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1902 – Frances Bavier, actress (Day the Earth Stood Still)

1907 – Guy Middleton, actor (Doctor Who)

1908 – Laurence Naismith, actor (The Invaders)

1908 – Morey Amsterdam, actor (Project U.F.O.)

1918 – Stubby Kaye d @ 79 (Doctor Who)

Stubby Kaye in Doctor Who

1923 – Joe Brooks, actor (Exo-Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Munsters)

1923 – Sully Boyar, actor (The Manhatten Project)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 – Margaret John, actress (Doctor Who, Tardisodes, Blakes 7, Doomwatch)

Margaret John in Doctor Who

1932 – George Furth, actor (Megaforce, The Man With Two Brains, Salvage 1, Megaforce, Sleeper)

1935 – Lewis Arquette, actor (FreakyLinks, Hypernauts, Babylon 5, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Seaquest 2032, Quantum Leap, Syngenor, Down To Earth, The Incredible Hulk, Man from Atlantis)

1935 – Stanley G Weinbaum, sci-fi writer, d @ 33 (Martian Odyssey)

1938 – Janette Scott, actress (Day of the Triffids)

1938 – Stewart Brand, writer (Space Colonies, The Media Lab)

1946 – Patty Duke, actress (Journey to the Unknown, 4D Man)

1946 – Lynn Marie Stewart, actress (Here Come the Munsters

1948 – Dee Wallace Stone, actress (The Eden Formula, Zombie Killers: Robocroc, Aliens from Uranus, Warehouse 13, Alligator II: The Mutation, The Twilight Zone (TV), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Man from Atlantis, The Stepford Wives)

1950 – Vicki Michelle, actress (Space: 1999, Time Travel Gangster)

1951 – Celia Weston, actress (Under the Dome, The Invasion, K-PAX, Hulk)

1954 – James Horan, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG, Scanner Cop)

1959 – Debbie Lee Carrington, actress (Total Recall, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Invaders From Mars, Perversions of Science, Men in Black, Mom and Dan Save the World, Spaced Invaders, Howard the Duck, Earthlings)

1960 – Don Franklin, actor (Seven Days, Asteroid, SeaQuest 2032)

1962 – Charles Laughton, actor, d @ 63 (Island of Lost Souls)

1963 – Cindy Gibb, actress (Short Circuit 2)

1964 – Rebecca Gibney, actress (Farscape, The Lost World, Time Trax)

1965 – Peter Murnik, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Armageddon, Quantum Leap)

1965 – Ted Raimi, actor (Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader, Planet Raptor, The Man with the Screaming Brain, Odyssey 5, SeaQuest 2032, Army of Darkness, ALF, Alien Nation, Shocker)

1969 – Natascha McElhone, actress (Solaris)

1970 – Michael Stoyanov, actor (Space Station 76, Mom and Dad Save the World, Quantum Leap, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1971 – Natascha McElhone, actress (Solaris)

1972 – Miranda Hart, actress (Hyperdrive)

1975 – KaDee Strickland, actress (The Stepford Wives (2004))

1977 – Martin Christopher, actor (Fringe, Stargate, Sanctuary)

1984 – Dune released

Dune released

1989 – Jock Mahoney, actor, d @ 70 (The Land Unknown)

1989 – Max Topplin, actor (Fringe, The Incredible Hulk (2008))

1991 – Robert Eddison, actor, d @ 83 (Out of the Unknown)

1997 – Stubby Kaye, actor, d @ 79 (Doctor Who)

1998 – Norman Fell, actor, d @ 74 (C.H.U.D. II, Out of This World, The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman, The Invaders)

2006 – Mike Evans, actor, d @57 (Far Out Space Nuts)

2007 – I Am Legend released

2010 – Neva Patterson, American actress, d @ 90 (V, V: The Final Battle, Logan’s Run)