List of Famous people who born in 1908

Pierre Louis-Dreyfus

First Name Pierre
Last Name Louis-Dreyfus
Born on May 17, 1908
Died on January 15, 2011 (aged 102)

Pierre Louis-Dreyfus was a French Resistance fighter during World War II who later served as CEO of the Louis Dreyfus Cie.

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Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland

First Name Lawrence
Last Name Zetland
Born on November 12, 1908
Died on October 5, 1989 (aged 80)

Lawrence Aldred Mervyn Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland was a lawn tennis player of some note in the 1940s, known before 1961 as the Earl of Ronaldshay.

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Behçet Kemal Çağlar

First Name Behçet
Last Name Çağlar
Born on July 23, 1908
Died on October 24, 1969 (aged 61)

Behçet Kemal Çağlar was a Turkish poet, educator and nationalist politician.

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Greta Bösel

First Name Greta
Born on May 9, 1908
Died on May 2, 1947 (aged 38)

Greta Bösel was a trained nurse. Born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany, she became a camp guard at Ravensbrück in August 1944.

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John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris

First Name John
Last Name Clanmorris
Born on November 3, 1908
Died on August 6, 1988 (aged 79)

John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris was a onetime MI5 spy and an English novelist who published 17 thrillers, detective novels, and spy novels.

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Geoffrey Acland

First Name Geoffrey
Last Name Acland
Born on May 17, 1908
Died on September 14, 1964 (aged 56)

Arthur Geoffrey Dyke Acland, known as Geoffrey Acland, was a British Liberal Party politician.

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François Lang

First Name François
Last Name Lang
Born on February 27, 1908
Died on December 31, 1943 (aged 35)
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Giovanni Leone

First Name Giovanni
Last Name Leone
Born on November 3, 1908
Died on November 9, 2001 (aged 93)
Born in Italy, Campania

Giovanni Leone was an Italian politician, jurist and university professor. A founding member of the Christian Democracy (DC), Leone served as the 6th President of Italy from December 1971 until June 1978.

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Sylvester Weaver

First Name Sylvester
Last Name Weaver
Born on December 21, 1908
Died on March 15, 2002 (aged 93)

Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver Jr. was an American broadcasting executive who was president of NBC between 1953 and 1955. He has been credited with reshaping commercial broadcasting's format and philosophy as radio gave way to television as America's dominant home entertainment. His daughter is actress Sigourney Weaver.

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Lenore Romney

First Name Lenore
Born on November 9, 1908
Died on July 7, 1998 (aged 89)

Lenore LaFount Romney was an American actress and political figure. The wife of businessman and politician George W. Romney, she was First Lady of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. She was the Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1970 from Michigan. Her youngest son, Mitt Romney, is a U.S. Senator from Utah, a former Governor of Massachusetts and was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.

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