1908 34600 225231707 2008-07-12T16:22:37Z Star Garnet 5150026 /* Table of contents */ {{year nav|1908}} {{C20YearInTopicX}} Year '''1908''' ('''[[Roman numerals|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]]). <!-- 13-day span=Mon-Sun,Tue-Mon,Wed-Tue,Thu-Wed,Fr-Th,Sa-Fr--> {{C20YearTOC}} ==Events of 1908== ===January=== <!-- Link dates even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> [[Image:Grandcanyon laban.jpg|thumb|200px|right| [[January 11]]: [[Grand Canyon National Park|Grand Canyon]] designated as a monument, and later, in [[1919]], becomes a [[National Park]].]] [[Image:Scout logo2.svg|thumb|120px|right| [[January 24]]: [[Scouting|Boy Scout]] movement.]] * [[January 1]] **British [[Harry Bensley]] leaves for his would-be trip around the world pushing a [[Baby_transport#Carriages_and_prams|pram]] and wearing an iron mask, beginning from the [[Trafalgar Square]] **A ball signifying [[New Year's Day]] drops in [[New York City]]'s [[Times Square]] for the first time. * [[January 11]] - [[Grand Canyon National Park|Grand Canyon National Monument]] is designated (becomes a National Park in February [[1919]]). * [[January 12]] - A long-distance [[radio]] message is sent from the [[Eiffel Tower]] for the first time. * [[January 13]] - 170 people were trapped in the [[Rhoads Opera House]] in [[Boyertown, Pennsylvania]], and burned to death. The tragedy would be a catalyst for stricter fire safety laws nationwide. * [[January 15]] - [[Alpha Kappa Alpha|Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority]], the first Greek-letter organization by and for black college women is established. * [[January 21]] - [[New York City]] passes a law, the [[Sullivan Ordinance]], making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to be vetoed by the mayor. * [[January 24]] - [[Robert Baden-Powell]] begins the [[Scouting|Boy Scout]] movement. ===February=== * [[February 1]] - King [[Carlos I of Portugal]] and [[Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal|Infante Luis Filipe]] are shot dead in [[Lisbon]]. * [[February 3]] - Greek [[multisport club]] [[Panathinaikos]] is founded. * [[February 11]] - Australia regains [[The Ashes]] with a 308 run [[cricket]] victory over England. * [[February 12]] **<!---February 12--> Start of the first around-the-world car race, the [[1908 New York to Paris Race]]. **<!---February 12--> [[De Meester]]'s Dutch government leaves office. * [[February 18]] - [[Japan]]ese immigration to the USA is forbidden. * [[February 25]] - [[Los Angeles]]. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now [[Biola University]]) founded. ===March=== * [[March 4]] - The [[Collinwood School Fire]], [[Collinwood]] near [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], kills 174 people. * [[March 7]] - The [[University of British Columbia]] is established by the [[British Columbia University Act]]. * [[March 9]] - [[Internazionale Football Club]] founded in [[Milan]], [[Italy]]. * [[March 21]] - Frenchman [[Henri Farman]] pilots the first passenger flight. * [[March 25]] - [[Clube Atlético Mineiro]] founded in [[Belo Horizonte]], [[Minas Gerais]], [[Brazil]]. * [[March 27]] - First overseas [[Scouting|Scout Troop]] formed in [[Gibraltar]]. ===April=== * [[April 19]] - The [[Garfield Park Conservatory]] in [[Chicago]], designed by [[Jens Jensen (landscape architect)|Jens Jensen]], opens to the public for the first time. * [[April 20]] - [[Sunshine train disaster]] in [[Melbourne]],[[Australia]]. Two trains collide killing 44 people and injuring more than 400 (over 100 seriously).<ref>[http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/goroke/wwm1908.htm Ballarat Genealogy: Newspaper Report of the accident]</ref> * [[April 21]] - [[Frederick Cook]]'s claimed date to have reached [[North Pole]] * [[April 24]] - The seventh deadliest tornado in U.S. history strikes the towns of [[Amite, Louisiana]], Pine, Louisiana and [[Purvis, Mississippi]], killing 143 people and injuring 770. * [[April 27]] - The opening ceremony of the [[1908 Summer Olympics|London Olympics]] is held. ===May=== * [[May 10]] - [[Mother's Day (United States)|Mother's Day]] is observed for the first time (Andrew's Methodist Church in [[Grafton, West Virginia]]). * [[May 24]] - [[Empire Day]] is accepted as the traditional formation date of the 1st Arundel (Earl of Arundel's) Own Scout Group, although Scouting was probably active in Arundel prior to this date. * [[May 26]] - At [[Masjid-al-Salaman]] in southwest [[Iran|Persia]], the first major commercial [[oil]] discovery in the [[Middle East]] is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the [[United Kingdom]]. ===June=== [[Image:Tunguska event fallen trees.jpg|thumb|240px|Evidence of the [[Tunguska event]] that occurred on June 30. This photo was taken [[1927|19 years later.]]]] * [[June 20]] - The [[Georgia Tech Alumni Association]] is chartered in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. State)|Georgia]]. * [[June 30]] - The [[Tunguska event]], also known as the "Russian explosion" occurs near the [[Stony Tunguska|Podkamennaya Tunguska River]] in [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]], [[Siberia]], [[Russian Empire]]. ===July=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[July 3]] - [[Young Turks]] start [[Young Turk Revolution|revolution]] in the [[Ottoman Empire]], and force sultan [[Abdul Hamid II]] to adhere to the constitution of [[1876]]. * [[July 6]] - [[Robert Peary]] sets sail for the [[Geographic North Pole|North Pole]]. * [[July 11]]-[[July 12|12]] night - Steamship ''Amalthea'', housing 80 British [[strikebreaker]]s while in [[Malmö]] harbour, [[Sweden]], bombed by [[Anton Nilson]]. 1 dead, 20 injured. * [[July 19]] - [[Feyenoord Rotterdam]] football club founded. * [[July 22]] - [[Automobile]] manufacturing company [[Fisher Body]] founded. * [[July 24]] - [[Dorando Pietri]] wins the Olympic [[marathon]] in [[London]] in one of the most dramatic arrivals of the Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards. * [[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=== * [[August 24]] - After an intense power struggle, [[Abdelaziz of Morocco|Abd al-Aziz IV]], sultan of [[Morocco]] is deposed and is succeeded by his brother [[Abdelhafid of Morocco|Abd al-Hafiz]]. (Date of proclamation) * [[August 31]] - Charter granted for Wayland Literary and Technical Institute in Plainview, Texas, now [[Wayland Baptist University]]. ===September=== * [[September 8]] - [[Denmark|Danish]] minister of Justice, [[Peter Adler Alberti]], is revealed to be an [[embezzling|embezzler]] * [[September 17]] - At [[Ft Myer]], [[Virginia]], [[Thomas Selfridge]] becomes the first person to die in an airplane crash. The pilot, [[Orville Wright]], is severely injured in the crash but recovers. * [[September 23]] - The [[University of Alberta]] is founded in [[Edmonton, Alberta]], [[Canada]]. * [[September 27]] - [[Henry Ford]] produces his first [[Ford Model T|Model T]] automobile. ===October=== * [[October 5]] - [[Bulgaria]] declares its independence from the [[Ottoman Empire]] - [[Ferdinand I of Bulgaria]] becomes [[Tsar]] * [[October 6]] - The [[Bosnian Crisis]] begins after the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] annexed [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. * [[October 13]] - The [[Church of the Nazarene]] is organised officially at [[Pilot Point, Texas]] as the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. This is the official "birthday" of the denomination. * [[October 14]] - The [[Chicago Cubs]] win the [[World Series]] by defeating the [[Detroit Tigers]] 2–0 in the fifth game, their second World Championship win in a row and the most recent championship the team has won. ===November=== * [[November 3]] - [[William Howard Taft]] defeats [[William Jennings Bryan]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1908|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 soldiers. There are many rumors to the contrary however, and their 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]]) * [[November 24]] - The first [[credit union]] in the United States begins operation in [[Manchester, NH]]. * [[November 29]] - [[Iraklis Thessaloniki]], the historic Greek sports club is founded, named after the mythical Greek hero [[Hercules]]. ===December=== * [[December 2]] - Child [[Emperor]] [[Pu Yi]] ascends the [[China|Chinese]] throne at the age of two. * [[December 28]] - A 7 Richter scale earthquake destroys [[Messina, Italy|Messina]], [[Sicily]] and rocks [[Calabria]] killing over 75,000 people. ===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 Free State|Congo]], which is his personal colony. * ''[[The Children's Encyclopedia]]'' is first published. * Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|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. * 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. * 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. * 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=== *[[Black Patch Tobacco Wars]] == Births == {{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Meiji period|Meiji]] 41}} ===January-February=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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 (d. [[2008]]) * [[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 Page|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]] - [[Hilton twins|Daisy and Violet Hilton]], English conjoined twin actresses (d. [[1969]]) * [[February 11]] - [[Vivian Ernest Fuchs]], English geologist and explorer (d. [[1999]]) * [[February 12]] **[[Jean Effel]], French painter and journalist (d. [[1982]]) **[[August Neo]], Estonian wrestler, Olympic medalist (d. [[1982]]) *[[February 17]] **[[Red Barber]], American baseball announcer and sports journalist (d. [[1992]]) **[[Bo Yibo]], Chinese politician and one of the [[Eight Immortals of the Communist Party of China]] (d. [[2007]]) *[[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]]) **[[Jean-Pierre Wimille]], French race car driver (d. [[1949]]) *[[February 29]] **[[Balthus]], French painter (d. [[2001]]) **[[Dee Brown (writer)|Dee Brown]], American writer and historian (d. [[2002]]) ===March-April=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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]] **Sir [[Michael Redgrave]], English actor (d. [[1985]]) **[[Frank Stanton]], American businessman (d. [[2006]]) *[[March 22]] - [[Louis L'Amour]], American author (d. [[1988]]) *[[March 25]] **[[Helmut Kautner|Helmut Käutner]], German actor and director (d. [[1980]]) **[[David Lean]], English film director (d. [[1991]]) *[[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]] **[[Ernestine Gilbreth Carey]], American author (d. [[2006]]) **[[Frances Ford Seymour]], American socialite (d. [[1950]]) *[[April 5]] **[[Bette Davis]], American actress (d. [[1989]]) **[[Herbert von Karajan]], Austrian conductor (d. [[1989]]) **[[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 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)|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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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 (actor)|James Stewart]], American actor (d. [[1997]]) *[[May 23]] **[[Max Abramovitz]], Architect of the [[New York City]] firm Harrison, Abramovitz, & Abbe (d. [[2004]]) **[[John Bardeen]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1991]]) **[[Hélène Boucher]], French aviatrix (d. [[1934]]) *[[May 25]] - [[Theodore Roethke]], American poet (d. [[1963]]) *[[May 26]] - [[Nguyen Ngoc Tho]], first prime minister of South Vietnam. *[[May 28]] - [[Ian Fleming]], English writer (d. [[1964]]) *[[May 30]] **[[Hannes Alfvén]], Swedish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1995]]) **[[Mel Blanc]], American voice actor (d. [[1989]]) *[[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 (actor)|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]] **[[Bill Bowes]], English cricketer (d. [[1987]]) **[[Kathryn Eames]], American actress (d. [[2004]]) *[[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 Keepers Maxwell, Jr.|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]] **Sir [[Donald Bradman]], Australian cricketer (d. [[2001]]) **[[Lyndon Johnson]], [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1973]]) *[[August 28]] **[[Roger Tory Peterson]], American naturalist, artist, and educator (d. [[1996]]) **[[Robert Merle]], French writer (d. [[2004]]) *[[August 30]] - [[Leonor Fini]], Argentine artist (d. [[1996]]) ===September-October===<!--BIRTHS--> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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]] **[[Louis Essen]], English physicist (d. [[1997]]) **[[Korczak Ziolkowski]], American sculptor (d. [[1982]]) *[[September 7]] **[[Paul Brown]], American football coach (d. [[1991]]) **[[Michael DeBakey]], Internationally recognized pioneer of modern medicine. (d. [[2008]]) *[[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 Benichou|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 (playwright and actress)|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 (politician)|Kenji Miyamoto]], Japanese politician (d. [[2007]]) *[[October 19]] **[[Sydney MacEwan]], Scottish singer (d. [[1990]]) **[[Geirr Tveitt]], Norwegian composer (d. [[1981]]) *[[October 20]] [[Carl Stuart Hamblen]], American musician and Presidential candidate (d. [[1989]]) *[[October 21]] - [[Jorge Oteiza]], Spanish painter (d. [[2003]]) *[[October 22]] - [[John Gould (columnist)|John Gould]], American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. [[2003]]) *[[October 23]] **[[Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov]], Chechen historian (d. [[1997]]) **[[Ilya Frank]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1990]]) *[[October 25]] **[[Tauno Palo]], Finnish actor (d. [[1982]]) **[[Edmond Pidoux]], Swiss writer (d. [[2004]]) *[[October 28]] - [[Arturo Frondizi]], President of [[Argentina]] (d. [[1995]]) ===November-December===<!--BIRTHS--> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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]] **[[Elliott Carter]], American composer **[[Manoel de Oliveira]], Portuguese film director *[[December 17]] - [[Willard Libby]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|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'' **[[March 19]] - [[George Rodger]], British photojournalist (d. [[1995]]) **[[Howard Cary]], American engineer (d. [[1991]]) **[[Aden Abdullah Osman Daar]], Somali politician (d. [[2007]]) == Deaths == ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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 (writer)|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, 16th Earl of Derby|Frederick Stanley]], founder of the [[Stanley Cup]], the [[National Hockey League|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=== <!--DEATHS--> <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *[[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 in Physics|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 Webster Schermerhorn Astor|Caroline Astor]], American socialite (b. [[1830]]) * [[November 3]] - [[Harro Magnussen]], German sculptor (b. [[1861]]) *[[November 4]] **[[Richard Gerstl]], artist (b. [[1883]]) **[[Tomás Estrada Palma]], first President of Cuba (b. [[1832]]) * [[November 14]] - The [[Guangxu Emperor]] of China (b. [[1871]]) * [[November 15]] - [[Empress Dowager Cixi]], ruler of China (b. [[1835]]) ==Nobel prizes== * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Gabriel Lippmann]] * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Ernest Rutherford]] * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov]], [[Paul Ehrlich]] * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Rudolf Christoph Eucken]] * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Klas Pontus Arnoldson]], [[Fredrik Bajer]] ==See also== * [[Boy Scouts of America]] - are founded circa this time period. ==Notes== {{commonscat}} <references/> ==External links== [[Category:1908| ]] [[af:1908]] [[am:1908 እ.ኤ.አ.]] [[ar:1908]] [[an:1908]] [[roa-rup:1908]] [[frp:1908]] [[ast:1908]] [[gn:1908]] [[az:1908]] [[bn:১৯০৮]] [[map-bms:1908]] [[be:1908]] [[be-x-old:1908]] [[bh:१९०८]] [[bs:1908]] [[br:1908]] [[bg:1908]] [[ca:1908]] [[cv:1908]] [[cs:1908]] [[co:1908]] [[cy:1908]] [[da:1908]] [[de:1908]] [[et:1908]] [[el:1908]] [[es:1908]] [[eo:1908]] [[eu:1908]] [[fa:۱۹۰۸ (میلادی)]] [[fo:1908]] [[hif:1908]] [[fr:1908]] [[fy:1908]] [[ga:1908]] [[gan:1908年]] [[gv:1908]] [[gd:1908]] [[gl:1908]] [[ko:1908년]] [[hy:1908]] [[hi:1908]] [[hr:1908.]] [[io:1908]] [[ilo:1908]] [[bpy:মারি ১৯০৮]] [[id:1908]] [[ia:1908]] [[os:1908]] [[is:1908]] [[it:1908]] [[he:1908]] [[jv:1908]] [[pam:1908]] [[kn:೧೯೦೮]] [[ka:1908]] [[csb:1908]] [[kk:1908]] [[kw:1908]] [[sw:1908]] [[ht:1908 (almanak gregoryen)]] [[ku:1908]] [[la:1908]] [[lv:1908]] [[lb:1908]] [[lt:1908 m.]] [[lij:1908]] [[li:1908]] [[jbo:1908moi nanca]] [[lmo:1908]] [[hu:1908]] [[mk:1908]] [[mi:1908]] [[mr:इ.स. १९०८]] [[ms:1908]] [[nah:1908]] [[nl:1908]] [[new:ई सं १९०८]] [[ja:1908年]] [[nap:1908]] [[no:1908]] [[nn:1908]] [[nrm:1908]] [[nov:1908]] [[oc:1908]] [[uz:1908]] [[pi:१९०८]] [[nds:1908]] [[pl:1908]] [[pt:1908]] [[ty:1908]] [[ksh:Joohr 1908]] [[ro:1908]] [[ru:1908 год]] [[se:1908]] [[sq:1908]] [[scn:1908]] [[simple:1908]] [[sk:1908]] [[sl:1908]] [[so:1908]] [[sr:1908]] [[sh:1908]] [[su:1908]] [[fi:1908]] [[sv:1908]] [[tl:1908]] [[ta:1908]] [[tt:1908]] [[te:1908]] [[th:พ.ศ. 2451]] [[vi:1908]] [[tr:1908]] [[uk:1908]] [[vec:1908]] [[wa:1908]] [[yo:1908]] [[zh-yue:1908年]] [[cbk-zam:1908]] [[bat-smg:1908]] [[zh:1908年]]