Events before 1922 which have relevance to the Walt Disney Company.
1412
- January 6 - Joan of Arc is born.
1431
- May 30 - Joan of Arc dies.
1452
- April 15 - Leonardo da Vinci is born.
1519
- May 2 - Leonardo da Vinci dies.
1564
- April 26 - William Shakespeare is baptized (actual birth date unknown).
1616
- April 23 - William Shakespeare dies.
1618
- Thomas Blood is born.
1619
- March 6 - Cyrano de Bergerac is born.
1628
- January 12 - Charles Perrault is born.
1655
- July 28 - Cyrano de Bergerac dies.
1680
- August 24 - Thomas Blood dies.
1685
- March 31 - Johann Sebastian Bach is born.
1703
- May 16 - Charles Perrault dies.
1716
- January 5 - Philip Livingston is born.
1738
- June 4 - George III of the United Kingdom is born.
1743
- May 28 - Johann Wyss is born.
1748
- October 13 - Henry Livingston, Jr. is born.
1749
- August 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is born.
1750
- July 28 - Johann Sebastian Bach dies.
1757
- September 6 - The Marquis de La Fayette is born.
1769
- August 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte is born.
1778
- June 12 - Philip Livingston dies.
1785
- January 4 - Jacob Grimm is born.
1786
- February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm is born.
1792
- February 29 - Gioachino Rossini is born.
1801
- George Washington Dixon is born.
1802
- July 24 - Alexandre Dumas is born.
1803
- December 11 - Hector Berlioz is born.
1805
- April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen is born.
1813
- Richard Wagner is born.
1818
- January 11 - Johann Wyss dies.
1819
- June 20 - Jacques Offenbach is born.
1820
- January 19 - George III of the United Kingdom dies.
- February 28 - John Tenniel is born.
- May 12 - Florence Nightingale is born.
1821
- May 5 - Napoleon Bonaparte dies.
1828
- February 9 - Jules Verne is born.
- February 29 - Henry Livingston, Jr. dies.
1832
- January 27 - Lewis Carroll is born
- March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies.
1834
- May 20 - The Marquis de La Fayette dies.
1835
- November 30 - Mark Twain is born.
1848
- December 9 - Joel Chandler Harris is born.
1850
- November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson is born.
1856
- May 15 - L. Frank Baum is born.
1857
- April 23 - Ruggero Leoncavallo is born.
- September 15 - William Howard Taft is born.
1859
- February 1 - Victor Herbert is born.
- February 6 - Elias Disney is born.
- March 8 - Kenneth Grahame is born.
- May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born.
- December 16 - Wilhelm Grimm dies.
1861
- March 2 - George Washington Dixon dies.
1862
- October 4 - Edward Stratemeyer is born.
1863
- August 14 - Ernest Thayer is born.
- September 20 - Jacob Grimm dies.
1865
- December 29 - Otis Harlan is born.
1866
- September 21 - H.G. Wells is born.
1868
- April 10 - George Arliss is born.
- April 22 - Flora Disney is born.
- November 9 - Marie Dressler is born.
- November 13 - Gioachino Rossini dies.
- December 19 - Eleanor H. Porter is born.
1869
- March 8 - Hector Berlioz dies.
- September 6 - Felix Salten is born.
- September 19 - Ben Turpin is born.
1870
- December 5 - Alexandre Dumas dies.
1872
- November 8 - Lucille La Verne is born.
1874
- March 24 - Harry Houdini is born.
1875
- August 4 - Hans Christian Andersen dies.
- September 1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs is born.
1876
- January 12 - Jack London is born.
- February 16 - Mack Swain is born.
- June 23 - Irvin S. Cobb is born.
1877
- July 27 - Florence Gill is born.
1878
- January 20 - Finlay Currie is born.
- April 28 - Lionel Barrymore is born.
- May 2 - Roy Atwell is born.
- May 16 - Taylor Holmes is born.
1879
- March 14 - Albert Einstein is born.
- March 17 - Sid Grauman is born.
- May 27 - Lucile Watson is born.
- August 15 - Ethel Barrymore is born.
- September 6 - Max Schreck is born.
- October 3 - Warner Oland is born.
- October 15 - Jane Darwell is born.
- November 4 - Will Rogers is born.
- November 5 - Will H. Hays is born.
- December 10 - E.H. Shepard is born.
1880
- January 1 - Edie Martin is born.
- January 29 - W.C. Fields is born.
- September 14 - Earl Hurd is born.
- October 5 - Jacques Offenbach dies.
- October 19 - Scotty Mattraw is born.
1881
- August 28 - Ferdinand Hovarth is born.
- November 10 - Ned Norton is born.
- ? - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is born.
1882
- January 18 - A.A. Milne is born.
- February 15 - John Barrymore is born.
- April 18 - Leopold Stokowski is born.
- June 17 - Igor Stravinsky is born.
- July 27 - Donald Crisp is born.
- August 17 - Charles Judels is born.
- November 3 - Ford Sterling is born.
1883
- January 24 - Estelle Winwood is born.
- February 13 - Richard Wagner dies.
- March 20 - Colin Campbell is born.
- May 11 - Albert Hurter is born.
- May 23 - Douglas Fairbanks is born.
- November 9 - Edna May Oliver is born.
- Eddie Collins is born.
1884
1885
- April 1 - Wallace Beery is born.
- April 15 - Albert Sharpe is born.
- December 22 - Deems Taylor is born.
- ? - Alex Mackenzie is born.
1886
- January 11 - Chester Conklin is born.
- February 8 - Charles Ruggles is born.
- April 13 - Christian Rub is born.
- April 23 - Belle Montrose is born.
- October 25 - Leo G. Carroll is born.
- November 9 - Ed Wynn is born.
1887
- August 5 - Reginald Owen is born.
- August 6 - Oliver Wallace is born.
- December 6 - Lynn Fontanne is born.
1888
- February 20 - Lee Millar Sr. is born.
- May 10 - Max Steiner is born.
- May 25 - Miles Malleson is born.
- May 31 - Jack Holt is born.
- August 2 - D. A. Clarke-Smith is born.
- August 14 - Robert Woolsey is born.
- September 12 - Maurice Chevalier is born.
- October 3 - Claud Allister is born.
- November 24 - Cathleen Nesbitt is born.
- December 18 - Gladys Cooper is born.
1889
- February 4 - Walter Catlett is born.
- March 30 - Herman Bing is born.
- April 16 - Charlie Chaplin is born.
- April 20 - Adolf Hitler is born.
- June 2 - Martha Wentworth is born.
- June 10 - Sessue Hayakawa is born.
- June 27 - Moroni Olsen is born.
- September 15 - Robert Benchley is born.
- Charles Mintz is born.
1890
- February 18 - Adolphe Menjou is born; Edward Arnold is born.
- June 12 - Junius Matthews is born.
- June 16 - Stan Laurel is born.
- July 20 - Verna Felton is born.
1891
- March 10 - Sam Jaffe is born.
- May 26 - Paul Lukas is born.
- July 28 - Joe E. Brown is born.
- October 15 - Burt Gillett is born.
- November 26 - Scott Bradley is born.
1892
- January 18 - Oliver Hardy is born.
- January 31 - Eddie Cantor is born.
- February 27 - William Demarest is born.
- April 8 - Mary Pickford is born.
- June 13 - Basil Rathbone is born.
- June 27 - Robert Ellis is born.
- July 10 - Slim Summerville is born.
- July 29 - William Powell is born.
- August 12 - Alfred Lunt is born.
- September 11 - Pinto Colvig is born.
- November 10 - Carl Stalling is born.
- December 26 - Don Barclay is born.
- December 30 - John Litel is born.
1893
- February 10 - Jimmy Durante is born.
- April 20 - Harold Lloyd is born.
- June 24 - Roy O. Disney is born.
- September 18 - Ernest Jay is born.
- December 12 - Edward G. Robinson is born.
1894
- March 18 - Stuart Buchanan is born.
- July 23 - Arthur Treacher is born.
- July 29 - Aldous Huxley is born.
- September 12 - Billy Gilbert is born.
- September 24 - Billy Bletcher is born.
- December 3 - Robert Louis Stevenson dies.
- Larry Grey is born.
1895
- February 27 - Edward Brophy is born.
- April 7 - Bert Wheeler is born.
- April 11 - Jack King is born.
- April 22 - Margaret J. Winkler is born.
- June 10 - Hattie McDaniel is born.
- June 14 - Cliff Edwards is born.
- July 12 - Oscar Hammerstein II is born.
- September 13 - Ruth McDevitt is born.
- October 2 - Bud Abbott is born.
- October 4 - Buster Keaton is born.
- November 4 - Ben Sharpsteen is born.
1896
- January 20 - George Burns is born.
- April 17 - Señor Wences is born.
- April 29 - Dan Patch is born.
- May 3 - Dodie Smith is born.
- May 18 - Walter Fitzgerald is born.
- July 3 - Doris Lloyd is born.
- November 4 - Ian Wolfe is born.
- November 16 - Jim Jordan is born.
1897
- January 3 - Pola Negri is born.
- March 25 - John Laurie is born.
- May 14 - Sidney Bechet is born.
- July 11 - Berneice Hansell is born.
- August 31- Fredric March is born.
- September 3 - Cecil Parker is born.
- October 22 - Ettore Boiardi is born.
- Cy Young is born.
1898
- January 2 - Dick Huemer is born.
- January 14 - Lewis Carroll dies.
- January 20 - Tudor Owen is born.
- February 26 - Merrill De Maris is born.
- April 2 - Earl Duvall is born.
- June 18 - Dink Trout is born.
- July 4 - Johnny Lee is born.
- October 28 - Rollin Hamilton is born.
- November 29 - C.S. Lewis is born.
- December 12 - Noreen Gammill is born.
- December 14 - Lillian Randolph is born.
1899
- January 17 - Al Capone is born.
- February 15 - Lillian Disney is born.
- February 23 - Erich Kästner is born
- March 27 - Gloria Swanson is born.
- May 10 - Fred Astaire is born.
- July 1 - Charles Laughton is born.
- August 9 - P.L. Travers is born.
- August 28 - Charles Boyer is born.
- September 7 - Perce Pearce is born.
- November 5 - Forrest Lewis is born.
1900
- January 23 - David Hand is born.
- January 30 - Martita Hunt is born.
- February 6 - Ted Osborne is born.
- February 17 - Ruth Clifford is born.
- March 3 - Gage Clarke is born.
- March 13 - Ted Sears is born.
- April 5 - Spencer Tracy is born.
- June 9 - Fred Waring is born.
- September 1 - Don Wilson is born.
- October 9 - Alastair Sim is born.
- October 10 - Helen Hayes is born.
- October 15 - Fritz Feld is born.
- November 20 - Chester Gould is born.
- December 6 - Agnes Moorehead is born.
1901
- February 1 - Clark Gable is born.
- February 16 - Chester Morris is born.
- March 24 - Ub Iwerks is born.
- March 27 - Carl Barks is born.
- June 12 - Clyde Geronimi is born.
- June 29 - Nelson Eddy is born.
- August 15 - Ned Washington is born.
- August 27 - Al Ritz is born.
- September 28 - Ed Sullivan is born.
- October 20 - Frank Churchill is born.
- December 5 - Walt Disney is born.
- December 7 - Harry Stanton is born.
1902
- January 20 - Leon Ames is born.
- January 26 - Romney Brent is born.
- April 27 - Harry Stockwell is born.
- May 30 - Stepin Fetchit is born.
- June 28 - Richard Rodgers is born.
- September 2 - Norman Ferguson is born.
- September 25 - Al Hoffman is born.
- October 12 - Anthony Eustrel is born.
- October 29 - Elsa Lanchester is born.
- October 31 - Eduard Franz is born.
1903
- January 7 - Alan Napier is born.
- February 16 - Edgar Bergen is born.
- February 18 - George Givot is born.
- May 3 - Bing Crosby is born.
- May 12 - Wilfrid Hyde-White is born.
- May 29 - Bob Hope is born.
- June 21 - Al Hirschfeld is born.
- August 7 - Rudolf Ising is born.
- August 31 - Hugh Harman is born.
- October 16 - Hamilton Luske is born.
- December 10 - Una Merkel is born.
- December 10 - Mary Norton is born.
1904
- January 10 - Ray Bolger is born.
- February 11 - José Oliveira is born.
- February 16 - James Baskett is born.
- March 2 - Dr. Seuss is born.
- March 15 - J. Pat O'Malley is born.
- May 6 - Raymond Bailey is born.
- May 18 - Fred Shields is born.
- May 29 - Don Brodie is born.
- June 16 - Pete Burness is born.
- June 24 - Phil Harris is born.
- June 26 - Peter Lorre is born.
- August 22 - Jay Novello is born.
- September 15 - Tom Conway is born.
- September 17 - Jerry Colonna is born.
- September 19 - Elvia Allman is born.
- September 21 - Alexander Key is born.
- September 29 - Greer Garson is born.
- October 4 - Jimmy Ritz is born.
- October 9 - Wally Brown is born.
- October 25 - Vladimir "Bill" Tytla is born.
- December 7 - Clarence Nash is born.
1905
- January 4 - Sterling Holloway is born.
- January 4 - Arthur Gould-Porter is born.
- January 12 - Tex Ritter is born.
- January 15 - Allie Wrubel is born.
- January 26 - Charles Lane is born.
- February 18 - Queenie Leonard is born.
- March 10 - Richard Haydn is born.
- March 24 - Jules Verne dies.
- March 31 - Robert Stevenson is born.
- April 26 - Denis O'Dea is born.
- June 5 - John Abbott is born.
- June 16 - Leslie Denison is born.
- August 20 - Duncan Macrae is born.
- August 29 - Al Taliaferro is born.
- September 3 - Eric Larson is born.
- September 18 - Greta Garbo is born.
- October 7 - Andy Devine is born.
- November 17 - Mischa Auer is born.
- November 19 - Eleanor Audley is born.
- November 28 - Mary Moder is born.
- December 7 - Leonard H. Goldenson is born.
1906
- The Disney family moves to Marceline.
- January 24 - Wilfred Jackson is born.
- February 27 - Carlo Vinci is born.
- March 3 - Donald Novis is born.
- March 6 - Lou Costello is born.
- March 12 - Gordon Gordon is born.
- May 19 - Jimmy MacDonald is born.
- May 29 - T. H. White is born.
- June 4 - Vinton Hayworth is born.
- July 3 - George Sanders is born.
- August 21 - Friz Freleng is born.
- September 2 - Barbara Jo Allen is born.
- October 30 - Paul Smith is born.
- November 13 - Hermione Baddeley is born.
- November 25 - Larry Clemmons is born.
- November 29 - Luis van Rooten is born.
- December 9 - Freddy Martin is born.
1907
- February 5 - Samuel W. Taylor is born.
- February 12 - Joseph Kearns is born.
- February 15 - Cesar Romero is born.
- February 26 - Dub Taylor is born.
- March 5 - Thomas McKimson is born.
- March 26 - Leigh Harline is born.
- April 19 - Cecil Surry is born.
- April 23 - James Hayter is born.
- May 13 - Katharine Hepburn is born.
- May 22 - Harry Ritz is born.
- June 6 - Edward H. Plumb is born.
- June 15 - James Robertson Justice is born.
- June 16 - Jack Albertson is born.
- June 27 - John McIntire is born.
- August 14 - Dick Lundy is born.
- August 20 - Alan Reed is born.
- October 8 - Art Babbitt is born.
- November 16 - Burgess Meredith is born.
- November 17 - Les Clark is born.
- November 21 - Charles Korvin is born.
- December 20 - Al Rinker is born.
- December 25 - Andrew Cruickshank is born.
- December 25 - Cab Calloway is born.
1908
- January 10 - Bernard Lee is born.
- January 16 - Ethel Merman is born.
- January 19 - Jack Cutting is born.
- February 1 - Gene Sheldon is born.
- February 13 - Patrick Barr is born.
- February 22 - John Mills is born.
- April 2 - Buddy Ebsen is born.
- April 5 - Bette Davis is born.
- April 13 - Bob Nolan is born.
- May 3 - Jack Zander is born.
- May 15 - Joe Grant is born.
- May 25 - Barbara Luddy is born.
- May 26 - Robert Morley is born.
- May 30 - Mel Blanc is born.
- June 7 - Ken O'Connor is born.
- June 29 - John Hench is born.
- July 8 - Nelson Rockefeller is born.
- July 12 - Milton Berle is born.
- July 23 - Karl Swenson is born.
- August 30 - Fred MacMurray is born.
- September 13 - Mae Questel is born.
- September 30 - Judge Whitaker is born.
- October 24 - Preston Blair is born.
- November 12 - Shamus Culhane is born.
1909
- January 3 - Victor Borge is born.
- February 6 - Harvey Toombs is born.
- February 9 - Heather Angel is born.
- March 17 - Ken Anderson is born.
- March 22 - Milt Kahl is born.
- March 24 - Clyde Chestnut Barrow is born.
- March 25 - Jerry Livingston is born.
- March 29 - Jack Kinney is born.
- May 15 - Jimmy Mason is born.
- June 7 - Jessica Tandy is born.
- June 10 - Mary Field is born.
- June 14 - Burl Ives is born.
- June 26 - Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman is born.
- July 16 - Robert Cannon is born.
- August 30 - Virginia Lee Burton is born.
- September 11 - Anne Seymour is born.
- October 1 - Everett Sloane is born.
- October 14 - Dorothy Kingsley is born.
- October 31 - Thelma Boardman is born.
- November 7 - Campbell Grant is born.
- December 20 - Amby Paliwoda is born.
- December 26 - Don Patterson is born.
1910
- January 13 - Jack Mercer is born.
- March 1 - David Niven is born.
- March 15 - Nicodemus Stewart is born.
- March 23 - Paula Winslowe is born.
- March 28 - Jimmie Dodd is born.
- April 21 - Mark Twain dies.
- May 23 - Scatman Crothers is born.
- May 24 - Ed Love is born.
- June 13 - Mary Wickes is born.
- July 3 - Marcellite Garner is born.
- July 26 - Kenneth Muse is born.
- July 28 - Judd Conlon is born.
- August 12 - Jane Wyatt is born.
- August 13 - Florence Nightingale dies.
- August 16 - Gloria Blondell is born.
- September 3 - Yale Gracey is born.
- September 7 - Ben Stahl is born.
- September 11 - John Sutherland is born.
- September 15 - Charles A. Nichols is born.
- October 1 - Bonnie Elizabeth Parker is born.
- October 8 - Winston Hibler is born.
- October 13 - Robert McKimson is born.
- November 22 - Ethel Smith is born.
- December 7 - Louis Prima is born.
- December 20 - Carl Urbano is born.
- December 21 - Marvin Davis is born.
1911
- January 29 - Bryan Coleman is born.
- February 6 - Ronald Reagan is born.
- March 9 - John Lounsbery is born.
- March 12 - Joshua Meador is born.
- March 16 - Harper Goff is born.
- March 18 - William Lava is born.
- March 24 - Joseph Barbera is born.
- March 26 - T. Hee is born.
- April 2 - Bill Days is born.
- May 11 - Doodles Weaver is born.
- May 11 - Phil Silver is born.
- May 27 - Vincent Price is born.
- July 6 - LaVerne Sophia Andrews is born.
- July 14 - Terry-Thomas is born.
- July 16 - Ginger Rogers is born.
- July 18 - Bernard Wolf is born.
- September 2 - Eileen Way is born.
- September 7 - Fred Moore is born.
- September 20 - Frank De Vol is born.
- October 14 - Thor Putnam is born.
- October 21 - Mary Blair is born.
- October 27 - Daniel P. Mannix is born.
- November 4 - Jack Rose is born.
- November 5 - Roy Rogers is born.
- November 15 - Joaquin Garay is born.
- November 21 - Andy Engman is born.
- November 23 - Ray Patterson is born.
- November 25 - Paul Murry is born.
- December 14 - Spike Jones is born.
- December 18 - David Hilberman is born
- December 30 - Jeanette Nolan is born.
- Bob Karp is born.
1912
- March 23 - Jeff York is born.
- April 8 - Sonja Henie is born
- May 11 - Don Towsley is born.
- May 29 - Iris Adrian is born.
- June 11 - James Algar is born.
- June 24 - Mildred Gordon is born.
- July 5 - Mack David is born.
- July 15 - Al Bertino is born.
- July 26 - Buddy Clark is born.
- August 23 - Ed Benedict is born.
- August 23 - Gene Kelly is born.
- August 25 - John Raring is born.
- September 1 - Michael Lah is born.
- September 5 - Ray Gilbert is born.
- September 5 - Frank Thomas is born.
- September 13 - Reta Shaw is born.
- September 21 - Chuck Jones is born.
- October 5 - Riley Thomson is born.
- October 31 - Dale Evans is born.
- October 31 - Ollie Johnston is born.
- November 24 - Joan Sanderson is born.
1913
- January 5 - Jack Hannah is born.
- January 17 - Claude Coats is born.
- January 18 - Danny Kaye is born.
- January 23 - Max Smith is born.
- February 19 - Frank Tashlin is born.
- February 25 - Jim Backus is born.
- March 3 - Manuel Gonzales is born.
- March 12 - Loulie Jean Norman is born.
- March 16 - Lou Nova (boxer, actor)
- March 22 - James Westerfield is born.
- March 29 - Niall MacGinnis is born.
- March 30 - Marc Davis is born.
- April 4 - Frances Langford is born.
- April 16 - Les Tremayne is born.
- May 5 - Hal King is born.
- May 8 - Bob Clampett is born.
- May 11 - Salvatore Camarata is born.
- May 24 - Peter Ellenshaw is born.
- July 2 - Andy Ho is born.
- July 8 - Bill Thompson is born.
- July 18 - Marvin Miller is born.
- August 1 - Hal Ambro is born.
- August 10 - Noah Beery, Jr. is born.
- August 25 - Walt Kelly is born.
- September 20 - Robert Christie is born.
- October 18 - Evelyn Venable is born.
- October 28 - Douglas Seale is born.
- October 28 - Don Lusk is born.
- November 2 - Burt Lancaster is born.
- December 25 - Candy Candido is born.
- December 28 - Henry Rowland is born.
1914
- February 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft is born.
- February 9 - Bill Justice is born.
- February 25 - John Tenniel dies.
- March 4 - Ward Kimball is born.
- March 14 - Bill Owen is born.
- March 20 - Crahan Denton is born.
- May 26 - Geoffrey Unsworth is born.
- April 2 - Alec Guinness is born.
- April 20 - Betty Lou Gerson is born.
- June 3 - Roy Glenn is born.
- July 3 - George Bruns is born.
- July 14 - Hubert Gregg is born.
- August 5 - Parley Baer is born.
- August 9 - Anita Gordon is born.
- October 9 - Edward Andrews is born.
- October 19 - Juanita Moore is born.
- October 26 - Jackie Coogan is born.
- October 28 - Dody Goodman is born
- November 6 - Jonathan Harris is born.
- November 22 - Frank Graham is born.
- December 12 - Tom Kelley is born.
- December 19 - Mel Shaw is born.
- December 27 - Jack Bradbury is born.
- Phil DeLara is born.
1915
- January 21 - Ray Erlenborn is born.
- January 21 - Alan Hewitt is born.
- January 29 - Bill Peet is born.
- February 16 - Elton Hayes is born.
- February 28 - Zero Mostel is born.
- April 10 - Harry Morgan is born.
- April 20 - Aurora Miranda is born.
- May 1 - Art Stevens is born.
- May 5 - Ben Wright is born.
- May 6 - Orson Welles is born.
- May 12 - Tony Strobl is born.
- May 20 - Peter Copley is born.
- June 11 - Magda Gabor is born.
- June 19 - Pat Buttram is born.
- June 25 - Peter Lind Hayes is born.
- September 10 - Edmond O'Brien is born.
- October 3 - Anthony Forwood is born.
- November 14 - Martha Tilton is born.
- November 23 - John Dehner is born.
- December 7 - Eli Wallach is born.
- December 12 - Frank Sinatra is born.
- December 19 - Ken O'Brien is born.
1916
- January 1 - Beth Amos is born.
- January 3 - Maxene Angelyn Andrews is born.
- January 9 - Card Walker is born.
- February 14 - Edward Platt is born.
- February 23 - Retta Scott is born.
- February 29 - Dinah Shore is born.
- March 31 - Lucille Bliss is born.
- April 26 - Eyvind Earle is born.
- May 16 - Adriana Caselotti is born.
- May 21 - Dennis Day is born.
- June 14 - Dorothy McGuire is born.
- June 17 - Terry Gilkyson is born.
- June 29 - Ruth Warrick is born.
- July 2 - Ken Curtis is born.
- July 11 - Dan Patch dies.
- July 27 - Keenan Wynn is born.
- August 21 - Bill Lee is born.
- August 24 - Hal Smith is born.
- August 27 - Martha Raye is born.
- September 13 - Roald Dahl is born.
- September 17 - Mary Stewart is born.
- September 28 - Peter Finch is born.
- October 19 - David Lewis is born.
- November 4 - Walter Cronkite is born.
- November 12 - Liam Dunn is born.
- November 15 - Bill Melendez is born.
- November 16 - Daws Butler is born.
- November 22 - Jack London dies.
- November 23 - Michael Gough is born.
- December 6 - Judson Pratt is born.
- December 6 - George Golitzen is born.
- December 9 - Kirk Douglas is born.
- December 15 - Dick Kinney is born.
- Van Arsdale France is born.
1917
- January 5 - Jane Wyman is born.
- January 11 - Margaret Wright is born.
- January 19 - Kelly Thordsen is born.
- January 24 - Ernest Borgnine is born.
- February 6 - Zsa Zsa Gabor is born.
- March 12 - Millard Kaufman is born.
- April 15 - Hans Conried is born.
- April 29 - Milton Reid is born.
- May 7 - David Tomlinson is born.
- May 29 - John F. Kennedy is born.
- June 30 - Lena Horne is born.
- July 17 - Phyllis Diller is born.
- August 28 - Jack Kirby is born.
- September 11 - Herbert Lom is born.
- September 18 - June Foray is born.
- September 30 - Buddy Rich is born.
- October 21 - Dizzy Gillespie is born.
- December 22 - Frankie Darro is born.
1918
- January 4 - Buddy Baker is born.
- January 26 - Vito Scotti is born.
- January 29 - John Forsythe is born.
- February 11 - Blaine Gibson is born.
- February 16 - Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews is born.
- February 22 - Don Pardo is born.
- March 12 - Alan Dinehart is born.
- March 29 - Pearl Bailey is born.
- April 16 - Spike Milligan is born.
- April 17 - Anne Shirley is born.
- May 11 - Sheila Burnford is born.
- May 25 - Henry Calvin is born.
- June 13 - Ben Johnson is born.
- July 6 - Sebastian Cabot is born.
- July 13 - Larry Taylor is born.
- August 19 - Floyd Huddlestone is born.
- September 15 - Nipsey Russell is born.
- October 13 - Jack MacGowran is born.
- October 19 - Bob Sweeney is born.
- November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is born.
- December 31 - Virginia Davis is born.
1919
- February 4 - Janet Waldo is born.
- February 5 - Red Buttons is born.
- February 11 - Eva Gabor is born.
- February 16 - Charlie Parlato is born.
- February 17 - Kathleen Freeman is born.
- February 20 - Dick Wesson is born.
- February 25 - John W. Dunn is born.
- March 17 - Nat King Cole is born.
- April 29 - Gérard Oury is born.
- May 6 - L. Frank Baum dies.
- June 11 - Richard Todd is born.
- July 19 - Dallas McKennon is born.
- June 21 - Margie Gay is born.
- July 27 - David Swift is born.
- August 9 - Ruggero Leoncavallo dies.
- August 16 - Jean Sincere is born.
- September 2 - Marge Champion is born.
- September 19 - Jacques Marin is born.
- September 21 - Miriam Nelson is born
- September 27 - Jayne Meadows is born.
- October 5 - Donald Pleasence is born.
- November 19 - Alan Young is born
- November 25 - Norman Tokar is born.
- December 17 - Ted Berman is born.
1920
- January 4 - Rosalie Crutchley is born.
- January 7 - Vincent Gardenia is born.
- January 16 - Elliott Reid is born.
- January 20 - DeForest Kelley and Carmen Molina are born.
- January 24 - Jerry Maren is born
- January 30 - Michael Anderson is born.
- February 26 - Tony Randall is born.
- March 16 - Leo McKern is born.
- May 21 - Eleanor H. Porter is born.
- May 26 - Peggy Lee is born.
- June 13 - Rex Everhart is born.
- June 22 - Paul Frees is born.
- June 29 - Ray Harryhausen is born.
- August 2 - Bill Scott is born.
- August 17 - Maureen O'Hara is born.
- August 22 - Ray Bradbury is born.
- September 3 - Jackson Weaver is born.
- September 9 - Wally Boag is born.
- September 18 - Jack Warden is born.
- September 20 - Jay Ward is born.
- September 23 - Mickey Rooney is born.
- November 25 - Ricardo Montalbán is born.
- December 31 - Rex Allen is born.
1921
- January 31 - Carol Channing is born.
- April 10 - Chuck Connors is born.
- April 19 - Peter Ustinov is born.
- May 12 - Farley Mowat is born.
- May 14 - Richard Deacon is born.
- June 4 - Don Diamond is born.
- July 6 - Bill Shirley is born.
- July 27 - Émile Genest is born.
- July 29 - Richard Egan is born.
- August 28 - Nancy Kulp is born.
- September 15 - Al Nalbandian is born.
- October 17 - Tom Poston is born.
- October 20 - Bob Gregory is born.
- November 1 - Retta Davidson is born.
- November 14 - Brian Keith is born.
- November 22 - Rodney Dangerfield is born.