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1888 – Edward Everett Horton, actor (2000 Years Later, Down to Earth, Lost Horizon)

1888 – Alexander Leydenfrost, illustrator

1894 – Norbert Wiener, sci-fi author, d @ 69 (The Machine Age)

1926 – Peter Graves, actor (Beginning of the End, Killers from Space, Red Planet Mars, The Invaders, The Clonus Horror, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

Peter Graves in Beginning of the End

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Jack B. Sowards, writer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

1929 – Jack B. Sowards, writer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

1945 – Susan Tyrell, actress (Digital Man, Forbidden Zone)

1947 – Drew Struzan, illustrator

1950 – Brad Dourif, actor (End of the World, Once Upon a Time, Fringe, Alien: Resurrection, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, The X Files, Dune)

Brad Dourif in Alien Resurrection

1950 – Jim Knobeloch, actor (Iron Sky)

1959 – Luc Besson, director (The Fifth Element, Lucy)

1960 – Richard Biggs, actor (Babylon 5, The Alien Within, Twilight Zone)

1962 – Thomas Ian Griffith, actor (Timecop: The Berlin Decision)

1963 – Vanessa Williams, actress (WW 3, Futuresport, The Odyssey, Star Trek: DS9)

1968 – Tamer Hassan, actor (Robot Overlords)

1970 – Queen Latifah, actress (Sphere)

1978 – Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass],sci-fi author/screenwriter, D @ 62 (Ginger Star, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)

1979 – Jareb Dauplaise, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)

1980 – Sophia Myles, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction,Outlander, , Doctor Who, Underworld, Underworld: Evolution)

Sophia Myles in Doctor Who

1981 – Vanessa Evigan, actress (Zombie Hamlet, Sand Sharks)

1981 – Chris Geere, actor (After Earth)

1985 – Duane Henry, actor (Doctor Who)

1989 – Lily Collins, actress (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

1996 – Madeline Carroll, actress (Resident Evil: Extinction)

2002 – R.A. Lafferty, sci-fi author, d @ 87 (b. 1914)

2006 – Michael Attwell, actor, d @ 63 (Doctor Who)

2010 – Fess Parker, actor, d @ 85 (Them!)

2014 – Lucius Shepard, sci-fi author, d @ 68 (Barnacle Bill The Spacer)