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1898 – Lee Tracy, actor, d @ 70 (Doctor X, Lights Out)

1904 – John Gielgud, actor (Frankenstein, Frankenstein: The True Story, Probe)

1913 – John Howard, actor (Destination Inner Space, Men into Space, The Unknown Terror, Science Fiction Theatre)

1917 – Valerie Hobson, actress (The Bride of Frankenstein)

1924 – Philip Stone, actor (Flash Gordon, The Medusa Touch, Star Maidens, A Clockwork Orange, Unearthly Stranger)

1924 – Joseph Ruskin, actor (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, Planet of the Apes, The Bionic Woman, Project U.F.O, Star Trek:DS9, Star Trek:Voyager, Star Trek:Enterprise, Star Trek: Insurrection, King Cobra, Cyber Tracker, Max Headroom, The Time Tunnel)

Joseph Ruskin in The Outer LImits episode, The Production and Decay of Strange Particles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Rod Steiger, actor (Illustrated Man, Mars Attacks!, Out There, Tales of Tomorrow)

Rod Steiger in Mars Attacks!

1926 – Liz Renay, actress (Mark of the Astro-Zombies)

1929 – Gerry Anderson, writer/producer (Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, Space Precinct, Space; 1999, UFO, Stingray, Fireball XL5)

1930 – Bradford Dillman, actor (Lords of the Deep, The Incredible Hulk, Bug, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Monstrosity, Piranha)

1930 – Jay Robinson, actor (Voyagers!, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Dr. Shrinker, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek)

1931 – John Clarke, actor (The Satan Bug, My Living Doll, Destination Space)

1932 – Bob Grant, actor (Quatermass and the Pit)

1933 – Boris Strugatski, sci-fi author (Tale of Troika)

1935 – Joan Darling, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1935 – Jack Mc Devitt, sci-fi author (Seeker)

 

 

1936 – Arlene Martel, actress (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men)

Arlene Martel in The Outer Limits episode, Demon With a Glass Hand.

1941 – Julie Christie, actress (Fahrenheit 451, The Andromeda Breakthrough)

1949 – John Shea, actor (Lois & Clark, Mutant X, Honey I Blew Up the Kid)

1950 – Randolph Powell, actor (Logan’s Run, The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

1954 – Bruce Sterling, sci-fi author (Involution Ocean, Schismatrix)

1955 – Simone Griffeth, actress (Death Race 2000, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1956 – Chris Ellis, actor (Warehouse 13, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Armageddon, Godzilla, The X-Files)

1958 – John D’Aquino, actor (SeaQuest 2032, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark, M.A.N.T.I.S., Quantum Leap

1958 – Peter Capaldi, actor (Doctor Who, World War Z, The Cloning of Joanna May)

1959 – Mark Pillow, actor (Superman IV: The Quest for Peace)

1961 – Robert Carlyle, actor (28 Weeks Later, SGU Stargate Universe)

1964 – Gina McKee, actress (MirrorMask)

1964 – Bob Clendenin, actor (Star Trek, Roswell, Star Trek: Voyager, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1965 – Leonard Mudie, actor, d @ 82 (Magnetic Monster, Science Fiction Theatre, Star Trek, Adventures of Superman, The Son of Dr. Jekyll)

1966 – Lloyd Owen, actor (Apollo 18)

1967 – Tim Holmes, actor (Real Steel)

1968 – Anthony Michael Hall, actor (Warehouse 13, Edward Scissorhands, Weird Science, Zombie Night)

1973 – Adrien Brody, actor (Predators)

1973 – Langley Kirkwood, actor (Dredd, Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend, Dracula 3000)

1975 – Fredric March, actor, d @ 77 (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1976 – Maude Prickett, actress, d @ 60 (Captain Midnight, Adventures of Superman)

1980 – Tom Fadden, actor, d @ 85 (Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, Empire of the Ants, Adventures of Superman)

1987 – Jo Osmond, actor (Jupiter Ascending, Doctor Who)

1990 – Peter Dunn, actor, d @ 68 (Invaders from Mars, The Monster of Piedras Blancas)

1996 – Abigail Breslin, actress (Ender’s Game, Zombieland)

1997 – Michael Stroka, actor, d @ 58 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

2001 – Jon Cedar, actor, d @ 70 (Asteroid, The Incredible Hulk, Capricorn One, The Manitou, Day of the Animals, Time Travelers, The Invisible Man (1975))