Famous People Born In 1908
Discover the most famous people born in 1908. The list includes people like Lyndon B. Johnson, Ian Fleming, James Stewart, Joseph McCarthy, Oskar Schindler and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, novelists, journalists and soldiers born in 1908. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Austria and many more countries.
Lyndon B. Johnson27th August, American
36th President of the U.S.A
James Stewart20th May, American
Actor
Bette Davis5th April, American
Actress
Oskar Schindler28th April, German
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.29th November, American
Politician & Civil Rights Activist
Joseph McCarthy14th November, American
Ian Fleming28th May, British
Author of James Bond Series
Nelson Rockefeller8th July, American
41st Vice President of the U.S.A
Mel Blanc30th May, American
Voice Actor, Radio Personality
Carole Lombard6th October, American
Actress
Thurgood Marshall2nd July, American
Former Associate Justice of the United States
Simone de Beauvoir9th January, French
Writer
Baby Face Nelson6th December, American
Robber
Otto Skorzeny12th June, Austrian, Spanish
Military Officer
Rex Harrison5th March, British
Actor
Buddy Ebsen2nd April, American
Actor
Salvador Allende26th June, Chilean
Former President of Chile
Sam Giancana15th June, American
Mobster
Abraham Maslow1st April, American
Simon Wiesenthal31st December, Austrian
Nazi Hunter
Milton Berle12th July, American
Frances Ford Seymour14th April, Canadian
Socialite
Paul Brown7th September, American
American Football Coach
Don Ameche31st May, American
Actor
Enver Hoxha16th October, Albanian
Former Communist Leader of Albania
Harold Holt5th August, Australian
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Ethel Merman16th January, American
Actress
John Bardeen23rd May, American
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Geli Raubal4th June, Austrian, Hungarian
Hitler’s Niece
Edward R. Murrow25th April, American
Broadcaster
Edward Teller15th January, American
David Lean25th March, British
Film Director, Producer & Screenwater
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Claude Lévi-Strauss28th November, French
Anthropologist
Martha Gellhorn8th November, American
Journalist & Writer
Henri Cartier-Bresson22nd August, French
Photographer and Painter
Van Heflin13th December, American
Actor
John Kenneth Galbraith15th October, Canadian
Economist
Imogene Coca18th November, American
Actress
Quentin Crisp25th December, British
English Writer & Gay Icon
Olivier Messiaen10th December, French
Composer, organist
Lee Krasner27th October, American
Artist
Lev Landau22nd January, Russian
Physicist
Celia Johnson18th December, American
Actress
Anna Magnani7th March, Italian
Actress
Peg Entwistle5th February, American
Actress
Michael DeBakey7th September, American
Cardiac Surgeon
Carl Albert10th May, American
Former Speaker of the United States House of
Willard Libby17th December, American
Physical Chemist
Theodore Roethke25th May, American
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
Elliott Carter11th December, American
Composer
Edward Dmytryk4th September, Canadian, American
Film Director
Cesare Pavese9th September, Italian
Italian poet
Joshua Logan5th October, American
Film & Stage Director, Writer
Estee Lauder1st July, American
Founder of the Estée Lauder Companies
Amon Goeth11th December, Austrian
World War II Nazi Officer
Robert Rossen16th March, American
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Leo Rosten11th April, American
American humorist
Sir Donald Bradman27th August, Australian
Greatest Batsmen Ever
Bobby Dunbar30th November
American Boy Who Was Lost & Then Found
Richard Wright4th September, American
Author
Sir John Mills22nd February, British
Actor
Eugen Suchoň25th September, Slovak
Composer
Alfred Day Hershey4th December, American
Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco12th October, Ecuadorian
Novelist, Essayist, Historian
Al Lopez20th August, American
Former American Baseball Player
Louis L’Amour22nd March, American
Novelist
Fred MacMurray30th August, American
American actor
Eve Arden30th April, American
Actress
Lupe Vélez18th July, Mexican
Film actor, Stage actor
Michael Redgrave20th March, British
Actor
Bernard Lee10th January, British
Actor
Franz Stangl26th March, Austrian
Police officer, Officer
Lionel Stander11th January, American
Actor
William Hartnell8th January, British
Actor
Herbert von Karajan5th April, Austrian
Conductor, Music director
Bronko Nagurski3rd November, Canadian, American
American Football Player
Tex Avery26th February, American
Animator
Devika Rani30th March, Indian
Actress
Willard Van Orman Quine25th June, American
Mathematician, Analytic philosopher, Philosopher
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer21st January, Indian
Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Writer, Diarist,
Lew Ayres28th December, American
Actor
Morey Amsterdam14th December, American
Actor
Maurice Merleau-Ponty14th March, French
Philosopher, Professor
Günther Prien16th January, German
Officer, Submariner
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar23rd September, Indian
Poet
Louis Jordan8th July, American
Singer, Actor, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Paul Henreid10th January, Austrian, Italian, American
Actor
Yousuf Karsh23rd December, Armenian, Canadian, Turkish
Photographer
William Saroyan31st August, American
American-Armenian novelist
Jagjivan Ram5th April, Indian
Indian politician
Robert Morley26th May, British
Actor
Winston Graham30th June, British
Novelist
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.29th November, American
American Politician
Amy Vanderbilt22nd July, American
Leroy Anderson29th June, American
Classical composer, Conductor, Composer
Lionel Hampton20th April, American
Bandleader