1928 in France explained

Events from the year 1928 in France.

Incumbents

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

4 January – Maurice Rigobert Marie-Sainte, Martinique Roman Catholic clergyman (died 2017)
6 January – Capucine, actress (died 1990)
11 January – Andréa Guiot, soprano (died 2021)
17 January – Jean Barraqué, composer (died 1973)
23 January – Jeanne Moreau, film actress (died 2017)
24 January – Michel Serrault, actor (died 2007)
26 January – Roger Vadim, film director (died 2000)
10 February – Jean-Luc Lagardère, engineer and businessman (died 2003)
23 February – André Strappe, international soccer player (died 2006)
1 March – Jacques Rivette, filmmaker (died 2016)
3 March – Pierre Michelot, double bass player (died 2005)
19 March – Marceline Loridan-Ivens, writer, film director and Holocaust survivor (died 2018)
30 March – Robert Badinter, politician and lawyer (died 2024)
2 April – Serge Gainsbourg, poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director (died 1991)
12 April – Jean-François Paillard, conductor (died 2013)
28 April – Yves Klein, painter (died 1962)
2 May – Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, French writer, German translator
3 May – Jacques-Louis Lions, mathematician (died 2001)^[1]
5 May – Jacques Médecin, politician (died 1998)
28 May – André Schwarz-Bart, novelist (died 2006)
29 June – Jean-Louis Pesch, writer (died 2023)
30 June – Nathaniel Tarn, poet, essayist, anthropologist and translator

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

2 January – Yves du Manoir, rugby player (born 1904; air crash)^[4]
11 February – Émile Basly, miner and trade unionist (born 1854)
22 February – Yves Guyot, politician and economist (born 1843)
7 March – Jules Auguste Lemire, priest and social reformer (born 1853)
28 July – Édouard-Henri Avril, painter and commercial artist (born 1843)
September – Paul Ferrier, dramatist (born 1843)
8 September – Jean Bourdeau, writer (born 1848)
23 October – François Victor Alphonse Aulard, historian (born 1849)
18 December
- Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, dermatologist (born 1856)
- Lucien Capet, violinist and composer (born 1873)
23 December – Georges Destenave, explorer (born 1854)