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1901 – Gavin Gordon, actor (The Bride of Frankenstein, Here Comes Tobor)

1915 – Stanley Adams, actor (Star Trek, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

Stanley Adams as Cyrano Jones in the Star Trek episode, The Trouble With Tribbles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1915 – Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were)

1916 – Anthony Caruso, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel)

Anthony Caruso as Bela Oxmyx, leader of a gang on planet Sigma Iotia II in the Star Trek episode,A Piece of the Action.

1917 – R G Armstrong, actor (Predator, Salvage 1, Quantum Leap, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone)

1920 – Allan Cuthbertson, actor (UFO, The Body Stealers, Journey to the Unknown, The Brain, The Mouse on the Moon)

Margia Dean b. 1922 (The Quatermass Experiment, Mesa of Lost Women, Adventures of Superman)

Daniel Emilfork b. 1924 died 17 October 2006 (The City of Lost Children, The Thief of Baghdad [1978])

1928 – James White, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)

1928 – James Garner, actor (Space Cowboys, Fire in the Sky)

 

1930 – Andrew Sachs, actor (Doctor Who)

1933 – Wayne Rogers, actor (Doomsday Machine, The Invaders)

Wayne Rogers as Police Lt John Mattson in The Invaders episode, The Spores.

1934 – Ian Richardson, actor (Dark City, Brazil)

1935 – Yvonne Fedderson, actress (I Was a Teenage Werewolf)

1936 – Del Monroe, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)

Gordon Kaye b. 1941 (Brazil, Jabberwocky)

Keith Buckley b. 1941 (Excalibur, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Out of the Unknown)

1942 – Gabrielle Beaumont, director (Star Trek, SeaQuest 2032)

1948 – Stan Winston, special effects artist

Clarke Peters b. 1952 (Forever, K-PAX, Outland)

1964 – Russell Crowe, actor (Virtuosity, Man of Steel)

1964 – Jace Alexander, director (The Tomorrow People, Warehouse 13)

1966 – Teri Ann Linn, actress (Fallout

1972 – Betty Blythe, actress, d @ 78 (She)

Eve Salvail b. 1973 (The Fifth Element)

Kasan Butcher b. 1973 (Solar Flare, Jeepers Creepers II, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch)

Sergio Peris-Mencheta b. 1975 (Resident Evil: Afterlife)

1976 – Kevin Alejandro, actor (Heroes, Creature of Darkness, Gemini Division, Threshold

1981 – Norman Taurog, director, d @ 82 (Visit to a Small Planet)

1983 – Gavin Gordon, actor, d @ 82 (The Bride of Frankenstein, Here Comes Tobor)

1983 – Kyle Labine, actor (V, Flash Gordon)

1987 – Jack Johnson, actor (Lost in Space)

2001 – David Graf, actor, d @ 50 (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap

2002 – John Agar, actor, d @ 81 (The Naked Monster, Tarantula, The Twilight Zone, Zontar: The Thing from Venus, Curse of the Swamp Creature, Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Destination Space, Journey to the Seventh Planet, Invisible Invaders, Attack of the Puppet People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Daughter of Dr. Jeykll, The Mole People, The Rocket Man)

2004 – Victor Argo, actor, D @ 69 (The Terminal Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

2007 – Barry Nelson, actor, d @ 89 (Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica, Salvage 1, Island Claws)