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June 2: Jack King's Donald Duck short Commando Duck premieres, a wartime propaganda cartoon produced by the Walt Disney Company where Donald fights Japanese soldiers.[16]
June 3: Chuck Jones's Angel Puss premieres, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, a one-shot cartoon which will later become part of the Censored Eleven.[17]
August 26: Bob Clampett's Buckaroo Bugs premieres, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, starring Bugs Bunny.[24] This is the final cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger before he retired.
January 3: Albert Jelenic, Croatian-born American voice actor and father of Michael Jelenic (voiced himself in the Teen Titans Go! episodes "The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular", "The Power of Shrimps", and "Where Exactly on the Globe Is Carl Sanpedro"), (d. 2019).
January 28: Bobby Ball, British comic, actor, singer and television host (voice of Wayne the Zebra in the Rex the Runt episode of the same name), (d. 2020).[38][39][40]
October 8: Thom Huge, American voice actor and producer (voice of Jon Arbuckle, Roy Rooster, Binky the Clown, and other various characters in the Garfield franchise).
October 15: Haim Saban, Israeli-American media proprietor, investor, and producer of records, film, and television (co-founder of Saban Entertainment).
