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List of events
Events from the year 1916 in France .
Incumbents
Events
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(July 2010 )
Births
January to June
11 January –
Bernard Blier , actor (died 1989)
22 January –
Henri Dutilleux , composer (died 2013)
14 February –
Marcel Bigeard , military officer (died 2010)
16 February –
Julien Darui , international soccer player (died 1987)
1 March –
Lucienne Abraham ,
Trotskyist
politician (died 1970)
20 March –
Pierre Messmer ,
Gaullist politician and Prime Minister (died 2007)
4 April –
Robert Charpentier , cyclist and Olympic gold medallist (died 1966)
9 April –
Léonie Duquet , nun (killed by a
death squad in
Argentina 1977)
5 May –
Andrée Clair , writer (died 1982)
6 May –
Jacques-Laurent Bost , journalist (died 1990)
25 May –
André Devigny , soldier and
French Resistance member (died 1999)
30 May –
Jacques Georges , soccer administrator (died 2004)
3 June –
Denise Vernac , actress (died 1984)
10 June –
André Mandouze , academic and journalist (died 2006)
16 June –
Francis Cammaerts ,
Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent (died 2006)
July to December
22 July –
Marcel Cerdan , boxer (died 1949)
24 August –
Léo Ferré , poet, composer, singer and musician (died 1993)
17 September –
Francis Lefebure , physician (died 1988)
21 September –
Françoise Giroud , journalist, screenwriter, writer and politician (died 2003)
18 October –
Jean-Yves Couliou , painter (died 1995)
19 October –
Jean Dausset ,
immunologist , shares the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 (died 2009)
26 October –
François Mitterrand ,
President of France from 1981 to 1995 (died 1996)
14 November –
Roger Apéry ,
mathematician (died 1994)
Deaths
17 January –
Marie Bracquemond , Impressionist painter (born 1840)
22 February –
Émile Driant , nationalist writer, politician and army officer (born 1855; killed in action)
3 March -
Jean Mounet-Sully , actor (born 1841)
4 March –
Franz Marc , German painter and printmaker (born 1880)
21 March –
Léon Labbé ,
surgeon and politician (born 1832)
12 May –
Frank Cheadle , Australian rugby league footballer and World War I soldier (born 1885)
19 May –
Georges Boillot , motor racing driver and
World War I fighter pilot (born 1884)
25 May –
Jane Dieulafoy , archaeologist and novelist (born 1851)
29 June –
Georges Lacombe , sculptor and painter (born 1868)
6 July –
Odilon Redon , painter and printmaker (born 1840)
8 July –
Augustin Cochin , historian (born 1876)
28 August –
Henri Harpignies , painter (born 1819)
26 September –
Max Ritter von Mulzer , World War I German flying ace (born 1893)
13 December –
Antonin Mercié , sculptor and painter (born 1845)
14 December –
Frédéric Febvre , actor (born 1835)
See also
References
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