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1908 – Buddy Ebsen, actor (Twilight Zone)

1914 – Alec Guinness, actor (Star Wars IV – VI)

Alec Guinness as Obi Wan

1917 – Dabbs Greer, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Starman, The Incredible Hulk, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Adventures of Superman, Space Patrol)

1920 – Jack Webb, actor (Project U.F.O.)

1925 – H. B. Haggerty, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Far Out Space Nuts)

1923 – Gloria Henry, actress (Doin’ Time on Planet Earth)

1926 – Elena Verdugo, actress (House of Frankenstein)

1928 – Rita Gam, actress (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

 

1934 – Brian Glover, actor (Alien 3, Doctor Who)

Brian Glover as Griffiths in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Sharon Acker, actress (Threshold, The Powers of Matthew Star, Galactica 1980, Star Trek)

Sharon Acker in the Star Trek episode, The Mark of Gideon.

1936 – Cynthia Lynn, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1945 – Linda Hunt, actress (Dune, Space Rangers)

1948 – Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, US, sci-fi author

1949 – Ron Palillo, actor (The Invisible Woman)

1961 – Christopher Meloni, actor (Man of Steel, Target Earth, Twelve Monkeys)

1961 – Kevin Bernhardt, actor (Superboy)

1962 – Clark Gregg, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence

1964 – Jana Marie Hupp, actress (Independence Day, Star Trek: TNG)

1968 – 2001: A Space Odyssey released

 

1970 – Jamison Newlander, actor (The Blob)

1974 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor, d @ 84 (Twilight Zone)

1975 – Adam Rodriguez, actor (Category 7: The End of the World, Roswell

1975 – Pedro Pascal, actor (The Adjustment Bureau, Earth vs. the Spider (2001) (TV))

1976 – Ray Teal, actor, d @ 74 (Twilight Zone)

1976 – Jenn MacLean-Angus, actress (Continuum)

1976 – Adam Goldberg, writer (Aliens in the Attic, Area 52)

1977 – Michael Fassbender, Actor (Prometheus, Jonah Hex, Hex (TV))

1979 – Lindy Booth, actress (Warehouse 13, Category 7: The End of the World, The 4400, Star Hunter, Mutant X, Earth: Final Conflict)

1984 – Shawn Roberts, actor (Resident Evil, The Tomorrow People, A Little Bit Zombie, Flash Gordon (TV), Jumper, Diary of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Starhunter, Earth: Final Conflict)

1988 – Jesse Plemons, actor (Battleship, Paul)

2002 – Jack Kruschen, actor, d @ 80 (Lois & Clark, The Time Machine, The Incredible Hulk, The Angry Red Planet, Adventures of Superman, The War of the Worlds)

2002 – Henry Slesar, sci-fi author, d @ 74 (20 Million Miles to Earth)