1928 in France

Incumbents

• President: Gaston Doumergue
• President of the Council of Ministers: Raymond Poincaré

  Events

• 22 April - Legislative Election held.
• 29 April - Legislative Election held.
• 7 July - The French government issues an order limiting the list of private radio stations permitted to continue broadcasting.
• 27 August - The Kellogg–Briand Pact is signed in Paris - the first treaty which outlaws aggressive war.

  Sport

• 17 June - Tour de France begins.
• 15 July - Tour de France ends, won by Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg.

  Births

January to June

• 4 January - Maurice Rigobert Marie-Sainte, Martinique Roman Catholic clergyman
• 6 January - Capucine, actress
• 17 January - Jean Barraqué, composer
• 23 January - Jeanne Moreau, film actress
• 24 January - Michel Serrault, actor
• 26 January - Roger Vadim, film director
• 10 February - Jean-Luc Lagardère, engineer and businessman
• 23 February - André Strappe, international soccer player
• 1 March - Jacques Rivette, filmmaker
• 3 March - Pierre Michelot, double bass player
• 2 April - Serge Gainsbourg, poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director
• 12 April - Jean-François Paillard, conductor
• 28 April - Yves Klein, painter
• 2 May - Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, French writer, German translator
• 3 May - Jacques-Louis Lions, mathematician
• 5 May - Jacques Médecin, politician
• 28 May - André Schwarz-Bart, novelist
• 17 June - Jean-Pierre Abbat, joint first person in the US to manufacture polyurethane
• 29 June - Jean-Louis Pesch, writer

  July to December

• 3 July - Georges-Jean Arnaud, author
• 6 July - Bernard Malgrange, mathematician
• 10 July - Bernard Buffet, painter
• 13 July - Jeanne Loriod, musician
• 30 July - Paul Bisciglia, film actor
• 6 August
• * Jean-Christophe Averty, television and radio director
• * Michel Clouscard, Marxist philosopher and sociologist
• *Jean Carrière, writer
• 14 August
• * Jacques Rouffio, film director and screenwriter
• * Joëlle Bernard, film and television actress
• 21 September - Édouard Glissant, writer, poet and literary critic
• 3 October - Christian d'Oriola, Olympic gold medal winning foil fencer
• 23 October - Marthe Mercadier, actress
• 31 October - Jean-François Deniau, statesman, diplomat, essayist and novelist
• 13 November - Michel Gauquelin, psychologist and statistician
• 17 November - Arman, artist
• 2 December - Guy Bourdin, photographer
• 30 December - Christian Millau, food critic and author
• 31 December - Siné, cartoonist

  Full date unknown

• Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, psychoanalyst
• Jean-Jacques Millant, bow maker
• Jacques Poirier, painter

  Deaths

• 2 January - Yves du Manoir, rugby player
• 11 February - Émile Basly, miner and trade unionist
• 22 February - Yves Guyot, politician and economist
• 7 March - Jules Auguste Lemire, priest and social reformer
• 28 July - Édouard-Henri Avril, painter and commercial artist
• September - Paul Ferrier, dramatist
• 8 September - Jean Bourdeau, writer
• 23 October - François Victor Alphonse Aulard, historian
• 18 December
• *Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, dermatologist
• *Lucien Capet, violinist and composer
• 23 December - Georges Destenave, explorer

  Full date unknown

• Achille Maffre de Baugé, poet