What Happened In August 1908 In History

Historical Events for August, 1908

• 17th » 'Fantasmagorie (1908 film) e.g Fantasmagorie', the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1908

• 4th » Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
• 5th » Harold Holt, Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
• 6th » Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
• 6th » Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
• 6th » Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter (d. 1941)
• 8th » Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1990)
• 10th » Rica Erickson, Australian botanist, historian, and author (d. 2009)
• 10th » Billy Gonsalves, American soccer player (d. 1977)
• 11th » Don Freeman, American author and illustrator (d. 1978)
• 11th » Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (d. 1999)
• 13th » Gene Raymond, American actor, singer, and pilot (d. 1998)
• 14th » Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (d. 1984)
• 16th » Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator (d. 2010)
• 16th » William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American author (d. 2000)
• 18th » Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France (d. 1988)
• 18th » Bill Merritt (cricketer) known as Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1977)
• 20th » Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
• 21st » M. M. Kaye, Indian-English author and illustrator (d. 2004)
• 22nd » Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)
• 22nd » Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993)
• 23rd » Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor (d. 2008)
• 24th » Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (d. 1931)
• 26th » Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967)
• 26th » Bill Hunt (cricketer) or Bill Hunt, Australian cricketer (d. 1983)
• 26th » Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1999)
• 26th » Gilly Flower, English actress (d. 2001)
• 27th » Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
• 27th » Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
• 27th » Kurt Wegner, German painter (d. 1985)
• 28th » Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (d. 1996)
• 31st » William Saroyan, American author and playwright (d. 1981)

Famous Deaths for August 1908

• 11th » Khudiram Bose, Indian activist (b. 1889)
• 25th » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 26th » Tony Pastor, American actor, singer, and manager (b. 1837)
• 31st » Leslie Green, English architect (b. 1875)

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