* 1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor ( b. 1929 )

* October 9 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer ( b. 1929 )

# " Amsterdam " ( Jacques Brel, Mort Shuman ) – 3: 25

In the late 1950s the Scopitone, a visual jukebox, was invented in France and short films were produced by many French artists, such as Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, Jacques Brel, and Jacques Dutronc to accompany their songs.

Jacques Brel has sold over 25 million records worldwide, and is the third best-selling Belgian recording artist of all time.

Jacques Romain Georges Brel was born on 8 April 1929 in Schaarbeek, Brussels, Belgium to Romain Brel and Elisabeth Lambertine Brel.

The talent scout and artistic director at the record company, Jacques Canetti, invited Brel to move to Paris.

By the end of the year, Philips released his debut album, a nine-song, 10-inch LP called Jacques Brel et ses Chansons ( Jacques Brel and his songs ).

Jacques Brel, 1963

His appearances initiated the first United States release of a Jacques Brel recording, American Début, released on Columbia Records.

Jacques Brel, 1963

Drawing of Jacques Brel by Reginald Gray, 1965

In 1965, Reprise Records licensed tracks from Barclay for a United States album titled Jacques Brel.

In January 1967, Brel finished recording songs for a new studio album, Jacques Brel 67, which was released later in the year.

Jacques Brel, 1971

In 1967, Brel began his film career appearing in André Cayatte's Les risques du métier ( Risky Business ), co-starring Emmanuelle Riva, Jacques Harden, and Nadine Alari.

Jacques Brel et François Rauber produced the soundtrack.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau ; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997 ) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.

Jacques Callot (; c. 1592 – 1635 ) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine ( an independent state on the North-Eastern border with France, Southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the Southern Netherlands ).

Jacques Maroger (; 1884 – 1962 ) was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museum's laboratory in Paris.

Jacques René Chirac (; ; born 29 November 1932 ) is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007.

Jacques Derrida (; ; July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004 ) was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria.

Jacques Prévert (; 4 February 190011 April 1977 ) was a French poet and screenwriter.

Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874 ) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

Jacques Parizeau, (; born August 9, 1930 ) is an economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who was the 26th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996.

Jacques Salomon Hadamard ForMemRS (; 8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963 ) was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

Jacques Attali (; born 1 November 1943 ) is a French economist, writer and senior civil servant.

Jacques Chaban-Delmas (; 7 March 1915 in Paris – 10 November 2000 in Paris ) was a French Gaullist politician.

Jacques Ellul (; January 6, 1912 – May 19, 1994 ) was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist.

Jacques Doriot (; 26 September 1898, Bresles, Oise – 22 February 1945, near Mengen, Württemberg ) was a French politician prior to and during World War II.

Jacques Émile Massu (; 5 May 1908 – 26 October 2002 ) was a French general who fought in World War II, the First Indochina War, the Algerian War and the Suez crisis.

Jacques Babinet (; 5 March 1794 – 21 October 1872 ) was a French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics.

Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (; 28 May 1712, Saint-Malo – 27 June 1759, Cádiz ) was a French economist and intendant of commerce.

* Jacques Attali (; born 1943, Algiers ), a Jewish Algerian-French economist and scholar

* February 8 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer ( d. 1756 )

* October 8 – Jacques Derida, Algerian-born French literary critic ( b. 1930 )

* August 8 – Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time by Dr. Michael-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat.

* October 8 – Jacques Auguste de Thou, French historian ( d. 1617 )

* Anne Applebaum, Farewell, Jacques Chirac, The Washington Post, 8 May 2007

Three examples of current practice are Martha Schwartz based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, the Dutch design group ( West 8 ) based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the Belgian architects Wirtz nv based in Schoten, Belgium with the known landscape architect Jacques Wirtz.

Agénor Bardoux ( Bourges, Cher, 15 January 1829 – Paris, 23 November 1897 ) was a French statesman and republican, son of Jacques Bardoux ( Moulins, 3 February 1795-Clermont-Ferrand, 8 January 1871 ) and wife Thérèse Pignet ( Limoges, 6 April 1807-St. Saturnin, 25 March 1883 ).

Meanwhile, his wife stayed at Antibes, where she had his children, the first of whom died in childhood: Marie Anne Elisabeth ( July 8, 1790-March 18, 1794 ), Jacques Prosper, 2nd Prince d ' Essling July 3, 1818 ( June 25, 1793-May 13, 1821 ), unmarried and without issue, Victoire Thècle ( September 28, 1794-March 28, 1857 ), married on September 12, 1814 Charles, Comte Reille ( Antibes, September 1, 1775-March 4, 1860 ), and François Victor, 2nd Duc de Rivoli, 3rd Prince d ' Essling ( April 2, 1799-April 16, 1863 ), married on April 19, 1823 Anne Debelle ( 1802-January 28, 1887 ), and had issue.

* April 8 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter ( d. 1978 )

André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin ( February 1, 1783 – November 8, 1865 ), commonly called Dupin the Elder, was a French advocate, president of the chamber of deputies and of the Legislative Assembly.

The original inspiration for the character of " Jeff " was Jacques " Jakie " Fehr, a tiny ( 4 ' 8 ") irascible Swiss-born shopkeeper in the village of Occidental, California.

* During the 2005 civil unrest in France President Jacques Chirac declared a state of emergency on November 8, 2005.

Jacques Auguste de Thou ( Thuanus ) ( October 8, 1553, Paris – May 7, 1617, Paris ) was a French historian, book collector and president of the Parlement de Paris.

On August 8, 1786, Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard made the first ascent of Mont Blanc.

* January 8 – Jacques Labillardière ( born 1755 ), French naturalist.

The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog ( born 19 April 1950 ), and Pierre de Meuron ( born 8 May 1950 ), closely paralleled one another, with both attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ( ETH ) in Zürich.

* Emile Toussaint and Louis Marchal complete the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Meurthe-et-Moselle in Nancy, which is officially inaugurated on November 8, and features ironwork by Louis Majorelle and stained glass by Jacques Gruber.

The comet was first recorded on 8 March 1772 by Jacques Leibax Montaigne ; during the same apparition it was independently discovered by Charles Messier.

Jérémie Jacques Oberlin ( 8 August 1735 – 10 October 1806 ) was an Alsatian philologist and archaeologist.

Panis, Cristiano da Matta, Jacques Villeneuve and Nicolas Kiesa all stopped on Lap 6 or 7, only to find the track beginning to dry already by Lap 8.

Jacks later released " If You Go Away " ( another McKuen adaptation of a Jacques Brel song entitled " Ne Me Quitte Pas "), which reached # 8 in Great Britain and # 24 in Germany, and a cover of Kevin Johnson's " Rock ' N ' Roll ( I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life )", both of which had more success in Canada but also made the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the USA.

At the 1911 Salon d ' Automne ( room 8 ) Gleizes exhibited his Portrait de Jacques Nayral and La Chasse, with, in addition to the group of Salle 41, André Lhote, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Villon, Roger de La Fresnaye and André Dunoyer de Segonzac.