List of Famous people who born in 1908

Valentine Dyall was an English character actor. His distinctive voice made him especially popular as a voice actor, and he was known for many years as "The Man in Black", the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series Appointment with Fear.

Boris Evseevitch Bychowsky was a Soviet scientist and parasitologist, specialist of fish parasites, especially monogeneans. He was director of the Institute of Zoology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg (1962–1974). Bychowsky is the author of more than 100 scientific publications, mostly on systematics of monogeneans. His most famous work was his monography on monogeneans (1957), which was translated into English in 1961.

John Arthur Todd FRS was a British geometer.

Vladimir Petrovich Vajnshtok was a Soviet film director and, under the name Vladimir Vladimirov, screenwriter.

Sicco Leendert Mansholt was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later the Labour Party (PvdA) and farmer who served as the President of the European Commission from 1 March 1972 until 5 January 1973.

Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics.

William Bakewell was an American actor who achieved his greatest fame as one of the leading juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s.