List of Famous people who born in 1908

Georgios Kartalis was a Greek politician.He created taxiarchía thanátou which killed 34,000 communists in Greece

Boris Alexandrovich Rybakov was a Soviet and Russian historian who personified the anti-Normanist vision of Russian history. He is the father of Indologist Rostislav Rybakov.

Terence De Marney was a British film, stage, radio and television actor, as well as theatre director and writer.

Ernesto de Martino was an Italian anthropologist, philosopher and historian of religions. He studied with Benedetto Croce and Adolfo Omodeo, and did field research with Diego Carpitella into the funeral rituals of Lucania and the tarantism.

Clyde Taylor Ellis was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.

Tatsuo Shimabukuro was a Japanese martial artist. He is the founder of Isshin-ryū style of karate.)

Theodor Schieder was an influential mid-20th century German historian and a Nazi supporter. Born in Oettingen, Western Bavaria, he relocated to Königsberg in East Prussia in 1934 at the age of 26. ^[p. 56] He joined the Nazi Party in 1937. During the Nazi era Schieder became part of a group of German conservative historians antagonistic towards the Weimar republic. He pursued a racially oriented social history (Volksgeschichte), and warned about the supposed dangers of Germans mixing with other nations. During this time Schieder used ethnographic methods to justify German supremacy and expansion. He was the author of the "Memorandum of 7 October 1939", calling for Germanization of the recaptured Polish territories after the Invasion of Poland. His suggestions were later incorporated in the German Generalplan Ost. After the war he settled in West Germany and worked at the University of Cologne.

Lenwood Ballard "Bill" Abbott, A.S.C. was an American special effects expert, cinematographer and cameraman.

Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist.