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1876 – Charles Halton, actor (Dr Cyclops)

1904 – Clive Morton, actor (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, The Monsters, Out of This World)

Clive Marton in the Doctor Who episode, The Sea Devils.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, actress (Lost in Space, Tales of Tomorrow)

Mercedes McCambridge in Lost in Space

1920 – Leo McKern, actor (Space: 1999, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, X the Unknown)

1926 – Jerry Lewis, actor (Slapstick (of Another Kind), The Nutty Professor, Visit to a Small Planet)

1926 – Victor Maddern, actor, d @ 67 (Doctor Who)

1935 – Eddie Carmel, actor (The Brain That Wouldn’t Die)

1938 – Nancy Fish b. 1938 (Early Edition, The X Files, The Mask, Death Becomes Her, Tales from the Crypt, Werewolf, Howard the Duck)

 

1946 – Erik Estrada, actor (Homeboys in Outer Space, Alien Seed, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1948 – Margaret [Edith] Weis, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)

1949 – Victor Garber, actor (Star Trek, ReGenesis, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone)

1949 – Michael MacRae, actor (Battlefield Earth, The X Files, Automan, Coma, Future Cop)

1950 – Kate Nelligan, actress (A Wrinkle in Time)

1951 – Steven Grives, actor (20,000 Leauges under the Sea, Time Trax, Horror Planet)

1952 – Irwin Keyes, actor (Professor Creepy’s Scream Party, Dead Kansas, Evil Bong 3-D: The Wrath of Bong, Legend of the Phantom Rider, Black Scorpion, Here Come the Munsters, Timemaster, Tales from the Crypt, Adventures in Dinosaur City, Frankenstein General Hospital, Nice Girls Don’t Explode, Zapped!, Nocturna)

1954 – Jimmy Nail, actor (Morons from Outer Space)

1963 – Kevin Smith, actor (Riverworld)

1966 – Ted Ludzik, actor (Warehouse 13, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, RoboCop: Prime Directives)

1967 – Lauren Graham, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1969 – Judah Friedlander, actor (Sharknado 2: The Second One)

1971 – Ashley Miller, writer (Fringe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Andromeda)

1971 – Alan Tudyk, actor (I Robot, V, Serenity, Firefly, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Dollhouse)

1973 – Carl Benton Reid, actor, d @ 79 (The Underwater City)

1975 – Sienna Guillory, actress (Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Retribution, Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Time Machine, Virtuality

1975 – Tara Buck, actress (The X Files)

1975 – Sienna Guillory, actress (Resident Evil, The Time Machine)

1978 – Sophie Hunter, actress (Torchwood)

1984 – Shug Fisher, actor, d @ 76 (The Giant Gila Monster)

1984 – The Ice Pirates released

1986 – Alexandra Daddario, actor (The Last Man on Earth, Percy Jackson, Texas Chainsaw 3D)

1987 – Kristopher Higgins, actor (In Time)

1993 – Don Randolph, actor, d @ 87 (The Deadly Mantis)

1996 – Charlie Barnett, actor, d @ 41 (They Bite

2006 – David Feintuch, sci-fi author, d @ 61

2008 – Ivan Dixon, actor, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)