Births
- John Barry
- January 4 — Marla English
- January 10 — Bara Byrnes
- January 14 — Ennio Girolami
- February 16 — Juan Piquer Simon
- February 20 — Jordan Cronenweth
- February 21 — Dawn Bender
- March 3 — Isarco Ravaioli
- March 11 — John Morrill
- March 11 — Nancy Kovack
- March 16 — Eddie Carmel
- March 18 — Leslie Parrish
- March 19 — Nancy Malone
- March 22 — M. Emmet Walsh
- April 2 — Sharon Acker
- April 5 — Giovanni Cianfriglia
- April 7 — Yvonne Lime
- April 12 — Lee H. Katzin
- April 13 — Lyle Waggoner
- May 1 — Ian Curteis
- May 8 — Salome Jens
- May 8 — Horst Ebersberg
- May 11 — Doug McClure
- May 19 — David Hartman
- June 21 — Monte Markham
- July 14 — Darrell Cathcart
- July 15 — Andra Martin
- July 15 — Gianni Garko
- July 21 — Aleksandr Rybin
- September 7 — Norman Ollstead
- September 7 — Sergio Ciani
- September 20 — Newell Alexander
- September 23 — Jerry Leggio
- October 1 — Teruyoshi Nakano
- October 2 — Brian Degas
- October 5 — Peter Brown
- November 5 — Lindsay Shonteff
- November 14 — Don Stewart
- November 15 — Danny Kamekona
- November 16 — Bob Johnene
- November 23 — Tom Neyman
- November 27 — Willie Pastrano
- November 27 — Johnny Byrne
- November 28 — Juli Reding
- December 3 — Barry Oringer
- December 8 — Hylton Socher
- December 11 — Tina Gloriani
- December 15 — Yvonne Monlaur
Events
- February 27 — At the 7th Academy Awards, Cedric Gibbons and Fredric Hope win the Best Art Direction Award for The Merry Widow.
