1930 in France
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Events from the year 1930 in France.

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 June 30.
• 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

• 13 January - Françoise Prévost, actress (d.1997).
• 3 February - Roger Duchêne, biographer (d.2006).
• 1 March - Pierre Max Dubois, composer (d.1995).
• 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 (d.2007).
• 29 April - Jean Rochefort, actor.
• 30 April - Félix Guattari, militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher (d.1992).
• 9 June - Monique Serf, singer (d.1997).
• 24 June - Pierre Restany, art critic and cultural philosopher (d.2003).

July to December

• 15 July - Jacques Derrida, philosopher (d.2004).
• 23 July - Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian (d.2006).
• 1 August - Pierre Bourdieu, sociologist (d.2002).
• 17 August - Jean Bourlès, cyclist (d.1996).
• 1 October - Philippe Noiret, actor (d.2006).
• 10 October - Yves Chauvin, chemist, the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 18 October - Michel Drach, film director, writer, producer and actor (d.1990).
• 29 October - Niki de Saint Phalle, sculptor, painter and filmmaker (d.2002).
• 4 December - René Privat, cyclist (d.1995).
• 11 December - Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor.

Full date unknown

• Pierre Gabaye, composer (d.2000).
• Gérard Granel, philosopher and translator (d.2000).

Deaths

• 24 October - Paul Émile Appell, mathematician (b.1855).
• 24 November - Prosper-René Blondlot, physicist (b.1849).

Full date unknown

• Eugène Gley, physiologist and endocrinologist (b.1857).

References