1990 in France

1990 in France
Events from the year 1990 in France.
Incumbents
President: François Mitterrand
Prime Minister: Michel Rocard
Events
15 May – Launch of the Renault Clio supermini, which will eventually replace the Renault 5.
13 July – Loi Gayssot enacted, prohibiting Holocaust denial.
14 July – Jean-Michel Jarre performs Paris La Défense – Une Ville En Concert before a world record audience of 2.5 million people.
December – Espace Euro Disney, an information hub on the under construction Euro Disney resort near Paris, is opened to the public.
1 December – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed.
Arts and literature
Sport
30 June – Tour de France begins.
8 July – French Grand Prix won by Alain Prost.
22 July – Tour de France ends, won by Greg LeMond of the United States.
Births
6 January – Jonathan Matijas
10 January – Richard Philippe, motor racing driver.
22 January – Alizé Cornet, tennis player.
29 January – Francois Civil, actor
13 February – Mamadou Sakho, footballer
15 February – Charles Pic, motor racing driver.
10 March – César Domboy, actor
18 March – Ines Rau, transgender model
20 March – Stacy Martin, actress
26 March – Romain Saïss, Footballer
12 April – Ciryl Gane, mixed martial artist
19 April – Damien Le Tallec, footballer
20 May – Adeline Canac, pair skater.
4 June – Tippi Degré, animal handler.
11 June – Christophe Lemaitre, sprinter
12 June – Jérôme Jarre, vine star.
13 July – Alizé Lim, tennis player
16 July – Johann Zarco, motorcycle racer
20 July – Wendie Renard, footballer
12 August – Wissam Ben Yedder, footballer.
13 August – Benjamin Stambouli, footballer
19 September – Josuha Guilavogui, footballer
21 October – Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, chess grandmaster.
9 November – Romain Bardet, racing cyclist
12 November – Florent Manaudou, swimmer
25 November – Anouchka Delon, French-Dutch actress
19 December –
22 December – Jean-Baptiste Maunier, actor and singer.
Deaths
January to March
10 January – Juliet Berto, actress (b. 1947).
16 January – Robert Lamartine, soccer player (b. 1935).
17 January – Charles Hernu, politician and Minister (b. 1923).
5 February – Père Marie-Benoît, friar who helped smuggle Jews to safety from Nazi-occupied Southern France (b. 1895).
5 February – Joseph Mauclair, cyclist (b. 1906).
15 February – Michel Drach, film director, writer, producer and actor (b. 1930).
7 March – Claude Arrieu, composer (b. 1903).
12 March – Philippe Soupault, poet, novelist, critic and political activist (b. 1897).
17 March – Capucine, actress (b. 1928).
20 March – Maurice Cloche, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1907).
April to June
21 April – Romain de Tirtoff, artist and designer (b. 1892).
30 June – Jacques Lob, comic book creator (b. 1932).
July to September
18 July – Yves Chaland, cartoonist (b. 1957).
23 July – Pierre Gandon, illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (b. 1899).
25 July – Jean Fourastié, economist (b. 1907).
1 August – Michel Arnaud, General (b. 1915).
6 August – Jacques Soustelle, anthropologist (b. 1912).
15 August – Louis Vola, double bass player (b. 1902).
20 August – Maurice Gendron, cellist and teacher (b. 1920).
30 September – Michel Leiris, surrealist writer and ethnographer (b. 1901).
October to December
20 October – Colette Audry, novelist, screenwriter and critic (b. 1906).
22 October – Louis Althusser, Marxist philosopher (b. 1918).
27 October – Jacques Demy, film director (b. 1931).
October – Alfred Sauvy, demographer, anthropologist and historian (b. 1898).
5 November – Raymond Oliver, chef and restaurateur (b. 1909).
17 November – Pierre Braunberger, producer and actor (b. 1905).
1 December – Simone Melchior, wife and business partner of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (b. 1919).
18 December – Paul Tortelier, cellist and composer (b. 1914).
19 December – Edmond Delfour, international soccer player, manager (b. 1907).
23 December – Serge Danot, animator (b. 1931).
23 December – Pierre Gripari, writer (b. 1925).
Full date unknown
Jacques-Laurent Bost, journalist (b. 1916).
Daniel du Janerand, painter (b. 1919).
Marcel Légaut, philosopher and mathematician (b. 1900).
Claude Ponsard, economist (b. 1927).
See also
List of French films of 1990
References
1990s in France