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1910 – Marc Lawrence, actor, (Doctor Who, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)

1911 – Arthur Hunnicutt, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Arthur Hunnicutt in The Outer Limits episode, Cry of Silence.

1912 – Andre Norton, sci-fi author (Witch World, Wizard’s World, Star Man’s Son 2250 A.D.)

1914 – Wayne Morris, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, The Return of Doctor X)

1914 – Arthur Kennedy, actor (Fantastic Voyage)

1919 – Kathleen Freeman, actress (Out of this World, The Munsters Today, ALF, The Fly)

1923 – Bill Kearns, actor, (Mutant)

1925 – Hal Holbrook, Cleveland, actor (The Outer Limits, Capricorn One)

1934 – Alan Bates, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

 

1935 – Christina Pickles, actress (Masters of the Universe)

1936 – Jim Brown, actor (The Running Man, Mars Attacks!)

Jim Brown in Mars Attacks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – Mary Ann Mobley, actress (The Fantastic Journey)

1945 – Brenda Fricker, actress (Quatermass, The Quatermass Conclusion)

Brenda Fricker in Quatermass.

1945 – Zina Bethune, actress (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

1947 – Dallas Adams, actor (Doctor Who, Space 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1951 – Diane Chambers, actress (The Coed and the Zombie Stoner, Sharknado, Zombie Night)

1952 – Garry Chalk, actor (Tomorrowland, Monster Beach, Seven Days, Millennium, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Fly II)

1954 – Rene Russo, actress (Outbreak, Freejack)

1954 – Don Coscarelli, director (Phantasm I – IV)

1952 – Garry Chalk, actor (Godzilla 2014, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, M.A.N.T.I.S., Tomorrowland, Origins, Flash Gordon, Eureka)

 

1958 – Carole Davis, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning)

1959 – The Cosmic Man released

1961 – Nita Naldi, actress, d @ 63 (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)

1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips, actor (SGU Stargate Universe, Termination Point, Sci Fi Inside: ‘The Triangle’, The Triangle, Alien Express, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Supernova)

1965 – Michael Bay, director (Transformers, Armageddon)

1965 – Jonathan Breck, actor (Evilution, Spiders, Star Trek: Voyager)

1967 – Michelle Forbes, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Battlestar Galactica, The Outer Limits)

1968 – Donald Wolfit, actor, d @ 65 (The Hands of Orlac, Satellite in the Sky)

1969 – Tuesday Knight, actress (The X-Files, They Came from Outer Space)

1970 – Dominic Purcell, actor (Equilibrium, Blade: Trinity, The Lost World, Ice Soldiers, Primeval)

1971 – Denise Richards,actress (Scary Movie 3, Starship Troopers, Weird Science, Lois and Clark)

1974 – Jerry O’Connell, actor (Sliders, Space Station 76, Scary Movie 5, Mission to Mars, Piranha 3D)

1978 – Rory Kinnear, actor (First Men in the Moon)

1979 – Jackson Hurst, actor (The Mist)

1980 – Zachary Bennett, actor (Cube Zero, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Twilight Zone)

1980 – Jason Ritter, actor (The Labyrinth, The Event)

1982 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor (3rd Rock From the Sun, Looper, Quantum Leap, Inception)

1984 – Lucille Benson, actress, d @ 69 (Slaughterhouse-Five)

1986 – Paul Stewart, actor, d @ 77 (The Invisible Man, City Beneath the Sea)

1986 – Ahna O’Reilly, actress (DinoCroc)

1987 – Hal K Dawson, actor, d @ 90 (Superman and the Mole-Men, Twilight Zone, The Alligator People, Science Fiction Theatre)

1989 – Chord Overstreet, actress (The Hole)

1990 – Marc Clement, actor, d @ 39 (Night Shadows)

1996 – Sasha Pieterse,a ctress (Heroes, Stargate SG-1)

1965 – Michael Bay, director (Transformers, Armageddon)

1999 – Shirley Stoler, actress, d @ 69 (The Powers of Matthew Star, Frankenhooker)

2003 – Peter Schrum, actor, d @ 68 (Quantum Leap, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Trancers, Galaxina)

2005 – F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, sci-fi author, d @ 83 (Star Rebel)

2005 – Dan O’Herlihy, actor, d @ 85 (RoboCop, RoboCop 2, VR.5, The Last Starfighter, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Death Ray 2000, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, Invasion U.S.A.)

2013 – Richard Briers, actor, d @ 79 (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Doctor Who)