1928 in France

Events from the year 1928 in France.

Incumbents

Events

22 April – Legislative Election held.
29 April – Legislative Election held.
7 July – The French government issues an order limiting the list of private radio stations permitted to continue broadcasting.
27 August – The Kellogg–Briand Pact is signed in Paris – the first treaty which outlaws aggressive war.

Sport

17 June – Tour de France begins.
15 July – Tour de France ends, won by Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg.

Births

January to June

4 January – Maurice Rigobert Marie-Sainte, Martinique Roman Catholic clergyman
6 January – Capucine, actress
11 January – Andréa Guiot, soprano
17 January – Jean Barraqué, composer
23 January – Jeanne Moreau, film actress
24 January – Michel Serrault, actor
26 January – Roger Vadim, film director
10 February – Jean-Luc Lagardère, engineer and businessman
23 February – André Strappe, international soccer player
1 March – Jacques Rivette, filmmaker
3 March – Pierre Michelot, double bass player
19 March – Marceline Loridan-Ivens, writer, film director and Holocaust survivor
30 March – Robert Badinter, politician and lawyer
2 April – Serge Gainsbourg, poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director
12 April – Jean-François Paillard, conductor
28 April – Yves Klein, painter
2 May – Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, French writer, German translator
3 May – Jacques-Louis Lions, mathematician
5 May – Jacques Médecin, politician
28 May – André Schwarz-Bart, novelist
19 June – Jacques Dupont, Olympic cyclist
20 June – Jean-Marie Le Pen, intelligence officer and far-right politician
29 June – Jean-Louis Pesch, writer
30 June – Nathaniel Tarn, poet, essayist, anthropologist and translator

July to December

2 July – Line Renaud, actress
3 July – Georges-Jean Arnaud, author
6 July – Bernard Malgrange, mathematician
10 July – Bernard Buffet, painter
13 July – Jeanne Loriod, musician
26 July – Elliott Erwitt, French-American photographer and director
30 July – Paul Bisciglia, film actor
2 August – Yoko Tani, French-born Japanese actress and nightclub entertainer
6 August
* Jean-Christophe Averty, television and radio director
* Michel Clouscard, Marxist philosopher and sociologist
*Jean Carrière, writer
14 August
* Jacques Rouffio, film director and screenwriter
* Joëlle Bernard, film and television actress
21 September – Édouard Glissant, writer, poet and literary critic
27 September – Elizabeth F. Neufeld, French-born American geneticist
3 October – Christian d'Oriola, Olympic gold medal-winning foil fencer
23 October – Marthe Mercadier, actress
31 October – Jean-François Deniau, statesman, diplomat, essayist and novelist
13 November – Michel Gauquelin, psychologist and statistician
17 November – Arman, artist
2 December – Guy Bourdin, photographer
30 December – Christian Millau, food critic and author
31 December – Siné, cartoonist

Full date unknown

Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, psychoanalyst
Jean-Jacques Millant, bow maker
Jacques Poirier, painter

Deaths

2 January – Yves du Manoir, rugby player
11 February – Émile Basly, miner and trade unionist
22 February – Yves Guyot, politician and economist
7 March – Jules Auguste Lemire, priest and social reformer
1 July – Achille Maffre de Baugé, poet
28 July – Édouard-Henri Avril, painter and commercial artist
September – Paul Ferrier, dramatist
8 September – Jean Bourdeau, writer
23 October – François Victor Alphonse Aulard, historian
18 December
*Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, dermatologist
*Lucien Capet, violinist and composer
23 December – Georges Destenave, explorer