1908 births

Soviet writer (1908–1981)

head of SMERSH, Russian Minister of State Security (1946–1951)

Chinese military officer and politician (1908-1993)

Argentine association football player (1908-1987)

American tennis player (1908–1997)

American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908–1975)

Soviet ballet dancer

Canadian athlete (1908–1982)

Japanese supercentenarian (1908–2024)

Russian mathematician (1908-1989)

British actress (1908-1932)

French linguist (1908-1999)

President of Colombia (1908-1994)

Chinese politician (1908-2007)

American stage, film and television actor (1908-1981)

Swedish chess player (1908–1967)

Swiss architect, painter and sculptor (1908-1994)

Palestinian politician (1908-1980)

Polish spy (1908–1952)

Soviet writer (1908–1996)

Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1908–1994)

Spanish footballer (1908–1995)

Italian artist (1908–1991)

athletics competitor (1908–1967)

Danish astronomer (1908-1987)

British explorer (1908–1999)

American composer (1908-2012)

American actor in films, radio, theater and television (1908-1994)

Estonian wrestler (1908–1987)

German hammer thrower (1908–1982)

Peruvian footballer (1908-2008)

Swedish athletics competitor (1908–1963)

Belgian and French religious sister

French footballer (1908-1980)

American composer (1908-1975)

Finnish athletics competitor (1908–1973)

President of Bolivia (1908-1946)

Australian tennis player (1908-1991)

Polish officer and aviator (1908-1940)

French photographer (1908–2000)

Italian author and translator (1908-1979)

Hungarian footballer (1908-1988)

Indian-born English writer (1908–2006)

Hungarian-American film director (1908—1980)

Uruguayan football manager (1908–1983)

French tennis player, commander of the Corps des Volontaires françaises in WWII (1908-1980)

French poet and novelist (1908–1944)

American comic actress (1908–2001)

German-Danish tennis player

Singaporean politician (1908-1995)

American actress (1908–1998)

Ukrainian politician (1908-1996)

American mobster (1908–1975)

US Supreme Court justice from 1970 to 1994 (1908–1999)

French mathematician (1908–1931)

5th Prime Minister of Indonesia from 1950 to 1951

English novelist (1908–2003)

Canadian-born American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor (1908-1976)

Italian photographer (1908–1982)

Polish mathematician and cryptologist (1908–1978)