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List of events
Events from the year 1908 in the United States .
United States postcards for New Year 1908 January 11: Grand Canyon designated as a monument, and later, in 1919, becomes a National Park . January 1
January 13 – A fire at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania , kills 170 people. The tragedy is a catalyst for stricter fire safety laws nationwide.
January 15 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (the first Greek-letter organization for black college women) is established.
January 21 – New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance , making it illegal for people who control public places to allow women to smoke in them. It is vetoed by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. October 1: Ford Model T launch.
January 1 – Bill Tapia , musician (died 2011)
January 11 – Lionel Stander , actor (died 1994 )
January 14 – Russ Columbo , singer, bandleader, and composer (died 1934)
January 17 – Cus D'Amato , boxing trainer (died 1985 )
January 27 – Oran "Hot Lips" Page , Jazz musician (died 1954)
February 2 – Justice M. Chambers , Medal of Honor recipient (died 1982)
February 5 – Edith Ceccarelli , supercentenarian (died 2024 )
February 10 – Charles Henri Ford , novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer and collage artist (died 2002)
February 13 – Pauline Frederick , journalist (died 1990)
February 17 – Red Barber , baseball announcer and sports journalist (died 1992)
February 25 – George Duning , film composer (died 2000 )
February 26 – Tex Avery , Cartoonist (died 1980)
February 29 – Dee Brown , writer and historian (died 2002)
March 4 – T.R.M. Howard , African-American civil rights leader and surgeon (died 1976)
March 5 – Irving Fiske , American playwright, WPA writer and speaker; co-created Quarry Hill Creative Center in Rochester , Vermont , early children's rights activist; died 1990)
March 13 – Walter Annenberg , Publisher and philanthropist (died 2002)
March 20
March 22 – Louis L'Amour , author (died 1988)
March 26 – Henry (Hank) Sylvern , Radio personality (died 1964)
March 29 – Arthur O'Connell , Actor (died 1981) April 1 – Abraham Maslow , psychologist (died 1970 )[ 6]
April 2 – Buddy Ebsen , actor and dancer (died 2003)
April 4
April 5 – Bette Davis , actress (died 1989)
April 6 – John P. Davies , diplomat (died 1999)
April 15 – eden ahbez , musician (died 1995)
April 20 – Lionel Hampton , African-American musician and bandleader (died 2002)
April 25 – Edward R. Murrow , Journalist (died 1965)
April 29 – Jack Williamson , science fiction author (died 2006)
May 3 – Howard Cary , American engineer & founder of Cary Instruments (died 1991)
May 10 – Helen Elsie Austin , American attorney (died 2004 )
May 20 – James Stewart , actor (died 1997)
May 23
May 25 – Theodore Roethke , poet (died 1963)
May 30 – Mel Blanc , voice actor (died 1989)[ 7]
May 31 – Don Ameche , actor (died 1993)
June 13 – Marjorie F. Lambert , archaeologist & anthropologist (died 2006 )
June 18 – Bud Collyer , voice actor and game show host (died 1969)
June 20 – Billy Werber , baseball player (died 2009)
June 21
June 23 – Karl Warner , athlete (died 1995 )
June 25
June 26 – William F. Knowland , United States Senator from California from 1945 till 1959. Politician and newspaperman (died 1974 )
June 27
June 29
June 30 – Eunice Norton , pianist (died 2005 ) July 1 – Alvino Rey , swing era musician and bandleader (died 2004 )
July 3 – M. F. K. Fisher , food writer (died 1992 )
July 5
July 8 – Nelson A. Rockefeller , 49th governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 and 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (died 1979 )
July 12 – Milton Berle , comedian (died 2002)
July 19 – Daniel Fry , contactee (died 1992 )
July 21
July 22 – Claire Falkenstein , sculptor, painter, printmaker, jewelry designer and teacher (died 1997 )
July 23
July 25 – Kathryn Eames , actress (died 2004)
July 27 – Joseph Mitchell , writer (died 1996)
July 31 – Bill Shadel , Radio and TV news anchor (died 2005)
August 2 – Al Alquist , California politician (died 2006)
August 9 – A. I. Bezzerides , screenwriter (died 2007)
August 16
Orlando Cole , classical cellist and educator (died 2010)William Maxwell , novelist and editor (died 2000)** Miriam Rosen Minsker, centenarian[ 9]
August 20 – Al López , baseball player and manager (died 2005)
August 21 – Tom Tully , actor (died 1982 )
August 27 – Lyndon B. Johnson , 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969, 37th vice president of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (died 1973)
August 28 – Roger Tory Peterson , naturalist, artist and educator (died 1996)
August 30 – Fred MacMurray , actor (died 1991 )
August 31 – William Saroyan , fiction writer (died 1981)
September 2 – Ruth Bancroft , landscape and garden designer (died 2017 )
September 4 – Richard Wright , African-American author (died 1960)
September 6 – Korczak Ziolkowski , sculptor (died 1982)
September 7
September 10 – Raymond Scott , composer, bandleader, electronic music pioneer (died 1994)
September 13 – Mae Questel , actress (died 1998 )[ 10]
September 15 – Penny Singleton , actress (died 2003 )
September 16 – Neil Reagan , radio station manager, and CBS senior producer (died 1996 )
September 29 – Eddie Tolan , athlete (died 1967 )[ 11] October 6 – Carole Lombard , film actress (died 1942)
October 9 – Lee Wiley , jazz singer (died 1975)
October 14 – Ruth Hale , playwright and actress (died 2003)
October 15 – Herman Chittison , pianist (died 1967 )
October 20
October 22 – John Gould , humorist, essayist and columnist (died 2003)
October 25 – Polly Ann Young , actress (died 1997 )
October 27 – Lee Krasner , American painter (died 1984 )
November 1 – Felix Knight , actor, tenor, and vocal coach (Babes in Toyland (1934) ) (died 1998 )
November 8 – Martha Gellhorn , war correspondent (suicide 1998 in the United Kingdom )
November 12 – Harry Blackmun , judge (died 1999)
November 14 – Joseph McCarthy , U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (died 1957 )
November 18 – Imogene Coca , actress (died 2001)
November 20 – Alistair Cooke , English-born journalist (died 2004)
November 23 – Nelson S. Bond , science fiction writer (died 2006)
November 28 – Mary Oppen , activist, artist, photographer and writer (died 1990 )
November 29 – Adam Clayton Powell Jr. , politician (died 1972)
December 3 – Edward Underdown , actor (died 1989)
December 4 – Alfred Hershey , bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
December 6 – Baby Face Nelson , bank robber (died 1934 )
December 7 – Slim Bryant , country music singer, songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)
December 11 – Elliott Carter , composer (died 2012)
December 14 – Morey Amsterdam , actor and comedian (died 1996 )
December 16 – Frances Day , actress and singer (died 1984 )
December 17 – Willard Libby , chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1980)
December 21 – Herbert Hutner , banker and lawyer (died 2008)
December 23 – Sol Carter , baseball player (died 2006)
Grover Cleveland February 1 – Sara Iredell Fleetwood , African-American nurse and teacher (born 1849 )
February 21 – Harriet Hosmer , neoclassical sculptor, first female professional sculptor (born 1830 )
March 25 – Durham Stevens , diplomat (born 1851 )
March 26 – Louis Chauvin , ragtime pianist (born 1881 )
March 27 – Charles N. Sims , Methodist preacher, third chancellor of Syracuse University (born 1835 )
April 19 – Simon B. Conover , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1873 to 1879 (born 1840 )
April 20 – Henry Chadwick , English-born baseball writer and historian (born 1824)
May 14 – John O'Connell , baseball player (born 1872)
June 1 – James Kimbrough Jones , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1885 to 1903 (born 1839 )
June 9 – Drusilla Wilson , American temperance leader and Quaker pastor (born 1815 )
June 13 – Henry Lomb , German-American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (born 1848)
June 14 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby , founder of the Stanley Cup (born 1841)
June 24 – Grover Cleveland , 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897 (born 1837)
July 3 – Joel Chandler Harris , author (born 1848)
July 10 – Phoebe Knapp , hymn composer (born 1839)
July 29 – Estelle M. H. Merrill , journalist (born 1858 )
August 4 – William B. Allison , U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1873 to 1908 (born 1829 )
August 26 – Tony Pastor , vaudeville and theater impresario (born 1837)
September 17 – Thomas Selfridge , army officer & first aviation casualty (born 1882)
October 30 – Caroline Astor , socialite (born 1830)
November 7 – Butch Cassidy , train and bank robber (born 1866 )
December 9 – William Harvey Carney , first African American to receive the Medal of Honor (born 1840 )
December 13 – Augustus Le Plongeon , photographer and antiquarian (born 1826 )
Jacob W. Davis , Latvian-born tailor, inventor of jeans (born 1831)
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