Births
- Norman Harrison
- Niisan Takahashi
- January 2 — Hideyo Amamoto
- January 6 — Mickey Hargitay
- January 14 — Warren Mitchell
- January 21 — Steve Reeves
- January 23 — Lyn Osborn
- January 25 — Ted White
- February 1 — Nancy Gates
- February 4 — Cliff Wenger
- February 5 — Michael Emmet
- February 10 — Gordon Zahler
- February 11 — Leslie Nielsen
- February 15 — Jack Bravman
- March 3 — Cathy Downs
- March 3 — Dick Randall
- March 4 — Tony Travis
- March 15 — Franco Giacobini
- March 18 — Peter Graves
- March 23 — Alan Wells
- April 5 — Roger Corman
- April 8 — Sue Casey
- May 1 — Valentin Bryleyev
- May 5 — Bing Russell
- May 8 — Yelena Myshkova
- May 9 — Quintín Bulnes
- May 12 — Jack Cookerly
- May 17 — Karl Lieffen
- May 17 — Stan Jolley
- May 18 — Dirch Passer
- May 21 — Chieko Nakakita
- May 25 — Claude Akins
- May 26 — Bruno Nicolai
- June 4 — Nan Leslie
- June 10 — James Landis
- June 15 — Herschell Gordon Lewis
- June 16 — Bill Catching
- June 23 — Desmond Saunders
- June 30 — Richard Schuyler
- July 6 — Marian Carr
- July 12 — Tiberio Mitri
- July 14 — Paul King
- July 18 — Rod Wilmoth
- July 26 — James Best
- July 31 — Hans Gottschalk
- August 3 — Gordon Scott
- August 6 — Frank Finlay
- August 7 — Anthony Kramreither
- August 8 — Richard Anderson
- August 19 — Angus Scrimm
- September 3 — Richard Markowitz
- September 3 — Bill Couch
- September 4 — Alberto Plebani
- September 14 — Alejandro Ulloa
- September 18 — Enrico Maria Salerno
- October 8 — Jil Jarmyn
- October 10 — Richard Jaeckel
- October 11 — Duccio Tessari
- October 17 — Beverly Garland
- October 18 — Klaus Kinski
- October 19 — Robert Roark
- October 22 — Tim Condren
- October 23 — Stan Jones
- October 26 — Robert Reeh
- November 30 — Richard Crenna
- December 10 — Harry Fowler
- December 11 — Richard Devon
- December 13 — Don Nagel
- December 14 — Stephen Lord
- December 19 — Eckart Dux