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1912 – David Langton, actor (Out of the Unknown, Electrode 93)

1913 – Les Tremayne, actor (The War of the Worlds, The Naked Monster, Creature of Destruction, Il pianeta errante, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Slime People, The Monster of Piedras Blancas, The Angry Red Planet, From the Earth to the Moon, The Monolith Monster, Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers, Forbidden Planet)

1914 – John Hodiak, actor (On the Threshold of Space)

1918 – Joan Alexander, actress (Captain Video and His Video Rangers, The New Adventures of Superman)

1918 – Johnny Silver, actor (Spaceballs,The Munsters, World of Giants)

1919 – Barry Nelson, actor (Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica, Salvage 1, Island Claws)

1921 – Peter Ustinov, actor (Logan’s Run)

1922 – Christopher Samuel Youd, sci-fi author, d @ 89 (The Death of Grass, The Tripods)

1927 – Peter Mark Richman, actor (Outer Limits, Star Trek: TNG, Swamp Thing, The Incredible Hulk, PSI Factor, Galactica 1980, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

Peter Mark Richman in The Outer Limits episode, The Probe.

1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, actor (The Stand, Man from Atlantis)

1949 – Melody Patterson, actress (The Immortalizer)

1950 – David Graf, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap)

1953 – Jay O. Sanders, actor (The Day After Tomorrow)

1954 – Ellen Barkin, actress (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

1959 – Charles Halton, actor, d @ 83 (Dr Cyclops)

1960 – Michael Gill, actor (Forever)

 

1960 – Ricco Ross, actor (Hydra, Babylon 5, Timelock, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, Aliens)

1964 – Boyd Banks, actor (Phil the Alien, 12 Monkeys, Diary of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead)

1965 – Jon Cryer, actor (Superman IV, The Outer Limits)

1965 – Michael Wong, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction)

1971 – Belinda Stewart-Wilson, actress (Primeval, Jekyll)

1975 – Karl Yune, actor (Real Stee)

1975 – Sean Maher, actor (Serenity, Firefly, Warehouse 13)

1976 – Lukas Haas, actor (Inception, Transendence, The Twilight Zone, Mars Attacks!, Solar Babies)

1982 – Gina Carano, actress (Deadpool)

1984 – Byron Haskin, director, d @ 84 (The Outer Limits, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Conquest of Space, The War of the Worlds)

1985 – Scott Brady, actor, d @ 60 (The Fantastic Journey, The Invisible Man, The Immortal, Journey to the Center of Time, Destination Inner Space)

1985 – Rhiana Griffith, actress (Pitch Black)

1992 – Neville Brand, actor, d @ 71 (Man from Atlantis, Twilight Zone)

1994 – John McLiam, actor, d @ 75 (Star Trek: TNG, V, Voyagers!, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk, The Food of the Gods, The Invisible Man, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1994 – Liliana Mumy, actress (The Twilight Zone)

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

1998 – Jordana Beatty, actress (Superman Returns)

2002 – Robert Urich, actor, d @ 55 (Invasion Earth, The Ice Pirates, Endangered Species)

2003 – Graham Jarvis, actor, d @ 72 (Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, The Munsters Today)

2005 – Kay Walsh, actress, d @ 93 (Journey to the Unknown)

2010 – Michael Pataki, actor, d @ 72 (Star Trek: TNG, Automan, Beyond Westworld, The Invisible Man, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)