Births[]
- Toni Camel
- See-Yuen Ng
- Akira Tsuburaya
- January 10 — Shelly Novack
- January 11 — Eileen Deitz
- January 14 — Marjoe Gortner
- January 16 — Jim Stafford
- January 17 — Concha Cuetos
- January 17 — Roy Moore
- January 28 — Susan Howard
- February 22 — Jonathan Demme
- March 2 — Katherine Crawford
- March 3 — Lee Holdridge
- March 9 — Paola Quattrini
- March 15 — Ian Wingrove
- March 18 — Ritch Brinkley
- March 27 — Alberto Rojas
- March 28 — Ken Howard
- April 1 — Aliza Gur
- April 3 — Lamberto Bava
- April 8 — Deke Richards
- April 15 — Tracey Crisp
- April 17 — Valeria D'Obici
- May 4 — Walker Boone
- May 14 — Maureen Byrnes
- May 17 — Diane Mahree
- May 27 — Robert A. Burns
- May 29 — Ken Turner
- June 4 — Jan McLendon
- June 18 — Baku Hatakeyama
- June 18 — Colin Skeaping
- June 27 — Dardano Sachetti
- July 2 — Tim Kincaid
- July 5 — Bill Taylor
- July 17 — Catherine Schell
- July 21 — Michel Ray
- July 22 — Nick Brimble
- July 28 — Tsunehiko Watase
- July 30 — Lee Dichter
- September 3 — Timothy Donnelly
- September 13 — Mike Marshall
- October 4 — Aleksandr Mikhaylov
- October 7 — Tallie Cochrane
- October 16 — Johnny Washbrook
- October 20 — Ernest Harada
- October 22 — Dave Allen
- November 10 — Lydia Goya
- November 16 — Mary Linda Rapelye
- November 26 — Michael Gregory
- November 29 — Chôei Takahashi
- December 1 — Syd Dutton
- December 10 — Karoly Balazs
- December 10 — Tisha Sterling
- December 15 — Morgan Paull
- December 22 — Guido De Angelis
- December 24 — Mike Curb
- December 24 — Katsuhiko Sasaki
Deaths[]
- January 14 — Jack C. Smith
- October 2 — Henry MacRae
- December 25 — Edwin Stanley
Movie Premieres[]
Events[]
- March 2 — At the 16th Academy Awards, the following awards were presented:
- Grantland Rice wins the Best Live Action Short Subject (One-Reel) Award for Amphibious Fighters.
- Alexander Golitzen, John B. Goodman, Russell A. Gausman, and Ira S. Webb win the Best Art Direction (Color) Award for Phantom of the Opera.
- Roger Heman Sr. and Fred Sersen win the Best Special Effects Award for Crash Dive.
- May 12 — Dorothy Arnold and Joe DiMaggio get divorced.