List of Famous people who died in 1908
Charles Wriothesly Digby
Charles Edmund Newton
Sigismondo Nicholo Venanzio Gaetano Francisco Giustiniani-Bandini, 8th Earl of Newburgh
Pauline Grattan
Arthur Henry Browne
Robert Lang
Robert Lang was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1860 to 1862 for Cambridge University.
Franz Bücheler
Franz Bücheler was a German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg, and educated at Bonn, where he was a student of Friedrich Ritschl (1806–1876).
Rafael Guastavino
Rafael Guastavino Moreno was a Spanish building engineer and builder who immigrated to the United States in 1881; his career for the next three decades was based in New York City.
Sundance Kid
Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch in the American Old West. He likely met Butch Cassidy after Cassidy was released from prison around 1896. The "Wild Bunch" gang performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American history. Longabaugh fled the United States along with his consort Etta Place and Butch Cassidy to escape the dogged pursuit of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Cassidy and Longabaugh were killed in a shootout in November 1908.
Elliott Lees
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Elliott Lees, 1st Baronet, DSO, was a British Conservative Party politician.