Births
- January 10 - Walter Hill, American director, producer and screenwriter
- January 22 - John Hurt, English actor
- January 27 - James Cromwell, American actor
- February 27 - Bill Hunter, Australian actor (died 2011)
- January 29 - Katharine Ross, American actress
- February 4 - George A. Romero, American director, producer and screenwriter
- February 12 - Ralph Bates, English actor (died 1991)
- February 23 - Peter Fonda, American actor
- March 9 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (died 1994)
- March 10 - Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
- March 26 - James Caan, American actor
- April 25 - Al Pacino, American actor
- May 5 - Lance Henriksen, American actor
- May 15 - Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer
- June 1 - Rene Auberjonois, American actor
- June 20 - John Mahoney, English-born American actor
- July 7 - Ringo Starr, English drummer (The Beatles)
- July 13 - Patrick Stewart, English actor
- July 18 - James Brolin, American actor
- August 3 - Martin Sheen, American actor
- August 19 - Jill St. John, American actress
- August 31 - Jack Thompson, Australian actor
- September 5 - Raquel Welch, American actress
- September 11 - Brian De Palma, American director, producer and screenwriter
- October 9 - John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Beatles) (assassinated 1980)
- October 19 - Michael Gambon, Irish-born British actor
- November 5 - Elke Sommer, German actress
- November 15 - Sam Waterston, American actor
- November 27 - Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist and actor (died 1973)
- December 1 - Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (died 2005)
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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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