* 1949 – Patrick Hernandez, French singer and songwriter

* 1962 – Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor

* 1980 – Houcine Camara, French singer

* 1982 – Willy Denzey, French singer

* 1984 – Alizée, French singer

* 1985 – Melissa M, French singer

* 1928 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer, songwriter, actor and director ( d. 1991 )

* 1891 – Françoise Rosay, French actress and singer ( d. 1974 )

* 1945 – Dick Rivers, French singer and actor ( Les Chats Sauvages )

* 1963 – Mano Solo, French singer ( d. 2010 )

* 1947 – Michèle Torr, French singer and author

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (; ; born 28 September 1934 ) is a former French fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist.

* Christian ( French actor ) ( 1821 – 1889 ), stage name of Christian Perrin, a 19th-century French actor and singer

* 1981 – Najoua Belyzel, French singer

* 1947 – Gérard Blanc, French singer

* 1966 – Patricia Kaas, French singer

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

* 1929 – Régine, French singer and nightclub owner

* 1930 – Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter

* 1938 – Enrico Macias, Algerian-born French singer

* 1972 – Vanessa Paradis, French singer

* 1990 – Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer

* 1982 – Keny Arkana, French rapper & singer

Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.

The style of this A section is written in the typical French style of composers Claude Debussy and Les Six.

* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch

* 1656 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander ( d. 1733 )

Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir burst onto the French culture, effecting a revolution with a style that has become commonplace today.

* 1714 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter ( d. 1789 )

* 1792 – La Marseillaise ( the French national anthem ) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

On 30 June 1878, a feast had been arranged in Paris by official decision to honour the French Republic ( the event was commemorated in a painting by Claude Monet ).

From 1907 he also began to be influenced by the French composer Claude Debussy, whose compositions Kodály had brought back from Paris.

However, this statement for integers can be found already in the work of another French mathematician, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ( 1581 – 1638 ).

Others, such as Claude Lévi-Strauss ( who was influenced both by American cultural anthropology and by French Durkheimian sociology ), have argued that apparently similar patterns of development reflect fundamental similarities in the structure of human thought ( see structuralism ).

Claude Monet () ( 14 November 18405 December 1926 ) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

Claude Louis Berthollet ( 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822 ) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

* 1724 – Claude Balbastre, French composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1799 )

* 1640 – Claude Fleury, French historian ( d. 1723 )

* 2006 – Claude Jade, French actress ( b. 1948 )

* 1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist ( d. 1822 )

The electrical telegraph, or more commonly just ' telegraph ', superseded optical semaphore telegraph systems, such as those designed by Claude Chappe for the French military, and Friedrich Clemens Gerke for the Prussian military, thus becoming the first form of electrical telecommunications.

The French school of ethnology was particularly significant for the development of the discipline since the early 1950s with Marcel Griaule, Germaine Dieterlen, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jean Rouch.

Additionally, Cahiers critics such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer went on to make films themselves, creating what was to become known as the French New Wave.

* 1924 – Claude Sautet, French film director ( d. 2000 )

* 1715 – Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher ( d. 1771 )