* 1989 – Jules Bianchi, French race car driver

* 1986 – Romain Grosjean, French race car driver

* 1979 – Yannick Schroeder, French race car driver

* 2012 – Philippe Bugalski, French race car driver ( b. 1963 )

* 1969 – Jean-Christophe Boullion, French race car driver

* 1955 – Alain Prost, French race car driver

* 1990 – Charles Pic, French racing driver

* 1908 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver ( d. 1949 )

* 1974 – Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver

* 1973 – Nicolas Minassian, French racing driver

* 1979 – Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver

* 1921 – Jean Behra, French race car driver ( d. 1959 )

* 1963 – Philippe Bugalski, French rally driver driver ( d. 2012 )

* 1982 – Loïc Duval, French race car driver

* 1948 – René Arnoux, French race car driver

* 1968 – Jo Schlesser, French race car driver ( b. 1928 )

* 1954 – Philippe Alliot, French race car driver

* 1930 – Mike Sparken, French race car driver ( d. 2012 )

* 1961 – Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver

* 1986 – Nelson Philippe, French race car driver

* 1970 – Soheil Ayari, French race car driver

* 2001 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver ( b. 1943 )

* 1982 – Nicolas Armindo, French race car driver

* 1946 – Michel Leclère, French racing driver

Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

* 1943 – Alain Corneau, French director

Alain de Lille ( or Alanus ab Insulis ) ( c. 1116 / 1117 – 1202 / 1203 ), French theologian and poet, was born in Lille, some years before 1128.

* 1909 – Alain Poher, French politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1926 – Marie-Claire Alain, French organist

He is the successor of Alain Chesnais ( 2010 – 2012 ), a French citizen living in Toronto where he runs his company named Visual Transitions and Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton.

In 1970, sculptor Alain Gourdon used Bardot as the model for a bust of Marianne, the French national emblem.

* 1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer ( d. 2009 )

He decided to create a comic strip of his own, which would adopt the recent American innovation of using speech balloons to depict the characters ' spoken words and inspired by established French comics author Alain St. Ogan.

The film is also considered to be an homage to Le Samourai, a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred renowned French actor Alain Delon in a strikingly similar role and narrative.

* 1922 – Alain Resnais, French director

* 1937 – Alain Badiou, French philosopher

* 1949 – Alain Chamfort, French singer

* 1958 – Alain Chabat, French actor and director

* 1935 – Alain Delon, French actor

This was the pioneering work of Marc Fumaroli who, building on the work of classicist and Neo-Latinist Alain Michel and French scholars such as Roger Zuber, published his famed Age de l ' Eloquence ( 1980 ), was one of the founders of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and was eventually elevated to a chair in rhetoric at the prestigious College de France.

* 1956 – Alain Ducasse, French chef

In Europe, Art Cinema gains wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague ( The French New Wave ) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard ; Cinéma Vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States ; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period.

** Alain Mosconi, French swimmer, Olympic medalist and previous world record holder

** Alain Prost, French race car driver

* November 8 – Alain Delon, French actor

* Alain de Lille, French theologian and poet ( b. c. 1128 )