Births[]
- Bobby Jacoby
- February 22 — Hadley Kay
- March 4 — Len Wiseman
- March 23 — Nathan O'Neil Smith
- May 12 — Adam Johnson
- June 15 — Neil Patrick Harris
Deaths[]
- Luis Aceves Castañeda
- January 6 — Signe Hack
- January 8 — Dudley Foster
- January 15 — Coleman Francis
- January 19 — Bill Nagy
- January 28 — John Banner
- February 4 — Brydon Baker
- February 16 — Giuliano Raffaelli
- February 24 — Art Smith
- March 6 — Aleksandr Ptushko
- March 22 — Billy Dix
- March 31 — Kurt Rackelmann
- April 3 — John Call
- May 6 — W. Donn Hayes
- May 18 — Oswald Hafenrichter
- May 19 — Louis J. Haszillo
- May 29 — Fred Rapport
- June 7 — Lane Bradford
- June 7 — Bill Clark
- June 7 — Charles Hannawalt
- June 9 — Carlo D'Angelo
- June 24 — Bud Westmore
- June 25 — Frank Hagney
- July 2 — George Macready
- July 3 — Wally Westmore
- July 6 — Patrick McVey
- July 12 — Lon Chaney Jr.
- August 4 — Sam Katzman
- August 10 — Douglas Kennedy
- August 11 — Peggie Castle
- August 11 — Ichirô Sugai
- August 18 — Frank Mills
- August 27 — Kenneth J. Warren
- September 18 — Nora Nicholson
- September 19 — Bobby Gilbert
- September 20 — Glenn Strange
- September 20 — Jack Marshall
- September 22 — Charles Previn
- October 5 — Sol Murgi
- October 21 — Andrei Abrikosov
- October 26 — James Bell
- November 30 — Charles R. Cane
- December 7 — Marty Moss
- December 11 — Ángel Di Stefani
- December 28 — Aleksandr Rou
Movie Premieres[]
Television Premieres[]
Events[]
- Ray Dennis Steckler and Carolyn Brandt get divorced.
- March 27 — At the 45th Academy Awards, the following awards were presented:
- Francis Ford Coppola wins the Best Adapted Screenplay Award for The Godfather.
- Robert Knudson and David Hillyard win the Best Sound Award for Cabaret.
- July 11 — Ann-Margret receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6501 Hollywood Blvd.
- October 20 — Marcy Lafferty and William Shatner get married.