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1903 – Rex Lease, actor (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1915 – Pat Welsh, actor (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, E.T.)

1917 – Sidney Sheldon, writer, d @ 89 30 January 2007 (The Twilight Zone)

1919 – Eva Gabor, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1920 – Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap)

1920 – Billy Halop, actor (Land of the Giants)

1926 – Leslie Nielsen, actor (Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Travesty, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Tales of Tommorow, Lights Out, Out There)

Leslie Neilsen in 2001, A Space Travesty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Conrad Janis, actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, V, The Invisible Man, My Favorite Martian)

1934 – Tina Louise, actress (The Stepford Wives)

1936 – Burt Reynolds, actor (Twilight Zone, Out of This World, Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business, The X-Files, Frankenstein and Me)

Burt Reynolds in Frankenstein and Me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart’s Blood)

1939 – D’Urville Martin, actor (The Invaders)

1940 – John Fink, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman)

1941 – Sonny Landham, actor (2090, Predator)

Sonny Landham in Predator

1947 – Brian C Daley, sci-fi author, d @ 48 (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron)

1952 – Philip Anglim, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Millennium)

1954 – Wesley Strick, writer (Arachnophobia, Doom)

1956 – Kathleen Beller, actress (Time Trackers, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1956 – Catherine Hickland, actress (Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, Robowar – Robot da Guerra)

1962 – Becky LeBeau, actress (Dinosaur Island, Not of This Earth)

 

1962 – Scott Kolden, actor (The Day Time Ended)

1966 – Stephen Gregory, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1969 – Jennifer Aniston, actress (Quantum Leap)

1969 – James Lanphier, actor, d @ 48 (The Time Tunnel, The Deadly Mantis)

1969 – Michael Reeves, director, d @ 25 (She Beast, Castle of the Living Dead)

1971 – Damian Lewis, actor (Life Force)

1976 – Lee J Cobb, actor, d @ 64 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1980 – Matthew Lawrence, actor (Big Monster on Campus, Pulse)

1981 – Dru Viergever, actor (The Colony, Survival of the Dead)

1982 – Natalie Dormer, actress (The Hunger Games – Mockingjay,)

1983 – Nicki Clyne, actress (Battlestar Galactica, The Twilight Zone, Smallville, Level 9)

1985 – Sarah Butler, actress (Moontrap: Target Earth)

1985 – Harris Allan, actor (The 4400, Smallville)

1986 – Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author, d @ 65 (Dune)

1989 – George O’Hanlon, actor, d @ 76 (The Jetsons, Kronos)

1992 – Blair Dunlop, actor (Rocket Man)

1993 – Joy Garrett, actress, d @ 47 (Star Trek: TNG, The Incredible Hulk, Robo Man)

1994 – Sorrell Booke, actor, d @ 64 (Slaughterhouse-Five, The Cat from Outer Space)

1996 – William F. Claxton, director, d @ 81 (The Night of the Lepus, Twilight Zone)

1996 – Bob Shaw, sci-fi author, d @ 64

1997 – Don Porter, actor, d @ 84 (Bionic Woman ,The Six Million Dollar Man)

1997 – Barry Evans, actor, d @ 53 (Journey to the Unknown)

2000 – Roger Vadim, director, d @ 72 (Barbarella)

2002 – Barry Foster, actor, d @ 74 (Doomwatch)

2005 – Jack L[aurence] Chalker, sci-fi author, d @ 64 (Saga of Well World)

2012 – Iron Sky released