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1899 – Benny Rubin, actor (The Munsters, Science Friction, Space Ship Sappy)

1901 – Connie Gilchrist, actress (Twilight Zone)

1903 – Frank McGrath, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut)

1905 – Ayn Rand, author (Fountainhead, Anthem, Atlas Shrugged)

1909 – Frank Albertson, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1923 – Bonita Granville, actress (Science Fiction Theatre)

1925 – Elaine Stritch, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun, Cocoon: The Return)

1929 – Sheila Allen, actress (Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Sheila Allen in Lost in Space.

1932 – Robert Mandan, actor (Weird Science, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Legacy of Fear, Star Trek: DS9)

1933 – Tony Jay, actor (Time Bandits, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Star Trek: TNG, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Duane Jones, actor (Night of the Living Dead)

Duane Jones in Night of the Living Dead.

1939 – Jackie Burroughs, actress (Re-Generation, Smallville, Food of the Gods II, The Twilight Zone)

1940 – Thomas M[ichael] Disch, sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)

1942 – Bo Hopkins, actor (Phantoms, Tenticles)

1944 – Geoffrey Hughes, actor, (Doctor Who)

1947 – Farrah Fawcett, actress (Saturn 3, Logan’s Run, The Six Million Dollar Man)

 

1949 – Brent Spiner, actor (Star Trek;TNG, Independence Day, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek : First Contact, Star Trek : Nemesis, Star Trek: Insurrection, The Outer Limits, Warehouse 13, Alphas, Threshold, The Twilight Zone)

Brent Spiner as Data. It is also the fictional birth / activation date of Data

1950 – Barbara Sukowa, actress (Johnny Mnemonic)

1951 – Kim Zimmer, actress (Babylon 5)

1955 – Michael Talbot, actor (Space)

1961 – Lauren Lane, actress (Interface)

1966 – D.C. Douglas, actor (Sharknado 2: The Second One, Star Trek: Enterprise, Future Force)

1969 – Boris Karloff, actor, d @ 81 (Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Ray, The Man Who Lived Again, Son of Frankenstein, The Man They Could Not Hang, The Man with Nine Lives, Before I Hang, The Devil Commands, House of Frankenstein, Lights Out, Tales of Tomorrow, Frankenstein – 1970, Monster of Terror, Alien Terror)

1969 – Brittaney Bennett, actress (Smallville, Earth: Final Conflict)

1970 – C. Ernst Harth, actor (Fringe, Smallville, The 4400, The Outer Limits, The X-Files

1972 – Tanya Clarke, actress (Repo Men)

 

1974 – Oz Perkins, actor (Star Trek (2009))

1990 – Joel Fluellen,actor, d @ 82 (The Invaders, Gemini Man, Monster from Green Hell)

1993 – Bernard Braden, actor, d @ 76 (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

1995 – Donald Pleasance, actor, d @ 75 (The Outer Limits, Escape from New York, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie, The Mutations, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, THX 1138, Fantastic Voyage, Twilight Zone, The Hands of Orlac)

1996 – Aline Towne, actress, d @ 76 (The Incredible Hulk, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Gog, Adventures of Superman, Zombies of the Stratosphere, Radar Men from the Moon, The Invisible Monster)

2011 – Margaret John, actress, d @ 84 (Doctor Who, Tardisodes, Blakes 7, Doomwatch)

2013 – John Kerr, actor, d @ 81 (The Invisible Man)

2338 – Data, android character on Star Trek: TNG