Births
- January 5 - Maria Schell, actress (died 2005)
- January 14 - Tom Tryon, actor, novelist (died 1991)
- January 17 - Moira Shearer, actress, dancer (died 2006)
- January 19 - Fritz Weaver, actor
- January 20 - Patricia Neal, actress (died 2010)
- February 11 - Leslie Nielsen, actor, comedian (died 2010)
- February 16 - John Schlesinger, director (died 2003)
- February 20 - Gillian Lynne, dancer, actress, choreographer
- March 6 - Andrzej Wajda, director
- March 16 - Jerry Lewis, actor
- April 7 - Prem Nazir, Indian actor (died 1989)
- May 8 - Don Rickles, comedian and actor
- May 11 - Frank Thring, Australian actor (died 1994)
- June 1 - Andy Griffith, actor (died 2012)
- June 1 - Marilyn Monroe, actress (died 1962)
- June 28 - Mel Brooks, entertainer
- July 14 - Harry Dean Stanton, actor
- July 21 - Norman Jewison, director
- October 17 - Beverly Garland, actress (died 2008)
- October 18 - Klaus Kinski, actor (died 1991)
- November 30 - Richard Crenna, actor (died 2003)
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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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