1928 in France

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in France header Events from the year 1928 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Gaston Doumergue
• President of the Council of Ministers: Raymond Poincaré

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)
• 11 January – Andréa Guiot, soprano (died 2021)
• 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)
• 19 March – Marceline Loridan-Ivens, writer, film director and Holocaust survivor (died 2018)
• 30 March – Robert Badinter, politician and lawyer (died 2024)
• 2 April – Serge Gainsbourg, poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director (died 1991)
• 12 April – Jean-François Paillard, conductor (died 2013)
• 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)
• 19 June – Jacques Dupont, Olympic cyclist (died 2019)
• 20 June – Jean-Marie Le Pen, intelligence officer and far-right politician (died 2025)
• 29 June – Jean-Louis Pesch, writer (died 2023)
• 30 June – Nathaniel Tarn, poet, essayist, anthropologist and translator (died 2024)

July to December

• 2 July – Line Renaud, actress
• 3 July – Georges-Jean Arnaud, author (died 2020)
• 6 July – Bernard Malgrange, mathematician (died 2024)
• 10 July – Bernard Buffet, painter (died 1999)
• 13 July – Jeanne Loriod, musician (died 2001)
• 26 July – Elliott Erwitt, French-American photographer and director (died 2023)
• 30 July – Paul Bisciglia, film actor (died 2010)
• 2 August – Yoko Tani, French-born Japanese actress and nightclub entertainer (died 1999)
• 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)
• 27 September – Elizabeth F. Neufeld, French-born American geneticist
• 3 October – Christian d'Oriola, Olympic gold medal-winning foil fencer (died 2007)
• 23 October – Marthe Mercadier, actress (died 2021)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1 July – Achille Maffre de Baugé, poet (born 1855)
• 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)

See also

• List of French films of 1928