Famous people born in 1908

The best-known people born in 1908, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
January 9 · d. 1986
Photo: Moshe Milner, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lyndon B. Johnson
president of the United States from 1963 to 1969 (1908–1973)
August 27 · d. 1973
Photo: Arnold Newman, Public domain
Salvador Allende
28th president of Chile (1908–1973)
June 26 · d. 1973
Photo: Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain
Bette Davis
American actress (1908–1989)
April 5 · d. 1989
Photo: Studio Publicity, Public domain
Ian Fleming
British author (1908–1964)
May 28 · d. 1964
Photo: Erich Hartmann, Public domain
Enver Hoxha
former First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, Prime Minister of Albania
October 16 · d. 1985
Photo: Petrit Kumi, Public domain
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
November 28 · d. 2009
Photo: UNESCO/Michel Ravassard, CC BY 3.0
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
January 22 · d. 1968
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
James Stewart
American actor and military officer (1908–1997)
May 20 · d. 1997
Photo: Studio publicity still, Public domain
Abraham Maslow
American psychologist (1908–1970)
April 1 · d. 1970
Photo: William Carter, Public domain
John Bardeen
American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)
May 23 · d. 1991
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
Hannes Alfvén
Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics
May 30 · d. 1995
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
January 15 · d. 2003
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Oskar Schindler
German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer (1908–1974)
April 28 · d. 1974
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
September 9 · d. 1950
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Herbert von Karajan
Austrian conductor (1908–1989)
April 5 · d. 1989
John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908–2006)
October 15 · d. 2006
Photo: Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Photographer is unknown., Public domain
Nelson Rockefeller
Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
July 8 · d. 1979
Photo: White House, Public domain
Anna Magnani
Italian actress (1908-1973)
March 7 · d. 1973
Photo: obbino, CC BY 2.0
Ilya Frank
Soviet physicist
October 23 · d. 1990
Photo: Nobel foundation, Public domain
William Saroyan
Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (1908-1981)
August 31 · d. 1981
Photo: Al Aumuller, World-Telegram staff photographer, Public domain
Joseph McCarthy
American politician (1908–1957)
November 14 · d. 1957
Photo: United Press, Public domain
Willard Libby
American physical chemist
December 17 · d. 1980
Photo: unknown, CC BY-SA 4.0
Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter (1908–2005)
December 31 · d. 2005
Photo: Rob Bogaerts for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0
Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)
December 10 · d. 1992
Photo: Rob Croes / Anefo, CC0
Henri Cartier-Bresson
French photographer (1908–2004)
August 22 · d. 2004
Photo: Ihei Kimura, Public domain
Victor Ambartsumian
Soviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)
September 18 · d. 1996
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, CC BY 2.5
Carole Lombard
American actress (1908-1942)
October 6 · d. 1942
Photo: Metro-Goldwy-Mayer, Public domain
David Lean
British filmmaker and editor (1908–1991)
March 25 · d. 1991
Photo: Kalervo Manninen, Public domain
Giovanni Leone
6th President of Italy (1908-2001)
November 3 · d. 2001
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Attribution

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January

January 8 · William Hartnell, English actor (1908–1975)
January 16 · Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (1908-1984)
January 18 · Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born British mathematician (1908–1974)
January 18 · Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Saxe-Coburgen and Gothan and Swedish Royal
January 26 · Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (1908–1997)
January 31 · Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine musician and writer (1908–1992)

February

February 6 · Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician statesman (1908–1999)
February 22 · John Mills, British actor (1908–2005)
February 22 · Rómulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (1908-1981)
February 23 · William McMahon, Australian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (1908–1988)
February 26 · Tex Avery, American animator and director (1908–1980)
February 29 · Balthus, French painter (1908–2001)

March

March 5 · Rex Harrison, British actor (1908–1990)
March 14 · Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher
March 16 · Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, film director, and producer (1908-1966)
March 20 · Michael Redgrave, British actor (1908-1985)
March 22 · Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer (1908–1988)
March 30 · Devika Rani, Indian actress (1908-1994)

April

April 9 · Victor Vasarely, French-Hungarian painter and printmaker (1906–1997)
April 20 · Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician (1908–2002)
April 23 · Ivan Yefremov, Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker (1908–1972)
April 24 · Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (1908–1963)
April 25 · Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast journalist (1908–1965)
April 30 · Eve Arden, American actress (1908–1990)

May

May 1 · Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist (1908-1968)
May 23 · Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Swiss writer, journalist and photographer (1908–1942)
May 25 · Theodore Roethke, American poet (1907-1963)
May 26 · Robert Morley, British actor (1908–1992)
May 30 · Mel Blanc, American voice actor (1908–1989)
May 31 · Don Ameche, American actor (1908–1993)

June

June 4 · Geli Raubal, niece of Adolf Hitler (1908–1931)
June 13 · Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French artist
June 16 · Sarit Thanarat, Prime Minister of Thailand (1908-1963)
June 22 · Pablo Dorado, Uruguayan footballer (1908-1978)
June 25 · Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
June 27 · Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian novelist (1908–1967)

July

July 1 · Estée Lauder, American businesswoman (1906–2004)
July 2 · Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 to 1991 (1908–1993)
July 12 · Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (1908–2002)
July 16 · Ho Jong-suk, independence activist and writer, Journalist, Communism activist, feminist, sex positive activists (1902-1991)
July 18 · Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress, dancer and vedette (1908—1944)
July 23 · Elio Vittorini, Italian writer and novelist (1908–1966)

August

August 5 · Harold Holt, Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (1908-1967)
August 18 · Edgar Faure, French politician (1908-1988)
August 23 · Arthur Adamov, playwright (1908-1970)
August 27 · Don Bradman, Australian cricketer (1908–2001)
August 29 · Robert Merle, French writer
August 30 · Fred MacMurray, American actor (1908–1991)

September

September 2 · Valentin Glushko, Soviet rocket engineer (1908-1989)
September 3 · Lev Pontryagin, Soviet mathematician (1908–1988)
September 4 · Richard Wright, American novelist and poet (1908–1960)
September 19 · Mika Waltari, Finnish writer (1908–1979)
September 19 · Victor Weisskopf, Austrian American theoretical physicist (1908–2002)
September 30 · David Oistrakh, Soviet violinist (1908-1974)

October

October 5 · Joshua Logan, American stage and film director and writer (1908-1988)
October 9 · Werner von Haeften, German resistance fighter (1908–1944)
October 10 · Mercè Rodoreda, Spanish writer (1908-1983)
October 27 · Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (1908–1984)
October 28 · Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1908–1995)
October 30 · Dmitriy Ustinov, Soviet military commander and politician (1908-1984)

November

November 4 · Joseph Rotblat, Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
November 6 · Teizo Takeuchi, Japanese association football player (1908-1946)
November 6 · Françoise Dolto, French pediatrician & psychoanalyst (1908–1988)
November 8 · Martha Gellhorn, journalist from the United States (1908–1998)
November 21 · Salo Flohr, Czech chess player, arbiter, theoretician, organiser and writer (1908–1983)
November 24 · Libertad Lamarque, Argentine actress and singer (1908–2000)

December

December 4 · Alfred Hershey, American chemist (1908–1997)
December 9 · Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, Somali politician (1908-2007)
December 11 · Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese film director (1908–2015)
December 13 · Van Heflin, American actor (1908–1971)
December 18 · Celia Johnson, English actress (1908–1982)
December 23 · Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (1908–2002)

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