Theatrical releases

• April 20 - Make Mine Music (premiere)
• August 15 - Make Mine Music (general release)
• September 1 - Fantasia (re-release; general release version)
• November 12 - Song of the South

People

Births

• February 2 - Blake Clark (voice actor)
• February 7 - Pete Postlethwaite (actor)
• February 20 - Brenda Blethyn (actress)
• February 20 - Sandy Duncan (voice actress and singer)
• February 21 - Alan Rickman (actor)
• February 24 - Barry Bostwick (actor)
• March 12 - Liza Minnelli (actress and singer)
• March 12 - Frank Welker (voice actor)
• March 19 - Ruth Pointer (voice actress and singer)
• March 26 - Johnny Crawford (actor, singer and musician)
• April 8 - Stuart Pankin (film and television actor)
• April 11 - Laurie Faso (television actor and occasional voice actor)
• April 12 - Ed O'Neill (actor)
• April 18 - Hayley Mills (actress)
• April 19 - Tim Curry (voice actor)
• April 29 - Wayne Robson (television, film and stage actor)
• May 9 - Candice Bergen (actress and daughter of Edgar Bergen)
• June 3 - Tristan Rogers (actor)
• June 28 - Gilda Radner (comedienne and actress)
• July 6 - Sylvester Stallone (actor)
• July 13 - Cheech Marin (voice actor)
• July 14 - Cubby O'Brien (musician)
• July 15 - Linda Ronstadt (music recording artist)
• July 16 - Toshio Furukawa (Japanese voice actor); Dave Goelz (puppeteer); Richard LeParmentier (actor)
• July 22 - Danny Glover (actor, director and activist)
• August 1 - Karen Pendleton (Mouseketeer)
• August 16 - Lesley Ann Warren (actress and singer)
• August 19 - Christopher Malcolm (television and film actor, director and producer)
• September 5 - Dennis Dugan (actor, director and comedian)
• September 28 - Jeffrey Jones (actor)
• September 30 - Fran Brill (actress and puppeteer)
• October 4 - Susan Sarandon (voice actress)
• October 10 - Ben Vereen (dancer, singer and actor)
• October 16 - Suzanne Somers (actress, author and singer)
• October 30 - Katsuhisa Hōki (Japanese voice actor and actor)
• November 20 - Samuel E. Wright (voice actor)
• December 16 - Charles Dennis (voice actor)
• December 18 - Steven Spielberg (director, producer and screenwriter)
• December 30 - Patti Smith (singer, artist and poet)

Deaths

• November 9 - Scotty Mattraw (voice actor)
• December 25 - W.C. Fields (comedian and actor)

Character debuts

• August 15 - Casey (Make Mine Music), Peter (Make Mine Music)
• November 12 - Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear