title: 1963 in France
text: # 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)
  