List of Famous people who died in 1908

Eugen Albrecht was a German pathologist. His research largely dealt with the physical-chemical status of cells under normal and pathological conditions.

Lorenz Frølich was a Danish painter, illustrator, graphic artist and etcher.

François Edouard Joachim Coppée was a French poet and novelist.

Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New England Idylls. Woodland Sketches includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose". In 1904 he was one of the first seven Americans honored by membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Stanislao Lista was an Italian sculptor active in Naples.

Pyotr Isaevich Veinberg was a Russian poet, translator, journalist and literary historian.

Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity. For work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him.

Joseph Maria Olbrich was an Austrian architect and one of the Vienna Secession founders.