List of Famous people who died in 1908

Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland
First Name Grover
Last Name Cleveland
Died on June 24, 1908

Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office. He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats to be elected president during the era of Republican presidential domination dating from 1861 to 1933.

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Khudiram Bose

First Name Khudiram
Born on December 3, 1889
Died on August 11, 1908 (aged 18)
Born in India

Indian freedom fighter Khudiram Bose was an Indian revolutionary who opposed British rule of India. For his role in the Muzaffarpur Conspiracy Case, along with Prafulla Chaki, he was sentenced to death and subsequently executed, making him one of the youngest martyrs of the Indian Independence Movement.

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Catherine Lynch

First Name Catherine
Last Name Lynch
Born on November 30, 1879
Died on October 19, 1908 (aged 28)

Catherine Lynch, née Catherine Driscoll, also known as Kate Driscoll, was a petty criminal from Swansea, Wales. Following the death of her father in an industrial accident in 1900, Driscoll took up employment as a domestic servant to a local publican's family. She rapidly descended into crime and alcoholism, and over the next few years was regularly convicted of prostitution, theft, and alcohol-related public order offences. She married in 1906, becoming Catherine Lynch, and although her criminal activity appears to have fallen somewhat following her marriage she continued drinking heavily.

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

First Name Nikolai
Died on June 21, 1908

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy-tale and folk subjects.

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Edward W. Carmack

First Name Edward
Last Name Carmack
Born on November 5, 1858
Died on November 9, 1908 (aged 50)

Edward Ward Carmack was an attorney, newspaperman, and political figure who served as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1901 to 1907.

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Butch Cassidy

First Name Butch
Born on April 13, 1868
Died on November 7, 1908 (aged 40)

Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West.

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Carlos I of Portugal

Carlos Fernando Luís Maria Victor Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Francisco de Assis José Simão
First Name Carlos
Last Name Portugal
Died on February 1, 1908
Born in Portugal, Lisboa, Lisbon

Dom Carlos I, known as the Diplomat and the Martyr, was the King of Portugal from 1889 until his assassination in 1908. He was the first Portuguese king to die a violent death since Sebastian in 1578.

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William Edward Ayrton

First Name William
Last Name Ayrton
Born on September 14, 1847
Died on November 8, 1908 (aged 61)

William Edward Ayrton, FRS was an English physicist and electrical engineer.

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Enomoto Takeaki

First Name Enomoto
Last Name Takeaki
Born on August 25, 1836
Died on August 26, 1908 (aged 72)
Born in Japan, Tokyo

Viscount Enomoto Takeaki was a Japanese samurai and admiral of the Tokugawa navy of Bakumatsu-period Japan, who remained faithful to the Tokugawa shogunate and fought against the new Meiji government until the end of the Boshin War. He later served in the Meiji government as one of the founders of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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Old Tom Morris

First Name Old
Last Name Morris
Born on June 16, 1821
Died on May 24, 1908 (aged 86)

Thomas Mitchell Morris, otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the "home of golf" and location of the St Andrews Links, and died there as well. Young Tom Morris, also a golfer, was his son.

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