Births
- January 10 – Sal Mineo, actor (died 1976)
- February 3 – Michael Cimino, director; producer; screenwriter
- February 9 – Janet Suzman, South African actress and director
- March 5 – Samantha Eggar, English actress
- April 7 – Francis Ford Coppola, director; producer; screenwriter
- April 13 – Paul Sorvino, actor
- May 4 – Paul Gleason, actor (died 2006)
- May 13 – Harvey Keitel, actor
- May 19 – James Fox, English actor
- May 22 – Paul Winfield, actor (died 2004)
- May 25 – Ian McKellen, English actor
- May 30 – Michael J. Pollard, actor
- July 22 – Terence Stamp, English actor
- July 30 – Peter Bogdanovich, director; producer; screenwriter
- July 31 – France Nuyen, French actress
- August 2 – Wes Craven, director; producer; screenwriter
- August 12 – George Hamilton, actor
- August 25 – John Badham, director
- August 29 – Joel Schumacher, director; producer; screenwriter
- August 30 – Elizabeth Ashley, actress
- September 1 – Lily Tomlin, actress; comedian; producer
- September 18 – Frankie Avalon, singer and actor
- October 8 – Paul Hogan, Australian comedian and actor
- October 22 – Tony Roberts, actor
- October 24 – F. Murray Abraham, actor
- October 27 – John Cleese, English actor, comedian and producer
- October 28 – Jane Alexander, actress
- November 10 – Anton Gorchev, Bulgarian actor
- November 22 – Allen Garfield, actor
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