Births
- January 12 - Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born director
- January 14 - Lawrence Kasdan, American director and screenwriter
- January 16 - Caroline Munro, English actress and model
- January 17 - Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (died 1984)
- January 24 - John Belushi, American actor and comedian (died 1982)
- January 27 - Zbigniew Rybczyński, Polish film and video cinematographer and director
- February 8 - Brooke Adams, American actress
- March 12 - Rob Cohen, American director, producer and writer
- March 16 - Victor Garber, Canadian actor
- March 22 - Fanny Ardant, French actress
- April 14 - John Shea, American actor
- April 20 - Jessica Lange, American actress
- Veronica Cartwright, English-born actress
- May 24 - Jim Broadbent, English actor
- May 26 - Pam Grier, American actress
- May 31 - Tom Berenger, American actor
- June 15 - Jim Varney, American actor and comedian (died 2000)
- June 22 - Meryl Streep, American actress
- July 7 - Shelley Duvall, American actress
- August 17 - Julian Fellowes, British actor, writer, director and screenwriter
- August 23 - Shelley Long, American actress
- August 31 - Richard Gere, American actor
- September 16 - Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
- October 4 - Armand Assante, American actor
- October 8 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
- December 4 - Jeff Bridges, American actor
- December 25 - Sissy Spacek, American actress
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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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