Theatrical releases

Feature films

• March 11 - Trenchcoat
• March 25 - The Sword in the Stone (re-issue)
• April 29 - Something Wicked This Way Comes
• July 15 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (re-issue)
• October 7 - Never Cry Wolf
• December 16 - The Rescuers (re-issue)

Shorts

• March 25 - Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
• December 16 - Mickey's Christmas Carol

Television

• April 18 - The Disney Channel begins broadcasting

Theme parks

• March 3 - The original Journey Into Imagination ride-through attraction opens at Epcot.
• April 15 - The Tokyo Disney Resort opens.
• May 23 - Pinocchio's Daring Journey opens at Disneyland.
• May 25 - The new Fantasyland opens at Disneyland as a heavily-revamped version of the original version.
• June 4 - 18-year-old Philip Straughan of Albuquerque, New Mexico drowned in the Rivers of America while trying to pilot a rubber emergency boat from Tom Sawyer's Island that he and a friend had stolen from a "cast members only" area of the island.
• October 1 - Horizons opens at Epcot.

Home video releases

• Walt Disney Cartoon Classics (Volumes 1 to 6): Chip 'n' Dale with Donald Duck, Pluto, Scary Tales, Sport Goofy, Disney's Best of 1931-1948, and More Sport Goofy
• The Great Locomotive Chase
• Kidnapped
• In Search of the Castaways
• Johnny Tremain and the Sons of Liberty
• The Fabulous Fleischer Folio (Volumes 1 to 6)
• The Happiest Millionaire
• American Heroes: Featuring Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill
• October: Tron, Tex, and Something Wicked This Way Comes
• November: The Boatniks
• Where The Toys Come From?

People

Births

• January 19 - Hikaru Utada (Singer, Songwriter)
• February 23 - Emily Blunt (actress)
• March 10 - Khadijah Haqq (actress)
• March 10 - Malika Haqq (actress and television personality)
• March 10 - Carrie Underwood (singer and actress)
• April 1 - Matt Lanter (actor)
• April 2 - Yū Hayashi (Japanese voice actor)
• April 10 - Jamie Chung (actress)
• June 20 - Grace Potter (singer)
• August 9 - Ashley Johnson (actress)
• August 11 - Chris Hemsworth (actor)
• August 14 - Mila Kunis (actress)
• September 25 - Donald Glover (actor, writer, comedian)
• October 24 - Adrienne Bailon (actress and singer)

Deaths

• January 17 - John W. Dunn (screenwriter and animator)
• January 17 - Doodles Weaver (actor and comedian)
• February 10 - Eduard Franz (actor)
• March 27 - James Hayter (actor)
• May 23 - George Bruns (film and attraction composer)
• July 29 - David Niven (actor)
• September 5 - Yale Gracey (Imagineer)
• September 30 - Freddy Martin (bandleader and tenor saxophonist)
• December 8 - Slim Pickens (actor)
• December 18 - Leora Dana (film, stage and television actress)