Events from the year 1889 in France.
Incumbents
Events
Literature
Music
Births
January to June
July to December
- 5 July â Jean Cocteau, poet, novelist, dramatist, designer and filmmaker (died 1963)
- 22/23 July â Georges Bonnet, politician (died 1973)
- 7 August
- Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, Admiral (died 1964)
- Léon Brillouin, physicist (died 1969)
- 15 August â Marthe Richard, prostitute, spy and politician (died 1982)
- 20 October â Suzanne Duchamp, painter (died 1963)
- 25 October â Abel Gance, film director, producer, writer, actor and editor (died 1981)
- 6 November â Gabriel Hanot, soccer player and journalist (died 1968)
- 26 November â Albert Dieudonné, actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist (died 1976)
- 5 December â Marie-Louise Damien, singer and actress (died 1978)
- 7 December â Gabriel Marcel, philosopher (died 1973)
- 17 December â Antoine Béthouart, General (died 1982)
Deaths
- 23 January â Alexandre Cabanel, painter (born 1823)
- 16 March â Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer, theologian, critic and politician (born 1815)
- 9 April â Jean-Baptiste Arban, cornetist and conductor (born 1825)
- 20 April â Charles Friedel, chemist and mineralogist (born 1832)
- 23 April â Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, novelist and short story writer (born 1808)
- 24 April â Zulma Carraud, children's author (born 1796)
- 10 July â Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, French-American Catholic missionary and the first Bishop of Denver (born 1812)
- 19 August â Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, writer (born 1838)
- 29 September â Louis Faidherbe, general and colonial administrator (born 1818)
- 22 October â Philippe Ricord, physician (born 1800)
- 25 October â ÃÂmile Augier, dramatist (born 1820)
- 14 December â Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet, entomologist (born 1807)
- 31 December â Ernest Cosson, botanist (born 1819)
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