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{{Year article header|1908}} This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time.{{cite journal|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A|issn=0080-4614|last1=Stephenson|first1=F. R.|last2=Morrison|first2=L. V.|last3=Whitrow|first3=G. J.|year=1984|volume=313|issue=1524|pages=47–70|url=http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/313/1524/47.full.pdf+html|format=PDF|title=Long-Term Changes in the Rotation of the Earth: 700 B.C. to A.D. 1980|doi=10.1098/rsta.1984.0082|bibcode=1984RSPTA.313...47S|s2cid=120566848|accessdate=2012-05-24|archive-date=January 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105115927/http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/313/1524/47.full.pdf+html|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}

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Events

= January =

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= February =

= March =

= April =

  • April 8H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.{{cite book|last=Jenkins|first=Roy|author-link=Roy Jenkins|title=Asquith|edition=Third|year=1986|publisher=Collins|location=London|isbn=0002177129|pages=179–180|chapter=An Assured Succession 1908}}
  • April 20Sunshine rail disaster: A rear-end collision of two trains in Melbourne, Australia kills 44 people and injures more than 400.{{cite web |url=http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/goroke/wwm1908.htm |title=Ballarat Genealogy: Newspaper Report of the accident |publisher=ballaratgenealogy.org.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211154316/http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/goroke/wwm1908.htm |archive-date=February 11, 2012}}
  • April 21Frederick Cook claims to have reached the North Pole on this date.

= May =

= June =

  • June 28 – An annular solar eclipse is visible from Central America, North America, Atlantic Ocean and Africa and is the 33rd solar eclipse of Solar Saros 135.
  • June 29 – Kohlerer-Bahn by Bleichert opens in Bolzano, South Tyrol, the first modern aerial enclosed cable car solely for passenger service.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kohlererbahn.it/eng/our-100-years.html|title=Our 100 Years|access-date=November 7, 2021|archive-date=December 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210012205/https://www.kohlererbahn.it/eng/our-100-years.html|url-status=live}}
  • June 30 (June 17 OS) – The Tunguska event or "Russian explosion" near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Empire, is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment, at an altitude of {{convert|5|–|10|km|0}} above the Earth's surface.{{cite book|last=Pasechnik|first=I. P.|chapter=Refinement of the moment of explosion of the Tunguska meteorite from the seismic data|title=Cosmic Matter and the Earth|location=Novosibirsk|publisher=Nauka|year=1986|page=66|language=ru}}{{cite journal |last1=Farinella |first1=Paolo |last2=Foschini |first2=L. |last3=Froeschlé |first3=Christiane |last4=Gonczi |first4=R. |last5=Jopek |first5=T. J. |last6=Longo |first6=G. |last7=Michel |first7=Patrick |url=http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/aah2886.pdf |title=Probable asteroidal origin of the Tunguska Cosmic Body |journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics |volume=377 |pages=1081–1097 |year=2001 |issue=3 |doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20011054 |access-date=2011-08-23 |bibcode=2001A&A...377.1081F |doi-access=free |archive-date=October 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009172144/http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/aah2886.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite journal|last=Trayner|first=Chris|url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1994Obs...114..227T/0000227.000.html|title=Perplexities of the Tunguska Meteorite|journal=The Observatory|volume=114|pages=227–231|year=1994|access-date=2011-08-23|bibcode=1994Obs...114..227T|archive-date=June 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130620074218/http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1994Obs...114..227T/0000227.000.html|url-status=live}}

= July =

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= August =

  • August 8
  • Wilbur Wright flies in France for the first time, demonstrating controlled powered flight in Europe.
  • The Hoover Company of Canton, Ohio, acquires manufacturing rights to the upright portable vacuum cleaner patented on June 22 by James M. Spangler.
  • August 17 – “Fantasmagorie”, an animated short film by Émile Cohl, which is widely regarded as the first animated cartoon is officially released.
  • August 24 – After an intense power struggle, Sultan Abdelaziz of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafid.
  • August 28 – American Messenger Company, predecessor of United Parcel Service, is founded in Washington (state).{{Cite web|title=American Messenger Service, forerunner of UPS, begins in a saloon in Seattle's Pioneer Square on August 28, 1907|publisher=HistoryLink.org|url=https://www.historylink.org/File/2089|access-date=2023-02-15|website=www.historylink.org|archive-date=February 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215220910/https://www.historylink.org/File/2089|url-status=live}}
  • August 31 – The Great Storm of 1908 starts to pound the Bristol Channel, lasting into the morning of September 2.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/5ad4c6e6-91ff-3c7f-b663-fc3b5bc913b7 |title=BBC Blogs – Wales – The great storm of 1908 |date=August 31, 2010 |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-date=July 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727115944/https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/5ad4c6e6-91ff-3c7f-b663-fc3b5bc913b7 |url-status=live }}

= September =

= October =

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  • October 1
  • Official launch of Henry Ford's Ford Model T automobile, the first having left the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan, on September 27.{{cite press release|title=Model T Facts|url=https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2013/08/05/model-t-facts.html|publisher=Ford|location=US|access-date=2013-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928165026/https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2013/08/05/model-t-facts.html|archive-date=2013-09-28|url-status=dead}} The initial price is set at US$850.Approximately $21,597 in 2017, when adjusted for inflation.
  • Penny Post is established between the United Kingdom and United States.{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Blake|title=The Book of Postal Dates, 1635–1985|location=Caterham|publisher=Marden|page=20}}
  • October 5
  • Bulgaria declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire; Ferdinand I of Bulgaria becomes Tsar.
  • The Melting Pot, a play by Israel Zangwill, opens in Washington, D.C. The title quickly becomes a widely used symbol for assimilation of immigrants to the United States.
  • October 6 – The Bosnian crisis begins, after the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Ottoman Empire.
  • October 8 – The University of Omaha, precursor of the University of Nebraska Omaha, is founded as a private non-sectarian college.
  • October 14 – The Chicago Cubs beat the Detroit Tigers in the 1908 World Series in baseball. The Cubs would not win another World Series for 108 years.
  • October 29Olivetti, the well-known typewriter and business equipment company, is founded in Italy.{{Cite journal |last=Arrigo |first=Elisa |date=2003 |title=Corporate Responsibility in Scarcity Economy: The Olivetti Case |url=https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=701020068111101099089112090065116106050051026007034010028118065074115020099103088074052006096099098123062120083118077102126015121051066022058093075112026004001099080025003000086074065112076104000095076116006102107023109012000105020101090022021025001090&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE |journal=Symphonya. Emerging Issues in Management |volume=1 |pages=114–134 |via=SSRN}}

= November =

= December =

= Undated =

  • This is the coldest recorded year since 1880, according to NASA reports.{{Cite web|url=http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/|title=Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP v4)|website=data.giss.nasa.gov|access-date=January 23, 2016|archive-date=May 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517042108/https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/|url-status=live}}

Births

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= January =

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  • January 8
  • William Hartnell, British actor (died 1975)
  • Fearless Nadia (Mary Evans), Indian actress (died 1996)
  • January 9Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (died 1986){{cite book|author=Terry Keefe|title=Simone De Beauvoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WE1dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|date=20 April 1998|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-26390-5|pages=2|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807135944/https://books.google.com/books?id=WE1dDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|url-status=live}}
  • January 10Paul Henreid, Austrian-born American actor (died 1992)
  • January 12Jean Delannoy, French film director (died 2008)
  • January 15Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (died 2003)
  • January 16
  • Günther Prien, German submarine commander (died 1941)
  • Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (died 1984)
  • January 22Lev Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
  • January 26Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist and composer (died 1997){{cite book|author=Raymond Horricks|title=Stephane Grappelli|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1UdLAAAAYAAJ|date=21 August 1985|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0-306-80257-7|page=8|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807194130/https://books.google.com/books?id=1UdLAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}

= February =

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= March =

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= April =

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= May =

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  • May 1Krystyna Skarbek, Polish-born World War II heroine (died 1952)
  • May 5Kurt Böhme, German bass (died 1989)
  • May 7Max Grundig, German inventor, industrialist (died 1989)
  • May 8
  • Arturo de Córdova, Mexican actor (died 1973)
  • Leo Sternbach, Polish-American chemist (d. 2005){{cite journal | url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)67588-5/fulltext | doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67588-5 | title=Leo H Sternbach | date=2005 | last1=Oransky | first1=Ivan | journal=The Lancet | volume=366 | issue=9495 | page=1430 }}
  • May 15Joe Grant, American caricaturist, character designer, concept artist, screenwriter and storyboard artist (died 2005)
  • May 17Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub, Sudanese author, 6th Prime Minister of Sudan (died 1976)
  • May 19Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (died 1982){{cite book|author=Roberto Quercetani|title=A World History of Track and Field Athletics, 1864–1964|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfeBAAAAMAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=xxv|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807074433/https://books.google.com/books?id=jfeBAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
  • May 20James Stewart, American actor (died 1997){{cite book|author=Allan Hunter|title=James Stewart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4FZAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Spellmount|isbn=978-0-946771-81-3|page=13|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807202441/https://books.google.com/books?id=V4FZAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
  • May 23
  • John Bardeen, American physicist, twice awarded the Nobel Prize (died 1991)
  • Hélène Boucher, French aviator (died 1934)
  • Tomiko Itooka, Japanese supercentenarian (died 2024){{Cite journal |date=2024-08-20 |title=World's oldest person dies in Spain at 117, says family |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2024/0820/1465828-maria-branyas-morera/ |language=en}}
  • May 25Theodore Roethke, American poet (died 1963)
  • May 26
  • Robert Morley, British actor (died 1992)
  • Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, 1st Prime Minister of South Vietnam (died 1976)
  • May 28Ian Fleming, English novelist (died 1964){{cite book|author=Robert Druce|title=This Day Our Daily Fictions: An Enquiry Into the Multi-million Bestseller Status of Enid Blyton and Ian Fleming|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlctAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-5183-401-7|page=46|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807135945/https://books.google.com/books?id=DlctAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
  • May 30
  • Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
  • Mel Blanc, American voice actor (died 1989)
  • May 31Don Ameche, American actor (died 1993){{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-don-ameche-1466097.html|title=Don Ameche|date=October 23, 2011|website=The Independent|author=David Shipman|access-date=7 August 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807204303/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-don-ameche-1466097.html|url-status=live}}

= June =

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  • June 4Geli Raubal, Austrian relative of Adolf Hitler (died 1931)
  • June 8Inah Canabarro Lucas, Brazilian nun and supercentenarian (died 2025)
  • June 11Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (died 1919)
  • June 12Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (died 2010)
  • June 21Yun Bong-gil, Korean resister against the Japanese occupation of Korea (died 1932)
  • June 24
  • Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942)
  • Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (died 1976)
  • June 25Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher, academic (died 2000){{cite book|author=John R. Shook|title=Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C&pg=PA1983|date=1 January 2005|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-84371-037-0|pages=1983|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807195540/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C&pg=PA1983|url-status=live}}
  • June 26
  • Salvador Allende, President of Chile (died 1973){{cite book|author=Salvador Allende Gossens|title=Salvador Allende: English and Spanish Texts of His Political Platform, the Program of the Popular Front, and His Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OalxAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Editorial Ardilla|page=53|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807195928/https://books.google.com/books?id=OalxAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
  • Estrellita Castro, Spanish singer and actress (died 1983)
  • June 29Leroy Anderson, American composer (died 1975)

= July =

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  • July 1Luis Regueiro, Spanish footballer (died 1995){{cite web|last1=Zamora|first1=Gerson|title=El Equipo de Futbol Euzkadi en Mexico, biographical section|url=http://132.248.9.195/ptb2010/mayo/0658338/0658338_A1.pdf|publisher=Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico|access-date=7 August 2021|archive-date=January 23, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123153643/http://132.248.9.195/ptb2010/mayo/0658338/0658338_A1.pdf|url-status=live}}
  • July 2Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1993){{cite book|author1=Randall Walton Bland|author2=Randall W Bland, PH D|title=Justice Thurgood Marshall: Crusader for Liberalism : His Judicial Biography, 1908–1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NEAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Academica Press|isbn=978-1-930901-23-0|page=2|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807204306/https://books.google.com/books?id=-_NEAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
  • July 5Henri of Orléans, Count of Paris, Orléanist claimant to the throne of France (died 1999)
  • July 8Kaii Higashiyama, Japanese painter and writer (died 1999){{cite web |title=Kaii Higashiyama |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920941 |website=Olmepedia |access-date=25 October 2022 |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025191129/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920941 |url-status=live }}
  • July 12
  • Alois Hudec, Czechoslovak gymnast, Olympic champion (died 1997)
  • Milton Berle, American comedian (died 2002)
  • July 13Garfield Todd, 5th Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (died 2002)
  • July 17Mohammad Natsir, Indonesian scholar and politician; 5th Prime Minister of Indonesia (died 1993)
  • July 18Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress, dancer and singer (died 1944)
  • July 23Karl Swenson, American actor (died 1978)

= August =

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= September=

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  • September 2
  • Ruth Bancroft, American landscape and garden designer (d. 2017)
  • Dorothea Leighton, American social psychiatrist, founder of the field of medical anthropology (died 1989)
  • September 3Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (died 1988){{cite book|author=Yakov Sinai|title=Russian Mathematicians In The 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vFHVCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA345|date=8 October 2003|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4492-55-3|pages=345|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=July 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703170901/https://books.google.com/books?id=vFHVCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA345|url-status=live}}
  • September 4Richard Wright, African-American author (died 1960)
  • September 5
  • Ahmed Balafrej, Moroccan politician, Foreign Minister and 2nd Prime Minister of Morocco (died 1990)
  • Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer, painter (died 2019)
  • September 7Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon, medical researcher (died 2008)
  • September 13Mae Questel, American actress (died 1998){{cite book|author=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography: Supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZczV8ZxgL4C&pg=PA454|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-522202-9|pages=454|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807165730/https://books.google.com/books?id=wZczV8ZxgL4C&pg=PA454|url-status=live}}
  • September 18Viktor Ambartsumian, Soviet Armenian scientist (died 1996){{cite book|title=Journal of Contemporary Physics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiMbAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Allerton Press|page=43|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807204303/https://books.google.com/books?id=xiMbAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
  • September 19Mika Waltari, Finnish author (died 1979)[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mika-Waltari Mika Waltari] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126160315/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mika-Waltari |date=January 26, 2021 }} at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  • September 21Charles Upham, New Zealand soldier, twice winner of the Victoria Cross (died 1994){{cite book|last=Sandford| first=Kenneth|year=1990|orig-year=1962|title=Mark of the Lion: The Story of Capt. Charles Upham, V.C. and Bar|location=London|publisher=Arrow|isbn=0-09-964430-4}}
  • September 25Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (died 1993)
  • September 29Eddie Tolan, American athlete (died 1967)
  • September 30David Oistrakh, Ukrainian-born violinist (died 1974)

= October=

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= November=

= December=

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  • December 4Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
  • December 6Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (died 1934)
  • December 9Aden Adde, 1st president of Somalia (died 2007)
  • December 10Olivier Messiaen, French composer (died 1992)
  • December 11
  • Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician, President of Spain (died 1989){{cite web |title=Carlos Arias Navarro {{!}} prime minister of Spain {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlos-Arias-Navarro |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=19 May 2022 |language=en |archive-date=April 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416120804/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlos-Arias-Navarro |url-status=live }}
  • Elliott Carter, American composer (died 2012)
  • Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director and screenwriter (died 2015)
  • Hákun Djurhuus, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1987)
  • Alfred Proksch, Austrian Olympic athlete (died 2011){{cite book|author1=Karl Strute|author2=Theodor Doelken|title=Who's who in Austria: 1982–1983 : a Biographical Encyclopedia of the International Red Series Containing Some 5.500 Biographies of Prominent Living Personalities in Austria...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zH5mAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Who's Who|isbn=978-3-921220-44-3|page=593|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807204305/https://books.google.com/books?id=zH5mAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
  • December 14
  • Doria Shafik, Egyptian feminist, poet, writer and editor (d. 1975){{Cite news |date=2018-08-22 |title=Overlooked No More: Doria Shafik, Who Led Egypt's Women's Liberation Movement |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/obituaries/doria-shafik-overlooked.html |access-date=2023-02-16 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=December 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212105553/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/obituaries/doria-shafik-overlooked.html |url-status=live }}
  • Laurence Naismith, English actor (died 1992)
  • December 16Hans Schaffner, 69th President of Switzerland (died 2004)
  • December 17Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1980)
  • December 25Quentin Crisp, British actor (died 1999)
  • December 28Lew Ayres, American actor (died 1996)
  • December 31Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Nazi-hunter (died 2005){{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Great Lives from History: Rou-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vKMrAQAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-570-1|page=2457|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807204304/https://books.google.com/books?id=vKMrAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}

=Date unknown=

  • Takieddin el-Solh, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 1988){{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/30/obituaries/takieddin-solh-ex-lebanese-premier-80.html|title=Takieddin Solh, Ex-Lebanese Premier, 80|date=November 30, 1988|website=New York Times|access-date=July 6, 2021|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709231248/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/30/obituaries/takieddin-solh-ex-lebanese-premier-80.html|url-status=live}}
  • Suleiman Nabulsi, 12th Prime Minister of Jordan (died 1976)

Deaths

= January–March =

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= July–September =

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= October–December =

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Nobel Prizes

References

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Further reading

  • The Annual Register for 1908, British and world events [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vq8oAAAAYAAJ online]
  • Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900–1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 105 – 22.

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