1908

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 - 1908 - 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913

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Births

• February 11 - [Sutan Takdir Alishahbana]?, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist.
• February 11 - [Vivian Ernest Fuchs]?, geologist/explorer.
• February 11 - [Josh White]?, musician
• May 20: Jimmy Stewart, American actor
• August 27 - Don Bradman, cricketer
• August 27 - Lyndon Johnson, 36th president of the United States
• Claude Levi-Strauss

Deaths

Events

• February 11 - Australia regain the Ashes? with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
• The third Summer Olympic Games are held in London, England.
• September 23 - Baseball/History: the "Merkle incident"

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Gabriel Lippmann]?
• Chemistry - Ernest Rutherford
• Medicine - [Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov]?, Paul Ehrlich
• Literature - [Rudolf Christoph Eucken]?
• Peace - [Klas Pontus Arnoldson]? [Fredrik Bajer]?