1930 births

Pierre_Jacques_Joatton

Pierre Jacques Joatton (20 July 1930 − 22 November 2013) was a French Roman Catholic bishop.
Ordained to the priesthood on 29 June 1957, Joatton was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Étienne, France on 20 April 1988 and retired on 28 June 2006.

Guy_Gaucher

Guy Étienne Germain Gaucher, OCD (5 March 1930 – 3 July 2014) was a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite bishop and theologian. He served as Bishop of Meaux and was an international authority on the life and writings of Thérèse of Lisieux.

Lucien_Daloz

Lucien Charles Gilbert Daloz (9 October 1930 – 31 July 2012) was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Besançon, France.Ordained in 1955, Daloz became bishop of Langres in 1975 and archbishop of Besançon in 1980, retiring in 2003.

Michel_Crépeau

Michel Crépeau (30 October 1930, Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée – 30 March 1999, Paris) was a French centre-left politician.
Born in 1930, barrister, he joined the Radical Party. When it split in 1972, he founded the Movement of Left Radicals (MRG) which chosen the alliance with the Socialist Party and the French Communist Party. Elected Mayor of La Rochelle in 1971, and Member of French National Assembly representing of Charente Maritime département in 1973, he kept these terms until his death in 1999.
MRG candidate in the 1981 presidential election, he obtained 2.2% of votes in the first round, then he called to vote for François Mitterrand in the second round. He became his Environment Minister from 1981 to 1983, then his Trade and Craft Industry Minister from 1983 to 1986. When Robert Badinter was nominated President of the Constitutional Council, in February 1986, he succeeded him as Justice Minister but the Left lost the legislative election one month later and, consequently, he was forced to resign.
Michel Crépeau died in Paris on 30 March 1999, after a heart attack which had arisen few days earlier during a parliamentary session of the National Assembly.

Fernand_Meyssonnier

Fernand Meyssonnier (1931–2008) was an executioner in the last years of French Algeria. He acted as an executioner from 1947 to 1961 and killed more than 200 people.
He is the author of a book "The Executioner's Tale" (Paroles de bourreau : Témoignage unique d'un éxécuteur des arrêts criminels) answering questions about his career as an executioner.He inherited the job of executioner from his father Maurice Meyssonnier in 1947 when he ended compulsory education. His ancestors had been executioners from ages ago. When Algeria became independent from France in 1961, the guillotine was replaced by execution by firing squad.In 1961, shortly before Algerian independence, Fernand Meyssonnier went to Tahiti where he met his future wife with whom he had a daughter, and founded several businesses. After his retirement, he went to metropolitan France. He bought a house in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse where he died on August 8, 2008.
Meyssonnier had been erroneously called the "last (French) executioner alive". In fact, he died the same year as Marcel Chevalier, the last French chief executioner, who served from 1976 to 1977.

Jean_Cardot

Jean Cardot (20 July 1930 – 13 October 2020) was a French sculptor, born in Saint-Étienne, France. He is known for his monumental sculptures that depict political figures and that are designed to complement particular architectural settings (e.g. museums, promenades, public squares).