Births[]
- Lisa Foster
- January 19 — Rok Cvetkov
- January 25 — Bradley J. Keely
- February 2 — Bud Osborne
- April 22 — Chris Makepeace
- May 1 — Scott Coffey
- May 2 — Mark Gregory
- May 6 — Letitia Knight
- May 29 — Brad Morris
- June 10 — Carlos Gil
- July 20 — Hiroyuki Kawase
- August 24 — Dana Gould
- September 24 — Bridget Nelson
- October 11 — Michael J. Nelson
- October 20 — Yvette Nipar
- November 1 — Daran Norris
Deaths[]
- William Morgan
- January 21 — Ann Wilner
- February 2 — Bud Osborne
- February 6 — Lupe Carriles
- February 20 — Darrell Calker
- March 1 — Dennis Moore
- March 6 — Edward Van Sloan
- March 10 — Harry M. Slott
- March 18 — Herschel Graham
- April 9 — El Brendel
- May 29 — Alex Suhr
- June 12 — Paul Carpenter
- June 22 — Christopher Rhodes
- June 27 — Alvin Todd
- July 12 — Eddie Holden
- August 6 — Reed Howes
- August 16 — Charles S. Gould
- September 2 — Morris Ankrum
- September 11 — John Dodsworth
- September 17 — Pat Dinga
- September 25 — Frank Melford
- October 23 — Ellis W. Carter
- November 10 — Sam Newfield
- November 16 — John Emery
- November 22 — Max Alexander
- November 28 — Charles Meredith
- November 30 — Eulabelle Moore
- December 3 — George Lynn
- December 4 — Mikhail Troyanovsky
- December 14 — Bert Stevens
Movie Premieres[]
- Teen-Age Strangler
- February 10 — The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
- March 20 — Invasion of the Neptune Men (U.S.)
- March 25 — The Starfighters
- April — The Day the Earth Froze (U.S.)
- April 29 — The Horror of Party Beach
- June 27 — Hercules Against the Moon Men (Italy)
- September — Devil Doll
- October 29 — The Time Travelers
- November 4 — Kitten with a Whip
- November 13 — Leon Barsha
- November 14 — Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
- November 20 — The Creeping Terror
Television Premieres[]
- September 18 — The Addams Family
- September 26 — Gilligan's Island
- October 11 — Stingray episode "Emergency Marineville" (second quarter of Invaders from the Deep)
Events[]
- February 28 — Harry Alan Towers and Maria Rohm get married.
- April 13 — At the 36th Academy Awards, the following awards are presented:
- Piero Gherardi wins the Best Costume Design (Black and White) Award for 8 1⁄2.
- Harold F. Kress wins the Best Editing Award for How the West Was Won.
- August — Susan Hart and James H. Nicholson get married.
- August 26 — Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay get divorced.