Shorts

• March 14 - The Barn Dance
• March 17 - Plane Crazy, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon produced is widely released with sound.
• March 28 - The Opry House
• May 3 - When the Cat's Away
• June 28 - The Plowboy
• July 31 - The Karnival Kid
• August 22 - The Skeleton Dance, the first Silly Symphony cartoon released.
• August 28 - Mickey's Follies
• September 7 - El Terrible Toreador
• October 1 - Mickey's Choo Choo
• October 10 - The Barnyard Battle
• October 15 - The Jazz Fool
• October 24 - Springtime
• October 30 - Hell's Bells
• November 15 - Jungle Rhythm
• December 2 - Haunted House
• December 16 - The Merry Dwarves
• December 21 - Wild Waves

Character debuts

• March 28 - Kat Nipp
• June 28 - Horace Horsecollar
• August 28 - Patricia Pigg

People

Births

• February 10 - Jerry Goldsmith (composer and conductor)
• February 14 - Vic Morrow (actor)
• February 22 - James Hong (actor)
• April 5 - Nigel Hawthorne (actor)
• May 5 - Ilene Woods (actress and singer)
• May 11 - Margaret Kerry (actress, motivational speaker and radio host)
• May 25 - Beverly Sills (soprano)
• June 4 - Digby Wolfe (actor, screenwriter and university lecturer in dramatic writing)
• July 5 - Chikao Ōtsuka (Japanese live and voice actor)
• July 17 - Helene Stanley (performance model)
• September 5 - Bob Newhart (stand-up comedian and actor)
• September 18 - Jack Mullaney (actor)
• September 29 - Tōru Ōhira (Japanese narrator and voice actor)
• October 28 - Joan Plowright (actress)
• November 15 - Edward Asner (voice actor)
• December 13 - Christopher Plummer (voice actor)