Deaths
- January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller, Austro-Hungarian-born American actor
- January 29 - Frances Goodrich, American screenwriter
- February 15 - Ethel Merman, American singer, actress
- March 1 - Jackie Coogan, American actor
- March 5 - William Powell, American actor
- March 24 - Sam Jaffe, American actor
- April 1 - George Glass, American producer, publicist
- May 16 - Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian
- May 21 - Andrea Leeds, American actress
- May 21 - Ann Little, American actress
- June 18 - Luis Moglia Barth, Argentine director
- July 25 - Akihiko Hirata, Japanese actor
- July 27 - James Mason, English actor
- August 4 - Mary Miles Minter, American actress
- August 5 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor
- August 29 - Pina Menichelli, Italian actress
- September 17 - Richard Basehart, American actor
- September 25 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor
- October 21 - François Truffaut, French film director
- October 23 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor
- October 25 - Pascale Ogier, French actress
- December 24 - Peter Lawford, English-born American actor
- December 28 - Sam Peckinpah, American director
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