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
Oskar Schindler28th April, German
Bette Davis5th April, American
Actress
Thurgood Marshall2nd July, American
Former Associate Justice of the United States
Ian Fleming28th May, British
Author of James Bond Series
Joseph McCarthy14th November, American
Mel Blanc30th May, American
Voice Actor, Radio Personality
Nelson Rockefeller8th July, American
41st Vice President of the U.S.A
Baby Face Nelson6th December, American
Robber
Carole Lombard6th October, American
Actress
Simone de Beauvoir9th January, French
Writer
Abraham Maslow1st April, American
Buddy Ebsen2nd April, American
Actor
Salvador Allende26th June, Chilean
Former President of Chile
Milton Berle12th July, American
Rex Harrison5th March, British
Actor
Otto Skorzeny12th June, Austrian, Spanish
Military Officer
Geli Raubal4th June, Austrian, Hungarian
Hitler’s Niece
Enver Hoxha16th October, Albanian
Former Communist Leader of Albania
Simon Wiesenthal31st December, Austrian
Nazi Hunter
Don Ameche31st May, American
Actor
Ethel Merman16th January, American
Actress
Edward Teller15th January, American
Harold Holt5th August, Australian
Former Prime Minister of Australia
Martha Gellhorn8th November, American
Journalist & Writer
David Lean25th March, British
Film Director, Producer & Screenwater
Paul Brown7th September, American
American Football Coach
Van Heflin13th December, American
Actor
Claude Lévi-Strauss28th November, French
Anthropologist
Henri Cartier-Bresson22nd August, French
Photographer and Painter
Imogene Coca18th November, American
Actress
Continue Reading Below
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.29th November, American
Politician & Civil Rights Activist
John Kenneth Galbraith15th October, Canadian
Economist
Olivier Messiaen10th December, French
Composer, organist
John Bardeen23rd May, American
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Quentin Crisp25th December, British
English Writer & Gay Icon
Peg Entwistle5th February, American
Actress
Anna Magnani7th March, Italian
Actress
Lev Landau22nd January, Russian
Physicist
Michael DeBakey7th September, American
Cardiac Surgeon
Celia Johnson18th December, American
Actress
Theodore Roethke25th May, American
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
Carl Albert10th May, American
Former Speaker of the United States House of
Sir Donald Bradman27th August, Australian
Greatest Batsmen Ever
Edward Dmytryk4th September, Canadian, American
Film Director
Cesare Pavese9th September, Italian
Italian poet
Estee Lauder1st July, American
Founder of the Estée Lauder Companies
Willard Libby17th December, American
Physical Chemist
Elliott Carter11th December, American
Composer
Amon Goeth11th December, Austrian
World War II Nazi Officer
Joshua Logan5th October, American
Film & Stage Director, Writer
Robert Rossen16th March, American
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Leo Rosten11th April, American
American humorist
Bobby Dunbar30th November
American Boy Who Was Lost & Then Found
Richard Wright4th September, American
Author
Sir John Mills22nd February, British
Actor
Al Lopez20th August, American
Former American Baseball Player
Eugen Suchoň25th September, Slovak
Composer
Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco12th October, Ecuadorian
Novelist, Essayist, Historian
Alfred Day Hershey4th December, American
Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine
Frances Ford Seymour14th April, Canadian
Socialite
Fred MacMurray30th August, American
American actor
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer21st January, Indian
Novelist, Screenwriter, Essayist, Writer, Diarist,
Edward R. Murrow25th April, American
Journalist
Sam Giancana15th June, American
Eve Arden30th April, American
Actress
Lupe Vélez18th July, Mexican
Film actor, Stage actor
Bernard Lee10th January, British
Actor
William Hartnell8th January, British
Actor
Donald Bradman27th August, Australian
Lee Krasner27th October, American
Painter, Printmaker
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar23rd September, Indian
Writer, Poet, Politician, Journalist, Literary
Herbert von Karajan5th April, Austrian
Conductor, Music director
Tex Avery26th February, American
Animator
Maurice Merleau-Ponty14th March, French
Philosopher, Professor
Raja Rao8th November, Indian
Author, Writer
Franz Stangl26th March, Austrian
Police officer, Officer
Lew Ayres28th December, American
Actor
Willard Van Orman Quine25th June, American
Mathematician, Analytic philosopher, Philosopher
Morey Amsterdam14th December, American
Actor
William Saroyan31st August, American
American-Armenian novelist
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.29th November, American
American Politician
Louis Jordan8th July, American
Singer, Actor, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Alistair Cooke20th November, British, American
Journalist, Television presenter, Radio
William McMahon23rd February, Australian
Politician, Diplomat
Stéphane Grappelli26th January, French, Italian
Street artist, Composer, Jazz musician, Pianist
Remedios Varo16th December, Spanish
Painter
Walter Annenberg13th March, American
Art collector, Diplomat, Publisher, Businessperson
Balthus29th February, French, Polish
Painter, Artist
Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy2nd October, British
Lady-in-waiting, Pianist
Werner von Haeften9th October, German
Jurist, Soldier
Charles Upham21st September, New Zealander
Farmer
David Oistrakh30th September, Dutch
Violinist
Günther Prien16th January, German
Officer, Submariner
Libertad Lamarque24th November, Argentinian
Actor, Singer, Television actor, Film actor