1908 births

English music hall artist/actor (1908-1990)

Norwegian writer (1908–1984)

Canadian athlete (1908-1971)

English film director (1908–1966)

anthropologist

American politician (1908-1994)

Indian politician

American writer (1908-1957)

Russian chess player (1908–1942)

Jamaican politician and judge (1908-2002)

Pakistani physicist (1908-1998)

American mathematician (1908–1997)

German Wehrmacht officer (1908–1980)

Cricket player of England. (1908-1983)

German mathematician (1908-1975)

Indian-Pakistani composer

Italian psychiatrist (1908–1964)

English literary critic and academic (1908–1986)

South Korean poet (1908–1967)

Greek archaeologist

German actor and politician (1908-2001)

Canadian diabetic (1908-1935)

Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer

Swedish film director (1908–2009)

Ilm Deen, also written as Alimuddin (4 December 1908 – 31 October 1929), was an Indian Muslim carpenter who assassinated a book publisher named Mahashe Rajpal Malhotra for publishing the book Rangila Rasul, which was deemed derogatory towards the Islamic prophet Muhammad by Muslims. He was executed for this crime.

American actress (1908-1980)

New Zealand cricketer (1908-2003)

Indian politician (1908–1981)

Canadian-born American socialite (1908-1950)

American screenwriter (1908-1990)

Turkish architect (1908–1961)

American botanist (1908-2005)

Minister of Foreign Affairs (1908-1993)

American explorer (1908-1968)

French presbyter and theologian (1908–1999)

sound engineer (1908-1992)

Israeli politician (1908-1986)

Nazi war criminal

American actor (1908-1975)

French writer (1908–1985)

Canadian musician (1908–1971)

Estonian association football player, ice hockey player, coach and association football referee (1908-1981)

POlish resistance fighter

painter (1908-1974)

British botanist (1908-1987)

violinist, conductor (1908-2002)

American singer (1908–1964)

French resistance agent (1908-2007)

Russian conductor and educator

German conductor (1908–1994)

American painter (1908–1991)

French composer, musicologist and music educator

British/Italian caterer and hotelier (1908-2007)

Australian cricketer (1908-1983)

Soviet politician (1908–1965)

taxonomist (1908-1999)

Australian scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer (1908–1962)

American actor (1908-1985)

Russian mathematician (1908–1981)

German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander