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List of events
Events from the year 1908 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 12 January – A long-distance
radio message is sent from the
Eiffel Tower for the first time.
- 21 March –
Henri Farman pilots the first passenger flight.
Sport
Births
January to March
- 9 January –
Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (died 1986)
[1]
- 12 January –
Jean Delannoy, actor, screenwriter and film director (died 2008)
- 26 January –
Stéphane Grappelli, jazz violinist (died 1997)
[2]
- 31 January –
Simonne Mathieu, tennis player (died 1980)
- 12 February –
Jean Effel, painter, illustrator and journalist (died 1982)
- 26 February –
Jean-Pierre Wimille, motor racing driver and resistance member (died 1949)
- 27 February –
Pierre Brunet, rowing coxswain and Olympic medallist (died 1979)
- 29 February –
Balthus, artist (died 2001)
- 5 March –
Christian Boussus, tennis player (died 2003)
- 8 March –
Raymond Dronne, politician (died 1991)
- 14 March –
Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
phenomenological
philosopher (died 1961)
- 20 March –
Roger Trinquier, army officer (died 1986)
- 25 March –
Henri Rochereau, politician and
European Commissioner (died 1999)
April to June
July to September
- 2 July –
Léon Arthur Elchinger,
Bishop of Strasbourg (died 1998)
- 5 July –
Henri, comte de Paris,
Orléanist claimant to the French throne (died 1999)
- 12 July –
Alain Cuny, actor (died 1994)
- 25 July –
Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré, priest and author (died 2004)
- 5 August –
Shlomo Pines, French-born Israeli scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy (died 1990)
- 18 August –
Edgar Faure, politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist (died 1988)
- 22 August –
Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer (died 2004)
- 28 August –
Robert Merle, novelist (died 2004)
- 2 September –
Fania Fénelon, pianist, composer and cabaret singer (died 1983)
- 8 September –
Luc Étienne (Périn), writer (died 1984).
- 19 September –
Paul Bénichou, writer, critic and literary historian (died 2001)
- 19 September –
Robert Lecourt, jurist, fourth President of the
European Court of Justice (died 2004)
- 25 September –
Jacqueline Audry,
film director (died 1977)
- 25 September –
Roger Beaufrand,
Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist (died 2007)
October to December
- 30 October –
Marcel Béalu, writer (died 1993)
- 1 November –
Sylvia Bataille, actress (died 1993)
- 4 November –
Pauline Trigère,
fashion designer (died 2002)
- 6 November –
Françoise Dolto,
physician and
psychoanalyst (died 1988)
- 16 November –
Emmanuelle Cinquin,
religious sister (died 2008)
- 19 November –
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, organist and composer (died 2002)
- 24 November –
Simone de la Chaume, golfer (died 2001).
- 10 December –
Olivier Messiaen, composer, organist and ornithologist (died 1992)
- 17 December –
Raymond Louviot, cyclist (died 1969)
- 31 December –
Pauline de Rothschild, fashion icon and tastemaker (died 1976)
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 29 January –
François-Marie-Benjamin Richard,
Archbishop of Paris (born 1819)
- 13 April
Victor André Cornil, pathologist (born 1837)
- 7 May –
Ludovic Halévy,
author and
playwright (born 1834)
- 25 August –
Henri Becquerel, physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
- 14 November –
Denis Jean Achille Luchaire,
historian (born 1846)
- 20 November –
Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier,
classical scholar (born 1823)
- 27 November –
Jean Albert Gaudry,
geologist and
palaeontologist (born 1827)
- 5 December –
Ernest Hébert, painter (born 1817)
- Full date unknown –
Jacques-Eugène Feyen, painter (born 1815)
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