1908
1908 is a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
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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 . Abd al-Aziz IV , sultan of Morocco is deposed and is succeeded by his brother Abd al-Hafiz . 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 . The University of Alberta is founded in Edmonton, Alberta , Canada . Births January 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 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 17 - Red Barber , baseball announcer and sports journalist (d. 1992 ) 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 March 2 - Walter Bruch , German engineer (d. 1990 ) 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 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 29 - Arthur O'Connell , American actor (d. 1981 ) April April 1 - Abraham Maslow , American psychologist (d. 1970 ) April 2 - Buddy Ebsen , American actor and dancer (d. 2003 ) 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 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 ) May 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 - Jimmy Stewart , American actor (d. 1997 ) May 23 - John Bardeen , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991 ) 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 ) June-July August-September August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn , German conductor (d. 1994 ) August 5 - Harold Holt , Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967 ) August 5 - Mary Louise Miner, American Journalist (d. 1999 ) 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 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 30 - Leonor Fini , Argentine artist (d. 1996 ) 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 29 - Eddie Tolan , American athlete (d. 1967 ) September 30 - David Oistrakh , Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 1974 ) October-December 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 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 23 - Ilya Frank , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990 ) October 25 - Edmond Pidoux , Swiss writer (d. 2004 ) November 2 - Fred Bakewell , English cricketer (d. 1983 ) November 4 - Józef Rotblat , Polish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2005 ) November 12 - Harry Blackmun , American Judge (d. 1999 ) November 18 - Imogene Coca , American actress (d. 2001 ) November 20 - Alistair Cooke , English-born journalist (d. 2004 ) November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss , Belgian-born anthropologist December 6 - Pierre Graber , Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2003 ) December 10 - Olivier Messiaen , French composer (d. 1992 ) December 11 - Elliot Carter , American composer December 17 - Willard Libby , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980 ) December 31 - Simon Wiesenthal , Austrian Nazi-hunter (d. 2005 ) Unknown date Deaths January 25 - Ouida , English writer (b. 1839 ) February 1 - King Charles of Portugal (b. 1863 ) April 20 - Henry Chadwick , English-born baseball writer and historian (b. 1824 ) April 22 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836 ) May 26 - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , Punjabi founder of the Ahmadi sect (b. 1835 ) June 21 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , Russian composer (b. 1844 ) June 24 - Grover Cleveland , 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837 ) July 5 - Jonas Lie , Norwegian author (b. 1833 ) 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 25 - Henri Becquerel , French physicist, 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 ) October 30 - Caroline Astor , American socialite (b. 1830 ) November 14 - The Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871 ) November 15 - Empress Dowager Cixi , de facto ruler of China (b. 1835 ) Marriages Nobel Prizes