Births
- January 12 — Dean Schofield
- March 6 — Eddie Deezen
- April 3 — Danny De La Paz
- April 28 — Christopher Young
- June 5 — Tae-jeong Kim
- July 3 — Michele Soavi
- July 8 — Alan Stock
- July 19 — Terri Treas
- July 24 — Dirce Funari
- August 19 — Darby Hinton
- September 13 — Anna Cachia
Deaths
- April 23 — Ernest Miller
- May 16 — John Brown
- June 21 — Donald MacBride
Movie Premieres
- February 14 — The Undead
- March 10 — Untamed Youth
- April 18 — The Beast of Hollow Mountain (Mexico)
- May 1 — The Deadly Mantis
- June 19 — I Was a Teenage Werewolf
- June 28 — The Unearthly
- June 28 — Beginning of the End
- October 4 — The Amazing Colossal Man
- October 11 — The Black Scorpion
- December — The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
Events
- January 31 — Martin Landau and Barbara Bain get married.
- March 27 — At the 29th Academy Awards, Lionel Lindon wins the Best Cinematography (Color) Award and Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax win the Best Editing Award, both for their work in Around the World in 80 Days, Dino De Laurentiis wins the Best Foreign Language Film Award for La Strada, and John P. Fulton wins the Best Special Effects Award for The Ten Commandments.