Births[]
- May 9 — Alex Martin
- May 20 — Grant Baciocco
- June 18 — Rey-Phillip Santos
- July 1 — Michele Krasnoo
- October 11 — Ray Kaselonis
- November 19 — Joshua Morrell
- December 31 — Struan Robertson
Deaths[]
- Athol Coats
- January 7 — Benjamin H. Kline
- January 12 — Harry Ross
- January 18 — Bill Finger
- February 7 — Arline Judge
- February 18 — Jack Tornek
- February 26 — Edward G. Robinson Jr.
- March 3 — Frank Wilcox
- March 7 — Alberto Rabagliati
- March 8 — Martha Wentworth
- March 11 — Judd Holdren
- March 19 — Edward Platt
- March 20 — Chet Huntley
- March 30 — Elmer Decker
- April 2 — Douglass Dumbrille
- April 5 — Stanley Farrar
- April 5 — William Hudson
- April 8 — Harry Fraser
- May 4 — John Wengraf
- May 17 — Ben Bard
- June 15 — Jack Miles
- June 16 — Mauritz Hugo
- July 17 — Chet Brandenburg
- July 19 — Joe Flynn
- July 20 — Leslie Bradley
- July 27 — Julián de Meriche
- August 15 — Edmund Cobb
- September 2 — Walter Strenge
- September 9 — Jim Tyson
- September 26 — Jeffrey Sayre
- October 6 — René Dary
- October 8 — Harold Lipstein
- November 20 — Clancy Herne
- December 4 — Ellis Burman
- December 6 — Lew Borzage
- December 11 — Reed Hadley
- December 27 — Richard Dixon
- December 27 — Sam Comer
Movie Premieres[]
- January 24 — It Lives by Night
- September 6 — Phase IV
- November 29 — The Land That Time Forgot (U.K.)
Television Premieres[]
- January 26 — Heatwave!
- October 6 — Time of the Apes (Japan)
- October 23 — Bad Ronald
- October 30 — Death Cruise
Events[]
- April 2 — At the 46th Academy Awards, Robert Knudson and Chris Newman win the Best Sound Award for The Exorcist.
- December 17 — Quinn Martin receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6667 Hollywood Blvd.