January to March • 10 January –
Jean Martinon,
conductor and
composer (died 1976) • 25 January –
Henri Louveau, motor racing driver (died 1991) • 9 February –
Jacques Monod,
biologist, awarded
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (died 1976) • 13 February –
Elsa Barraine, composer (died 1999) • 14 February –
Pierre Marcilhacy, politician (died 1987) • 19 February –
Mathilde Carré,
French Resistance agent, became a
double agent (died 1970) • 2 March –
Charles Pisot, mathematician (died 1984)
April to June • 12 April –
Irma Rapuzzi, politician (died 2018) • 23 April –
Simone Simon, actress (died 2005) • 30 April •
Pierre Lantier, composer and pianist (died 1998) •
Georges Rose, footballer (died 1997) • 4 June –
Jacques Berque,
Islamic scholar and
sociologist (died 1995) • 6 June –
Hélène de Beauvoir, painter (died 2001) • 8 June –
Fernand Fonssagrives, photographer (died 2003) • 11 June –
Jacques Cousteau, naval officer,
explorer,
ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and
researcher (died 1997) • 17 June –
Raymond Poïvet, cartoonist (died 1999) • 23 June –
Jean Anouilh, dramatist (died 1987) • 27 June –
Pierre Joubert,
illustrator (died 2002)
July to December • 2 July –
Louise Laroche, one of the last remaining survivors of the
sinking of the RMS Titanic (died 1998) • 5 July –
Georges Vedel,
public law professor (died 2002) • 6 July –
René Le Grevès, cyclist (died 1946) • 7 July –
Raymond Polin, philosopher (died 2001) • 27 July –
Julien Gracq, writer (died 2007) • 5 August –
Bruno Coquatrix, songwriter and music impresario (died 1979) • 7 August –
Lucien Hervé, photographer (died 2007) • 14 August •
Willy Ronis, photographer (died 2009) •
Pierre Schaeffer, composer, originator of
musique concrète (died 1995) • 29 August –
Georges Loinger, resistance fighter (died 2018) • 1 September –
Pierre Bézier, engineer (died 1999) • 2 September -
Madeleine Barbulée, actress (died 2001) • 3 September –
Maurice Papon, Vichy government official,
prefect of police of Paris (died 2007) • 8 September –
Jean-Louis Barrault, actor,
director and
mime artist (died 1994) • 14 September –
Gaston Defferre, politician (died 1986) • 29 September –
Paule Maurice, composer (died 1967) • 8 October –
Paulette Dubost, actress (died 2011) • 27 October –
René Zazzo,
psychologist (died 1995) • 29 October –
Aurélie Nemours, painter (died 2005) • 13 November –
Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, politician and diplomat (died 2010) • 19 December –
Jean Genet, writer and political activist (died 1986) • 21 December –
Rosa Bouglione, circus performer (died 2018)
Full date unknown •
Ernestine Chassebœuf, letter writer (died 2005) •
Henri Enjalbert, professor of
geography (died 1983) ==Deaths==