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1883 – Colin Campbell, actor (Twilight Zone, The Lost World, Adventures of Superman)

1895 – Fredric Wertham, sci-fi author (Seduction of the Innocent, The World of Fanzines)

1902 – Edgar Buchanan, actor (Twilight Zone)

1904 – B.F. Skinner, sci-fi author, d @ 86 18 August 1990 (Walden Two)

1908 – Michael Redgrave, actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1913 – Judith Evelyn, actress (The Tingler)

Judith Evelyn in The William Castle movie, The Tingler which starred Vincent Price.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1914 – Crahan Denton, actor (The Outer Limits)

Crahan Denton as Sheriff Simon Stakefield in The Outer Limits episode, The Children of Spider County.

1915 – Wendell Corey, actor (Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Cyborg 2087, The Astro-Zombies)

1922 – Carl Reiner, director (The Man with Two Brains)

1922 – Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars, The Monster of Piedras Blancas)

1922 – Jack Kruschen, actor (Lois & Clark, The Time Machine, The Incredible Hulk, The Angry Red Planet, Adventures of Superman, The War of the Worlds)

1931 – Hal Linden, actor (Light Years Away, Time Changer, Starflight: The Plane that Couldn’t Land, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Godzilla Versus the Sea Monster, Destroy All Monsters)

1931 – Karen Steele, actress (Star Trek, Cyborg 2087, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Toward the Unknown)

Karen Steele in the Star Trek episode, Mudd’s Women.

1947 – Chip Zien, actor (Howard the Duck)

1948 – John de Lancie, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles, Torchwood, Gamer, My Apocalypse, Invader ZIM, Charmed, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek, Multiplicity, Legend, Time Trax, The Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica [1979], The Six Million Dollar Man)

1948 – Pamela Sargent, sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives)

1950 – William Hurt, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Lost in Space, Dark City, Frankenstein, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Dune)

1950 – Tom Towles, actor (Firefly, Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun, VR.5, Star Trek: DS9)

 

1951 – Tanya Boyd, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1952 – John W. Campbell, Jr. publishes The Astounding Science Fiction Anthology, the third such magazine anthology within a month, helping to cement that magazine’s reputation as the leading science fiction magazine of the 1940s.

1957 – Theresa Russell, actress (Fringe, Earth vs. the Spider)

1957 – Vanessa Bell Calloway, actress (Prey

1958 – Holly Hunter, actress (Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice)

1959 – Steve McFadden, actor (Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time)

1961 – Karen M. Waldron, actress (Space Cowboys, Return of the Killer Tomatoes!)

1961 – John Clark Gable, actor (Beyond)

1963 – David Thewlis, actor (The Island of Dr Moreau)

1963 – Kathy Ireland, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Alien from L.A., Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1963 – Stephen Sommers, director (Deep Rising)

1964 – Leif Tilden, actor (Invader)

1967 – Bryan Genesse, actor (Terminal Virus, Cyborg Cop III)

1967 – Marc Warren, actor (Doctor Who)

1971 – Ingrid Kavelaars, actress (V (2009), ReGenesis, Stargate SG-1, Code Name: Eternity, Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County, Millennium, Specimen)

1971 – Liam Waite, actor (Ghosts of Mars)

1972 – Solaris released in USSR

1974 – Paula Garces, actress (Warehouse 13, Clockstoppers)

1976 – Michael Goodliffe, actor, d @ 61 (The Day the Earth Caught Fire, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, The End Begins)

1979 – Freema Agyeman, actress (Doctor Who)

1979 – Bianca Lawson, actress (Supergator)

1979 – Georgia Craig, actress (Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, The 4400, Dawn of the Dead)

1980 – Talia Russo, actress (ReGenesis)

1984 – Christy Carlson Romano, actress (Infected)

1984 – Rami Malek, actor (Battleship)

1986 – Dean Geyer, actor (Terra Nova)

1989 – Alan Gifford, actor, d @ 78 (2001: A Space Odyssey, Phase IV, The Outer Limits, The Monsters, The Electronic Monster, Satellite in the Sky)

1995 – Samantha Weinstein, actress (Darknet, Swarmed)

1995 – Big John Studd, actor, d @ 47 (Hyperspace)

2007 – Battlespace released

2008 – Brian Wilde, actor, d @ 80 (Out of the Unknown, Doomwatch)