1977 in France

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Incumbents

Events

13 March - Municipal Elections held.
20 March - Municipal Elections held.
7 December - Launch of the Simca Horizon, a five-door medium sized hatchback which will also be built in Britain as a Chrysler and the USA as a Plymouth and Dodge. It replaces the Simca 1100 in France, and runs alongside the Chrysler Avenger saloon and estate in Britain.^[1]

Arts and literature

7 May - Marie Myriam wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 for France with her song L'oiseau et l'enfant ("The Bird and the Child").

Sport

30 June - Tour de France begins.
24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Bernard Thevenet.

Births

January to March

3 January - Stéphane Pignol, soccer player.
4 January - Louisa Baïleche, singer, dancer and performer.
4 January - Jonathan Cochet, motor racing driver.
11 January - Jérôme Kerviel, trader convicted of fraud for the 2008 Société Générale trading loss.
26 January - Jean-Michel Sigere, soccer player.
27 January - Siramana Dembélé, soccer player.
29 January - Alexandre Rousselet, cross-country skier.
9 February - Nicolas Coutelot, tennis player.
15 February - Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin, Alpine skier.
20 February - Nicolas Dessum, ski jumper.
23 February - Freddy Bourgeois, soccer player.
27 February - Jean-Pierre Vidal, alpine skier and Olympic gold medallist.
28 February - Pierre Mignoni, rugby union player.
28 February - Jean-François Rivière, soccer player.
4 March - Grégory Le Corvec, rugby union player.
7 March - Jérôme Fernandez, handball player.
8 March - Estelle Desanges, pornographic actress.
9 March - Sébastien Chabaud, soccer player.
9 March - Vincent Defrasne, biathlete and Olympic gold medallist.
12 March - David Bouard, soccer player.
15 March - Frédéric Serrat, boxer.
18 March - Willy Sagnol, international soccer player.

April to June

1 April - Vincent Doukantié, soccer player.
2 April - Marc Raquil, athlete.
13 April - Bertrand Laquait, soccer player.
13 April - Olivier Olibeau, rugby union player.
30 April - Lilian Compan, soccer player.
1 May - Jean-Michel Lesage, soccer player.
10 May - Gabriel Monnier, figure skater.
20 May - Mathieu Blin, rugby union player.
11 June - Vincent Ehouman, soccer player.
16 June - Delphine Pelletier, athlete.
19 June - Stéphan Perrot, swimmer.
22 June - Frédéric Weis, basketball player.
24 June - Jean-Philippe Caillet, soccer player.
30 June - Christophe Landrin, soccer player.

July to September

5 July - Jérôme Éyana, athlete.
13 July - Christophe Meslin, soccer player.
13 July - Romain Mesnil, pole vaulter.
20 July - Yves Niaré, shot putter.
24 July - Cédric Anselin, soccer player.
26 July - Christophe Laurent, cyclist.
8 August - Romain Pitau, soccer player.
9 August - Mikaël Silvestre, international soccer player.
15 August - Malek Aït-Alia, soccer player.
17 August - Thierry Henry, international soccer player.
18 August - Ludovic Roy, soccer player.
23 August - Yoann Bigné, soccer player.
24 August - Arnaud Gonzalez, soccer player.
27 August - Martial Robin, soccer player.
2 September - Frédéric Kanouté, soccer player.
3 September - Stéphane Bonsergent, cyclist.
3 September - Yannick Zambernardi, soccer player.
9 September - Sébastien Gimbert, motorcycle road racer.
11 September - Ludovic Hubler, hitchhiker.
28 September - Julien Pillet, sabre fencer and twice Olympic medallist.
30 September - Jean-Sébastien Jaurès, soccer player.

October to December

2 October - Patrick Barul, soccer player.
5 October - Christian Bassila, soccer player.
7 October - Sébastien de Chaunac, tennis player.
8 October - Anne-Caroline Chausson, Mountain bike racer.
11 October - Jérémie Janot, soccer player.
15 October - David Trezeguet, international soccer player.
31 October - Sylviane Félix, athlete and Olympic medallist.
31 October - Séverine Ferrer, singer.
12 November - Jérémy Henin, soccer player.
21 November - Kodjo Afanou, soccer player.
23 November - Jean-Baptiste Élissalde, rugby union player.
29 November - Cédric Uras, soccer player.
1 December - Joseph-Désiré Job, soccer player.
2 December - Jérôme Thion, rugby union player.
8 December - Sébastien Chabal, rugby union player.
14 December - Romain Dumas, motor racing driver.
17 December - Arnaud Clément, tennis player.
30 December - Alex Jeannin, soccer player.

Full date unknown

Jean-Pascal Chaigne, composer and musicologist.
Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, software engineer.
Zoé Félix, actress.
Éléonore Gosset, actress.
Anita Tijoux, singer.

Deaths

January to March

10 January - Jean Taris, swimmer and Olympic medallist (born 1909).
12 January - Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1907).
13 January - Henri Langlois, pioneer of film preservation and restoration (born 1914).
14 January - Anaïs Nin, writer (born 1903).
19 January - Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (born 1894).
24 January - Marc Detton, rower and Olympic medallist (born 1901).
10 February - Alain Escoffier, anti-communist activist, self-immolated (born 1949).

April to June

3 April - Pierre-Marie Théas, Bishop (born 1894).
11 April - Jacques Prévert, poet and screenwriter (born 1900).
2 May - Jean-Claude Lebaube, cyclist (born 1937).
22 June - Jacqueline Audry, film director (born 1908).

July to September

4 July - Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of the Singapore (born 1901).
7 July - Eugène Criqui, world champion boxer (born 1893).
21 August - Pierre Cot, politician (born 1895).
4 September - Adolphe Jauréguy, rugby union player (born 1898).
4 September - Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher (born 1894).
10 September - Hamida Djandoubi, last person executed in France (born 1949).
14 September - Marcel Carpentier, military officer (born 1895).
29 September - Jean Marsan, screenwriter and actor (born 1920).

October to December

19 October - René Mourlon, athlete and Olympic medallist (born 1893).
20 October - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (born 1909).
25 October - Félix Gouin, politician (born 1884).
5 November - René Goscinny, author, editor and humorist (born 1926).
7 December - Georges Grignard, motor racing driver (born 1905).
12 December - Raymond Bernard, filmmaker (born 1891).
19 December - Jacques Tourneur, film director (born 1904).

Full date unknown

Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer (born 1934).
Léonie Duquet, nun, killed by a death squad in Argentina (born 1916).
Marcel Gaston Fetique, bowmaker (born 1899).
Annette Laming-Emperaire, archeologist (born 1917).
Armand Lunel, writer (born 1892).
Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (born 1904).
Georges Miquelle, cellist (born 1894).

References

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