January to March • 1 January –
Marcel Balsa, motor racing driver (died 1984) • 2 January –
Louis Poterat,
lyricist (died 1982) • 8 January –
Eugène Constant,
rower and Olympic medallist (died 1971) • 19 January –
Henri Daniel-Rops, writer and historian (died 1965) • 24 January –
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre,
painter, commercial
poster artist and
typeface designer (died 1968) •
20 February •
Marc Detton,
rower and Olympic medallist (died 1977) •
René Dubos,
microbiologist, experimental
pathologist,
environmentalist and
humanist (died 1982) •
21 February •
Albert Dupouy, rugby union player (died 1973) •
Pierre Lewden, athlete (died 1989) • 3 March –
Corentin Louis Kervran, scientist (died 1983) • 17 March –
Alexandre Bioussa, rugby union player (died 1966) • 26 March –
Maurice Dorléac, actor (died 1979)
April to June • 7 April – •
André Trocmé,
pastor who aided
Jewish refugees (died 1971) •
Annemarie von Gabain, German linguist (died
1993) • 8 April –
Jean Prouvé,
architect and
designer (died 1984) • 13 April –
Jacques Lacan,
psychoanalyst,
psychiatrist, and
doctor (died 1981) • 15 April –
René Pleven, politician (died 1993) • 20 April –
Michel Leiris,
surrealist writer and
ethnographer (died 1990) • 24 April –
René Le Hénaff, film editor and director (died 2005) • 15 May –
Jacques Natanson, writer (died 1975) •
18 May -
Henri Sauguet,
composer (died 1989) • 25 May •
Jean Borthayre, operatic
baritone (died 1984) •
André Girard, painter, poster-maker and Resistance member (died 1968) • 31 May –
Charles Brunier, convicted murderer and veteran of the
First and
Second World Wars who claimed to have been the inspiration for
Papillon (died 2007) • 13 June –
Jean Prévost, writer, journalist and member of the
Maquis (died 1944) • 16 June –
Henri Lefebvre,
sociologist and
philosopher (died 1991) • 24 June –
Marcel Mule,
classical saxophonist (died 2001) • 26 June –
Jean Boyer, film director and author (died 1965)
July to September • 20 July –
Gaston Waringhien,
linguist,
lexicographer and
Esperantist (died 1991) • 31 July –
Jean Dubuffet, painter and sculptor (died 1985) • 5 August –
Claude Autant-Lara,
film director and later
MEP (died 2000) • 17 August –
Henri Tomasi,
composer and
conductor (died 1971) • 18 August •
Lucienne Boyer, singer (died 1983) •
Jean Guitton, Catholic philosopher and theologian (died 1999) • 19 August –
René Capitant, lawyer and politician (died 1970) • 27 August –
Pierre Villon, member of the
French Communist Party and of the
French Resistance (died 1980) • 29 August –
Michel Olçomendy, first
Archbishop of the
Singapore (died 1977) • 8 September –
Jacques Perret, writer (died 1992) • 13 September –
Claude Dupuy,
Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1989) • 16 September •
Andrée Brunet,
figure skater (died 1993) •
Louis Joxe, statesman and Minister (died 1991) • 25 September –
Robert Bresson, film director (died 1999)
October to December • 3 October •
Jean Grémillon, film director (died 1959) •
François Le Lionnais, chemical engineer and mathematician (died 1984) • 12 October –
Gabriel-Marie Garrone,
Cardinal (died 1994) • 3 November –
André Malraux, author, adventurer and statesman (died 1976) • 14 December –
Henri Cochet, tennis player (died 1987) • 21 December –
Roland Ansieau, graphic artist (died 1987) ==Deaths==