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1908 (MCMVIII leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar).
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated
2 Births
2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 2.7 Unknown dates
3 Deaths
3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December
4 Nobel prizes
Events January February March April May June July August September October November December Undated First Zionist colony in Palestine (in fact, the very first zionist colony, Petah Tikkvah, was founded 1878 ).
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 , which is his personal colony.
The Children's Encyclopedia is first published.
Bureau of Investigation, forerunner of the FBI , is founded.
Blackball coal miner strike in New Zealand lasts 11 weeks.
Isak Saba , becomes the first Sami in the Norwegian parliament.
Henri Matisse opens his own art academy.
Serial killer Belle Guinness disappears in Laporte.
Young Turks start revolution in the Ottoman Empire .
Change of Emperor of Qing Dynasty from Guangxu Emperor of China (1875 -1908) to Henry Puyi (1909 -1911 ).
A 40,000-year-old Neandertal 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.
De Meester 's Dutch government resigns.
Discovery of oil deposits near the Persian city of Abadan .
The Young Turks rebel and force sultan Abd al-Hamid II to adhere to the constitution of 1876 .
The University of the Philippines is founded at Manila .
First year of rugby league in Australia .
American Temperance University closes.
Panathinaikos , the Athenian sports club, is founded.
Club Union becomes Chivas Guadalajara .
Michael Smith completes Discourses .
Births January-February 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 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 17 - 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 )
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-April 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 )
March 20 - Frank Stanton , American businessman (d. 2006 )
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 26 - Angel Acciaresi , Argentinan film director
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 )
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 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 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 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 , American actor (d. 1997 )
May 23 - John Bardeen , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 )
May 23 - Max Abramovitz , Architect of the New York City firm Harrison, Abramovitz, & Abbe (d. 2004 )
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 )
July-August 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 16 - 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 )
August 27 - Lyndon Johnson , President of the United States (d. 1973 )
August 28 - Roger Tory Peterson , American naturalist, artist, and educator (d. 1996 )
August 28 - Robert Merle , French writer (d. 2004 )
August 30 - Leonor Fini , Argentine artist (d. 1996 )
September-October 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 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 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 22 - John Gould , American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003 )
October 23 - Ilya Frank , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990 )
October 25 - Tauno Palo , Finnish actor (d. 1982 )
October 25 - Edmond Pidoux , Swiss writer (d. 2004 )
October 28 - Arturo Frondizi , President of Argentina (d. 1995 )
November-December
