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.
• 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 USA 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".

  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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 12 January - Henri-Georges Clouzot, film director, screenwriter and producer.
• 13 January - Henri Langlois, pioneer of film preservation and restoration.
• 14 January - Anaïs Nin, writer.
• 19 January - Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress.
• 24 January - Marc Detton, rower and Olympic medallist.
• 10 February - Alain Escoffier, anti-communist activist, self-immolated.
• 2 March - Eugénie Brazier, chef, "la mère" of modern French cooking.

  April to June

• 3 April - Pierre-Marie Théas, Bishop.
• 11 April
• *Henri-Irénée Marrou, historian.
• *Jacques Prévert, poet and screenwriter.
• 2 May - Jean-Claude Lebaube, cyclist.
• May - Annette Laming-Emperaire, archeologist.
• 22 June - Jacqueline Audry, film director.

  July to September

• 4 July - Michel Olçomendy, first Archbishop of the Singapore.
• 7 July - Eugène Criqui, world champion boxer.
• 29 July - Pierre Clastres, anthropologist and ethnographer.
• 21 August - Pierre Cot, politician.
• 4 September
• *Adolphe Jauréguy, rugby union player.
• *Jean Rostand, biologist and philosopher.
• 10 September - Hamida Djandoubi, last person executed in France.
• 14 September - Marcel Carpentier, military officer.
• 29 September - Jean Marsan, screenwriter and actor.

  October to December

• 19 October - René Mourlon, athlete and Olympic medallist.
• 20 October - Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso.
• 25 October - Félix Gouin, politician.
• 3 November - Armand Lunel, writer, last known speaker of Shuadit.
• 5 November - René Goscinny, author, editor and humorist.
• 7 December - Georges Grignard, motor racing driver.
• 12 December - Raymond Bernard, filmmaker.
• 19 December - Jacques Tourneur, film director.

  Full date unknown

• Léonie Duquet, nun, killed by a death squad in Argentina.
• Marcel Fétique, bow maker.
• Georges Miquelle, cellist.