Hafiz . (Date of proclamation)
- September 8 - Danish minister of Justice, Alberti , is revealed to be an Embezzler
- September 23 - The University Of Alberta is founded in Edmonton, Alberta , Canada .
- September 27 - Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.
- October 5 - Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire - Ferdinand I Of Bulgaria becomes Tsar
- October 14 - The Chicago Cubs win the World Series by defeating the Detroit Tigers 2-0 in the fifth game. They haven't won the World Series since.
- November 3 - William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. Presidential Election
- November 6 - Western bandits Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia , after being surrounded by a large group of Mexican soldiers. There are many rumours to the contrary however, and the grave sites are unmarked.
- November 13 - Andrew Fisher becomes the 5th Prime Minister Of Australia .
- November 14 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson is the first woman in England to be elected Mayor (of Aldeburgh )
- December 5 - Sunderland F.C. set a record for an away victory when they humiliate local rivals Newcastle United 9-1 at St. James Park.
- December 28 - An 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys Messina , Sicily and rocks Calabria killing over 75,000.
unknown dates
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 , 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
- February 1 - George Pál , Hungarian-born animator (d. 1980 )
- 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 - August Neo , Estonian wrestler, Olympic medalist (d. 1982 )
- 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 , 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 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 - Sir Michael Redgrave , English actor (d. 1985 )
- March 22 - Louis L'Amour , American author (d. 1988 )
- March 25 - Helmut Käutner , German actor and 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 5 - Jagjivan Ram , Indian politician (d. 1986 )
- April 6 - John P. Davies , American diplomat (d. 1999 )
- April 7 - Percy Faith , Canadian-born composer, musician (d. 1976 )
- April 15 - Eden Ahbez , American musician (d. 1995 )
- April 20 - Lionel Hampton , American musician and bandleader (d. 2002 )
- April 25 - Edward R. Murrow , American journalist (d. 1965 )
- April 30 - Bjarni Benediktsson , Icelandic foreign and later prime minister (d. 1970 )
May
- 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 - Jimmy 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 , Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1967 )
- August 5 - Mary Louise Miner, American Journalist (d. 1999 )
- 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 27 - Sir Donald Bradman , Australian cricketer (d. 2001 )
- August 27 - Lyndon Johnson , President Of The United States (d. 1973 )
- 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 , Russian mathematician (d. 1988 )
- September 6 - Louis Essen , English physicist (d. 1997 )
- September 6 - Korczak Ziolkowski , American sculptor (d. 1982 )
- September 7 - Paul Brown , American football coach (d. 1991 )
- September 7 - Michael E. DeBakey , American physician
- September 13 - Mae Questel , American actress (d. 1998 )
- September 15 - Penny Singleton , American actress (d. 2003 )
- September 19 - Paul Bénichou , French intellectual (d. 2001 )
- September 29 - Eddie Tolan , American athlete (d. 1967 )
- September 30 - David Oistrakh , Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 1974 )
October-December
- October 6 - Carole Lombard , American Actress (d. 1942 )
- October 14 - Ruth Hale , American playwright and actress (d. 2003 )
- October 14 - Allan Jones , American actor and singer (d. 1992 )
- October 15 - John Kenneth Galbraith , Canadian economist (d. 2006 )
- 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 )
- October 25 - Edmond Pidoux , Swiss writer (d. 2004 )
- November 2 - Fred Bakewell , English cricketer (d. 1983 )
- November 4 - Józef Rotblat , Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2005 )
- November 12 - Harry Blackmun , American Judge (d. 1999 )
- November 18 - Imogene Coca , American actress (d. 2001 )
- November 20 - Alistair Cooke , English-born journalist (d. 2004 )
- November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss , Belgian-born anthropologist
- 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 - Elliott Carter , American composer
- December 17 - Willard Libby , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980 )
- December 31 - Simon Wiesenthal , Austrian Nazi-hunter (d. 2005 )
Unknown date
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 )
- June 24 - Grover Cleveland , 22nd and 24th President Of The United States (b. 1837 )
- July 5 - Jonas Lie , Norwegian author (b. 1833 )
- 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 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 )
- 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 (b. 1835 )
Marriages
Nobel prizes
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