Curated category
1908 births
- Bill WeisbandWilliam Weisband was born in Odessa, Russian Empire, on the 28th of August 1908. He left his birthplace for the United States during the 1920s.
- James StewartJames Maitland Stewart was born on the 20th of May 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He grew up as the eldest child and only son of Elizabeth Ruth Jackson and…
- Eberhard ReesEberhard Rees arrived at the Army Research Center Peenemünde in the spring of 1939. He managed V-2 rocket fabrication and assembly during World War II.
- Bette DavisRuth Elizabeth Davis arrived in the world on the 5th of April 1908, within the industrial city of Lowell, Massachusetts.
- Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson was born on the 27th of August 1908, in a small farmhouse near Stonewall, Texas. His family lived on the Pedernales River where the…
- Valentin GlushkoValentin Glushko was born on the 2nd of September 1908 in Odesa to a Ukrainian Cossack father and a Russian peasant mother.
- David LeanDavid Lean was born on the 25th of March 1908 at 38 Blenheim Crescent in South Croydon, Surrey. His parents were Quakers who sent him to the Leighton Park…
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was born on the 28th of November 1908 in Brussels. His parents were French Jews who had moved there for his father's work as a portrait…
- Simone de BeauvoirSimone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir entered the world on the 9th of January 1908 in a wealthy Parisian family.
- Edward TellerEde Teller was born on the 15th of January 1908, in Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father Miksa worked as an…
- Thurgood MarshallThoroughgood Marshall was born on the 2nd of July 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked as a waiter in hotels and railroad cars while his mother…
- C. Vann WoodwardComer Vann Woodward entered the world on the 13th of November 1908 in Vanndale, Arkansas. This small town served as the county seat from 1886 until 1903 and…
- Gabriel Turville-PetreGabriel Turville-Petre entered the world at Bosworth Hall in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire on the 25th of March 1908.
- Arthur AdamovArthur Adamov arrived in Geneva, Switzerland during the chaos of the First World War. His family faced internment as enemy citizens within the Russian Empire.
- Lev LandauLev Davidovich Landau was born on the 22nd of January 1908 in Baku, then part of the Russian Empire. His father worked as an engineer for the local oil…
- Abe SilversteinAbraham Silverstein entered the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1925. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering by 1929.
- Ezriel CarlebachEzriel Carlebach was born in Leipzig on the 7th of November 1908 into a family of rabbis. His father Ephraim Carlebach founded the Höhere Israelitische…