January to June • 31 January –
Raymond Kaelbel, international soccer player (d. 2007) • 6 February –
François Truffaut, screenwriter, film director, producer and actor (d. 1984) • 18 February –
Alphonse Halimi, boxer (d. 2006) • 19 February –
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle,
opera director (d. 1988) • 22 February –
Robert Opron, automotive designer (d. 2021) • 24 February –
Michel Legrand, composer, arranger, conductor and pianist (d. 2019) • 18 March –
Denise Cacheux, politician (d. 2023) • 30 March –
Ted Morgan, French-born biographer and journalist • 4 April –
Pierre Lacotte, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2023) • 7 April –
Françoise Dior, supporter of the postwar Nazi cause (d. 1993) • 8 April –
Jean-Paul Rappeneau, film director and screenwriter • 12 April –
Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (d.
2019) • 16 April –
Pierre Milza, French historian (d.
2018) • 26 April –
Francis Lai, French composer (d.
2018) • 27 April –
Anouk Aimée, born (Nicole) Françoise Dreyfus, film actress (d.
2024) • 1 May –
Charles Ducasse, soccer player (d. 1983) • 17 May –
Archiguille, painter (d. 2017) • 21 May –
Jean Stablinski, racing cyclist (d. 2007)
July to December • 1 July-
Ze'ev Schiff, French-born Israeli military journalist (d. 2007) • 21 July -
Marie-Claire Bancquart, poet and critic (d. 2019) • 22 July –
Jean Barthe, French rugby league and rugby union player (d.
2017) • 17 August –
Jean-Jacques Sempé, cartoonist (
Le Petit Nicolas) (d.
2022) • 18 August –
Luc Montagnier, French virologist and
Nobel Prize winner (d. 2022) • 19 August -
Jacques Lob,
comic book creator (d. 1990) • 25 August -
Gérard Lebovici, film producer, editor and impresario (d. 1984) • 18 September –
Jean-Michel Defaye, musician (d. 2025) • 1 October –
Manuel Busto, French racing cyclist (d.
2017) • 13 October –
Liliane Montevecchi, French-Italian actress, dancer and singer (d.
2018) • 24 October -
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes,
physicist and the
Nobel Prize laureate in
Physics in 1991 (d. 2007) • 27 October -
Jean-Pierre Cassel, actor (d. 2007) • 30 October -
Louis Malle,
film director (d. 1995) • 3 November –
Guillaume Bieganski, French footballer (d. 2016) • 8 November –
Stéphane Audran, French actress (d.
2018) • 9 November –
Serge Roy, French footballer (d. 2025) • 20 November –
André Soltner, chef and food writer (d. 2025) • 29 November -
Jacques Chirac,
President of France (d. 2019) • 1 December -
Stéphane Bruey, international soccer player (d. 2005) • 2 December -
Michel Guerry, politician • 15 December -
Charles Bozon,
alpine skier and world champion (d. 1964) • 21 December -
Jean-Jacques Guyon, equestrian (d. 2017)
Full date unknown •
André Pascal, songwriter and composer (d. 2001) ==Deaths==