Births
- January 1 — Kumi Mizuno
- January 5 — Cynthia Chenault
- January 12 — Shirley Eaton
- January 14 — Bent Mejding
- January 17 — Robert F. Shugrue
- January 18 — Kazuo Suzuki
- January 18 — Dick Durock
- January 18 — Peter Looney
- January 29 — Rossella Como
- February 8 — Bill Rebane
- February 16 — Robert Silliphant
- February 21 — Gary Lockwood
- February 26 — Cliff Osmond
- April 19 — Elinor Donahue
- April 22 — Jack Nitzsche
- April 25 — Nazzareno Zamperla
- April 27 — Dominique Boschero
- May 29 — Don Reynolds
- June 10 — Luciana Paluzzi
- July — Ron Carr
- July 1 — Chris Anders
- July 3 — Kieu Chinh
- July 5 — Del "Sonny" West
- July 14 — Kevin Connor
- July 18 — Mike Dodge
- July 27 — Don Galloway
- July 27 — Jens Due
- August 4 — Valentino Macchi
- August 8 — Adam Roarke
- August 20 — Paul Hampton
- August 24 — Marlene Callahan
- August 28 — Martin West
- September 1 — Elijah Perry
- September 1 — Wolfgang Hess
- September 7 — John Phillip Law
- September 7 — Barbara Allyne Bennet
- October 4 — Gail Gilmore
- October 17 — Zulu
- October 17 — Delores Wells
- October 24 — Paul Rapp
- October 28 — George "Buck" Flower
- November 20 — Brian Hall
- November 27 — Stewart Moss
- December 9 — Darwin Joston
- December 9 — Burke Byrnes
- December 15 — Lorena Velazquez
- December 23 — Peter Medak
- December 31 — Claire Polan
Events
- March 4 — At the 9th Academy Awards, Douglas Shearer wins the Best Sound Recording Award for San Francisco.
