1928 in France

Events from the year 1928 in France.

Decades:

Incumbents

22 April â Legislative Election held.
29 April â Legislative Election held.
7 July â The French government issues an order limiting the list of private radio stations permitted to continue broadcasting.
27 August â The KelloggâBriand Pact is signed in Paris â the first treaty which outlaws aggressive war.

4 January â Maurice Rigobert Marie-Sainte, Martinique Roman Catholic clergyman (died 2017)
6 January â Capucine, actress (died 1990)
11 January â AndrÃ©a Guiot, soprano (died 2021)
17 January â Jean BarraquÃ©, composer (died 1973)
23 January â Jeanne Moreau, film actress (died 2017)
24 January â Michel Serrault, actor (died 2007)
26 January â Roger Vadim, film director (died 2000)
10 February â Jean-Luc LagardÃ¨re, engineer and businessman (died 2003)
23 February â AndrÃ© Strappe, international soccer player (died 2006)
1 March â Jacques Rivette, filmmaker (died 2016)
3 March â Pierre Michelot, double bass player (died 2005)
19 March â Marceline Loridan-Ivens, writer, film director and Holocaust survivor (died 2018)
30 March â Robert Badinter, politician and lawyer (died 2024)
2 April â Serge Gainsbourg, poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director (died 1991)
12 April â Jean-FranÃ§ois Paillard, conductor (died 2013)
28 April â Yves Klein, painter (died 1962)
2 May â Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, French writer, German translator
3 May â Jacques-Louis Lions, mathematician (died 2001)^[1]
5 May â Jacques MÃ©decin, politician (died 1998)
28 May â AndrÃ© Schwarz-Bart, novelist (died 2006)
19 June â Jacques Dupont, Olympic cyclist (died 2019)^[2]
20 June â Jean-Marie Le Pen, intelligence officer and far-right politician (died 2025)^[3]
29 June â Jean-Louis Pesch, writer (died 2023)
30 June â Nathaniel Tarn, poet, essayist, anthropologist and translator (died 2024)

2 July â Line Renaud, actress
3 July â Georges-Jean Arnaud, author (died 2020)
6 July â Bernard Malgrange, mathematician (died 2024)
10 July â Bernard Buffet, painter (died 1999)
13 July â Jeanne Loriod, musician (died 2001)
26 July â Elliott Erwitt, French-American photographer and director (died 2023)
30 July â Paul Bisciglia, film actor (died 2010)
2 August â Yoko Tani, French-born Japanese actress and nightclub entertainer (died 1999)^[4]
6 August
- Jean-Christophe Averty, television and radio director (died 2017)
- Michel Clouscard, Marxist philosopher and sociologist (died 2009)
- Jean CarriÃ¨re, writer (died 2005)
14 August
- Jacques Rouffio, film director and screenwriter (died 2016)
- JoÃ«lle Bernard, film and television actress (died 1977)
21 September â Ãdouard Glissant, writer, poet and literary critic (died 2011)
27 September â Elizabeth F. Neufeld, French-born American geneticist
3 October â Christian d'Oriola, Olympic gold medal-winning foil fencer (died 2007)
23 October â Marthe Mercadier, actress (died 2021)
31 October â Jean-FranÃ§ois Deniau, statesman, diplomat, essayist and novelist (died 2007)
13 November â Michel Gauquelin, psychologist and statistician (died 1991)
17 November â Arman, artist (died 2005)
2 December â Guy Bourdin, photographer (died 1991)
30 December â Christian Millau, food critic and author (died 2017)

2 January â Yves du Manoir, rugby player (born 1904; air crash)^[5]
11 February â Ãmile Basly, miner and trade unionist (born 1854)
22 February â Yves Guyot, politician and economist (born 1843)
7 March â Jules Auguste Lemire, priest and social reformer (born 1853)
28 July â Ãdouard-Henri Avril, painter and commercial artist (born 1843)
September â Paul Ferrier, dramatist (born 1843)
8 September â Jean Bourdeau, writer (born 1848)
23 October â FranÃ§ois Victor Alphonse Aulard, historian (born 1849)
18 December
- Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, dermatologist (born 1856)
- Lucien Capet, violinist and composer (born 1873)
23 December â Georges Destenave, explorer (born 1854)