1977 in France

none February 2025 April 2022 1977 Events from the year 1977 in France. Incumbents President: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Prime Minister: Raymond Barre Events 13 March – Municipal Elections held. 20 March – Municipal Elections held. 27 June – Djibouti receives its independence from France. 10 September – Murderer Hamida Djandoubi's is the last guillotine execution in France (at Marseille) and the last legal beheading in the Western world. 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 US as a Plymouth and Dodge. It replaces the Simca 1100 in France, and runs alongside the Chrysler Avenger saloon and estate in Britain.http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/car-development/dev-horizon.html Development of the Chrysler – Talbot – Simca Horizon 15 October 2010 3 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180804/http://www.rootes-chrysler.co.uk/car-development/dev-horizon.html dead Arts and literature 31 January – Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris officially opened. 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 Thévenet. Births January to March 3 January – Stéphane Pignol, soccer player 4 January Louisa Baïleche, singer, dancer and performer 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 16 February – Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, software engineer 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 Jean-François Rivière, soccer player 4 March – Grégory Le Corvec, rugby union playerGregory Le Corvec – Player Profile – Rugby https://www.eurosport.co.uk/rugby/gregory-le-corvec_prs11527/person.shtml Eurosport UK 7 June 2022 en 7 March – Jérôme Fernandez, handball player 8 March – Estelle Desanges, pornographic actress 9 March Sébastien Chabaud, soccer player 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 7 May – Zoé Félix, actress 10 May – Gabriel Monnier, figure skater 14 May – Claude Crétier, alpine skier 20 May – Mathieu Blin, rugby union player 10 June – Benjamin Millepied, dancer and choreographer 11 June – Vincent Ehouman, soccer player 12 June – Anita Tijoux, alternative hip-hop singer 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 6 July – Audrey Fleurot, actress 13 July Christophe Meslin, soccer player 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 medallistSylviane FÉLIX Profile World Athletics https://worldathletics.org/athletes/france/sylviane-felix-14257542 worldathletics.org 7 June 2022 31 October – Séverine Ferrer, singer 6 November – Frédéric Mathieu, politician 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 30 November – Virginie Guilhaume, television host 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 playerArnaud Clément – Player Profile – Tennis https://www.eurosport.co.uk/tennis/arnaud-clement_prs527/person.shtml Eurosport UK 7 June 2022 en 27 December – Emmanuel Macron, French presidentEmmanuel Macron Biography, Political Party, Age, Presidency, & Facts Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emmanuel-Macron Encyclopædia Britannica 7 June 2022 en 30 December – Alex Jeannin, soccer player Full date unknown Jean-Pascal Chaigne, composer and musicologist Éléonore Gosset, actress 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)Henri-Georges Clouzot https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba13979e1 https://web.archive.org/web/20160306194302/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba13979e1 dead 6 March 2016 British Film Institute 7 June 2022 en 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) 2 March – Eugénie Brazier, chef, "la mère" of modern French cooking (born 1895) April to June 3 April – Pierre-Marie Théas, Roman Catholic bishop (born 1894) 11 April Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian (born 1904). Jacques Prévert, poet and screenwriter (born 1900) 2 May – Jean-Claude Lebaube, cyclist (born 1937) 17 May – Claude Roger-Marx, writer (born 1888) May – Annette Laming-Emperaire, archeologist (born 1917) 22 June – Jacqueline Audry, film director (born 1908) July to September 4 July – Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of Singapore (born 1901) 7 July – Eugène Criqui, world champion boxer (born 1893) 29 July – Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer (born 1934) 13 August – Marie-Hélène Cardot, French resistance leader and politician (born 1899) 21 August – Pierre Cot, politician (born 1895) 4 September Adolphe Jauréguy, rugby union player (born 1898) 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)Olympedia – René Mourlon http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68416 Olympedia 7 June 2022 20 October – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso (born 1909) 25 October – Félix Gouin, politician (born 1884) 3 November – Armand Lunel, writer, last known speaker of Shuadit (born 1892) 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 Léonie Duquet, nun, killed by a death squad in Argentina (born 1916) Marcel Fétique, bow maker (born 1899). Georges Miquelle, cellist (born 1894) See also 1977 in French television List of French films of 1977 References 1977 France France Category:1970s in France Category:Years of the 20th century in France