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In the year 1908
815 Notable birthdays
Sonja Graf
German-born american chess player.
Born December 16th, 1908 in Munich.
Died March 6th, 1965 at 56 years old in New York City (liver disease).
Jacqueline Audry
French film director (1908–1977).
Born September 25th, 1908 in Orange.
Died June 19th, 1977 at 68 years old in Poissy (traffic collision). [ref]
Josué de Castro
Brazilian physician, writer and activist against world hunger (1908-1973).
Born September 5th, 1908 in Recife. [ref]
Died September 24th, 1973 at 65 years old in Paris. [ref]
Attila Sallustro
Paraguayan footballer (1908–1983).
Born December 15th, 1908 in Asunción.
Died May 28th, 1983 at 74 years old in Rome.
Sulamith Messerer
Russian ballerina and choreographer.
Born August 27th, 1908 in Moscow.
Died June 3rd, 2004 at 95 years old in London.
Tommaso Landolfi
Italian author and translator (1908-1979).
Born August 9th, 1908 in Pico, Lazio. [ref]
Died July 8th, 1979 at 70 years old in Rome. [ref]
Mikhail Somov
Soviet ocenographer and polar explorer.
Born April 7th, 1908 in Moscow.
Died December 30th, 1973 at 65 years old in Saint Petersburg.
Carlo Felice Trossi
Italian racecar driver (1908-1949).
Born April 27th, 1908 in Biella.
Died May 9th, 1949 at 41 years old in Milan (brain cancer).
Hélène Boucher
French pilot.
Born May 23rd, 1908 in Paris. [ref]
Died November 30th, 1934 at 26 years old in Guyancourt. [ref]
George Shevelov
Ukrainian writer, slavist philologist, literary historian, critic, member of the national academy of sciences of ukraine (1908-2002).
Born December 17th, 1908 in Kharkiv.
Died April 12th, 2002 at 93 years old in New York City.
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