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1879 – Ernest Thesiger, actor (Bride of Frankenstein)

1896 – Marjorie Bennett, actress (The Reluctant Astronaut, My Living Doll, Twilight Zone, Have Rocket – Will Travel)

1901 – Harry Ellerbe, actor (The Magnetic Monster, The Outer Limits, Men Into Space)

Harry Ellerbe in The Outer Limits episode, The Man With the Power.

1904 – Ray Bolger, actor (Battlestar Galactica)

1905 – Torin Thatcher, actor (Land of the Giants, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1913 – Lloyd Bridges, actor (The Outer Limits, Battlestar Galactica, Stowaway to the Moon, Rocketship X-M)

1926 – Maria Schell, actress (Space 1999, Superman, The Martian Chronicles)

1927 – Phyllis Coates, actress (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, Lois & Clark, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Invasion U.S.A.)

1928 – Joanne Linville, actress (Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1932 – Dean Smith, stuntman / actor (Westworld / Timestalkers, The Astral Factor, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1935 – Robert Silverberg, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan’s Planet)

1937 – Margaret O’Brien, actress (Frankenstein Rising, Death in Space)

1947 – Andrea Martin, actress (Meego, Star Trek: DS9, Innerspace)

1948 – Tommy Nolan, actor (Out of this World, Voyage of the Rock Aliens)

1957 – Mario Van Peebles, actor (The Outer Limits)

1958 – Julian Sands, actor (Smallville, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Stargate: SG1)

1965 – James Nesbitt, actor (Jekyll, The Deep)

1968 – Chad Lowe, actor (Target Earth)

1971 – Regina King, actress (The Strain)

1972 – Ernie Reyes Jr., actor (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

1978 – Eddie Cahill, actor (Under the Dome)

1979 – Aubree Miller, actor (Ewoks: The Battle for Endor)

1981 – Zachary Bostrom, actor (Aliens for Breakfast, The Twilight Zone)

1983 – Shepperd Strudwick, actor, d @ 75 (The Monitors, Twilight Zone)

1984 – Victor Rasuk, actor (Godzilla 2014)

1986 – Jessy Schram, actress (Falling Skies)

1987 – Michael Seater, actor (ReGenesis, Future Fear)

1989 – Trent Ford, actor (Smallville)

1990 – Gordon Jackson, actor, d @ 66 (The Quatermass Xperiment , The Quatermass Experiment, The Medusa Touch)

1994 – Martin Kosleck, actor, d @ 86 (The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

2000 – Fran Ryan, actress, d @ 83 (Salvage 1, Manimal, Quantum Leap)

2005 – Deem Bristow, actor, d @ 57 (Quantum Leap)

2011 – Susannah York, actress, d @ 72 (Superman I, II & IV, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)