Events
Top grossing films
- North America
- Ben-Hur
- Can Can
- Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
- Operation Petticoat
- Suddenly, Last Summer
- The Apartment
- Solomon and Sheba
- On the Beach
Births
- January 1 - Dawn Mazzella, American actress
- January 3 - Joan Chen, actress
- January 11 - Stanley Tucci, actor
- January 12 - Oliver Platt, actor
- January 13 - Kevin Anderson, actor
- February 28 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress
- May 24 - Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress
- May 31 - Chris Elliott, actor
- September 9 - Hugh Grant, actor
- October 10 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
- December 3 - Daryl Hannah,actress
- December 3 - Julianne Moore,actress
Deaths
Other movies released
- Ā bout de souffle
- The Alamo, starring John Wayne
- The Apartment
- L'Avventura
- Butterfield 8
- Devi
- La Dolce Vita Palme d'Or winner
- Elmer Gantry
- Exodus
- Flaming Star starring Elvis Presley
- G.I. Blues, starring Elvis Presley
- Herod the Great (originally: Erode il grande)
- Inherit the Wind
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Last Woman on Earth
- Macumba Love
- The Magnificent Seven
- Noi duri, starring Fred Buscaglione and Totō
- La Passage du Rhine, Golden Lion winner
- Peeping Tom
- Pollyanna, produced by Walt Disney, starring Hayley Mills and Jane Wyman
- Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, John Gavin, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Tony Curtis.
- Sunrise at Campobello
- Swiss Family Robinson (Walt Disney)
- 13 Ghosts with ghosts that only appeared when viewed through red glasses
- The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman
- The White Horse Inn
- The World of Apu
- The Young One
- Where The Boys Arede:Filmjahr 1960
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