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1905 – Robert Stevenson, director (One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, The Island at the Top of the World, Son of Flubber, The Absent-Minded Professor)

1915 – John Vivyan, actor (Men into Space)

1918 – Ted Post, director (Ark II, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone)

1921 – Peggy Rea, actress (Meego, The Immortal)

1922 – Patrick McGee, actor (The Last Days of Man on Earth, A Clockwork Orange, Monster of Terror)

1922 – Richard Kiley, actor (Jurassic Park, Star Trek: DS9, Howard the Duck, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Twilight Zone)

Richard Kiley in Star Trek

1927 – William Daniels, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980)

1929 – Menahem Golan, producer of numerous sci-fi movies

1929 – Lee Patterson, actor (The Immortal, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1934 – Richard Chamberlain, actor (The Swarm)

 

 

 

 

1934 – Shirley Jones, actress (Zombie Night, Out of the Blue)

Shirley Jones in Zombie Night

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 – Christopher Walken, actor (Brainstorm, Communion, The Stepford Wives)

Christopher Walken in Communion

1946 – Ian McDonald, sci-fi author (Desolation Road, The Chaga Saga, Brasyl)

1950 – Ed Marinaro, actor (The Twilight Zone, Doomsday Rock)

1957 – Marc McClure, actor (Back to the Future I & III, Superman I – IV)

1957 – Gene Lockhart, actor, d @ 65 (Science Fiction Theatre, Tales of Tomorrow, Lights Out)

1957 – Mary Cadorette, actress (The Munsters Today)

1958 – Tony Cox, actor (W.E.I.R.D. World, Invaders from Mars, Spaced Invaders, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Spaceballs, The Ewok Adventure, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype)

1960 – Anne Marie Howard, actress (Solar Flare)

1963 – Paul Mercurio, actor (Dark Planet)

1964 – Deborah Kara Unger, actress (Silent Hill)

1965 – William McNamara, actor (The Outer Limits, Perversions of Science)

1965 – Jacqueline Kim, actress (Futurestates, Threshold, Star Trek: Generations)

1965 – Johnny Timko, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, Logan’s Run, The Lost Saucer)

1971 – Ewan McGregor, actor (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones , Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith)

1972 – Andrew Bowen, actor (Evolution, Jedi Camp)

1973 – George Woodbridge, actor, d @ 66 (H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, The Revenge of Frankenstein)

1974 – Carol Ann Plante, actress (Amanda and the Alien)

1974 – Adrian Holmes, actor (Continuum, Elysium, Primeval: New World, Battlestar Galactica, V, Smallville, The Andromeda Strain, Kyle XY, Flash Gordon, Stargate SG-1, The 4400, The Twilight Zone)

1976 – Josh Saviano, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1978 – Daniel Mays, actor (Doctor Who)

1982 – Judith Shekon, actress (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1983 – Melissa Ordway, actress (In Time)

1985 – Jessica Szohr, actress (Piranha 3D)

2003 – Candice Rialson, actress, d @ 54 (Logan’s Run)

2003 – Anne Gwynne, actress, d @ 84(Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, House of Frankenstein, Teenage Monster)