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1883 – Ludwig Stossel, actor (From the Earth to the Moon, Tales of Frankenstein, Science Fiction Theatre)

1905 – Harry Bellaver, actor (The Stuff, Tom Corbett Space Cadet)

1912 – Ernest Clark, actor (It!, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1919 – Forrest Tucker, actor (The Crawling Eye, The Strange World of Planet X, The Bionic Woman, Timestalkers)

1919 – Lorne Greene, actor (Battlestar Galactica)

Lorne Greene in Battlestar Galactica.

1927 – Anne Gillis, actress (2001: A Space Odyssey, Out There)

1927 – H.M. Wynant, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Solar Crisis, Earthbound, Future Cop, The Six Million Dollar Man, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)

1931 – Lincoln Kilpatrick, actor (Fortress, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Omega Man)

1933 – Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap)

 

 

1934 – Annette Crosbie, actress (Doctor Who)

Annette Crosbie in the Doctor Who episode, The Eleventh Hour.

1936 – Joe Don Baker, actor (Mars Attacks!, Congo)

1936 – Paul Shenar, actor, d @ 53 (The Invisible Man (TV), Gemini Man, The Bionic Woman, Logan’s Run (TV))

1939 – John D Hancock, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1940 – Richard Lynch, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Super Force, Alligator II: the Mutation, Invasion Force, Manimal, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman)

1940 – Ralph Bates, actor (Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Moonbase 3, The Horror of Frankenstein)

1945 – Cliff De Young, actor (Flight of the Navagator, Threshold, Timecop, The Last Man on Planet Earth, Lois & Clark, Carnasaur 2, Terminal Voyage, RoboCop, Time Trax, The X-Files, The Tommyknockers, Star Trek: DS9, The Twilight Zone)

1945 – Maud Adams, actress (Rollerball)

1948 – Ray Kurzwei, sci-fi author (The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Singularity is Near)

1949 – Robin Thomas Grossman, actress (Pacific Rim, Clockstoppers)

1950 – Michael Ironside, actor (Ice Soldiers, Meltdown on the Ice Planet, Smallville, Terminator Salvation, Mutants, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Ignition, Mindstorm, Starship Troopers, SeaQuest 2032, Total Recall, V, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Scanners)

Michael Ironside in Starship Troopers

1952 – Larry Joshua, actor (The X Files, War of the Worlds (TV))

1952 – Simon MacCorkindale, actor (Manimal, Wing Commander, Earth: Final Conflict, Quatermass (TV), The Quatermass Conclusion)

1953 – Nabil Shaban, actor (Children of Men, Doctor Who)

1953 – Robin Thomas, actor (Pacific Rim, Clockstoppers, Misfits of Science)

1953 – Joanna Kerns, actress (V, Ape)

1954 – Zach Grenier, actor (RoboCop, Star Trek: Enterprise, The X Files)

1959 – Sigrid Thornton, actress (Trapped in Space)

 

1963 – John Michael Higgins, actor (Blade: Trinity, Bicentennial Man, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Weird Science)

1964 – Raphael Sbarge, actor (Once Upon a Time, Heroes, Dollhouse, Dark Skies, Independence Day, Star Trek: Voyager, SeaQuest 2032, Carnosaur, Quantum Leap, My Science Project)

1965 – Christine Elise, actress (Escape from Mars, Body Snatchers)

1965 – Henry Kulky, actor, d @ 53 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Tobor the Great, Adventures of Superman, Red Planet Mars, )

1965 – Alex Meneses, actor (Amanda and the Alien)

1966 – Lochlyn Munro, actor (Tomorrowland, Mysterious Island (2012), Infection: The Invasion Begins, Xtinction: Predator X, Smallville, Andromeda, Dracula 2000, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Sliders, The Girl from Mars)

1968 – Josh Brolin, actor (Men in Black 3, Jonah Hex, Planet Terror, Hollow Man, Mimic, Guardians of the Galaxy)

1975 – Michael Bower, actor (Evolution, The X Files, Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, Weird Science (TV))

1976 – Sal Mineo, actor, d @ 37 (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Immortal)

1976 – Christopher Pettiet, actor (Seaquest 2032, Star Trek: TNG)

1979 – Jesse Spencer, actor (Time Trax)

1980 – Enver Gjokaj, actor (Dollhouse, The Walking Dead)

1982 – Victor Jory, actor, d @ 79 (The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Science Fiction Theatre, Cat-Women of the Moon)

1985 – Nicholas Colasanto, actor, d @ 61 (My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1987 – Clare-Hope Ashitey, actress (Children of Men)

1987 – Lang Jeffries, actor, d @ 56 ( …4 …3 …2 …1 …morte)

1997 – Sam Webb, actor (Transcendence)

2007 – Randy Stone, actor, d @ 48 (Space: Above and Beyond, Millennium)

2011 – Kenneth Mars, actor d @ 75 (Weird Science, Lois & Clark, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Twilight Zone, Misfits of Science, Project U.F.O., Young Frankenstein)

2011 – Betty Garrett, actress, d @ 91 (Trail of the Screaming Forehead)

2012 – David Kelly, actor, d @ 82 (Stardust, Whoops Apocalypse)

2012 – Zina Bethune, actress, d @ 66 (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)