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1882 – Wallis Clark, actress (The Lady and the Monster, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1911 – William Hansen, actor (The Terminal Man, Fail-Safe)

1914 – Martin Ritt, actor (The Rocket)

1930 – John Cullum, actor (The Day After, Roswell, Quantum Leap)

1935 – Al Waxman, actor (Millennium, Spasms)

1938 – Richard Compton, director (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

1939 – Barbara Luna, actress (Unbelievable!!!!!, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, The Invaders, The Outer Limits)

Barbara Luna in The Outer Limits episode It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

1939 – Hugh Walters, actor (Doctor Who, 1984, The Monster Club)

1941 – Gaye Brown, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Clockwork Orange)

1942 – Jon Finch, actor (The Martian Chronicles, The Last Days of Man on Earth, The Horror of Frankenstein)

1944 – Katherine Crawford, actress (Gemini Man)

1945 – Joy Garrett, actress (Star Trek: TNG, The Incredible Hulk, Robo Man)

1945 – Gordon Thompson, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Starship Invasions)

 

 

1949 – Gates McFadden, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact)

Gates McFadden in Star Trek TNG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950 – Mitchell Laurance, actor (Syngenor, The Outer Limits, Surface, Something Is Out There, The Bionic Woman)

Mitchell Laurance in The Outer Limits

1951 – Cassie Yates, actress (The Bionic Woman)

1952 – Laraine Newman, actress (Coneheads, Perversions of Science, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Invaders from Mars)

1952 – John Altman, actor (Return of the Jedi)

1955 – William Hope, actor (Spiders, Cold Fusion, Scanners)

1968 – Daniel Craig, actor (The Invasion, Cowboys and Aliens)

1971 – Amber Smith, actress (Mars)

1971 – Elizabeth Lackey, actress (Planet of the Apes, Heroes, Sliders)

1972 – Richard Ruccolo, actor (The X-Files)

1973 – Paul Popowich, actor (Phil The Alien, Mutant X, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: DS9

1975 – Scott E. Miller, actor (2012, Smallville, The 4400, Stargate: Atlantis)

1977 – Heather McComb, actress (2012: Supernova, The X-Files, Weird Science, Alien Nation)

 

1980 – Ingrid Bolso Berdal, actress (Westworld (2015))

1981 – Bryce Dallas Howard, actress (Jurassic World, Terminator Salvation)

1982 – Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, sci-fi author, d @ 53 (Heartsease)

1982 – Pilou Asbaek, actress (Lucy)

1986 – Ethan Peck, actor (In Time, The Selection)

1994 – Anita Morris, actress, d @ 50 (Martians Go Home)

1996 – Lyle Talbot, actor, d @ 84 (Amazon Women on the Moon, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Science Fiction Theatre, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Tobor the Great, Mesa of Lost Women, Space Patrol, Atom Man vs. Superman)

2004 – Mercedes McCambridge, actress, d @ 87 (Lost in Space, Tales of Tomorrow)

2009 – Rhae Andrece, actress, d @ 72 (Star Trek)