1992 in France

Events from the year 1992 in France.

Incumbents

Events

20 January – Air Inter Flight 148 crashes into the Vosges Mountains while on approach to Strasbourg, killing 87 of the 96 people on board.
22 March – Regional Elections held.
22 March – Cantonales Elections held.
29 March – Cantonales Elections held.
12 April – Euro Disney resort and theme park opens to the east of Paris.
17 June – The France's pursuit of the Euro 92 are ended by a 2–1 defeat to Denmark in the final group game in Sweden.
20 September – Maastricht Treaty referendum held, with a small majority in favour of ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.
8 October – Launch of the Renault Twingo, an entry-level car which takes on a ground-breaking one-box design and will compete with the likes of the new Fiat Cinquecento.
17 November – Start of the "couscous connection" trial in which Habib Ben Ali, the younger brother of the President of Tunisia is accused of laundering drug money.

Arts and literature

9 April – Jean-François Deniau, essayist and novelist, elected to the Académie française.
12 April – Disneyland Paris officially opens under the name "EuroDisney".
20 December – The Folies Bergère music hall in Paris closes.

Sport

8 February – The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville.
23 February – The closing ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics is held.
5 May – Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia, Corsica, when one of the terraces collapsed, killing 18 people.
4 July – Tour de France begins.
5 July – French Grand Prix won by Nigel Mansell of the United Kingdom.
26 July – Tour de France ends, won by Miguel Indurain of Spain.

Births

17 January
* Dounia Abdourahim, handball player
* Laura Augé, swimmer
22 January – Benjamin Jeannot, footballer
7 February – Jain, singer-songwriter and musician
10 February – Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, cyclist
15 February – Annaïg Butel, footballer
19 February – Marie Annequin, swimmer
21 February – Gauthier Mahoto, footballer
3 March – Sega Keita, footballer
10 March – Neeskens Kebano, footballer
28 March – Alexandre Ndoye, basketball player
30 March – Abdoulaye Diallo, footballer
31 March – William Gros, footballer
6 April – Mikail Albayrak, footballer
10 April – Najib Ammari, footballer
13 April – Melodie Monrose, model
24 April – Sigrid Agren, model
29 April – Gaël N'Lundulu, footballer
30 April – Mike Cestor, footballer
11 May – Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, middle-distance athlete
14 May – Anthony Derouard, footballer
18 May – Kevin Mendy, basketball player
22 May – Camille Lou, singer
28 May – Stéphane Bahoken, footballer
9 June
* Yannick Agnel, swimmer
* Dennis Appiah, footballer
16 June – Alexandre Jallier, French basketball player
17 June – Hugo Valente, French auto racing driver
18 June
* Rachid Alioui, footballer
* Adama Soumaoro, footballer
22 June – Terence Makengo, footballer
29 June – Sabri Lontadila, basketball player
6 August – Mehdi Abeid, footballer
19 August – Estelle Mossely, Boxer
4 September – Layvin Kurzawa, footballer
12 September – Gilbert Imbula, footballer
15 September – Camélia Jordana, pop singer
11 October – Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro, footballer
25 October – Clarisse Agbegnenou, judoka
7 November – Agnès Raharolahy, sprinter
1 December – Quentin Bigot, hammer thrower
2 December – Massadio Haïdara, footballer
12 December – Félix Maritaud, actor
24 December – Serge Aurier, footballer

Deaths

January to June

21 January – Bernard Cornut-Gentille, administrator and politician.
1 February – Jean Hamburger, physician, surgeon and essayist.
20 February – Pierre Dervaux, operatic conductor and composer.
14 March – Jean Poiret, actor, director and screenwriter.
16 March – Yves Rocard, physicist.
20 March – Georges Delerue, film composer.
30 March – Amédée Fournier, cyclist.
27 April – Olivier Messiaen, composer, organist and ornithologist.
5 May – Jean-Claude Pascal, costume designer and singer.
30 June – André Hébuterne, painter.

July to December

24 July – Arletty, singer and actress.
2 August – Michel Berger, singer and songwriter.
19 August – Jean-Albert Grégoire, car pioneer.
29 August – Félix Guattari, militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher.
16 September – Henri Legay, operatic tenor.
15 October – Paul Paillole, soldier.
29 November
* Jean Dieudonné, mathematician.
* Raoul Ploquin, film producer, production manager and screenwriter.
10 December – Jacques Perret, writer.
23 December – Vincent Fourcade, interior designer.

Full date unknown

Jules Gros, Breton linguist.
Bernard Lefebvre, photographer.