1908

leap year starting on Wednesday
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1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1908th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 908th year of the 2nd millennium, the 8th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1908, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1870s  1880s  1890s  – 1900s –  1910s  1920s  1930s
Years: 1905 1906 190719081909 1910 1911
1908 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1908
MCMVIII
Ab urbe condita2661
Armenian calendar1357
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Assyrian calendar6658
Bahá'í calendar64–65
Balinese saka calendar1829–1830
Bengali calendar1315
Berber calendar2858
British Regnal yearEdw. 7 – 8 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar2452
Burmese calendar1270
Byzantine calendar7416–7417
Chinese calendar丁未(Fire Goat)
4604 or 4544
    — to —
戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4605 or 4545
Coptic calendar1624–1625
Discordian calendar3074
Ethiopian calendar1900–1901
Hebrew calendar5668–5669
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1964–1965
 - Shaka Samvat1829–1830
 - Kali Yuga5008–5009
Holocene calendar11908
Igbo calendar908–909
Iranian calendar1286–1287
Islamic calendar1325–1326
Japanese calendarMeiji 41
(明治41年)
Javanese calendar1837–1838
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4241
Minguo calendar4 before ROC
民前4年
Nanakshahi calendar440
Thai solar calendar2450–2451
Tibetan calendar阴火羊年
(female Fire-Goat)
2034 or 1653 or 881
    — to —
阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
2035 or 1654 or 882

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Births

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January

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Simone de Beauvoir
 
Ethel Merman
 
Lev Landau

February

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Amintore Fanfani
 
Rómulo Betancourt
 
William McMahon
 
Rex Harrison
 
Anna Magnani
 
Michael Redgrave
 
David Lean
 
Manoel de Oliveira
 
Bette Davis
 
Herbert von Karajan
 
Oskar Schindler
 
James Stewart
 
John Bardeen
 
Hannes Alfvén
 
Salvador Allende
 
Nelson Rockefeller
 
Milton Berle

August

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Lyndon Johnson
 
Fred MacMurray

September

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October

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Carole Lombard
 
John Kenneth Galbraith
 
Enver Hoxha

November

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December

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