1928 in France
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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 (died 2017)
- 6 January - Capucine, actress (died 1990)
- 17 January - Jean Barraqué, composer (died 1973)
- 23 January - Jeanne Moreau, film actress (died 2017)
- 24 January - Michel Serrault, actor (died 2007)
- 26 January - Roger Vadim, film director (died 2000)
- 10 February - Jean-Luc Lagardère, engineer and businessman (died 2003)
- 23 February - André Strappe, international soccer player (died 2006)
- 1 March - Jacques Rivette, filmmaker (died 2016)
- 3 March - Pierre Michelot, double bass player (died 2005)
- 2 April - Serge Gainsbourg, poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director (died 1991)
- 12 April - Jean-François Paillard, conductor
- 28 April - Yves Klein, painter (died 1962)
- 2 May - Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, French writer, German translator
- 3 May - Jacques-Louis Lions, mathematician (died 2001)
- 5 May - Jacques Médecin, politician (died 1998)
- 28 May - André Schwarz-Bart, novelist (died 2006)
- 17 June - Jean-Pierre Abbat, joint first person in the US to manufacture polyurethane (died 1993)
- 29 June - Jean-Louis Pesch, writer
July to December
- 3 July - Georges-Jean Arnaud, author
- 6 July - Bernard Malgrange, mathematician
- 10 July - Bernard Buffet, painter (died 1999)
- 13 July - Jeanne Loriod, musician (died 2001)
- 30 July - Paul Bisciglia, film actor (died 2010)
- 6 August
- Jean-Christophe Averty, television and radio director (died 2017)
- Michel Clouscard, Marxist philosopher and sociologist (died 2009)
- Jean Carrière, writer (died 2005)
- 14 August
- Jacques Rouffio, film director and screenwriter (died 2016)
- Joëlle Bernard, film and television actress (died 1977)
- 21 September - Édouard Glissant, writer, poet and literary critic (died 2011)
- 3 October - Christian d'Oriola, Olympic gold medal winning foil fencer (died 2007)
- 23 October - Marthe Mercadier, actress
- 31 October - Jean-François Deniau, statesman, diplomat, essayist and novelist (died 2007)
- 13 November - Michel Gauquelin, psychologist and statistician (died 1991)
- 17 November - Arman, artist (died 2005)
- 2 December - Guy Bourdin, photographer (died 1991)
- 30 December - Christian Millau, food critic and author (died 2017)
- 31 December - Siné, cartoonist (died 2016)
Full date unknown
- Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, psychoanalyst (died 2006)
- Jean-Jacques Millant, bow maker (died 1998)
- Jacques Poirier, painter (died 2002)
Deaths
- 2 January - Yves du Manoir, rugby player (born 1904; air crash)[1]
- 11 February - Émile Basly, miner and trade unionist (born 1854)
- 22 February - Yves Guyot, politician and economist (born 1843)
- 7 March - Jules Auguste Lemire, priest and social reformer (born 1853)
- 28 July - Édouard-Henri Avril, painter and commercial artist (born 1843)
- September - Paul Ferrier, dramatist (born 1843)
- 8 September - Jean Bourdeau, writer (born 1848)
- 23 October - François Victor Alphonse Aulard, historian (born 1849)
- 18 December
- Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, dermatologist (born 1856)
- Lucien Capet, violinist and composer (born 1873)
- 23 December - Georges Destenave, explorer (born 1854)
Full date unknown
- Achille Maffre de Baugé, poet (born 1855)