Births
- Colin Chilvers
- January 5 — Beverly Lunsford
- January 14 — Vonetta McGee
- January 29 — Tom Selleck
- February 4 — Bruce J. Mitchell
- February 6 — Steven Keats
- February 6 — Robert Feero
- February 9 — Mia Farrow
- February 28 — Bubba Smith
- March 10 — Don Granberry
- April 12 — Roger Hampton
- May 6 — Richard Eyer
- May 18 — Brian Cutler
- June 10 — John De Troia
- June 17 — Frank Ashmore
- July 15 — Chrissie Shrimpton
- July 20 — Reiko Kasahara
- July 21 — Jeong-im Nam
- July 26 — Suzanna Leigh
- August 13 — Maria Rohm
- September 1 — Venita Wolf
- September 10 — Dennis Burkley
- September 15 — Roy Brocksmith
- October 4 — Clifton Davis
- October 12 — Leo Eaton
- November 4 — Irene Tsu
- November 27 — Barbara Anderson
- November 30 — Sandy Descher
- December 8 — Donna Michelle
- December 11 — Zienia Merton
Deaths
- April 29 — Malcolm McGregor
- November 15 — Ralph Holmes
Events
- March 15 — At the 17th Academy Awards, the following awards are presented:
- Jerry Fairbanks wins the Best Live Action Short Subject (One Reel) Award for Who's Who in Animal Land.
- Cedric Gibbons, William Ferrari, Paul Huldschinsky, and Edwin B. Willis win the Best Art Direction (Black and White) Award for Gaslight.
- Joseph LaShelle wins the Best Cinematography (Black and White) Award for Laura.
- Warren Newcombe, Douglas Shearer, A. Arnold Gillespie and Donald Jahraus win the Best Special Effects Award for their work in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.
- June 3 — Bert I. Gordon and Flora Lang get married.
