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See also:	Other events of 1967 History of France  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1967 in France.

Incumbents

• President: Charles de Gaulle
• Prime Minister: Georges Pompidou

Events

• 5 March – Legislative Election held.
• 12 March – Legislative Election held.
• 19 March – A referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France.
• 6 April – Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government.
• 28 April – Elf Aquitaine petroleum brand launched.
• 24 July – During an official state visit to Canada, President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!).^[1]
• 29 July – Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he receives political asylum.^[2]
• 24 September – Cantonales Elections held.
• 1 October – Cantonales Elections held.
• 17 November – Author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia.
• 27 November – Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community again.
• 11 December – The Concorde aircraft is unveiled in Toulouse.^[3]

Arts and literature

Sport

• 29 June – Tour de France begins.
• 23 July – Tour de France ends, won by Roger Pingeon.

Births

January to March

• 25 January – David Ginola, soccer player.
• 24 February – Jean-Charles Gicquel, high jumper.
• 28 February – Laurence Treil, model and actress.
• 2 March – Thierry Lacroix, rugby union player.
• 6 March – Hervé Piccirillo, soccer referee.
• 7 March – Jean-Pierre Barda, pop star and actor.
• 17 March – Nathalie Marquay, beauty queen.
• 24 March – Philippe d'Encausse, pole vaulter.
• 24 March – Thierry Jarnet, jockey.
• 28 March – Christophe Brunet, judoka.
• 29 March – Nathalie Cardone, actress and singer.

April to June

• 3 April – Mathieu Kassovitz, director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
• 10 April – Bernard Pascual, soccer player.
• 19 April – Philippe Saint-André, rugby union player.
• 22 April – Valéry Grancher, Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.
• 24 April – Lionel Pérez, soccer player.
• 1 May – Nicolas Jean-Prost, ski jumper.
• 11 May – Patricia Chauvet, alpine skier.
• 22 May – Christophe Gagliano, judoka.
• 31 May – Sandrine Bonnaire, actress.
• 1 June – Olivier Delaître, tennis player.
• 21 June – Pierre Omidyar, entrepreneur and philanthropist/economist.
• 26 June
  • Olivier Dahan, film director and screenwriter.
  • Benoît Hamon, politician and MEP

July to September

• 1 July – Jean-Claude Colotti, cyclist.
• 8 July – Stéphane Belmondo, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.
• 14 July – Valérie Pécresse, politician.
• 16 July – Christophe Rocancourt, impostor and con artist.
• 10 August – Jean-Guy Wallemme, soccer player, manager.
• 15 August – Frédéric Nihous, politician.
• 22 August – Valérie Rouzeau, poet and translator.
• 31 August – Stéphane Haccoun, boxer.
• 2 September – Fabrice Divert, soccer player.
• 3 September – Hubert Fournier, soccer player.
• 13 September – Franck Monnet, singer-songwriter.
• 19 September – Philippe Raschke, soccer player.
• 26 September – Eric Roy, soccer player.

October to December

• 2 October – Fabien Cousteau, aquatic filmmaker and oceanographic explorer.
• 7 October – Fabrice Moreau, soccer player.
• 13 October – Jean-Luc Dogon, soccer player.
• 14 November – Raphaël Piolanti, hammer thrower.
• 15 November – François Ozon, film director and screenwriter.
• 23 November – Christophe Cocard, soccer player.
• 5 December – Luc Jacquet, film director.
• 10 December – Daniel Dutuel, soccer player.
• 23 December – Carla Bruni, songwriter, singer and former model, third wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Full date unknown

• Stéphane Allagnon, film director and screenwriter.
• Hervé Cuillandre, novelist and photographer.
• Isabelle Dinoire, first person to undergo a partial face transplant. (died 2016)
• Benoît Lecomte, long distance swimmer.
• Frédéric Lepied, computer engineer.
• Quentin Meillassoux, philosopher.
• Sandrine Veysset, film director.

Deaths

January to June

• 26 January – Eugène Le Moult, naturalist and entomologist (born 1882).
• 27 January – Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (born 1888).
• 19 April – Julien Peridier, electrical engineer and astronomer (born 1882).
• 21 April – André-Louis Danjon, astronomer (born 1890).
• 26 April – Jean Alexandre Barré, neurologist (born 1880).
• 26 June – Françoise Dorléac, actress (born 1942).

July to December

• 11 July – André Giriat, rower and Olympic medallist (born 1905).
• 25 July – Pierre Albert-Birot, author (born 1876).
• 28 July – Paul Rassinier, pacifist, political activist and author (born 1906).
• 1 August – Jacques Suzanne, painter, artist and explorer (born 1880).
• 12 August – Antoine Gilles Menier, businessman and municipal politician (born 1904).
• 18 August – Paule Maurice, composer (born 1910).
• 27 August – Henri-Georges Adam, engraver and sculptor (born 1904).
• 11 September – Georges Saillard, actor (born 1877).
• 18 September – Marcel Rey-Golliet, boxer (born 1893).
• 20 September – Henri Mulet, organist and composer (born 1878).
• 25 September – Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet, painter (born 1872).
• 9 October – André Maurois, author and man of letters (born 1885).
• 13 October – Georges Sadoul, journalist and cinema writer (born 1904).
• 14 October – Marcel Aymé, novelist and children's writer (born 1902).
• 30 October – Julien Duvivier, film director (born 1896).
• 6 November – Jean Dufay, astronomer (born 1896).

Full date unknown

• Stéphane Boudin, interior designer (born 1888).
• Marguerite Huré, stained glass artist (born 1895).
• Marcelle Lalou, Tibetologist (born 1890).
• Théodore Eugène César Ruyssen, historian of philosophy and pacifist (born 1868).