Theatrical releases

• March 17 - The Barefoot Executive
• June 22 - Scandalous John
• June 30 - The Million Dollar Duck
• July 7 - Pinocchio (re-issue)
• December 13 - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• December 17 - Lady and the Tramp (re-issue)

Theme park happenings

• October 1 - The Walt Disney World Resort opens.

Books

• Surprise for Mickey Mouse
• Big Al Moves In

People

Births

• Nicolas Ghesquière (fashion designer)
• January 7 - Jeremy Renner (actor)
• February 1 - Hynden Walch (voice actress)
• February 4 - Rob Corddry (actor and comedian)
• February 22 - Lea Salonga (actress and singer)
• March 7 - Kali Troy (voiceover actress)
• March 12 - Roy Glenn (character actor)
• March 16 - Alan Tudyk (actor)
• March 27 - Nathan Fillion (actor)
• March 29 - Michael-Leon Wooley (voice artist)
• March 31 - Ewan McGregor (actor) and Craig McCracken (animator)
• May 27 - Paul Bettany (voice actor)
• May 30 - Idina Menzel (actress and singer)
• June 5 - Mark Wahlberg (actor, producer, and former rapper)
• June 16 - Corey Feldman (actor and singer)
• July 12 - Kristi Yamaguchi (figure skater)
• July 20 - Sandra Oh (actress)
• August 2 - Alice Evans (actress)
• August 29 - Carla Gugino (actress)
• September 1 - Dave Wittenberg (voice actor)
• September 8 - David Arquette (actor, director, producer, and screenwriter); Martin Freeman (actor)
• October 24 - Mario Sorrenti (photographer and director)
• October 29 - Winona Ryder (actress and producer)
• November 11 - David DeLuise (actor)
• December 1 - Emily Mortimer (voice actress)
• December 7 - Stephanie D'Abruzzo (actress and puppeteer)

Deaths

• April 6 - Igor Stravinsky (composer)
• April 20 - Cecil Parker (character and comedy actor)
• July 7 - Ub Iwerks (animator)
• July 8 - Bill Thompson (voice artist)
• August 15 - Paul Lukas (actor)
• September 20 - James Westerfield (stage, film and television actor)
• September 23 - Billy Gilbert (voice actor)
• November 17 - Gladys Cooper (actress)
• December 20 - Roy Oliver Disney (co-founder of The Walt Disney Company)
• December 28 - Burt Gillett (animator)

Business

• The Disney studio purchases the screen rights to Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain book series, which would be adapted into the film The Black Cauldron.