List of Famous people who born in 1908

Antony Tudor was an English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer.

Ivan Maček, nom de guerre Matija, was a Yugoslav Communist politician from Slovenia who served as the President of the People's Assembly of SR Slovenia from 1963 to 1967.

Tommaso Landolfi was an Italian author, translator and literary critic. His numerous grotesque tales and novels, sometimes on the border of speculative fiction, science fiction and realism, place him in a unique and unorthodox position among Italian writers. He won a number of awards, including the prestigious Strega Prize.

Antonio Sánchez Pecino was the father of famed flamenco guitarists Paco de Lucía, Ramón de Algeciras, and flamenco singer/songwriter Pepe de Lucía. He was also a well-known flamenco guitarist and songwriter in his own right, producing and writing most of the songs that appeared on the early albums by Camarón de la Isla and Paco de Lucía.

Raymond Scott was an American composer, band leader, pianist, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.

Boris Vildé was a linguist and ethnographer at the Musée de l'Homme, in Paris, France. He specialised in polar civilizations. He was born in St. Petersburg into a family of Eastern Orthodox Russians. When his father died, his mother moved with him to her family estate in Yastrebino. Because of the Russian Revolution, the family then moved to Tartu, Estonia in 1919. He studied first at the high school and then at the University of Tartu, where he did not complete his courses but learned the German language and some notions of chemistry. He also acquired a taste for literature and poetry and moved to Germany in 1930 hoping for a literary career there. In 1933, as a militant against Nazism, he felt unsafe in Germany and moved to France.