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Other events of 2016
Timeline of French history |
President – François Hollande (Socialist)
Prime Minister – Manuel Valls (Socialist)
26 February - 41st César Awards
20 May - Introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes and tobacco products
11-22 May - 2016 Cannes Film Festival
13 June - 2016 Magnanville stabbing
2-24 July - 2016 Tour de France
14 July - 2016 Nice attack
26 July - 2016 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray church attack
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
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 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 1 – Jean Miotte, abstract painter (b. 1926)
April 1 – André Villers, photographer (b. 1930)
April 15 – Anne Grommerch, politician (b. 1970)
May 1 – Jean-Marie Girault, Mayor of Caen (b. 1926)
May 5 – Siné, political cartoonist (b. 1928)
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