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1890 – Adolphe Menjou, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1908 – Angelo Rossitto, actor (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Galaxina, Jason of Star Command, Invasion of the Saucer Men)

Angelo Rossitto in Invasion of the Saucer men.

1919 – Jack Palance, actor (Lights Out, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Shape of Things to Come, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics, Solar Crisis)

1920 – Jack Palance, actor (Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics, Cyborg 2, Solar Crisis, Gor, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Shape of Things to Come, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

 

 

 

 

1923 – Allan Melvin, actor (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)

Allan Melvin (left) in Lost in Space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – George Kennedy, actor (Brain Dead, Demonwarp, The Terror Within, Day of Resurrection, Radioactive Dreams, Death Ship, The ‘Human’ Factor)

1941 – Andrea Dromm, actress (Star Trek)

Andrea Dromm as Yeoman Smith in Star Trek.

1948 – Sinead Cusack, actress (The Deep (TV))

1949 – Jess Walton, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1950 – Cybill Shepherd, actress (No Ordinary Family)

1950 – John Hughes, writer (Weird Science)

1953 – The Magnetic Monster released

1954 – John Travolta, actor (Face/Off, Battlefield Earth)

1957 – Vanna White, actress (Looker)

1968 – Molly Ringwald, actress (The Outer Limits, The Stand, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone)

1970 – Susan Egan, actress (Galaxy Quest)

1970 – Tammy Macintosh, actress (Farscape)

1972 – Leigh Scott, director (Piranha Sharks, Frankenstein Reborn)

1977 – Kristoffer Polaha, actor (Dollhouse, Roswell)

1978 – Derrick De Marney, actor, d @ 71 (Projected Man, Things to Come)

1978 – Maggie McNamara, actress, d @ 48 (Twilight Zone)

1981 – Neil Fingleton, actor (Jupiter Ascending)

1982 – Tina Carver, actress, d @ 59 (The Man Who Turned to Stone, From Hell It Came)

1984 – Genelle Williams, actress (Warehouse 13, The Incredible Hulk)

1984 – Chelsea Hobbs, actress (Seven Days, Mysterious Ways)

1988 – Maiara Walsh, actress (Zombieland (TV])

1993 – Jacqueline Hill, actress, d @ 63 (Doctor Who, Out of This World)

1999 – Noam Pitlik, actor, d @ 66 (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, The Satan Bug)

2000 – Pitch Black released

2013 – Elspet Gray, actress, d @ 83 (Doctor Who)

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