Theatrical releases

• January 22 - 101 Dalmatians (re-issue)
• March 3 - The Love Bug
• March 21 - Smith!
• June 11 - Rascal
• June 18 - Peter Pan (re-issue)
• December 17 - Fantasia (re-issue)
• December 31 - The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Theme parks

• August 9 - The Haunted Mansion opens at Disneyland.
• august 11 - the hatbox ghost dissapears inside the haunted mansion and isn't seen again until 2009

People

Births

• January 14 - Dave Grohl (rock singer)
• January 27 - Patton Oswalt (voice actor)
• February 11 - Jennifer Aniston (actress, film director, and producer)
• May 14 - Cate Blanchett (actress)
• May 19 - Dan Lee (animator)
• June 4 - Horatio Sanz (actor and comedian)
• June 7 - Kim Rhodes (actress)
• June 8 - J.P. Manoux (actor)
• June 14 - Kyle Hebert (voice actor and podcaster)
• June 23 - Martin Klebba (actor and stunt performer)
• July 7 - Cree Summer (voice actress)
• July 13 - Ken Jeong (actor, comedian, physician)
• July 24 - Jennifer Lopez (actress and singer)
• July 22 - James Arnold Taylor (voice actor)
• August 6 - Chris Edgerly (voice actor and comedian)
• August 10 - Ashley Jensen (actress)
• August 28 - Jack Black (actor, comedian and musician)
• September 6 - Macy Gray (singer, recording producer and actress)
• October 1 - Zach Galifianakis (actor and comedian)
• October 25 - Samantha Bee (comedian, actress and author)
• October 25 - Nika Futterman (actress, singer, voice artist and comedienne)
• November 4 - Sean Combs (rapper, record producer, actor and entrepreneur)

Deaths

• February 3 - Al Taliaferro (comics artist and writer)
• February 14 - Charles Judels (voice actor)
• March 15 - Miles Malleson (English actor and dramatist)
• June 13 - Martita Hunt (English theatre and film actress)
• December 10 - Leigh Harline (film composer and songwriter)