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1895 – Shemp Howard, actor (The Invisible Woman)

1911 – Alan Gifford, actor (2001: A Space Odyssey, Phase IV, The Outer Limits, The Monsters, The Electronic Monster, Satellite in the Sky)

1916 – Ferdy Mayne, actor (Frankenstein’s Aunt, Masters of Venus)

1921 – F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, sci-fi author (Star Rebel)

1923 – Terry Alexander, actor (Doctor Who, Frankenstein, Star Maidens)

1925 – Christopher Anvil, sci-fi author (Federation of Humanity, The Day the Machines Stopped)

1928 – Valerie French, actress (The 27th Day)

1928 – Albert Salmi, actor (Empire of the Ants, Future Cop, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Albert Salmi in Lost in Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Diane Brewster, actress (The Invisible Boy)

1935 – Nancy Kovack, actress (The Invisible Man, Marooned, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders)

Nancy Kovack in the Star Trek episode, A Private Little War.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 – Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Biohazard, Repo Man, Mad Doctor of Blood Island, Star Trek, The Phantom Planet)

Angelique Pettyjohn in Star Trek

1945 – Tricia O’Neal, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Babylon 5, Babylon 5: In the Beginning, Star Trek: TNG, Voyagers!, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1946 – Mark Metcalf, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1952 – Douglas Adams, sci-fi author (author, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, writer, Doctor Who)

1952 – Diane Sherry Case, actress (Superman)

1958 – Stephen R. Hart, actor (Space Janitors, Resident Evil: Apocalypse)

 

 

 

1960 – Fulvio Cecere, actor (Continuum, The 100, The Tomorrow People, Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Stargate SG-1, Blade: The Series, Odyssey 5, Taken, Smallville, Earth; Final Conflict, Strange World, Millennium, Cloned, The X-Files)

1960 – Robert Glenister, actor (Doctor Who)

1960 – Fulvio Cecere, actor (The Tomorrow People, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Odyssey 5, Smallville, Earth; Final Conflict, Millennium, The X-Files)

1961 – Elias Koteas, actor (Gattica, The Last Days on Mars, S1m0ne, Cyborg 2, The Fourth Kind)

1962 – Jeffrey Nordling,a ctor (TRON: Legacy, Time Trax, Star Trek: DS9, Alien Nation)

1963 – Alex Kingston, actress (Doctor Who, FlashForward, The Six Billion Dollar Man, Viruality)

1964 – Peter Berg, actor (Battleship, Fire in the Sky)

1965 – Wallace Langham, actor (The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: Voyager, Martians Go Home, The Invisible Kid, Weird Science)

1967 – John Barrowman, actor (The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, Doctor Who in America, Doctor Who)

1971 – Johnny Knoxville, actor (Men in Black II)

1972 – Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author, d @ 65 (Martians Go Home)

1979 – Victor Kilian, actor, d @ 88 (Planet of the Apes, Unknown World, Doctor Cyclops, Planet of the Apes)

1981 – David Anders, actor (Warehouse 13, Heroes, The Source, iZombie)

1982 – Edmund Cooper, sci-fi writer, d @ 55 (Tomorrow Came)

1982 – Thora Birch, actress (Purple People Eater)

1982 – Lindsey McKeon, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1989 – Anton Yelchin, actor (Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, Terminator Salvation

1989 – William Challee, actor, d @ 84 (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1989 – Daniella Kertesz, actress (World War Z)

1996 – Vince Edwards, actor, d @ 67 (Space Raiders)

2005 – Robots released

2006 – Brian Morrow, actor, d @ 94 (The Bionic Woman, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Invaders, Cyborg 2087, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Twilight Zone)

2008 – Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident released

2008 – Stargate: The Ark of Truth released

2010 – Merlin Olsen, actor, d @ 69 (A Fire in the Sky)