1963 in France

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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. ^[1]
• 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. ^[2]

Sport

• 23 June – Tour de France begins. ^[3]
• 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
• 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

1. "Elysée Treaty". France Diplomacy. French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
2. "L'AVENTURE DU PREMIER HYPER". LExpansion.com (in French). 6 May 1993. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
3. "50ème Tour de France 1963" [50th Tour de France 1963]. Mémoire du cyclisme (in French). Retrieved 6 April 2020.