Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 - 1913 - 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Events:
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- January 5 - Jean-Pierre Aumont[?], actor
- January 6 - Loretta Young, actress (+ 2000)
- January 9 - Richard M. Nixon, United States President
- January 15 - Lloyd Bridges[?], actor (+ 1998)
- January 18 - Danny Kaye, actor (+ 1987)
- January 29 - Peter von Zahn[?], journalist and writer
- February 4 - Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
- February 6 - Mary Leakey[?], anthropologist (+ 1996)
- February 11 - Lucio Diestro[?], composer.
- February 14 - Jimmy Hoffa, labor union leader (+ 1975 (disappeared))
- February 14 - Mel Allen[?], sports reporter (+ 1996)
- February 25 - Gert Fröbe[?], actor (+ 1988)
- February 25 - Jim Backus, actor (+ 1989)
- February 27 - Irwin Shaw[?], writer (+ 1984)
- March 4 - John Garfield, actor (+ 1952)
- March 13 - William Casey, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (+ 1987)
- March 29 - Tony Zale[?], world champion boxer (+ 1997)
- March 30 - Richard Helms, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (+ 2002)
- March 30 - Frankie Laine[?], singer
- May 11 - Robert Jungk[?], publicist and futurologist (+ 1994)
- May 16 - Woody Herman[?], musician, band leader (+ 1987)
- May 20 - William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard
- May 26 - Peter Cushing, British actor (+ 1994)
- June 11 - Vince Lombardi, American football coach
- July 14 - Gerald Ford, American president.
- August 28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian novellist
- September 12 - Jesse Owens, American athlete
- September 29 - Trevor Howard, actor
- September 30 - Bill Walsh, Movie producer and writer.
- November 2 - Burt Lancaster, actor
- November 5 - Vivien Leigh, British actress
- November 7 - Albert Camus, writer
- November 22 - Benjamin Britten, composer
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