1903 in France

1903 in France

"See also:"
1902 in France,
other events of 1903,
1904 in France.

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Events from the year 1903 in France.

Events

*10 August - Paris Métro train fire kills 84 people mostly at Couronnes station.

port

*1 July - First Tour de France begins.
*19 July - Tour de France ends, won by Maurice Garin.

Births

January to March

*16 January - William Grover-Williams, motor racing driver and war hero.
*13 February - Georges Simenon, writer (d.1989).
*21 February - Anaïs Nin, writer (d.1977).
*21 February - Raymond Queneau, poet and novelist (d.1976).
*27 February - Fernand Gambiez, General and military historian (d.1989).
*8 March - Jean d'Eaubonne, art director (d.1970).
*9 March - André Godinat, cyclist (d.1979).

April to June

*8 May - Fernandel, actor (d.1971).
*22 May - Yves Rocard, physicist (d.1992).
*18 June - Raymond Radiguet, author (d.1923).
*2 June - Max Aub, author, playwright and literary critic (d.1972).
*25 June - Pierre Brossolette, journalist and Resistance fighter (d.1944).
*28 June - André Maschinot, soccer player (d.1963).

July to September

*25 July - André Fleury, composer, pianist and organist (d.1995).
*15 August - Pascal Pia, writer, journalist, illustrator and scholar (d.1979).
*18 August - Lucienne Boyer, singer (d.1983).
*19 August - Claude Dauphin, actor (d.1978).
*29 August - Jean Follain, author, poet and lawyer (d.1971).

October to December

*1 October - Pierre Veyron, motor racing driver (d.1970).
*10 October - Ferdinand Le Drogo, cyclist (d.1976).
*16 October - Cecile de Brunhoff, storyteller (d.2003).
*19 October - Jean Delsarte, mathematician (d.1968).
*24 October - Charlotte Perriand, architect and designer (d.1999).
*1 November - Jean Tardieu, artist, musician, poet and author (d.1995).
*3 November - Charles Rigoulot, weightlifter, professional wrestler, race car driver and actor (d.1962).
*9 November - Léon-Etienne Duval, Cardinal (d.1996).
*15 November - Lucien Rebatet, author, journalist and intellectual (d.1972).
*27 November - Julien Moineau, cyclist (d.1980).
*30 November - Claude Arrieu, composer (d.1990).
*17 December - Roland de Vaux, priest and archaeologist (d.1971).
*23 December - Armand Blanchonnet, cyclist and Olympic gold medallist (d.1968).

Full date unknown

*Maryse Choisy, philosophical writer (d.1979).
*Germaine Dieterlen, anthropologist (d.1999).

Deaths

*28 January - Augusta Holmès, composer (b.1847).
*28 January - Robert Planquette, composer of songs and operettas (b.1848).
*5 March - Gaston Paris, writer and scholar (b.1839).
*14 March - Ernest Legouvé, dramatist (b.1807).
*28 March - Émile Baudot, telegraph engineer (b.1845).
*8 May - Paul Gauguin, painter (b.1848).
*13 November - Camille Pissarro, painter (b.1830).

Full date unknown

*Jean-Jules Allasseur, sculptor (b.1818).
*Louis Arsene Delaunay, actor (b.1826).

References


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