Births[]
- Óscar Martín
- March 4 — Robert Smith
- June 6 — Jennifer K. Dawson
- July 29 — Wil Wheaton
- August 3 — Brigid Conley Walsh
Deaths[]
- January 8 — Carl Ottosen
- January 27 — Raúl Martínez Solares
- January 27 — David McMahon
- February 5 — Kenne Duncan
- February 7 — Bob Woodward
- March 8 — Joseph Justman
- March 30 — Peter Whitney
- April 11 — George H. Plympton
- May 5 — Kenneth MacDonald
- May 8 — Alexander Stenbock-Fermor
- May 15 — Nigel Green
- May 26 — Jesús Murcielago Velázquez
- June 25 — Günther Simon
- July 15 — Roland D. Reed
- July 18 — Harold Miller
- July 23 — Roy Gordon
- July 30 — Eddie Carmel
- August 7 — Tom Neal
- August 7 — Holbrook N. Todd
- September — Peter Bryan
- September 14 — Lane Chandler
- September 30 — Frank Sullivan
- September 30 — Edgar G. Ulmer
- October 7 — Fred Gebhardt
- October 30 — Børge Møller Grimstrup
- October 31 — William Holland
- November 3 — Kichijirô Ueda
- November 18 — Boris Petroff
- November 20 — Gerard Heinz
- November 24 — Joseph Boyle
- November 26 — Kenneth Gibson
- November 29 — Carl W. Stalling
- December 6 — Janet Munro
- December 10 — James H. Nicholson
- December 15 — Edward Earle
- December 24 — Mel Ruick
- December 27 — William Forsyth
Movie Premieres[]
- February — The Castle of Fu Manchu (UK)
Television Premieres[]
- February 5 — When Michael Calls
- September 21 — Haunts of the Very Rich
- November 21 — Gargoyles
- November 28 — Home for the Holidays
Events[]
- Al Adamson and Regina Carrol get married.
- April — Vicki Peters is featured in that month's issue of Playboy as Playmate.
- April 10 — At the 44th Academy Awards, the following awards were presented:
- Gene Hackman wins the Best Actor Award for his role in The French Connection.
- John Williams wins the Best Adaptation and Original Song Score Award for Fiddler on the Roof.
- Gordon K. McCallum and David Hildyard win the Best Sound Award for Fiddler on the Roof.
- July 14 — Tom Neyman and Jacqueline Neyman get divorced.