List of Famous people who born in 1908

Born in 1908
Died in 1908

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson
First Name Lyndon
Last Name Johnson
Born on August 27, 1908
Died on January 22, 1973 (aged 64)
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, and previously as 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a United States Representative and as the Majority Leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people who have served in all four federal elected positions.

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Ian Fleming

First Name Ian
Last Name Fleming
Born on May 28, 1908
Died on August 12, 1964 (aged 56)

Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing.

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James Stewart

James Maitland Stewart
First Name James
Last Name Stewart
Born on May 20, 1908
Died on July 2, 1997 (aged 89)

James Maitland Stewart, also known as Jimmy Stewart, was an American actor and military officer. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the "American ideal" in the twentieth century. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the greatest American male actors.

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Bette Davis

First Name Bette
Last Name Davis
Born on April 5, 1908
Died on October 6, 1989 (aged 81)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress with a career spanning more than 50 years and 100 acting credits. She was noted for playing unsympathetic, sardonic characters, and was famous for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical films, suspense horror, and occasional comedies, although her greater successes were in romantic dramas. A recipient of two Academy Awards, she was the first thespian to accrue ten nominations.

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Oskar Schindler

First Name Oskar
Last Name Schindler
Born on April 28, 1908
Died on October 9, 1974 (aged 66)

Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark and its 1993 film adaptation, Schindler's List, which reflected his life as an opportunist initially motivated by profit, who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, courage, and dedication to save the lives of his Jewish employees.

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Jo Bouillon

Joseph Jean Étienne Bouillon
First Name Jo
Last Name Bouillon
Born on May 3, 1908
Died on July 9, 1984 (aged 76)
Born in France, Occitania

Jo Bouillon was a French composer, conductor and violinist. As Joséphine Baker's fourth husband, he enjoyed prominence in the 1950s.

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Simone de Beauvoir

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
First Name Simone
Last Name Beauvoir
Born on January 9, 1908
Died on April 14, 1986 (aged 78)

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] (listen), 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

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Walter Annenberg

First Name Walter
Last Name Annenberg
Born on March 13, 1908
Died on October 1, 2002 (aged 94)

Walter Hubert Annenberg was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and diplomat. Annenberg owned and operated Triangle Publications, which included ownership of The Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, the Daily Racing Form, A+ Magazine, Essence, Star & Sky Magazine, Elementary Electronics, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, The Atlantic Monthly, and Seventeen magazine. He was appointed by President Richard Nixon as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, where he served from 1969 to 1974.

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Carole Lombard

Jane Alice Peters
First Name Carole
Last Name Lombard
Born on October 6, 1908
Died on January 16, 1942 (aged 33)
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Carole Lombard was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

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Salvador Allende

First Name Salvador
Last Name Allende
Died on September 11, 1973 (aged 3)

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and socialist politician, who served as the 28th president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death on 11 September 1973. He was the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America.

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Thurgood Marshall

First Name Thurgood
Born on July 2, 1908
Died on January 24, 1993 (aged 84)

Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he successfully argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education.

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U. Muthuramalingam Thevar

First Name U.
Last Name Thevar
Born on October 30, 1908
Died on October 30, 1963 (aged 55)

Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga Thevar, also known as Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar, was a politician, a freedom fighter and a patriarch of Thevar community from the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He was elected three times to the national Parliamentary Constituency.

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Amon Göth

Amon Leopold Göth
First Name Amon
Last Name Göth
Born on December 11, 1908
Died on September 13, 1946 (aged 37)
Born in Austria

Amon Leopold Göth was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II.

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Fearless Nadia

First Name Fearless
Last Name Nadia
Born on January 8, 1908
Died on January 9, 1996 (aged 88)

Mary Ann Evans, also known by her stage name Fearless Nadia was an Indian actress and stuntwoman of Australian origin who is most remembered as the masked, cloaked adventurer in Hunterwali, released in 1935, which was one of the earliest female-lead Indian films. She is often referred to as a sex symbol.

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Don Bradmam

First Name Don
Last Name Bradmam
Born on August 27, 1908
Died on February 25, 2001 (aged 92)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Sir Donald George Bradman, AC, nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.

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Mary Golda Ross

First Name Mary
Last Name Ross
Born on August 9, 1908
Died on April 29, 2008 (aged 99)

Mary Golda Ross was the first known Native American female engineer, and the first female engineer in the history of Lockheed. She was one of the 40 founding engineers of the renowned and highly secretive Skunk Works project at Lockheed Corporation. She worked at Lockheed from 1942 until her retirement in 1973, where she was best remembered for her work on aerospace design – including the Agena Rocket program – as well as numerous "design concepts for interplanetary space travel, crewed and uncrewed Earth-orbiting flights, the earliest studies of orbiting satellites for both defense and civilian purposes." In 2018, she was chosen to be depicted on the 2019 Native American $1 Coin by the U.S. Mint celebrating American Indians in the space program.

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Milton Berle

First Name Milton
Last Name Berle
Born on July 12, 1908
Died on March 27, 2002 (aged 93)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor. Berle's career as an entertainer spanned over 80 years, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theatre (1948–1955), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" during the first Golden Age of Television. He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in both radio and TV.

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Anna Magnani

First Name Anna
Last Name Magnani
Born on March 7, 1908
Died on September 26, 1973 (aged 65)
Born in Italy, Lazio
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Anna Maria Magnani was an Italian actress. She was known for her explosive acting and earthy, real life portrayals of characters.

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Mae Questel

First Name Mae
Last Name Questel
Born on September 13, 1908
Died on January 4, 1998 (aged 89)

Mae Questel was an American actress and voice actress best known for providing the voices for the animated characters Betty Boop and Olive Oyl. She began in vaudeville, primarily as an artist impersonator and played occasional small roles on Broadway and on television and films, later in her career, most notably the role of Aunt Bethany in 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

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Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy
First Name Joseph
Last Name McCarthy
Born on November 14, 1908
Died on May 2, 1957 (aged 48)

Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately, the smear tactics that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. Senate. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today, the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.

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