Births
- Fran Rosati
- Jerome Tiberghein
- January 28 — David R. Loxton
- January 29 — Robert Random
- February 5 — Giancarlo Prete
- February 7 — Greydon Clark
- February 9 — Squire Fridell
- February 23 — Nick Allder
- March 8 — Susan Clark
- March 14 — Gregory Moffett
- March 15 — Russell Vreeland
- April 2 — Antonio Sabato
- April 6 — Bruce Podewell
- April 8 — Victor Bo
- May 2 — Regina Carrol
- May 9 — Britt Nilsson
- June 16 — Dagmar Lassander
- June 16 — Brian Gascoigne
- June 26 — Stan Barrett
- June 26 — Keith Lund
- August 4 — Margaret Lee
- August 15 — Barbara Bouchet
- September 2 — Lisle Wilson
- September 7 — David Worth
- September 14 — Kei'ichi Noda
- September 22 — Toni Basil
- October 5 — Inna Churikova
- October 7 — Austin Stoker
- October 16 — Christopher Mitchum
- October 31 — Anton Phillips
- October 31 — Pierre-William Glenn
- November 1 — John McEnery
- November 5 — Mike Clifford
- November 9 — Charles E. Sellier Jr.
- November 26 — Haskell V. Anderson III
- December 2 — Arch Hall Jr.
- December 8 — Patti Chandler
- December 12 — Gianni Russo
- December 13 — Don Snyder
- December 16 — Steven Bochco
- December 25 — Angus G. Wynne III
Deaths
- July 6 — Reginald Barlow
- November 16 — Hooper Atchley
Events
- March 4 — At the 15th Academy Awards, the following awards are presented:
- Heinz Roemheld and Ray Heindorf win the Best Scoring of a Musical Picture Award for Yankee Doodle Dandy.
- Farciot Edouart, Gordon Jennings, William Pereira, and Louis Mesenkop win the Best Special Effects Award for Reap the Wild Wind.
