1906 in France
List of events
Events from the year 1906 in France .
Incumbents
Events
Sport
Births
January to June
5 January – Pierre Seghers , poet and editor (died 1987)
21 February – Jeanne Aubert , singer and actress (died 1988)
8 March – Louis Peglion , cyclist (died 1986)
9 March – Joseph Mauclair , cyclist (died 1990)
18 March – Paul Rassinier , pacifist , political activist and author (died 1967)
25 March – Jean Sablon , singer and actor (died 1994)
26 March – Henri Cadiou , painter and lithographer (died 1989)
27 March – Bernard Lefebvre , photographer (died 1992)
2 April – Maurice Thiriet , composer (died 1972)
6 May – André Weil , mathematician (died 1998)
22 May – Paul Badré , aircraft pilot and engineer (died 2000)
3 June – Josephine Baker , American-born French dancer, singer and actress (died 1975)
7 June – Alexandre Renard , Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1983)
24 June – Pierre Fournier , cellist (died 1986)
July to September
1 July - Jean Dieudonné , mathematician (died 1992)
6 July - Colette Audry , novelist, screenwriter and critic (died 1990)
7 July - Charles Vaurie , ornithologist (died 1975)
27 July - Roger Duchesne , actor (died 1996)
30 July - Alex Thépot , international soccer player (died 1989)
18 August - Marcel Carné , film director (died 1996)
6 September - Luis Federico Leloir , physician and biochemist , recipient of 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1987)
12 September - Jacques Lacarrière , ice hockey player (died 2005)
30 September - Mireille Hartuch , singer, composer and actress (died 1996)
October to December
3 October - Raymond Triboulet , resistance fighter and politician (died 2006)
22 October - Marcel Ichac , alpinist , explorer , photographer and film director (died 1994)
7 November
14 November - Claude Ménard , field athlete, Olympic medallist (died 1980)
19 November - Jacques Leguerney , composer (died 1997)
16 November - Henri Charrière , convicted felon and author (died 1973)
10 December - Jules Ladoumègue , athlete and Olympic medallist (died 1973)
18 December - Ferdinand Alquié , philosopher (died 1985)
27 December - Andreas Feininger , French-born German-American photographer (died 1999)
Deaths
1 April - Léon Fairmaire , entomologist (born 1820)
18 April - Louis Gustave Vapereau , writer and lexicographer (born 1819)
19 April - Pierre Curie , physicist , shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics (born 1859)
5 July - Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton , painter (born 1827)
26 August - Victor, 5th duc de Broglie , aristocrat (born 1846)
18 October - Léon Gastinel , composer (born 1813)
22 October - Paul Cézanne , painter (born 1839)[2]
5 September - Albert Tissandier , architect , aviator , illustrator , editor and archaeologist (born 1839)
9 December - Ferdinand Brunetière , writer and critic (born 1849)
See also
References
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