Theatrical releases
Shorts
- January 16 - The Bird Store
- January 28 - The Duck Hunt
- February 11 - The Grocery Boy
- March 5 - The Mad Dog
- April 13 - Barnyard Olympics
- May 25 - Mickey's Revue
- June 9 - Musical Farmer
- July 9 - The Bears and Bees
- July 18 - Mickey in Arabia
- July 30 - Just Dogs
- July 30 - Flowers and Trees, Disney's first color film.
- August 13 - Mickey's Nightmare
- August 20 - Trader Mickey
- September 10 - King Neptune
- September 17 - The Whoopee Party
- October 1 - Bugs in Love, the last black-and-white Silly Symphony
- October 15 - Touchdown Mickey
- November 12 - The Klondike Kid
- November 12 - The Wayward Canary
- November 18 - Parade of the Award Nominees
- November 19 - Babes in the Woods
- December 10 - Santa's Workshop
- December 17 - Mickey's Good Deed
Character debuts
- Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse
- January 10 - Bucky Bug
- May 18 - Mrs. Churchmouse
- May 25 - Goofy
- June 15 - Bombo the Gorilla (a.k.a. Spooks)
- August 22 - Captain Nathaniel Churchmouse
- November 12 - Professors Ecks and Doublex
People
Births
- January 3 - Dabney Coleman (actor)
- January 30 - Gino Conforti (actor)
- February 8 - John Williams (Composer, pianist, conductor)
- February 10 - Barrie Ingham (voice actor)
- February 26 - Johnny Cash (singer, songwriter, actor and author)
- March 4 - Frank Wells (businessman)
- April 1 - Debbie Reynolds (actress)
- April 4 - Anthony Perkins (actor)
- April 11 - Joel Grey (stage and screen actor, singer and dancer)
- April 11 - Billie Hayes (actress)
- April 14 - Loretta Lynn (singer-songwriter and author)
- April 27 - Casey Kasem (actor and voice actor)
- May 3 - Robert Osborne (actor and film historian)
- June 28 - Pat Morita (actor)
- June 29 - Soon-Tek Oh (voice actor)
- July 19 - Isamu Tanonaka (Japanese voice actor)
- July 28 - Natalie Babbitt (author and illustrator)
- August 2 - Peter O'Toole (voice actor)
- August 3 - Eileen Brennan (actress of film, television and theatre)
- August 24 - William Morgan Sheppard (actor)
- September 9 - Mitzi McCall (actress)
- September 27 - Roger C. Carmel (actor)
- October 10 - Ron Feinberg (voice actor)
- October 20 - Rokurō Naya (voice actor)
- November 13 - Richard Mulligan (actor)
- November 15 - Petula Clark (singer and actress)
- December 5 - Little Richard (singer, actor and musician)
- Trigger (Roy Rogers' horse and actor)
Deaths
- July 6 - Kenneth Grahame (author)
1932