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1891 – Jonathan Hale, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

1902 – Carl Jaffe, actor (First Man in Space, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Electronic Monster, Satellite in the Sky, The Atomic Man)

1902 – Gustav Frohlich, actor (Metropolis)

1918 – Cliff Norton, actor (It’s About Time, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll)

1919 – Lois Collier, actress (Flying Disc Man from Mars)

Lois Collier in Flying Disc Man From Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Logan Ramsey, actor (Dr Hackenstein, ALF, Battlestar Galactica, Mork & Mindy, Star Trek)

Logan Ramsey as Claudius Marcus in the Star Trek episode, Bread and Circuses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1923 – Peter Pratt, actor (Doctor Who)

1923 – Philip Abbott, actor (Hanger 18, The Incredible Hulk, Salvage 1, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Ark II, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Invisible Boy)

Philip Abbott in The Outer Limits episode, ZZZZZ.

1924 – Roy Poole, actor (The Bionic Woman, The Invaders)

1930 – James Coco, actor (The Stepford Children, The Twilight Zone, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1931 – Al Williamson, illustrator (Flash Gordon)

1936 – Roger Hammond, actor (Morons from Outer Space, Doctor Who)

1939 – Kathleen Widdoes, actress (The Invaders, ‘Way Out)

1940 – Alex Courtney, actor (Programmed to Kill, The Bionic Woman)

1944- Timothy Dalton, actor (Doctor Who, The Rocketeer, Flash Gordon)

1944 – Lorene Yarnell Jansson, actress (Spaceballs)

 

1955 – Jean Marie Hon, actress (Man from Atlantis, Ark II, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

1957 – Sabrina Le Beauf, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1958 – Cyril M Kornbluth, sci-fi author, d @ 34 (Space Merchants)

1958 – Gary Oldman, actor (Lost in Space, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, RoboCop, The Fifth Element)

1961 – Kassie Wesley DePaiva, actress (Time Trax)

1962 – Matthew Broderick, actor (WarGames, Godzilla, Project X, Stepford Wives (2004))

1962 – Kathryn Greenwood, actress (RoboCop (TV))

1964 – Phillip Troy Linger, actor (The Hunger Games)

1968 – Greg Ellis, actor (Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, The Omega Code 2)

1968 – Karyn Kusama, director (Aeon Flux)

1968 – Jaye Davidson, actor (Stargate)

1973 – Vanessa Branch, actress (The Invisible Man, Star Trek: Voyager, The Cell)

1973 – Jerry Supiran, actor (Small Wonder, Galactica 1980)

1974 – Laura Allen, actress (The 4400)

1974 – Joseph Mawle, actor (Sense8)

1977 – Sam Troughton, actor (AVP: Alien vs. Predator)

1981 – Honorine Bell, actress (A Guy, A Girl, A Space Helmet)

1985 – Sonequa Martin-Green, actress (The Walking Dead)

1985 – Michael Redgrave, actor, d @ 77 (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1987 – Dean Paul Martin, actor, d @ 35 (Misfits of Science)

1987 – Robert Preston, actor, d @ 68 (The Last Starfighter)

1989 – Milton Frome, actor, d @ 80 (The Nutty Professor, Way…Way Out, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, My Favorite Martian, Visit to a Small Planet, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, The Atomic Kid)

1992 – John Ireland, actor, d @ 72 (War of the Worlds, Salvage 1, The Shape of Things to Come, Planet of the Apes)

1994 – MacDonald Carey, actor, d @ 81 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, End of the World, The Outer Limits, Science Fiction Theatre)

1994 – Dack Rambo,actor, d @ 52 (Ultra Warrior)

1995 – Robert Urquhart, actor, d @ 72 (The Curse of Frankenstein, Doomwatch)

2005 – Barney Martin, actor, d @ 82 (I Married a Monster, The Twilight Zone)

2013 – Scavangers released

2014 – James Rebhorn, actor, d @ 65 (Independence Day, Coma)

2014 – Divergent released