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- January 2 – Tex Brashear, American voice actor
- January 6 – Rowan Atkinson, comedian, actor
- January 12 – Rockne O'Bannon, writer, producer
- January 13 – Jay McInerney, writer
- January 17 – Steve Earle, musician
- January 18 – Kevin Costner, actor
- January 19 – Simon Rattle, English conductor
- January 26 – Eddie Van Halen, musician
- January 27 – John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- February 8 – John Grisham, novelist
- February 10 – Greg Norman, golfer
- February 12 – Arsenio Hall, actor, talk show host
- February 19 – Jeff Daniels, actor
- February 20 – Kelsey Grammer, actor
- February 23 – Howard Jones, musician
- February 24 – Alain Prost, Formula One driver
- February 24 – Steve Jobs, computer pioneer
- March 5 – Penn Jillette, magician, comedian
- March 7 – Tommy Kramer, American football player
- March 15 – Dee Snider, singer
- March 16 – Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxing world champion
- March 16 – Bruno Barreto, Brazilian movie director
- March 17 – Gary Sinise, actor
- March 19 – Bruce Willis, actor
- March 22 – Pete Sessions, U.S. politician
- March 23 – Moses Malone, basketball player
- March 28 – Reba McEntire, country music singer, actress
- March 29 – Earl Campbell, American football star
- March 31 – Angus Young, musician
- April 1 – Ronnie Burk, surrealist and AIDS activist
- April 6 – Michael Rooker, actor
- April 11 – Kevin Brady, American politician
- April 15 – Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
- April 16 – Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
- April 23 – Tony Miles, English chess player
- April 29 – Kate Mulgrew, actress
- August 3 – Corey Burton, American actor
- October 28 – Bill Gates co-founder of Microsoft
- November 29- Howie Mandel, host of Deal or No Deal
- January 15 – Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
- January 21 – Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
- March 11 – Sir Alexander Fleming, British medical researcher (b. 1881)
- March 12 – Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
- April 7 – Theda Bara, American movie actress (b. 1885)
- April 18 – Albert Einstein, German physicist (b. 1879)
- May 4 – Georges Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
- May 10 – Tommy Burns, American boxer (b. 1881)
- May 11 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
- May 16 – James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
- May 26 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (b. 1918)
- August 2 – Wallace Stevens, American poet (b. 1879)
- August 5 – Carmen Miranda, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1909)
- August 12 – Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
- August 12 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- September 30 – James Dean, American actor (b. 1931)
- October 1 – Charles Christie, American movie studio owner (b. 1880)
- October 9 – Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna
- November 4 – Cy Young, baseball player (b. 1867)
- November 5 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1882)
- November 12 – Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (b. 1878)
- November 27 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1982)
- December 6 – Honus Wagner, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1874)
[change] Television
- October 1 – The Honeymooners debuts on CBS with stars Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph
[change] Movies released
