1963 in France

Events from the year 1963 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Charles de Gaulle
• Prime Minister: Georges Pompidou

Events

• 22 January – Élysée Treaty signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
• 29 January – President Charles de Gaulle vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the EEC.
• 4 March – In Paris, 6 people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle pardons 5 of them but the other conspirator is executed by firing squad few days later.
• 15 June – Carrefour open Europe's first hypermarket, in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Essonne.

Sport

• 23 June – Tour de France begins.
• 14 July – Tour de France ends, won by Jacques Anquetil.

Births

January to March

• 1 January – Jean-Marc Gounon, motor racing driver
• 6 January – Philippe Perrin, French Air Force officer, test pilot, and astronaut
• 7 January – Christian Louboutin, shoe designer
• 23 January – Éric Mura, soccer player
• 9 February – Lolo Ferrari, dancer, porn star, actress, and singer (died 2000)
• 24 February – Laurent Ruquier, journalist and television and radio host
• 19 March – Manu Bertin, one of the pioneers of Kite surfing
• 21 March – Thierry Froger, soccer manager, former player

April to June

• 6 April – Pauline Lafont, actress (died 1988)
• 7 April – Bernard Lama, soccer player
• 20 April – Laurent Lhardit, politician
• 23 April – Paul Belmondo, motor racing driver
• 25 April – Pascal of Bollywood, singer
• 28 April – Sandrine Dumas, actress
• 8 May – Michel Gondry, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, film, commercial and music video director
• 10 May – Patrice Kuchna, tennis player
• 20 May – Gérald J. Caussé, a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 24 May – Ludovic Batelli, soccer player and manager
• 28 May – Marc Antoine, jazz fusion guitarist
• 30 May – Élise Lucet, investigative journalist and television host
• 3 June – Andrée Taurinya, politician
• 4 June – Nicolas Boukhrief, screenwriter, film director and actor
• 7 June – Roberto Alagna, operatic tenor
• 8 June – Agnes Clancier, novelist
• 12 June – Philippe Bugalski, rally driver (died 2012)
• 13 June – Nathalie Lupino, judoka and Olympic medallist
• 17 June – Christophe Barratier, film producer, film director and screenwriter
• 18 June – Christian Vadim, actor
• 25 June – Thierry Marie, cyclist

July to September

• 4 July – Henri Leconte, tennis player
• 7 July – Pascal Payet, criminal
• 10 July – Ronan Pensec, cyclist
• 12 July – Thierry Tulasne, tennis player
• 30 July – Benjamin de Rothschild, banker (died 2021 in Switzerland)
• 13 August – Édouard Michelin, businessman (died 2006)
• 14 August – Christophe Arleston, scenarist and editor
• 14 August – Emmanuelle Béart, actress
• 23 August – Marie-Christine Cazier, athlete
• 31 August – Sylvain Kastendeuch, soccer player
• 7 September – Éric Di Meco, politician, former soccer player
• 8 September – Éric Poulat, soccer referee and computer scientist

October to December

• 28 October – Christian Plaziat, decathlete
• 1 November – Philippe Lucas, soccer player
• 5 November – Jean-Pierre Papin, soccer manager, former player
• 10 November –
• Sophie Amiach, tennis player
• Sylvain Chomet, animator and film director
• 15 November – François Lemasson, soccer player
• November – Pascal Parisot, songwriter and singer
• 2 December – Éric Boyer, cyclist
• 13 December – Philippe Collet, pole vaulter
• 18 December
• Olivier Broche, actor and producer
• Pauline Ester, singer
• 22 December – Christophe Lavainne, cyclist
• 28 December – Béatrice Uria-Monzon, mezzo-soprano (died 2025)
• 30 December – Xavier Mauméjean, writer

Full date unknown

• Gilles Bourdos, film director, screenwriter and producer
• Stéphane Derenoncourt, oenologist
• Sophie Lacaze, composer
• Jean-Yves Malmasson, composer and conductor
• Pierre Maubouché, actor, voice over artist, producer and casting director
• Xavier Veilhan, artist

Deaths

January to March

• 23 January – Gustave Garrigou, cyclist and 1911 Tour de France winner (born 1884)
• 30 January – Francis Poulenc, composer (born 1899)
• 9 February – Marcel Godivier, cyclist (born 1887)
• 10 February – Louis Paulhan, pilot (born 1883)
• 4 March – Édouard Belin, photographic inventor (born 1876)
• 10 March – André Maschinot, soccer player (born 1903)
• 11 March – Jean Bastien-Thiry, attempted assassin of President Charles de Gaulle in 1962 (born 1927)
• 26 March – Pierre Lacau, Egyptologist and philologist (born 1873)
• 29 March – Henry Bordeaux, writer and lawyer (born 1870)

April to June

• 10 May – Léonce Crenier, Roman Catholic monk and theologian (born 1888)
• 1 June – Yves le Prieur, naval officer and inventor (born 1885)
• 3 June – Edmond Decottignies, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (born 1893)
• 8 June – Gaston Ramon, veterinarian and biologist (born 1886)
• 9 June – Jacques Villon, painter and printmaker (born 1875)

July to September

• 1 July – Camille Chautemps, politician and three times Prime Minister of France (born 1885)
• 7 July – Géo-Charles, poet (born 1892)
• 31 August – Georges Braque, painter and sculptor (born 1882)
• 6 September – Jules Isaac, historian (born 1877)
• 11 September – Suzanne Duchamp, painter (born 1889)
• 22 September – Bernadette Cattanéo, trade unionist, communist activist, newspaper editor (born 1899)

October to December

• 10 October – Édith Piaf, singer (born 1915)
• 11 October – Jean Cocteau, poet, novelist, dramatist, designer and filmmaker (born 1889)
• 17 October – Jacques Hadamard, mathematician (born 1865)
• 21 October – Jean Decoux, Governor-General of French Indochina (born 1884)
• 25 October – Roger Désormière, conductor (born 1898)
• 11 November – André Le Troquer, politician and lawyer (born 1884)

Full date unknown

• René Baudichon, sculptor and medallist (born 1878)
• René Guyon, jurist (born 1876)

See also

• List of French films of 1963

References