| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| William Boyd Allison |
Politician |
2-Mar-1829 |
4-Aug-1908 |
US Senator from Iowa, 1873-1908 |
| Henri Becquerel |
Physicist |
15-Dec-1852 |
25-Aug-1908 |
Discoverer of radioactivity |
| Sir Redvers Henry Buller |
Military |
7-Dec-1839 |
2-Jun-1908 |
Chief of Staff during Boer War |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
Head of State |
7-Sep-1836 |
22-Apr-1908 |
UK Prime Minister, 1905-08 |
| Butch Cassidy |
Criminal |
13-Apr-1866 |
c. 1908 |
Train and bank robber |
| Henry Chadwick |
Journalist |
5-Oct-1824 |
20-Apr-1908 |
Father of baseball |
| Grover Cleveland |
Head of State |
18-Mar-1837 |
24-Jun-1908 |
22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97 |
| Randal Cremer |
Politician |
18-Mar-1828 |
22-Jul-1908 |
Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Pat Garrett |
Government |
5-Jun-1850 |
29-Feb-1908 |
Killed Billy the Kid |
| Ludovic Halévy |
Author |
1-Jan-1834 |
8-May-1908 |
French vaudevillain author |
| Joel Chandler Harris |
Novelist |
9-Dec-1848 |
3-Jul-1908 |
Uncle Remus |
| Harriet Goodhue Hosmer |
Sculptor |
9-Oct-1830 |
21-Feb-1908 |
19th c. American sculptor in Rome |
| Eppa Hunton |
Politician |
24-Sep-1822 |
11-Oct-1908 |
Representative and Senator from Virginia |
| George A. Jenks |
Attorney |
25-Mar-1836 |
10-Feb-1908 |
US Solicitor General, 1886-89 |
| Samuel W. T. Lanham |
Politician |
4-Jul-1846 |
19-Jul-1908 |
Governor of Texas, 1903-07 |
| Edward MacDowell |
Composer |
18-Dec-1860 |
23-Jan-1908 |
American piano composer |
| Machado de Assis |
Novelist |
21-Jun-1839 |
29-Sep-1908 |
Dom Casmurro |
| Thomas Mellon |
Business |
3-Feb-1813 |
3-Feb-1908 |
Patriarch of the Mellon dynasty |
| John Miller |
Politician |
29-Oct-1843 |
26-Oct-1908 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1889-91 |
| Donald Grant Mitchell |
Author |
12-Apr-1822 |
15-Dec-1908 |
Reveries of a Bachelor |
| Charles Eliot Norton |
Scholar |
16-Nov-1827 |
21-Oct-1908 |
American man of letters |
| Ouida |
Novelist |
1-Jan-1839 |
25-Jan-1908 |
Under Two Flags |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
Composer |
6-Mar-1844 |
8-Jun-1908 |
The Flight of the Bumblebee |
| Victorien Sardou |
Playwright |
5-Sep-1831 |
8-Nov-1908 |
Les Pattes de Mouche |
| Eli C. D. Shortridge |
Politician |
29-Mar-1830 |
4-Feb-1908 |
Governor of North Dakota, 1893-99 |
| Charles Emory Smith |
Journalist |
18-Feb-1842 |
19-Jan-1908 |
US Postmaster General, 1898-1902 |
| Frederick Arthur Stanley |
Government |
15-Jan-1841 |
14-Jun-1908 |
Hockey's Stanley Cup |
| The Sundance Kid |
Criminal |
19-Apr-1868 |
c. 1908 |
Outlaw and sidekick |
| Paul Taffanel |
Musician |
16-Sep-1844 |
22-Nov-1908 |
Flautist, French Flute School |
| Georgy Voronoy |
Mathematician |
28-Apr-1868 |
20-Nov-1908 |
Voronoi diagram |
