Births
- January 3 - Mel Gibson, actor and director
- January 7 - David Caruso, actor
- January 9 - Kimberly Beck, actress
- January 21 - Geena Davis, actress
- January 27 - Mimi Rogers, actress
- February 3 - Nathan Lane, actor
- February 11 - Kathleen Beller, actress
- March 1 - Tim Daly, actor
- March 7 - Bryan Cranston, actor and director
- March 13 - Dana Delany, actress
- April 12 - Andy García, Cuban-American actor
- July 1 - Alan Ruck, actor
- July 9 - Tom Hanks, actor and director
- July 11 - Sela Ward, actress
- July 31 - Michael Biehn, actor
- August 12 - Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor
- August 20 - Joan Allen, actress
- August 21 - Kim Cattrall, English-born Canadian actress
- September 20 - Gary Cole, actor
- September 26 - Linda Hamilton, actress
- October 20 - Danny Boyle, English director and producer
- October 21 - Carrie Fisher, actress
- November 8 - Richard Curtis, New Zealand-born British director and screenwriter
- November 20 - Bo Derek, actress and model
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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.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)