Births
- January 13 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
- February 11 - Carey Lowell, American actress
- February 21 - Christopher Atkins, American actor
- April 3 - Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
- April 6 - Gene Eugene, Canadian actor, lead singer of Adam Again (died 2000)
- April 14 - Robert Carlyle, Scottish actor
- April 23 - Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Icelandic actor
- May 6 - George Clooney American actor, writer, director, producer
- May 14 - Tim Roth, English actor
- June 9 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian actor
- July 15 - Forest Whitaker, American actor
- July 18 - Elizabeth McGovern, American actress
- July 30 - Laurence Fishburne, American actor
- August 2 - Bruce Mahoney, Irish-American actor and film director
- August 5 - Janet McTeer, English actress
- October 31 - Peter Jackson, New Zealand director
- November 4 - Ralph Macchio, American actor
- November 14 - D. B. Sweeney, American actor
- November 19 - Meg Ryan, American actress
- November 29 - Tom Sizemore, American actor
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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.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)