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
• 13 January - Françoise Prévost, actress
• 3 February - Roger Duchêne, biographer
• 1 March - Pierre Max Dubois, composer
• 6 March - Lorin Maazel, conductor, violinist and composer
• 10 April - Claude Bolling, jazz pianist, composer and arranger
• 14 April - René Desmaison, mountaineer, climber and alpinist
• 29 April - Jean Rochefort, actor
• 30 April - Félix Guattari, militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher
• 25 May - Sonia Rykiel, fashion designer
• 9 June - Monique Serf, singer
• 24 June - Pierre Restany, art critic and cultural philosopher

  July to December

• 15 July - Jacques Derrida, philosopher
• 23 July - Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian
• 1 August - Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist
• 17 August - Jean Bourlès, cyclist
• 24 September - Catherine Robbe-Grillet, actress, writer, photographer and dominatrix
• 1 October - Philippe Noiret, actor
• 10 October - Yves Chauvin, chemist, recipient of 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 18 October - Michel Drach, film director, writer, film producer and actor
• 29 October - Niki de Saint Phalle, sculptor, painter and filmmaker
• 14 November - Pierre Bergé, entrepreneur
• 4 December - René Privat, cyclist
• 11 December - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor

  Full date unknown

• Pierre Gabaye, composer
• Gérard Granel, philosopher and translator

  Deaths

• 19 March - Joseph Dupont, missionary and bishop
• 24 October - Paul Émile Appell, mathematician
• 24 November - Prosper-René Blondlot, physicist

  Full date unknown

• Eugène Gley, physiologist and endocrinologist