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1863 – Paul Scheerbart, sci-fi author

1889 – Paul Hartmann, actor (Twilight Zone)

1903 – Gene Roth, actor (She Demons, Earth vs. the Spider , Attack of the Giant Leeches, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Outer Space Jitters, Science Fiction Theatre, Captain Midnight, Space Patrol, The Lost Planet, Red Planet Mars, Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere)

1906 – Barry MacKay, actor (The Atomic Man)

1908 – William Hartnell, actor (Doctor Who)

William Hartnell as Doctor Who.

1912 – José Ferrer, actor (Dune, The Being, The Swarm, Exo-Man)

1919 – Madge Ryan, actress (A Clockwork Orange)

1923 – Charles Rea, actor (Doomwatch)

1923 – Larry Storch, actor (Small & Frye)

1924 – Ron Moody, actor (Unidentified Flying Oddball)

1926 – Kerwin Mathews, actor (Battle Beneath the Earth, Space Patrol)

1931 – May Wynn, actress (The Unknown Terror)

1934 – Roy Kinnear, actor (Blakes 7, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing)

1941 – Boris Vallejo, artist

1942 – Joan Freeman, actress (Project U.F.O., Land of the Giants, The Outer Limits, Panic in the Year Zero!)

1942 – Yvette Mimieux, actress (Time Machine, The Black Hole)

1944 – Terry Brooks, US, sci-fi author (Sword of Shannara)

1946 – Kathleen Noone, actress (Quantum Leap)

1947 – David Bowie, actor (The Man Who Fell to Earth)

1951 – John McTiernan, director (Predator, The Last Action Hero, Rollerball)

1952 – Dan Woren, ACTOR (Star Trek: First Contact, Babylon 5, The Invisible Woman)

1955 – Thomas G. Waites, actor (Sliders, The Thing (1982))

1955 – Harriet Sansom Harris, actress (Millennium, Space: Above and Beyond, The X Files)

1965 – Michelle Forbes, actress (Battlestar Galactica, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: TNG, Escape From L.A.)

1966 – Maria Pitillo, actress (Godzilla 1998)

1967 – Eric Scott Woods, actor (Sand Sharks, Quantum Leap)

1968 – Ami Dolenz, actress (Ticks, Superboy, Starman)

1974 – Matt Bushell, actor (Heroes)

1975 – Anthony Warde, actor, d @ 66 (Buck Rogers, The War of the Worlds, Mysterious Island)

1975 – John Dierkes, actor, d @ 69 (The Omega Man, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Thing From Another World)

1976 – Jenny Lewis, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1977 – Ryan Francis, actor (The Stepford Children)

1977 – Amber Benson, actress (Futurestates)

1979 – Sarah Polley, actress (Splice, eXistenZ, Dawn of the Dead)

1980 – Sam Riley, actor (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

1980 – Rachel Nichols, actress (Star Trek, Continuum)

1981 – Genevieve Cortese Padalecki, actress (FlashForward)

1981 – Woody Chamblis, actor, D @ 66 (The Six Million Dollar Man, Logan’s Run, Glen and Randa)

1982 – Reta Shaw, actress, d @ 69 (Lost in Space)

1983 – Christopher Russell, actor (iZombie, Bionic Woman, Land of the Dead)

1987 – Peter Adams, actor, d @ 69 (Donovan’s Brain, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Men Into Space, Project Moon Base, The War of the Worlds)

1987 – Freddie Stroma, actor (Extra Terrestrial)

1989 – Kenneth McMillan, actor, d @ 56 (Dune)

1994 – Pat Buttram, actor, d @ 78 (Back to the Future III)

2007 – Yvonne De Carlo d @ 84 (The Munsters)