1983 in France

"See also:"
1982 in France,
other events of 1983,
1984 in France.

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Events from the year 1983 in France.

Events

*19 January - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
*6 February - Klaus Barbie is officially charged with war crimes.
*6 March - Municipal Elections held.
*13 March - Municipal Elections held.
*23 September - Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.
*23 October - Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French and the United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 US servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.
*31 December - Two bombs explode in France. One on the Paris train kills 3 and injures 19. The other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.

port

*1 July - Tour de France begins.
*24 July - Tour de France ends, won by Laurent Fignon.

Births

January to March

*6 January - Alexandre Pichot, cyclist.
*10 January - Romauld Bouadji, soccer player.
*12 January - Bryan Bergougnoux, soccer player.
*13 January - Ronny Turiaf, basketball player.
*17 January - Mamadi Berthe, soccer player.
*22 January - Étienne Bacrot, chess grandmaster.
*26 January - Abdoulaye Diawara, soccer player.
*1 February - Mathieu Drujon, cyclist.
*3 February - Damiel Dossévi, pole vaulter.
*12 February - Anthony Floch, rugby union player.
*14 February - Bacary Sagna, soccer player.
*16 February - Tristan Lahaye, soccer player.
*17 February - Gérald Cid, soccer player.
*17 February - Émilie Fer, slalom canoer.
*21 February - Benoît Lesoimier, soccer player.
*22 February - Mathieu Moreau, soccer player.
*24 February - Rémi Maréval, soccer player.
*2 March - Olivier Bonnaire, cyclist.
*3 March - Cyril Lemoine, cyclist.
*5 March - Mickaël Antoine-Curier, soccer player.
*8 March - Guillaume Moreau, motor racing driver.
*15 March - Armand One, soccer player.
*16 March - Nicolas Rousseau, cyclist.
*18 March - Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, tennis player.
*28 March - Ladji Doucouré, athlete.
*30 March - Jérémie Aliadière, soccer player.

April to June

*1 April - Franck Ribéry, international soccer player.
*3 April - Ludovic Butelle, soccer player.
*18 April - François Clerc, soccer player.
*24 April - Cyril Théréau, soccer player.
*25 April - Maxime Brillault, soccer player.
*1 May - Alain Bernard, swimmer.
*3 May - Jérôme Clavier, pole vaulter.
*4 May - Julien Malzieu, rugby union player.
*6 May - Julien Belgy, cyclist.
*9 May - Jean-Michel Badiane, soccer player.
*13 May - Edouard Duplan, soccer player.
*13 May - Grégory Lemarchal, singer (d.2007).
*14 May - Mathieu Valverde, soccer player.
*17 May - Mathieu Claude, cyclist.
*25 May - Ibrahim Diarra, rugby union player.
*1 June - Fabien Laurenti, soccer player.
*9 June - Claude Gnakpa, soccer player.
*14 June - Louis Garrel, actor.
*14 June - Fabien Patanchon, cyclist.
*22 June - Jérémy Roy, cyclist.
*25 June - Patrick Noubissie, soccer player.
*28 June - Reynald Lemaître, soccer player.

July to September

*15 July - Julien Leparoux, jockey.
*24 July - Étienne Didot, soccer player.
*31 July - François Marque, soccer player.
*1 August - Julien Faubert, soccer player.
*1 August - Julien Rantier, soccer player.
*5 August - Jérémy Sorbon, soccer player.
*15 August - Alain Cantareil, soccer player.
*15 August - Jean-Marc Marino, cyclist.
*2 September - Jonathan Assous, soccer player.
*2 September - Christophe Grondin, soccer player.
*5 September - Cédric Bockhorni, soccer player.
*7 September - Benoît Baby, rugby union player.
*10 September - Jérémy Toulalan, international soccer player.
*14 September - Olivier Auriac, soccer player.
*20 September - Jérémy Gavanon, soccer player.

October to December

*26 October - Julien Arias, rugby union player.
*29 October - Jérémy Mathieu, soccer player.
*2 November - Sophie Milliet, chess player.
*2 November - Alain Schmitt, judoka.
*3 November - Rémi Fournier, soccer player.
*5 November - Julien Saubade, rugby union player.
*8 November - Gabriel Nassif, card player.
*16 November - Bertrand Robert, soccer player.
*28 November - Édouard Roger-Vasselin, tennis player.
*8 December - Pierre Roger, swimmer.
*12 December - Johan Audel, soccer player.
*22 December - Nathalie Péchalat, ice dancer.

Deaths

January to March

*15 January - Henri Debain, actor (b.1886).
*27 January - Georges Bidault politician and resistance leader (b.1899).
*27 January - Louis de Funès, actor (b.1914).
*28 January - Claude Papi, soccer player (b.1949).
*2 February - Corentin Louis Kervran, scientist (b.1901).
*17 February - Waldeck Rochet, politician (b.1905).
*2 March - Olivier Chandon de Brailles, motor racing driver (b.1955).
*13 March - Louison Bobet, cyclist, three times Tour de France winner (b.1925).
*14 March - Maurice Ronet, actor, director and writer (b.1927).

April to June

*12 April - Pierre Richard-Willm, actor (b.1895).
*21 April - Édouard Bader, rugby union player (b.1899).
*23 April - Marguerite Broquedis, tennis player (b.1893).
*19 June - Henri Enjalbert, professor of geography (b.1910).

July to September

*23 July - Georges Auric, composer (b.1899).
*16 August - René Duverger, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (b.1911).
*20 August - Georges Spénale, writer, poet and politician, President of the European Parliament (b.1913).
*21 September - Marie-Gabriel Tissot, Abbot of Quarr (b.1886).
*26 September - Henri Navarre, General (b.1898).
*26 September - Tino Rossi, singer and actor (b.1907).

October to December

*2 October - Louis Béguet, rugby union player (b.1894).
*8 October - Alexandre Renard, Roman Catholic Cardinal (b.1906).
*17 October - Raymond Aron, philosopher, sociologist and political scientist (b.1905).
*26 October - Charles Ducasse, soccer player (b.1932).
*5 November - Jean-Marc Reiser, comics creator (b.1941).
*7 November - Germaine Tailleferre, composer (b.1892).
*15 November - Marc Bernard, writer (b.1900).
*18 November - Émile Veinante, soccer player and coach (b.1907).
*20 November - Marcel Dalio, actor (b.1900).
*6 December - Lucienne Boyer, singer (b.1903).
*19 December - Fania Fénelon, pianist, composer and cabaret singer (b.1908).
*24 December - Paul Gégauff, screenwriter, actor and director (b.1922).
*28 December - Eugène Chaboud, motor racing driver (b.1907).

Full date unknown

*Henri Gance, weightlifter and Olympic gold medallist (b.1888).
*Célestin Lainé, Breton nationalist and collaborator (b.1908).
*Bernard Lamotte, artist (b.1903).
*Michel Pêcheux, philosopher (b.1938).

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