1963 in France
# 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
* 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
* 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 – Pauline Ester, singer
* 22 December – Christophe Lavainne, cyclist
* 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)
