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
Joseph McCarthy14th November, American
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.29th November, American
Politician & Civil Rights Activist
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
Thurgood Marshall2nd July, American
Former Associate Justice of the United States
Salvador Allende26th June, Chilean
Former President of Chile
Simone de Beauvoir9th January, French
Writer
Baby Face Nelson6th December, American
Robber
Carole Lombard6th October, American
Actress
Abraham Maslow1st April, American
Buddy Ebsen2nd April, American
Actor
Otto Skorzeny12th June, Austrian, Spanish
Military Officer
Frances Ford Seymour14th April, Canadian
Socialite
Milton Berle12th July, American
Rex Harrison5th March, British
Actor
Simon Wiesenthal31st December, Austrian
Nazi Hunter
Sam Giancana15th June, American
Mobster
Paul Brown7th September, American
American Football Coach
Geli Raubal4th June, Austrian, Hungarian
Hitler’s Niece
Enver Hoxha16th October, Albanian
Former Communist Leader of Albania
Ethel Merman16th January, American
Actress
Don Ameche31st May, American
Actor
John Bardeen23rd May, American
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Edward Teller15th January, American
Martha Gellhorn8th November, American
Journalist & Writer
David Lean25th March, British
Film Director, Producer & Screenwater
Claude Lévi-Strauss28th November, French
Anthropologist
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Harold Holt5th August, Australian
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Henri Cartier-Bresson22nd August, French
Photographer and Painter
Van Heflin13th December, American
Actor
Imogene Coca18th November, American
Actress
John Kenneth Galbraith15th October, Canadian
Economist
Olivier Messiaen10th December, French
Composer, organist
Quentin Crisp25th December, British
English Writer & Gay Icon
Lev Landau22nd January, Russian
Physicist
Peg Entwistle5th February, American
Actress
Anna Magnani7th March, Italian
Actress
Michael DeBakey7th September, American
Cardiac Surgeon
Celia Johnson18th December, American
Actress
Carl Albert10th May, American
Former Speaker of the United States House of
Theodore Roethke25th May, American
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
Willard Libby17th December, American
Physical Chemist
Edward Dmytryk4th September, Canadian, American
Film Director
Elliott Carter11th December, American
Composer
Sir Donald Bradman27th August, Australian
Greatest Batsmen Ever
Cesare Pavese9th September, Italian
Italian poet
Estee Lauder1st July, American
Founder of the Estée Lauder Companies
Amon Goeth11th December, Austrian
World War II Nazi Officer
Joshua Logan5th October, American
Film & Stage Director, Writer
Leo Rosten11th April, American
American humorist
Robert Rossen16th March, American
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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
Al Lopez20th August, American
Former American Baseball Player
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco12th October, Ecuadorian
Novelist, Essayist, Historian
Alfred Day Hershey4th December, American
Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine
Amon Göth11th December, Austrian
Commandant of Płaszów labour camp
Fred MacMurray30th August, American
American actor
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer21st January, Indian
Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Writer, Diarist,
Edward R. Murrow25th April, American
Journalist
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
Bronko Nagurski3rd November, Canadian, American
American Football Player
Herbert von Karajan5th April, Austrian
Conductor, Music director
Tex Avery26th February, American
Animator
Devika Rani30th March, Indian
Actress
Raja Rao8th November, Indian
Author, Writer
Lee Krasner27th October, American
Painter, Printmaker
Willard Van Orman Quine25th June, American
Mathematician, Analytic philosopher, Philosopher
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar23rd September, Indian
Writer, Poet, Politician, Journalist, Literary
Maurice Merleau-Ponty14th March, French
Philosopher, Professor
Lew Ayres28th December, American
Actor
Morey Amsterdam14th December, American
Actor
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
Louis Jordan8th July, American
Singer, Actor, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Donald Bradman27th August, Australian
Lionel Hampton20th April, American
Bandleader
Remedios Varo16th December, Spanish
Painter