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1902 – Stanley G Weinbaum, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey)

1914 – Richard Coogan, actor as Captain Video, d @ 99 (Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

Richard Coogan as Captain Video

1916 – David White, actor (Lights Out, One Step Beyond, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping)

1921 – Peter Burton, actor (A Clockwork Orange)

1924 – Peter Vaughan, actor (Time Bandits)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Elizabeth Wilson, actress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

Elizabeth Wilson in The Incredible Shrinking Woman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Dorothy Alison, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Journey Into the Unknown)

1926 – Cloris Leachman, actress (Young Frankenstein, The Twilight Zone, Tales of Tomorrow)

Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein

1932 – Anthony Perkins, actor (The Black Hole, On the Beach)

1932 – Andrei Tarkovsky, director (Solaris)

1935 – Kenneth Mars, actor (Weird Science, Lois & Clark, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: DS9, The Twilight Zone, Misfits of Science, Project U.F.O., Young Frankenstein)

1944 – Craig T. Nelson, actor (Creature)

1945 – Caroline McWilliams, actress (Lois & Clark, The Aliens are Coming, Project U.F.O., The Incredible Hulk)

1947 – James Hazeldine, actor (The Medusa Touch)

1948 – Dan Simmons, sci-fi author (1990 Hugo for Hyperion)

 

1950 – Simone Griffeth, actress (The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, Death Race 2000)

1950 – Christine Lahti, actress (The Henderson Monster)

1952 – Tim White artist

1952 – Cherie Lunghi, actress (Wizards vs. Aliens, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

1954 – Julie Carmen, actress (The Twilight Zone

1954 – Mary-Margaret Humes, actress (Time Trax, Eerie Indiana, Manimal)

1955 – Armin Rohde, actor (Contagion)

1959 – Phil Morris, actor (Smallville, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dark Planet, Babylon 5, Star Trek III; The Search for Spock, Star Trek)

1960 – Hugo Weaving, actor (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions)

1960 – Lorraine Toussaint, actress (Forever)

1962 – Ava Fabian, actress (Lobster Man from Mars)

1963 – A. Michael Baldwin, actor (Phantasm I through IV, Voyagers!)

1964 – Robbie Rist, actor (Sharknado, The Munsters Today, Galactica 1980, The Bionic Woman)

1964 – David Cross, actor (Men in Black II)

1965 – Robert Downey Jr, actor (Incredible Hulk, A Scanner Darkly, Weird Science)

1967 – Lisa Hammer, actress (Frankenstein and the Creature from the Blood Cove)

1968 – Xenia Seeburg, actress (Lexx, Total Recall 2070)

1970 – Byron Foulger, actor, d @ 70 (Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, Captain Midnight, The Rocket Man, Space Patrol, Superman and the Mole-Men)

1970 – Barry Pepper, actor (Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Battlefield Earth, Sliders)

1971 – Claudette Mink, actress (Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Sliders, Welcome to Paradox, Earth: Final Conflict)

1976 – James Roday, actor (Gamer, Repli-Kate)

1979 – Jessica Napier, actress (The Lost World)

1978 – Matthew MacCaull, actor (Tomorrowland, iZombie, Fringe, Riverworld)

1979 – Edgar Buchanan, actor, d @ 76 (Twilight Zone)

1979 – Natasha Lyonne, actress (4:44 Last Day on Earth, Blade: Trinity)

1980 – Collette Wolfe, actress (Interstellar, Hot Tub Time Machine 2)

1981 – Benjamin Ciaramello, actor (War of the Worlds)

1982 – Kett Turton, actor (he 100, Fringe, Primeval: New World, Blade: Trinity, Smallville, Strange Frequency, So Weird, First Wave, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The X Files, Millennium)

1987 – Sarah Gadon, actress (Antiviral, Mutant X)

1987 – C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, sci-fi author, d @ 76 (Judgment Night)

1995 – Shirley Patterson, actress, d @ 72 (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, World Without End, The Land Unknown, Batman [1943])

1999 – Faith Domergue, actress, d @ 74 (This Island Earth, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, The Atomic Man, It Came from Beneath the Sea)

1999 – Bob Peck, actor, d @ 54 (Jurassic Park, Slipstream)

2003 – Anthony Caruso, actor, d @ 86 (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel)

2011 – The Adjustment Bureau released

2011 – Wayne Robson, actor, d @ 64 (The Timekeeper, The Incredible Hulk, Lexx, Cube, RoboCop, The Twilight Zone)