# 1977 in France

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 – 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.

## 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 player
* 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
* 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 medallist
* 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 player
* 27 December – Emmanuel Macron, French president
* 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)
* 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 the 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)
* 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)