* 1971 – François Duvalier, Haitian politician, 40th President of Haiti ( b. 1907 )

* 1801 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer ( b. 1724 )

* 1855 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician ( b. 1803 )

* 1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French geologist ( b. 1787 )

Some of the most influential contemporary classical double bass players are known as much for their contributions to pedagogy as for their performing skills, such as US bassist Oscar G. Zimmerman ( 1910 – 1987 ), known for his teaching at the Eastman School of Music and, for 44 summers at the Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan and French bassist François Rabbath ( b. 1931 ) who developed a new bass method that divided the entire fingerboard into six positions.

* 1709 – François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( b. 1664 )

* 1751 – Henri François d ' Aguesseau, Chancellor of France ( b. 1668 )

* 1803 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet ( b. 1716 )

The Renaissance writer François Rabelais ( b. 1494 ) helped to shape French as a literary language, Rabelais ' French is characterised by the re-introduction of Greek and Latin words.

* 1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician ( b. 1755 )

* 1949 – François Brandt, Dutch rower ( b. 1874 )

* 1790 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher ( b. 1721 )

* 1865 – Edmond François Valentin About, French writer ( b. 1828 )

* 1828 – François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure ( b. 1750 )

* 1610 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France ( b. 1578 )

* 1745 – François Marie de Broglie, Duke of Broglie, French military leader ( b. 1671 )

* 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer ( b. 1747 )

* 1794 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( b. 1738 )

* 1626 – François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, French soldier ( b. 1543 )

* 1796 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general ( b. 1769 )

* October 21 – François Truffaut, French film director ( b. 1932 )

* September 21 – François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières, Constable of France ( b. 1543 )

* October 6 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1829 )

* January 10 – François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure ( b. 1750 )

* January 14 – François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral ( b. 1722 )

* 1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer ( d. 1796 )

* 1717 – Louis François, Prince of Conti ( d. 1776 )

This influenced European intellectuals like François Quesnay, an avid Confucianist and advocate of China's agrarian policies, forming the French agrarian philosophy of Physiocracy.

The Physiocrats were partially influenced by Chinese agrarianism ; leading physiocrats like François Quesnay were avid Confucianists that advocated China's agrarian policies.

* 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general ( d. 1794 )

In September of 1820, Ampère ’ s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current.

* 1625 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop ( d. 1695 )

* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.

* 1624 – François de la Chaise, French priest ( d. 1709 )

Bilingual Franco-Turkish translation of the 1604 Franco-Ottoman alliance | Franco-Ottoman Capitulations between Sultan Ahmed I and Henry IV of France, published by François Savary de Brèves in 1615.

She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by François Ponsard, Agnès de Méranie, and of an opera by Vincenzo Bellini, La straniera.

* 1524 – François Hotman, French lawyer and writer ( d. 1590 )

* 1907 – François Duvalier, Haitian dictator ( d. 1971 )

* 1750 – François de Neufchâteau, French statesman ( d. 1828 )

Juno asking Aeolus to release the winds, by François Boucher, 1769, Kimbell Art Museum.

* 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman, 4th President of the French Republic ( d. 1894 )

* 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer ( d. 1858 )

* 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac, French writer ( d. 1676 )

Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot ; François Rude ; Antoine Étex ; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.

* 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.

* 1644 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier ( d. 1730 )

AMOS BASIC was published by Europress Software and originally written by François Lionet with Constantin Sotiropoulos.

François Hollande, who succeeded Sarkozy in 2012, reinstituted the tradition.