1908 in France
Events from the year 1908 in France.Incumbents
January to March
- 9 January - Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher
- 12 January - Jean Delannoy, actor, screenwriter and film director
- 26 January - Stéphane Grappelli, jazz violinist
- 31 January - Simonne Mathieu, tennis player
- 12 February - Jean Effel, painter, illustrator and journalist
- 26 February - Jean-Pierre Wimille, motor racing driver and resistance member
- 27 February - Pierre Brunet, rowing coxswain and Olympic medallist
- 29 February - Balthus, artist
- 5 March - Christian Boussus, tennis player
- 8 March - Raymond Dronne, politician
- 14 March - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, phenomenological philosopher
- 20 March - Roger Trinquier, army officer
- 25 March - Henri Rochereau, politician and European Commissioner
April to June
- 12 April — André Martinet, linguist
- 21 April - Louis Hostin, weightlifter and Olympic champion
- 5 May - Jacques Massu, General
- 29 May - Pierre-Henri Teitgen, lawyer, professor and politician
- 30 May - André Cheuva, soccer player
- 2 June - Marcel Langiller, international soccer player
July to September
- 2 July - Léon Arthur Elchinger, Bishop of Strasbourg
- 5 July — Henri, comte de Paris, Orléanist claimant to the French throne
- 12 July - Alain Cuny, actor
- 25 July - Robert-Ambroise-Marie Carré, priest and author
- 5 August – Shlomo Pines, French-born Israeli scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy
- 18 August - Edgar Faure, politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist
- 22 August - Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer
- 28 August - Robert Merle, novelist
- 2 September - Fania Fénelon, pianist, composer and cabaret singer
- 8 September - Luc Étienne, writer.
- 19 September - Paul Bénichou, writer, critic and literary historian
- 19 September - Robert Lecourt, jurist, fourth President of the European Court of Justice
- 25 September - Jacqueline Audry, film director
- 25 September - Roger Beaufrand, Olympic gold medal winning cyclist
October to December
- 30 October - Marcel Béalu, writer
- 1 November - Sylvia Bataille, actress
- 4 November - Pauline Trigère, fashion designer
- 6 November - Françoise Dolto, physician and psychoanalyst
- 16 November - Sœur Emmanuelle, nun and aid worker
- 19 November - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, organist and composer
- 24 November - Simone de la Chaume, golfer.
- 10 December - Olivier Messiaen, composer, organist and ornithologist
- 17 December - Raymond Louviot, cyclist
- 31 December - Pauline de Rothschild, fashion icon and tastemaker
Full date unknown
- Gilbert Degrémont, water treatment expert
- Célestin Lainé, Breton nationalist and collaborator
Deaths
- 29 January - François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, Archbishop of Paris
- 13 April Victor André Cornil, pathologist
- 7 May - Ludovic Halévy, author and playwright
- 25 August - Henri Becquerel, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 14 November - Denis Jean Achille Luchaire, historian
- 20 November - Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier, classical scholar
- 27 November - Jean Albert Gaudry, geologist and palaeontologist
- 5 December - Ernest Hébert, painter
- Full date unknown - Jacques-Eugène Feyen, painter
