March 5 – Musical chess match between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage takes place at Ryerson Polytechnic, Toronto.
May 2 – Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, designed by Powell and Moya, is opened.
July 17 – Release of the animated musical fantasy film Yellow Submarine in the United Kingdom, directed by George Dunning with art direction by Heinz Edelmann.
New building for the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) in Brazil, designed by Lina Bo Bardi, is built.
Rubens' The Adoration of the Magi (1634) is installed as an altarpiece at King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
Archibald Prize: William Edwin Pidgeon – Lloyd Rees
Elaine Hamilton wins first prize at the Biennale de Menton, France
Eva Hesse – Chain Polymers, Fischbach Gallery, W. 57th Street, New York City
Ralph Hotere – Black Paintings, Auckland, New Zealand
William Anders – Earthrise (photograph)
Alexander Calder – Gwenfritz (stabile)
Donald De Lue – The Special Warfare Memorial Statue
Mark di Suvero – Snowplow (sculpture)
M. C. Escher – Metamorphosis III (colored woodcut print)
Barbara Hepworth – Two Figures (sculpture)
David Hockney – Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
Eduardo Kingman – Fin de Mascarada
Joan Miró – begins series The navigator's hope
Henry Moore – Three-Piece No. 3: Vertebrae (Working Model)
Robert Motherwell – Open #23 (loaned by Graham Gund to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Otto Muehl and followers of Viennese Actionism – Kunst und Revolution (performance art)
Isamu Noguchi – Octetra (concrete sculpture)
Gerhard Richter – Domplatz, Mailand ("Cathedral Square, Milan")
Kenneth Snelson – Needle Tower
David Wynne – River God Tyne and Swans in Flight (sculptures, Newcastle Civic Centre)
Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site (memorial column)
June 3 - Eric White, American visual artist
July 23 – Paulo Henrique, Portuguese choreographer and multidisciplinary artist
August 16 – Wolfgang Tillmans, German fine-art photographer
September 17 – David Shrigley, British visual artist
December 23 – Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Puerto Rican documentary photographer
date unknown
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Swiss-born curator
Nahem Shoa, British portrait painter
George Henry Smyth, Northern Irish artist
February 11 – Jacob Steinhardt, German-born Jewish painter and woodcut artist (born 1887)
April 26 – John Heartfield, German graphic designer (born 1891)
May 9 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (born 1894)
May 21 – Bror Hjorth, Swedish sculptor (born 1894)
May 28 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch Fauvist painter (born 1877)
June 17 – Cassandre, French graphic designer (born 1901)
July 2 – Sir Hans Heysen, German-born Australian watercolour painter (born 1877)
July 16 – William John Leech, Irish painter (born 1881)
August 8 – Orovida Pissarro, English painter and etcher (born 1893)
October 2 – Marcel Duchamp, influential French artist (born 1887)
November – Lee Gatch, American painter and mixed-media artist (born 1902)
November 4 – Michel Kikoine, Litvak-born French painter (born 1892)
date unknown
William Conor, Irish painter (born 1881)
Estella Solomons, Irish painter (born 1882)
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