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1876 – Jack London, author (author, The Iron Heel)

The Iron Heel by Jack London is regarded as the first dystopian novel.

1902 – Ray Teal, actor (Twilight Zone)

1916 – House Peters, actor (Twilight Zone, Target Earth, Red Planet Mars, The Day the Earth Stood Still, King of the Rocket Men, Flash Gordon)

1930 – Bruce Lansbury, writer (Swamp Thing, The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1934 – Bob Dishy, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1935 – Ron Harper, actor (Planet of the Apes)

1938 – Lewis Fiander, actor (Doctor Who, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)

1942 – Geoffrey Hoyle, sci-fi author (2010: Living in the Future)

1944 – Luke Bromley, actor (The World’s End, Torchwood)

1948 – Anthony Andrews, actor (Doomwatch)

1949 – Haruki Murakami, sci-fi author (1Q84, Sputnik Sweetheart)

 

1951 – Kirstie Alley, actress (Star Trek II, Runaway, Quark)

Kristie Alley in Star Trek II

1955 – Rockne S. O’Bannon, writer (Farscape, V, Alien Nation, Revolution, The Twilight Zone, SeaQuest 2032, Creature, Invasion)

1959 – Ralf Moller, actor (Mutant X, Andromeda, Universal Soldier)

1960 – Wanda Cannon, actress (Andromeda, Code Name: Eternity, Earth: Final Conflict, My Secret Identity)

1960 – Oliver Platt, actor (2012, Bicentennial Man, Martian Child, Flatliners)

1966 – Barbara Scolaro, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion)

1966 – Olivier Martinez, actor (Cybergeddon, Cybergeddon Zips)

1967 – Farrah Forke, actress (Bionic Ever After?, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Brain Twisters)

1968 – Rachel Harris, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, SeaQuest 2032)

1968 – Chris Gartin, actor (Transcendence, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

 

1980 – Vanessa Johansson, actress (Day of the Dead)

1987 – Naya Rivera, actress (Frankenhood)

1987 – Will Rothhaar, actor (Battle Los Angeles, Fringe, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1989 – Tiler Peck, actor (Donnie Darko)

1991 – Keye Luke, actor, d @ 86 (Superboy, Star Trek, Project X)

1998 – Nathan Gamble, actor (The Mist)

1999 – Betty Lou Gerson, actress, d @ 84 (Twilight Zone, The Fly)

2001 – Zenon: The Zequel debuted on Disney Channel

2010 – Ann Prentiss, actress, d @ 70 (My Stepmother Is an Alien, Quark)

2011 – Paul Picerni, actor, d @ 88 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Men Into Space, The Immortal, Capricorn One, Project U.F.O., The Incredible Hulk, The Powers of Matthew Star)

2014 – Frank Marth, actor, d @ 91 (The Incredible Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Marooned, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian)