• Source: 1903 in France

Events from the year 1903 in France.




Incumbents


President: Émile Loubet
President of the Council of Ministers: Emile Combes




Events


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




Sport


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 (died 1989)
21 February
Anaïs Nin, writer (died 1977)
Raymond Queneau, poet and novelist (died 1976)
27 February – Fernand Gambiez, General and military historian (died 1989)
8 March – Jean d'Eaubonne, art director (died 1970)
9 March – André Godinat, cyclist (died 1979)




= April to June

=
8 May – Fernandel, actor (died 1971)
15 May – Germaine Dieterlen, anthropologist (died 1999)
22 May – Yves Rocard, physicist (died 1992)
2 June – Max Aub, author, playwright and literary critic (died 1972)
18 June – Raymond Radiguet, author (died 1923)
25 June – Pierre Brossolette, journalist and Resistance fighter (died 1944)
28 June – André Maschinot, soccer player (died 1963)




= July to September

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25 July – André Fleury, composer, pianist and organist (died 1995)
15 August – Pascal Pia, writer, journalist, illustrator and scholar (died 1979)
19 August – Claude Dauphin, actor (died 1978)
29 August – Jean Follain, author, poet and lawyer (died 1971)




= October to December

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1 October – Pierre Veyron, motor racing driver (died 1970)
10 October – Ferdinand Le Drogo, cyclist (died 1976)
16 October – Cécile de Brunhoff, storyteller (died 2003)
19 October – Jean Delsarte, mathematician (died 1968)
23 October – The French Angel, professional wrestler (died 1954)
24 October – Charlotte Perriand, architect and designer (died 1999)
1 November – Jean Tardieu, artist, musician, poet and author (died 1995)
3 November – Charles Rigoulot, weightlifter, professional wrestler, race car driver and actor (died 1962)
9 November – Léon-Étienne Duval, Cardinal (died 1996)
15 November – Lucien Rebatet, author, journalist and intellectual (died 1972)
27 November – Julien Moineau, cyclist (died 1980)
30 November – Claude Arrieu, composer (died 1990)
17 December – Roland de Vaux, priest and archaeologist (died 1971)
23 December – Armand Blanchonnet, cyclist and Olympic gold medallist (died 1968)




= Full date unknown

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Maryse Choisy, philosophical writer (died 1979)
Pierre Naville, writer and sociologist (died 1993)




Deaths


28 January
Augusta Holmès, composer (born 1847)
Robert Planquette, composer of songs and operettas (born 1848)
5 March – Gaston Paris, writer and scholar (born 1839)
14 March – Ernest Legouvé, dramatist (born 1807)
28 March – Émile Baudot, telegraph engineer (born 1845)
8 May – Paul Gauguin, painter (born 1848)
16 May – Sibyl Sanderson, American operatic soprano (born 1864 in the United States)
13 November – Camille Pissarro, painter (born 1830)




= Full date unknown

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Jean-Jules Allasseur, sculptor (born 1818)
Louis-Arsène Delaunay, actor (born 1826)




See also


List of French films before 1910




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