Births
- January 3 - John Thaw, English actor (died 2002)
- January 8 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
- January 19 - Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
- March 25 - Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer
- March 27 - Michael York, English actor
- March 28 - Mike Newell, English director and producer
- April 3 - Marsha Mason, American actress
- April 6 - Barry Levinson, American director, producer and screenwriter
- April 23 - Sandra Dee, American actress (died 2005)
- April 24 - Barbra Streisand, American actress, singer, director and producer
- June 18 - Roger Ebert, American film critic of the Chicago Sun Times
- Paul McCartney, English musician and composer (The Beatles)
- July 1 - Geneviève Bujold, French-Canadian actress
- July 9 - Richard Roundtree, American actor
- July 13 - Harrison Ford, American actor and producer
- July 24 - Chris Sarandon, American actor
- September 29 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (died 1999)
- October 4 - Christopher Stone, American actor (died 1995)
- October 6 - Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
- October 22 - Annette Funicello, American actress and singer
- October 26 - Bob Hoskins, English actor and director
- October 31 - David Ogden Stiers, American actor
- November 17 - Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
- December 4 - Gemma Jones, English actress
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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