Phạm Minh Mẫn passes away at age 92
Phạm Minh Mẫn, the Vietnamese Roman Catholic cardinal who served as coadjutor bishop of Mỹ Tho from 1993 to 1998 and archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City from 1998 to…
Famous Dead People from France
Over 4,000 obituaries for famous people from France who died. Additional info, news, and memorial pages.
Isabelle Mergault dead at age 67
Isabelle Mergault, the French actress, director, writer and television and radio personality, died on March 20, 2026, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, at the age of 67, following a battle with cancer.…
Alain Brillet dies at 78
Alain Brillet, a French physicist who specialised in gravitational wave detectors, died on March 20, 2026. Born on March 30, 1947, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, he graduated from ESPCI Paris in…
Obituary: Michel Rolland, dead at age 78
Michel Rolland, a French oenologist, died on March 19, 2026. Based in Bordeaux, he had hundreds of clients across 13 countries and was known for consultancies outside France, which set…
Michel Hulin passes away at age 90
Michel Hulin, a French philosopher who specialized in Indian philosophy, died on March 16, 2026. Born on Jan. 31, 1936, he was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure and…
Patrick Trémège, died aged 71
Patrick Trémège, a French politician, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 71. He was a member of the Union for French Democracy, the Union for a Popular…
Yves Chevallard passed away at age 79
Yves Chevallard, a French mathematician and academic, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 79. Born in Tunis on May 1, 1946, he studied at the Lycée Thiers…
Jean Delas has died at age 86
Jean Delas, a French publisher, died on March 16, 2026, at the age of 86. He was born on August 31, 1939, and was a recipient of the Legion of…
Bruno Salomone dies at age 55
Bruno Salomone, a French actor and comedian, died on March 15, 2026, at the age of 55 following a long illness. Active in film, television and dubbing from 2001 to…
Francine Demichel passes away at age 87
Francine Demichel, a French academic and jurist, died on March 14, 2026, at the age of 87. Born Francine Batailler in Marseille on October 31, 1938, she served as president…
Obituary: Serge Mathieu, dead at age 90
Serge Mathieu, a French politician and winemaker who served as deputy from 1973 to 1976 and as senator from 1977 to 2004, died on March 14, 2026, at the age…
Patrice Jeener dies at 81
Patrice Jeener, a French artist and copper engraver who specialised in work of a mathematical nature, died on March 13, 2026. Born on July 31, 1944, he studied at the…
Death of Envoi Allen at age 12
Envoi Allen, a French thoroughbred racehorse who competed in National Hunt racing, died on March 13, 2026, aged 12. The bay gelding was bred in France and first raced in…
Jacques Revel death at age 83
Jacques Revel, a French historian and emeritus director of studies and president of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), died on March 13, 2026, at the age…
Obituary: Patrick Lemasle, dead at age 73
Patrick Lemasle, a French politician, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 73. He served in the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2017, representing the 7th…
Jenni Murray dead at age 75
Jenni Murray, the English journalist and broadcaster best known for presenting BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, died on March 12, 2026, aged 75. Born Jennifer Susan Bailey in Barnsley on…
Jean-François Boclé death at age 54
Jean-François Boclé, a French artist and Martinican artist, died on March 11, 2026, at the age of 54. Born in 1971 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, he spent his childhood years in…
André Kabile passed away at age 87
André Kabile, a French footballer, died on March 9, 2026. He was born in Saint-Esprit on November 17, 1938. Kabile played as a midfielder for Nîmes Olympique from 1964 to…
Obituary: Marie-Christine Boutonnet, dead at age 77
Marie-Christine Boutonnet, a French politician and former Member of the European Parliament representing Île-de-France, died on March 7, 2026, at the age of 77. Born in Albi, France, on February…
Marguerite Lamour, died aged 69
Marguerite Lamour, French politician and former mayor of Ploudalmézeau, died on March 5, 2026. Born Marguerite Arzel on June 12, 1956, she served as mayor of Ploudalmézeau from 2001 until…
Hélène Dorlhac has died at age 90
Hélène Dorlhac, a French doctor and politician, died on March 4, 2026. Born Hélène Roujon in Sumène on October 4, 1935, she graduated from the University of Montpellier School of…
Obituary: Danièle Sicot-Coulon, dead at age 90
Danièle Sicot-Coulon, a French gymnast, died on March 3, 2026. Born in Châteaudun, France, on March 24, 1935, she competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.…
Obituary: Patrick Dewolf, dead at age 75
Patrick Dewolf, the French film director and screenwriter, died in Invalid Date at the age of 75. Born in Paris on 3 June 1950, he was nominated for a César…
Hélène Mouchard-Zay has died at age 85
Hélène Mouchard-Zay, a French academic and writer, died on March 2, 2026, at age 85. Born in Rabat on August 27, 1940, she was the daughter of Madeleine and Jean…
Bernard Launois passed away at age 95
Bernard Launois, a French film director, screenwriter and actor known for Devil Story, died on March 2, 2026. Born in Mézières, France, on April 8, 1930, he studied pharmacology for…
Clément Oubrerie dies at age 59
Clément Oubrerie, a French comics artist and illustrator best known for Aya de Yopougon, died on March 1, 2026, at the age of 59. Born in Paris on December 23,…
Alexander Tzonis passes away at age 88
Alexander Tzonis, a Greek-French architect, author and researcher, died on March 1, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Athens on November 8, 1937, he made contributions to architectural…
Death of François-Bernard Michel at age 89
French academic Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Jean-Yves Lallemand dead at age 82
French chemist Died on Sunday March 1st 2026
Claude Lacaze passes away at age 85
Claude Lacaze, a French rugby union player, died on February 28, 2026, at the age of 85. Born in Pontacq, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, on March 5, 1940, he played as a fullback.…
Charlie Grall dead at age 71
Charlie Grall, a French journalist and Breton independence activist, died on February 27, 2026, at the age of 71. Born Jean-Charles Grall in Finistère, France, he was the founder of…
Obituary: André Vanasse, dead at age 83
André Vanasse, a Canadian writer, died on February 26, 2026, at age 83 from complications of Alzheimer's disease. Born in Montreal on March 6, 1942, he was a member of…
List of French supercentenarians dies at 110
The List of French supercentenarians, described as a French supercentenarian and the oldest living man in France, died on February 25, 2026. French supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from…
Glaudi Barsotti dies at age 92
Glaudi Barsotti, a French writer and journalist, died on February 24, 2026. Also spelled Glaudi Barsòtti in Occitan and Claude Barsotti in French, he was a French Occitan writer and…
Éliane Radigue dies at 94
Éliane Radigue, the French composer, died on February 23, 2026, in Paris at the age of 94. Born in Paris on January 24, 1932, she began working in the 1950s…
Michel Imbert dies at age 90
Michel Imbert, a French neuropsychologist and teacher-researcher in cognitive neurosciences, died on February 19, 2026. Born in Béziers on June 29, 1935, he was professor emeritus at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University from…
Béatrice Ardisson death at age 62
Béatrice Ardisson, a French composer, died on February 18, 2026, at the age of 62. Born Béatrice Loustalan in Auch, France, on July 26, 1963, she produced a variety of…
José van Dam has died at age 85
José van Dam, the Belgian bass-baritone known internationally for his work in opera, died on February 17, 2026, at the age of 85. Born Joseph Van Damme in Ixelles, part…
Hélène Ahrweiler dead at age 99
Hélène Ahrweiler, the Greek-French Byzantologist and academic known formally as Hélène Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, died on February 16, 2026, in Athens, Greece, at the age of 99. Born in Athens on August…
Killing of Quentin Deranque, died aged 23
Quentin Deranque, a French far-right activist, died on February 15, 2026, from brain injuries sustained two days earlier in Lyon, France, after being beaten in an altercation involving alleged far-left…
Obituary: Susan George, dead at age 91
Susan George, the American-French political and social scientist, activist and writer, died on February 14, 2026. Born Susan Vance Akers on June 29, 1934, in Akron, Ohio, she wrote on…
Michel Charrel death at age 89
Michel Charrel, a French actor, died on February 14, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Tarare, France, on September 13, 1936, he grew up in a family of…
Richard de Prémare death at age 89
Richard de Prémare, a French painter who specialised in figurative art, died on February 14, 2026, at the age of 89. Born Richard Dumouchel de Prémare in Casablanca, in the…
Brahim Bahrir dies at -1
Brahim Bahrir, a French convicted terrorist, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 47. Born in Mantes-la-Jolie in 1978, he was convicted of terrorist-related offences. In the early…
Nicolas Grimaldi dies at age 92
Nicolas Grimaldi, a French philosopher, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 92. Born in Paris on December 24, 1933, he was of Corsican origin. He earned his…
Christian Astuguevieille dead at age 79
Christian Astuguevieille, a French artist, designer and perfumer, died on February 13, 2026. He served as artistic director of perfume at Comme des Garçons Parfums, where he worked with Rei…
Jacques Gaillard obituary: died at age 77
Jacques Gaillard, a French writer and Latinist, died on February 12, 2026. He was 77–78. Born in 1948, Gaillard graduated from the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud and served as…
Michel Portal died at age 90
Michel Portal, the French composer, saxophonist and clarinetist, died on February 12, 2026, at the age of 90. Born in Bayonne on November 27, 1935, he studied clarinet at the…
Marie-Rose Tessier death at age 115
Marie-Rose Tessier, a French supercentenarian, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 115. Born Marie-Rose Bousseau on May 21, 1910, in Beaurepaire, Vendée, she lived in France and,…
Obituary: Serge Stresser, dead at age 72
Serge Stresser, a French Olympic weightlifter, died on February 10, 2026, at the age of 72. Born in Haguenau, France, on September 28, 1953, he competed in the men's bantamweight…
Philippe Gaulier passed away at age 82
Philippe Gaulier, the French clown, died on February 9, 2026. He was a professor of theatre, dramatic theorist, pedagogue and master clown, and founded École Philippe Gaulier, a theatre school…
Obituary: Charles Bailleul, dead at age 98
Charles Bailleul, a French linguist and Roman Catholic missionary with the White Fathers, died on February 9, 2026, in Bry-sur-Marne, France, at the age of 98. Born in Lille on…
Robert del Picchia obituary: died at age 83
Robert del Picchia, a French journalist and politician, died on February 7, 2026, in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 83. Born in Marseille on November 10, 1942, he served…
François Blamont dies at 81
François Blamont, a French businessman, died on February 6, 2026, in Paris at the age of 81. Born in Mazamet on October 27, 1944, he held several high-level roles in…
Fernand Ouellette dies at 95
Fernand Ouellette, a Canadian writer, died on February 4, 2026. He was a Quebecois writer who wrote in French and was born in Montreal, Quebec, on September 24, 1930. Ouellette…
Pierre Merlin passed away at age 88
Pierre Merlin, a French geographer and academic, died on February 3, 2026, at the age of 88. Born in Metz on May 6, 1937, he studied at the Prytanée national…
René Galy-Dejean dies at 93
René Galy-Dejean, a French politician, died on February 2, 2026. René Galy-Dejean (16 March 1932 – 29 January 2026) was a French politician who served as a Deputy. He died…
William Safran has died at age 95
William Safran, an American academic and Holocaust survivor and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Colorado Boulder, died on February 2, 2026. Born in Dresden, Germany, on…
Jean Widmer has died at age 96
Jean Widmer, a Swiss graphic designer, died on February 2, 2026, at the age of 96 in Paris. Born Hans Ulrich Widmer on March 31, 1929, in Frauenfeld, Thurgau, Switzerland,…
Charles Renoux, died aged 100
Charles Renoux, a French Benedictine monk and orientalist, died on February 2, 2026, at En-Calcat Abbey in France. Born on April 30, 1925, in Bouin, France, he dedicated his life…
Obituary: René Kaës, dead at age 89
René Kaës, a French psychologist and psychoanalyst, died on February 1, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Fameck, France, on February 19, 1936, he studied psychosociology at Marc…
Paul Deheuvels died at age 77
Paul Deheuvels, a French statistician and specialist in probability, died on January 30, 2026. He was 77. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 11, 1948, Deheuvels was a professor of…
René Backmann dead at age 81
French journalist and humanitarian Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Philippe Morillon obituary: died at age 90
French general and politician Died on Friday January 30th 2026
Vénus Khoury-Ghata passes away at age 88
French-Lebanese poet and writer Died on Thursday January 29th 2026
André Burguière passes away at age 87
French historian and academic Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
Obituary: Jean Cussac, dead at age 103
French baritone and music director Died on Tuesday January 27th 2026
François Lempérière dies at age 99
François Lempérière, a French civil engineer, died on January 26, 2026, at the age of 99. He built and/or designed 15 dams in France and other countries and invented solutions…
Michel Barbey dies at 98
French actor (Rendezvous in July Died on Monday January 26th 2026
Marie Rouanet died at age 89
French singer and writer Died on Sunday January 25th 2026
Joël Schmidt, died aged 88
French novelist Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Nicolas Blondeau passes away at age 70
French riding instructor Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Obituary: Maurice Le, dead at age 111
French supercentenarian Died on Saturday January 24th 2026
Pierre Ducimetière dead at age 83
French epidemiologist Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Marcel Loncle has died at age 90
French football player Died on Friday January 23rd 2026
Roger-Maurice Bonnet dead at age 88
French astrophysicist and academic Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Paul Larivaille passed away at age 93
French literary critic and academic Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
André Jammes dead at age 98
French bookseller and photography historian Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Death of Jean Chollet at age 89
French scenographer and journalist (Encyclopædia Universalis) Died on Thursday January 22nd 2026
Marie-Thérèse Lorcin obituary: died at age 93
French historian and academic Died on Wednesday January 21st 2026
Lucien Muller died at age 91
French footballer Died on Tuesday January 20th 2026
Jean-Jacques Naudet obituary: died at age 81
French photographer Died on Monday January 19th 2026
Death of Thierry Cazeneuve at age 74
French journalist Died on Sunday January 18th 2026
Jean-Loup Trassard dead at age 92
French photographer Died on Friday January 16th 2026
Daniel Colson passed away at age 82
French sociologist and academic Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Catherine Duprat death at age 90
French historian Died on Thursday January 15th 2026
Michel Griffon dead at age 77
French agronomist Died on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Jean-Hugues Colonna dies at 91
French politician Died on Wednesday January 14th 2026
Yvan Aumont dies at age 87
French engineer and journalist (Lys rouge) Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Michel Tombereau died at age 80
French painter Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Eleni Varikas dies at 76
Greek-born French political philosopher and academic Died on Tuesday January 13th 2026
Jean-Luc Domenach passes away at age 80
French historian Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Alain Orsoni passed away at age 71
French politician and Corsican independence activist Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Catherine Samie dies at age 92
French actress (Lovers of Paris Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Rolland Courbis death at age 72
French footballer Died on Monday January 12th 2026
Thierry Steimetz dead at age 42
French footballer (Amnéville Died on Sunday January 11th 2026
Jacqueline Schaeffer dead at age 91
French psychoanalyst Died on Saturday January 10th 2026
Zeno Bianu passed away at age 75
French writer Died on Saturday January 10th 2026