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1921 – Jan Sterling, actress, d @ 82 (The Incredible Hulk, 1984)

1921 – Harry Landers, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, Phantom of Space, Star Trek, World of Giants)

Harry Landers in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1924 – Marlon Brando, actor (Superman, The Island of Doctor Moreau)

1926 – Andrew Keir, actor (Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

Andrew Keir as Quatermass in Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 – Timothy Bateson, actor (Doctor Who, The Evil of Frankenstein, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

1928 – Kevin Hagen, actor (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

Kevin Hagen in the Lost in Space episode, His Majesty Smith.

1937 – William Gaunt, actor (Doctor Who, Out of this World)

1937 – Lawrence Dane, actor (Stargate SG-1, The Time Shifters, Millenium, Bionic Showdown, Scanners, The Invaders)

1940 – Wolf Kahler, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Space, The Boys from Brazil)

1941 – Eric Braeden, actor (The Aliens Are Coming, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Colossus: The Forbin Project)

1947 – Pat Proft, writer (The Star Wars Holiday Special)

1955 – Robin Mossley, actress (Sanctuary, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, The 4400, Alienated, The X Files)

 

1958 – Vanna Bonta, actress (Time Walker)

1959 – David Hyde Pierce, actor (The Terminator)

1961 – Elizabeth Gracen, actress (Coherence, Time Trax, The Death of the Incredible Hulk)

1962 – Jennifer Rubin, actress (Screamers, The Outer Limits, Transmorphers: Fall of Man, The Wasp Woman, The Twilight Zone)

1966 – Shelley Michelle, actress (Galaxy Hunter

1969 – Ben Mendelsohn, actor (Farscape)

1969 – Rex Evans, actor, d @ 65 (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman)

1972 – Catherine McCormack, actress (28 Weeks Later)

1973 – Jamie Bamber, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Star Trek Continues, Dollhouse, Pulse 2: Afterlife

1973 – Matthew Ferguson, actor (Cube²: Hypercube, Earth: Final Conflict

1973 – Adam Scott,a ctor (Piranha 3D, Star Trek: First Contact)

1975 – Philip Brodie, actor (Zombie Diaries 2)

1978 – Alessandro Juliani, actor (Man of Steel, Continuum, Eve of Destruction, Fringe, Smallville, Riverworld, Battlestar Galactica, The Time Tunnel, Stargate SG-1, Earthsea)

1982 – Warren Oates, actor, d @ 53 (Lost in Space, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1982 – Cobie Smulders, actor (Andromeda, Smallville)

1996 – Jackson Bond, actor (The Invasion)

1998 – Lost in Space released