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Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
German botanist (1817–1908)
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French scientist (1816–1908)
Henry Clifton Sorby
British scientist, founder of microscopical petrology and metallography (1826–1908)
Grigory Gershuni
Russian revolutionary (1870–1908)
Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
German duke (1826–1908)
Ignacio de Veintemilla
President of Ecuador (1876 - 1883)
Friedrich Schmidt
Baltic German geologist and botanist (1832–1908)
Lester Allan Pelton
American mechanical engineer (1829–1908)
Hermann Snellen
Dutch ophthalmologist (1834-1908)
Dersu Uzala
Nanai hunter and explorer (1849–1908)

Lorenz Frølich
Danish artist (1820–1908)
John Taylor
track and field athlete, first African American to win an Olympic gold medal
Nikolai Linevich
Russian general (1839–1908)
Mustafa Kamil
Egyptian politician (1874–1908)
Marco Aurelio Soto
President of Honduras (1846-1908)
Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg
German duchess (1838-1908)
Antonio González de Aguilar, 8th Marquis of la Vega de Armijo
Spanish politician (1824-1908)
Friedrich von Esmarch
German academic (1823-1908)
Jacob W. Davis
American tailor (1831–1908)
Charles Augustus Young
American astronomer (1834–1908)
Ludwig Carl Christian Koch
German entomologist and arachnologist (1825-1908)
Charles Chamberland
French microbiologist (1851-1908)
Johann Heinrich Hübschmann
German philologist (1848–1908)
Valtazar Bogišić
Serbian jurist and sociologist (1834–1908)
Khudiram Bose
British Indian Bengali revolutionary (1889-1908) died Muzaffarpur Bihar at a very young age.
Manuel Marroquín
Presidente de Colombia (1827–1908)
Redvers Buller
British general (1839–1908)
Aasta Hansteen
Norwegian artist and writer (1824-1908)
Ernest Fenollosa
American art historian and orientalist (1853-1908)
Josef Zemp
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1834-1908)
Hashimoto Gahō
Japanese artist (1835-1908)
Manuel Curros Enríquez
Spanish author (1851-1908)

Charles Barbier de Meynard
French historian and orientalist (1826–1908)
François-Auguste Gevaert
Belgian composer (1828–1908)
Carl Koldewey
German explorer (1837-1908)
Adolf Kirchhoff
German classical philologist and epigrapher (1826–1908)

Walter Leistikow
German artist (1865-1908)
Thomas Hill
American painter (1829–1908)
Walery Antoni Wróblewski
Polish politician, general of Paris Commune and commander of January Uprising (1836-1908)
Old Tom Morris
Scottish professional golfer (1821–1908)
Ira D. Sankey
American gospel singer and composer (1840-1908)
Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse
British astronomer (1840-1908)

John Evans
English archaeologist and geologist (1823–1908)
Nozu Michitsura
Japanese politician (1840-1908)
William D. Coleman
Liberian politician (1842-1908)

Edward Caird
British philosopher (1835–1908)
Misak Metsarents
Armenian poet (1886–1908)
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
British statesman (1833-1908)
Volodymyr Antonovych
Ukrainian historian
Eugénie Le Brun
Egyptian Feminist
American Horse
Lakota chief (1840-1908)
Jadwiga Łuszczewska
Polish writer (1834–1908)
Gaston Boissier
French classical scholar, and secretary of the Académie française (1823–1908)
Ignaz von Plener
Czech member of Czech council (1810-1908)
Denis Jean Achille Luchaire
French historian (1846–1908)
Federico Chueca
Spanish composer (1846–1908)
Éleuthère Mascart
French physicist (1837–1908)
Thorvald Bindesbøll
Danish architect (1846-1908)

Frank Calvert
British archaeologist (1828–1908)
Albert de Lapparent
French geologist (1839-1908)