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1901 – Chester Morris, actor (The She-Creature)

1907 – George Woodbridge, actor (H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, The Revenge of Frankenstein)

1909 – Hugh Beaumont, actor (The Mole People, The Human Duplicators, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, Lost Continent)

Hugh Beaumont (right) in The Mole People

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1909 – Jeffrey Lynn, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1926 – Paul Sorensen, actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Salvage 1, Westworld, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, The Satan Bug)

1927 – June Brown, actress (Doctor Who, Doomwatch)

June Brown in Doctor Who

1930 – Ricou Browning, actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, The Creature Walks Among Us)

1932 – Gretchen Wyler, actress (Probe)

1933 – Don Knight, actor (Automan, Manimal, The Powers of Matthew Star, Small & Frye, Voyagers, Swamp Thing, Death in Space, The Immortal, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Munster Go Home! )

 

 

 

1936 – David Frankham, actor (The Outer Limits, Return of the Fly, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, Men Into Space)

David Frankham in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare.

1938 – Barry Primus, actor (SeaQuest 2032, The X-Files)

1945 – Jeremy Bulloch, actor (Starhyke, Star Wars, Doctor Who)

1951 – William Katt, actor (The Man from Earth, Earthling, Heros, Bone Eater, AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, Cyborg 3: The Recycler, Andromeda, Moon)

1954 – Iain [Menzies] Banks, sci-fi author (Wasp Factory, The State of the Art, The Hydrogen Sonata, Against a Dark Background)

1955 – Hunt Block, actor (Project: Tinman, Otherworld)

1956 – Vincent Ward, writer (Alien³)

1957 – LeVar Burton, actor (Star Trek)

 

1957 – Ardwight Chamberlain, actor (Babylon 5)

1958 – Ice-T, actor (Johnny Mnemonic)

1963 – Faran Tahir, actor (Elysium, Warehouse 13, Star Trek (2009))

1964 – Christopher Eccleston, actor (Heroes, Doctor Who, eXistenZ)

1967 – Faran Tahir, actor (Elysium. Warehouse 13,, Star Trek)

1967 – Pasha D. Lychnikoff, actress (Star Trek, Cloverfield)

1969 – Elisabeth Olsen, actress (Godzilla 2014)

1972 – Sarah Clarke, actress (The Tomorrow People)

1974 – Mahershala Ali, actress (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Alphas, Predators, The 4400)

1976 – Janet Varney, actress (Warehouse 13)

1978 – Eric Ladin, actor (Surface)

1979 – Louise Allbritton, actress, d @ 58 (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1982 – Rolfe Sedan, actor, d @ 86 (Young Frankenstein, Adventures of Superman)

1985 – Larry Ward, actor, d @ 60 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits)

1986 – Howard Da Silva, actor, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits)

1986 – Howard Da Silva, actor, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits)

1989 – Elizabeth Olsen, actress (Godzilla 2014)

1994 – Mackintosh Muggleton, actor (28 Weeks Later)

1996 – Jimmy Pinchak, actor (Ender’s Game)

1997 – Arthur Hewlett, actor, d @ 89 (Moondial, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Quatermass and the Pit)

2011 – Len Lesser, actor, d @ 88 (Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!, Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, The Outer Limits)

2011 – Alfred Burke, actor, d @ 92 (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2012 – Dick Anthony Williams, actor, d @ 77 (The X Files, Edward Scissorhands, Space, The Powers of Matthew Star, Brave New World, Man from Atlantis)