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1906 – Brigitte Helm, actress (Metropolis, Queen of Atlantis, The Lost Atlantis)

Brigitte Helm in Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang in 1927

1910 – Frank DeKova, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Teenage Cave Man)

1913 – Charles Lampkin, actor (Cocoon, The Incredible Hulk, Gemini Man)

1927 – Patrick Allen, actor (UFO, Journey to the Unknown, Island of the Burning Damned, 1984)

1931 – Eunice Gayson, actress (The Revenge of Frankenstein)

1933 – Ken Barr, illustrator

1936 – Patty Maloney, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, A.J.’s Time Travelers, The Ice Pirates, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Star Wars Holiday Special)

1945 – Tanya Lemani, actress (Star Trek)

1948 – William [Ford] Gibson, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)

1948 – William [Ford] Gibson, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)

1949 – Patrick Duffy, actor (Man from Atlantis)

1951 – Kurt Russell, actor (The Thing, Stargate, Escape from New York, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Lost in Space, Escape from L.A.)

Kurt Russell in the Lost in Space episode The Challenge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1954 – Lesley-Anne Down, actress (Out of the Unknown)

1955 – Bill Beyers, actor (The Incredible Hulk)

1955 – Gary Sinise, actor (Mission to Mars)

Gary Sinise in Mission to Mars

1955 – Mark Boone Jr, actor (Frankenfish, Armageddon)

1957 – Laurene Landon, actress (Marilyn: Zombie Hunter, It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive, America 3000, The Stuff)

1959 – Christian Clemenson, actor (Lois & Clark, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1960 – Vicki Lewis, actress (Godzilla 1998)

1960 – Arye Gross, actor (Minority Report, Fringe, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Timelock)

1960 – Cameron Thor, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: TNG, Jurassic Park)

1961 – Casey Siemaszko, actor (Back to the Future 1 & 2)

1961 – Andrew Paul, actor (The Day of the Triffids)

1962 – Frank Orth, actor, d @ 82 (Adventures of Superman)

1964 – Bill Marchant, actor (Chappie, Godzilla 2014, The 100, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, Millennium)

1964 – Rob Lowe, actor (Apocalypse Slough, The Stand)

1967 – Richard Reeves, actor, d @ 54 (Target Earth, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, The Adventures of Superboy, Adventures of Superman)

1968 – Mathew St. Patrick, actor (Alien Raiders)

1971 – Brent Roam, actor (Deep Blue Sea)

1973 – Amelia Weatherly, actress (Earth vs. the Spider)

1974 – Willard Sage, actor, d @ 51 (The Outer Limits, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Star Trek)

1974 – Jennifer Lothrop, actress (Flatland)

1974 – Janaya Stephens, actress (Death Race, Category 7: The End of the World, Category 6: Day of Destruction, Mutant X, Lexx)

1974 – Marisa Coughlan, Space Station 76, The Twilight Zone, Weird Science)

1975 – Natalie Zea, actor (Under the Dome)

1975 – Gina Holden, actress (Avalanche Sharks, Dracano, Fringe, Mysterious Island, Smallvile, Flash Gordon, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

1976 – Brittany Daniel, actress (Skyline)

1978 – Adam Jennings, actor (Mars Needs Moms)

1989 – Merritt Butrick, actor, d @ 29 (Star Trek II and III, Star Trek: TNG)

1992 – Jack Arnold, director, d @ 75 (Creature From the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Tarantula, It Came From Outer Space)

1992 – Charles Rea, actor, d @ 69 (Doomwatch)

1993 – Skip Young, actor, d @ 63 (Earth vs. the Spider, Lobster Man from Mars)

1995 – Rick Aviles, actor, d @ 42 (Waterworld, The Stand)

2005 – Andre Norton, sci-fi author, d @ 93 (Witch World, Wizard’s World, Star Man’s Son 2250 A.D.)

2011 – Michael Gough d @ 95 (Doctor Who, They Came From Beyond Space)