1908 in France
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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
- 13 July - Tour de France begins.
- 9 August - Tour de France ends, won by Lucien Petit-Breton.
Births
January to March
- 9 January - Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (died 1986)
- 12 January - Jean Delannoy, actor, screenwriter and film director (died 2008)
- 26 January - Stéphane Grappelli, jazz violinist (died 1997)
- 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
- 12 April — André Martinet, linguist (died 1999)
- 21 April - Louis Hostin, weightlifter and Olympic champion (died 1998)
- 5 May - Jacques Massu, General (died 2002)
- 29 May - Pierre-Henri Teitgen, lawyer, professor and politician (died 1997)
- 30 May - André Cheuva, soccer player (died 1989)
- 2 June - Marcel Langiller, international soccer player (died 1980
- 12 June - Henri Rol-Tanguy, communist and leader in the French Resistance (died 2002)
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 - Sœur Emmanuelle, nun and aid worker
- 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
- Gilbert Degrémont, water treatment expert (died 1974)
- Célestin Lainé, Breton nationalist and collaborator (died 1983)
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)