List of Famous people who died in 1908

Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont was an American socialite and United States Representative from New York. Belmont was a member of the banking firm of August Belmont and Co., New York City. He became publisher of the Verdict, a weekly paper.

Luca Fumagalli was an Italian composer, pianist, and music educator.

José Plácido de Castro was a Brazilian soldier, surveyor, rubber producer and politician who led the armed revolt during the Acre War of 1902–03, when the Republic of Acre broke away from Bolivia. He was the president of the state of Acre just before and after it was purchased by Brazil. After the war he became extremely wealthy as a rubber producer, and made many enemies. He was assassinated in 1908. He is considered a hero of Brazil.

Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, lawyer, businessman and politician served as the fourth Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, a federal Cabinet minister, and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

Friedrich Leon Pohle was a German painter. He is mostly known for his portraits.

Sir Edmund Thomas Bewley, Irish lawyer and genealogist, born in Dublin on 11 January 1837, was son of Edward Bewley (1806–1876), licentiate of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians, Ireland, by his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Mulock of Kilnagarna, King's County (1791-1857).

Janet Marion Clarke was an Australian socialite and philanthropist. She was known to the general public as Lady Clarke, a title which she assumed after her husband's elevation to the baronetage in 1882.

The Reverend Honourable Edward Vesey Bligh JP DL was an English cricketer, diplomat and clergyman. A descendant of the Darnley Earldom in Kent he, along with many other members of his family, acted as a patron of cricket in the County during the nineteenth Century.

Valentine Graeme Bell (1839–1908) was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on the railway system of Jamaica.