1907 in France
See also: 1906 in France, other events of 1907, 1908 in France.
Events from the year 1907 in France.
Events
Sport
Births
January to March
April to June
- 7 April - Violette Leduc, author (d.1972).
- 12 April - Eugène Chaboud, motor racing driver (d.1983).
- 15 April - Jean Fourastié, economist (d.1990).
- 29 April - Tino Rossi, singer and actor (d.1983).
- 23 May - Ginette Mathiot, food writer (d.1998).
- 26 May - Jean Bernard, physician and haematologist (d.2006).
- 30 May - Germaine Tillion, anthropologist (d.2008).
- 12 June - Émile Veinante, soccer player and coach (d.1983).
- 14 June - René Char, poet (d.1988).
- 17 June - Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (d.1990).
July to September
October to December
- 1 October - Maurice Bardèche, essayist, literary and art critic, journalist and Neo-Fascist (d.1998).
- 4 October - Alain Daniélou, historian, musicologist and Indologist (d.1994).
- 5 October - Jean Louis, costume designer (d.1997).
- 8 October - Pierre Bertaux, Germanist (d.1986).
- 9 October - Jacques Tati, comedic filmmaker (d.1982).
- 13 October - Yves Allégret, film director (d.1987).
- 17 October - Marcel Barbu, politician (d.1984).
- 29 October - Edwige Feuillère, actress (d.1998).
- 1 November - Paul Bacon, politician (d.1999).
- 1 November - Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (d.1990).
- 3 November - Raymond Bussières, actor (d.1982).
- 6 November - Raymond Savignac, graphic artist (d.2002).
- 18 November - Pierre Dreyfus, civil servant and businessman (d.1994).
- 19 November - Fernand Cornez, cyclist (d.1997).
- 20 November - Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer (d.1977).
- 30 November - Jacques Barzun, historian.
- 10 December - Daniel Barbier, astronomer (d.1965).
- 10 December - Lucien Laurent, international soccer player, scored the first ever World Cup goal (d.2005).
- 16 December - Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, General (d.1986).
- 24 December - André Cailleux, paleontologist and geologist (d.1986).
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 20 January - Louis Émile Javal, ophthalmologist (b.1839).
- 25 January - René Pottier, cyclist, winner of 1906 Tour de France (b.1879).
- 16 February - Princess Clémentine of Orléans, youngest daughter of Louis-Philippe, King of the French (b.1817).
- 20 February - Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.1852).
- 21 February - Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré, priest and orator (b.1827).
- 11 March - Jean Casimir-Perier, politician, fifth president of the French Third Republic (b.1847).
- 18 March - Marcellin Berthelot, chemist and politician (b.1827).
- 12 May - Joris-Karl Huysmans, novelist (b.1848).
- 13 July - Jacques-Joseph Grancher, pediatrician (b.1843).
- 6 September - Sully Prudhomme, poet and essayist, winner of first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 (b.1839).
- 21 September - Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, dermatologist (b.1827).
Full date unknown
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