1908 in France

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Events from the year 1908 in France.

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.

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 - Simone 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, rower 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).

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).

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).
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).

30 October - Marcel Béalu, writer (died 1993).
1 November - Sylvia Bataille, actress (died 1993).
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).

Gilbert Degrémont, water treatment expert (died 1974).
Françoise Dolto, physician and psychoanalyst (died 1988).
Célestin Lainé, Breton nationalist and collaborator (died 1983).
Thierry Maulnier, journalist, essayist, dramatist and literary critic (died 1988).
Luc Etienne Périn, writer (died 1984).

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