List of Famous people who born in 1908

Lady Elizabeth Basset, DCVO, was an English author and courtier.

Alexander Mitscherlich was a German psychoanalyst.

Herman Ole Andreas Wold was a Norwegian-born econometrician and statistician who had a long career in Sweden. Wold was known for his work in mathematical economics, in time series analysis, and in econometric statistics.

Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann was a biochemist who made significant contributions to the field of reproductive biology. Mann was born in Lwow, Austria-Hungary and was educated at Lwow University. He studied medicine at the Johannes Casimirus University in Lwow, obtaining the degrees of Physician in 1932 and Doctor of Medicine in 1934.

Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.

Sylvia Bataille was a French actress of Romanian-Jewish descent. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bataille (1930–1986). Georges Bataille and Sylvia separated in 1934 but did not divorce until 1946. Starting in 1938, she was a companion of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan with whom, in 1941, she had a daughter, Judith. Sylvia Bataille married Jacques Lacan in 1953.

Sigrið av Skarði Joensen, also Sigrið av Skarði, was a Faroese journalist, teacher, and feminist.