# 1930 in France

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Events from the year 1930 in France.

## Incumbents

* President: Gaston Doumergue
* President of the Council of Ministers:
** until 21 February: André Tardieu
** 21 February-2 March: Camille Chautemps
** 2 March-13 December: André Tardieu
** starting 13 December: Théodore Steeg

## Events

* 10 February – Yen Bai mutiny takes place, an uprising by Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army's garrison in Yen Bai.
* 22 April – London Naval Treaty is agreed between United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States.
* 17 May – Prime Minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rhineland. They depart by 30 June.
* 21 June – One-year conscription comes into force in France.
* 5 October – British Airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.

## Sport

* 2 July – Tour de France begins.
* 13 July – The first Football World Cup starts: Lucien Laurent scores the first goal, for France against Mexico.
* 27 July – Tour de France ends, won by André Leducq.

## Births
### January to June

* 1 January – Jean-Pierre Duprey, poet and sculptor (died 1959)
* 13 January – Françoise Prévost, actress (died 1997)
* 3 February – Roger Duchêne, biographer (died 2006)
* 20 February – Pierre Gabaye, composer (died 2000)
* 1 March – Pierre Max Dubois, composer (died 1995)
* 6 March – Lorin Maazel, conductor, violinist and composer (died 2014)
* 10 April – Claude Bolling, jazz pianist, composer and arranger (died 2020)
* 14 April – René Desmaison, mountaineer, climber and alpinist (died 2007)
* 29 April – Jean Rochefort, actor (died 2017)
* 30 April – Félix Guattari, militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher (died 1992)
* 25 May – Sonia Rykiel, fashion designer (died 2016)
* 9 June – Monique Serf, singer (died 1997)
* 24 June
** Pierre Restany, art critic and cultural philosopher (died 2003)
** Claude Chabrol, film director and cinema critic (died 2010)

### July to December

* 15 July – Jacques Derrida, philosopher (died 2004)
* 23 July – Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian (died 2006)
* 1 August – Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist (died 2002)
* 17 August – Jean Bourlès, cyclist (died 2021)
* 24 September – Catherine Robbe-Grillet, actress, writer, photographer and dominatrix
* 1 October – Philippe Noiret, actor (died 2006)
* 10 October – Yves Chauvin, chemist, recipient of 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 2015)
* 18 October – Michel Drach, film director, writer, film producer and actor (died 1990)
* 29 October – Niki de Saint Phalle, sculptor, painter and filmmaker (died 2002)
* 13 November
** Michel Robin, actor (died 2020)
** René-Samuel Sirat, rabbi (died 2023)
* 14 November – Pierre Bergé, entrepreneur (died 2017)
* 3 December – Jean-Luc Godard, film director (died 2022)
* 4 December – René Privat, cyclist (died 1995)
* 11 December – Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor (died 2022)

### Full date unknown

* Gérard Granel, philosopher and translator (died 2000)

## Deaths

* 19 March – Joseph Dupont, missionary and bishop (b. 1850)
* 24 October
** Paul Émile Appell, mathematician (born 1855)
** Eugène Gley, physiologist and endocrinologist (born 1857)
* 24 November – Prosper-René Blondlot, physicist (born 1849)
* 22 December – Marion Manville Pope, American author (born 1859)