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1899 – Nevil Shute, sci-fi author (On the Beach)

1921 – Dehl Berti, actor (Operation Neptune, One Step Beyond, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1931 – James Earl Jones, actor (Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Lois & Clark, The UFO Incident)

1933 – Sheree North, actress (Future Cop, Destination Inner Space)

Sheree North in Destination Inner Space.

1934 – Stuart Nisbet, actor (They Came from Outer Space (TV), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)

1935 – Paul O[sborne] Williams, sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle)

1938 – John Bellairs, sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom)

1941 – Tom Lowell, actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, The Twilight Zone)

1942 – Nancy Parsons, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1942 – Randy Boone, actor (Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Lois & Clark, The UFO Incident)

 

 

1943 – Geoffrey Deuel, actor (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

Geoffrey Deuel in The Invaders episode, The Condemned.

1947 – Todd Susman, actor (The Invaders, Weird Science, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Coneheads, ALF, The Twilight Zone)

1949 – Andy Kaufman, actor (Heartbeeps)

1950 – Sharon Duce, actress (The Tomorrow People (TV), Doctor Who, Outland)

1956 – Mitch Vogel, actor (Ark II, The Immortal)

1962 – Jim Carrey, actor (Earth Girls are Easy)

1963 – Chris Casamassa, actor (Sci-Fighter)

1965 – D.J. Caruso, director (I Am Number Four, Smallville, Tin Man (2014), VR.5)

1966 – Joshua Malina, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate SG-1, Sliders)

1967 – Kang-ho Song, actor (Snowpiercer)

1968 – Jeff Chase, actor (Star Trek: ID, Revolution, Looper, Star Trek (2009), Undead or Alive: A Zombedy)

1969 – Naveen Andrews, actor (Planet Terror, Future Tense, Rollerball (2000))

1970 – Genndy Tartakovsky, artist (Star Wars: Clone Wars)

1973 – Fred Essler, actor, d @ 77 (Conquest of Space, Adventures of Superman)

1975 – Freddy Rodriguez, actor (Planet Terror)

1976 – Anne Stedman, actress (Space Cowboys)

1977 – Leigh Whannell, actress (Insidious, The Matrix Reloaded)

1980 – Zooey Deschanel, actress (Tin Man, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1981 – Ray J, actor (Mars Attacks!, Steel)

1983 – Doodles Weaver, actor, d @ 71 (Earthbound, Land of the Giants, Superman)

1988 – Earth Star Voyager debuted on the Wonderful World of Disney

1992 – Dorothy Alison, actress, d @ 66 (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Journey Into the Unknown)

2003 – Richard Crenna, actor, d @ 76 (Intruders, Marooned, Leviathan)

2004 – Noble Willingham, actor, d @ 72 (Fire in the Sky, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, Man from Atlantis)

2008 – Allan Melvin, actor, d @ 84 (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)