About the day » Thursday July 2, 1908Calender converter

• Ada Vanderwall -Visser, Blue Island is a city in Cook County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1941)
• Adriaan van den Berge, Rotterdam
• Aartje van Maren († 1983)
• Alita Beryl Ephraim, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Aagje Jans Ziel, Baarlo, Ambt Vollenhove
• Aaltje van Maren, Barneveld († 1983)
• Antal Gál, Zsáka, Hajdu-Bihar († 1908)
• Ada Marjorie HARDY, Aldborough, Yorkshire
• Adolf Joseph Van Neste, Beernem
• Anno Bolt, Baflo, Groningen, Nederland († 1982)

• Antje Jacobs van der Meij (92), Hollum, Ameland, Friesland, Nederland
• Andries Brunekreeft (57), Utrecht
• Anna Maria Sluydts (0), Lier, Antwerpen, België
• Antonia Josephina Wijnhoven (2), Eindhoven-Gestel
• Albertus Hagers (1), Schiedam
• Aaltje Koning (6), Katwijk
• Albertje Kooij (67), Avereest, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van den Broek, Woensel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Stokhof (55), Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Anna ten Hoor (0), Ees,Borger

• 1902 » K. Kanapathypillai, Sri Lankan author and academic († 1968)
• 1903 » Alec Douglas-Home, English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1995)
• 1903 » Olav V of Norway († 1991)
• 1904 » René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt († 1996)
• 1906 » Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2005)
• 1906 » Károly Kárpáti, Hungarian Jewish wrestler († 1996)
• 1906 » Séra Martin, French middle-distance runner († 1993)
• 1908 » Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States († 1993)
• 1911 » Reg Parnell, English race car driver and manager († 1964)
• 1913 » Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic († 1999)

• 1903 » Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)
• 1912 » Tom Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1914 » Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1836)
• 1915 » Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1830)
• 1920 » William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)
• 1926 » Émile Coué, French psychologist and pharmacist (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Gladys Brockwell, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Thomas William Burgess, English swimmer and water polo player (b. 1872)
• 1955 » Edward Lawson, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
• April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
• June 18 » Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the ship Kasato-Maru.
• September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
• November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
• November 7 » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
• December 28 » The 7.1 M_w  Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.

The temperature on July 2, 1908 was between 11.7 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 15.5 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.