List of Famous people who died in 1908

Franz Maria Doppelbauer (1845–1908) was the Catholic bishop of Linz from 1889 to 1908.

Redfield Proctor was a U.S. politician of the Republican Party. He served as the 37th Governor of Vermont from 1878 to 1880, as Secretary of War from 1889 to 1891, and as a United States Senator for Vermont from 1891 to 1908.

Eli C. D. Shortridge was an American politician who was the third Governor of North Dakota from 1893 to 1895. Shortridge was the first governor to live in the executive mansion.

Nikolai Petrovich Linevich, also Lenevich and Linevitch was a career military officer, General of Infantry (1903) and Adjutant general in the Imperial Russian Army in the Far East during the latter part of the Russo-Japanese War.

Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer was a German mathematician.

Matthias Eugen Oscar Liebreich was a German pharmacologist.

Richard Pischel was a German Indologist born in Breslau.

Josef, Baron von Mering was a German physician.

Carlo Nocella was an Italian cardinal. He was Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation (1892–1899), Latin Patriarch of Antioch (1899–1901), and Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (1901–1903).

Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart was a noted French physicist, a researcher in optics, electricity, magnetism, and meteorology.