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Incumbents
Events
February
- 26 February - 41st César Awards
May
- 20 May - Introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes and tobacco products
- 11-22 May - 2016 Cannes Film Festival
June
- 13 June - 2016 Magnanville stabbing
July
- 2-24 July - 2016 Tour de France
- 14 July - 2016 Nice attack
- 26 July - 2016 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray church attack
August
- August 5-21 - 177 athletes from France compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- August 6 - Thirteen people are killed in a fire in Rouen
Deaths
January
- January 1 – Jacques Deny, mathematician (b. 1916)
- January 2 – Michel Delpech, singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1946)
- January 4
- André Turcat, aviator (b. 1921)
- Michel Galabru, actor (b. 1922)
- January 5
- Tancrède Melet, tightrope walker (b. 1983)
- Pierre Boulez, composer, conductor and writer (b. 1925)
- January 6 – Yves Vincent, actor (b. 1921)
- January 7 – André Courrèges, fashion designer (b. 1923)
- January 15 – Robert Darène, film director and actor (b. 1914)
- January 18
- Michel Tournier, writer (b. 1924)
- Leila Alaoui, artist and photographer (b. 1982)
- January 20 – Edmonde Charles-Roux, writer (b. 1920)
- January 21 – Robert Sassone, road racing cyclist (b. 1978)
- January 23 – Bernard Quennehen, road racing cyclist (b. 1930)
- January 28 – Emile Destombes, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1935)
- January 29 – Jacques Rivette, film director and film critic (b. 1928)
- January 31 – Benoît Violier, chef (b. 1971)
February
- February 1 – Bernard Piras, politician (b. 1942)
- February 7 – Juliette Benzoni, writer (b. 1920)
- February 8 – Violette Verdy, ballerina (b. 1933)
- February 17 – Claude Jeancolas, author (b. 1949)
March
- March 1 – Jean Miotte, abstract painter (b. 1926)
April
- April 1 – André Villers, photographer (b. 1930)
- April 15 – Anne Grommerch, politician (b. 1970)
May
- May 1 – Jean-Marie Girault, Mayor of Caen (b. 1926)
- May 5 – Siné, political cartoonist (b. 1928)
See also
References
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