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1918 – Pearl Shear, actor (Doctor Mordrid, Max Headroom, The Invisible Man (1975))

1925 – Hugh O’Brian, actor (Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, Rocketship X-M)

Hugh O’Brian as Harry Chamberlain in Rocketship X-M

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Dick Sargent, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Beast with a Million Eyes, The Clonus Horror)

1930 – Rhodes Reason, actor (Star Trek, The Time Tunnel)

Rhodes Reason in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Garfield Morgan, actor (28 Weeks Later, Out of This World)

1934 – Ox Baker, actor (Escape from New York)

1937 – Elinor Donohue, actress (The Invaders (1995), Mork & Mindy, Star Trek)

Elinor Donohue in Star Trek

1946 – Tim Curry, actor (Doom Runners, Lexx, Congo, Earth 2, Legend)

1954 – Moira Sinise, actress (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

1958 – Steve Antin, actor (Misfits of Science)

1959 – Patricia Charbonneau, actress (Strange World, SeaQuest 2032, RoboCop 2, Brain Dead)

1966 – Shane Daly, actor (Alphas, Mutant X. Earth: Final Conflict)

1968 – Ashley Judd, actress (Insurgent, Divergent, Bug, Star Trek: TNG)

1972 – Jennifer Taylor, actress (Zombie Night, 100,000 Zombie Heads)

1974 – Jamison Haase, actor (The Last Ship, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Awake)

1978 – James Franco, actor (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The X-Files, This is the End)

1980 – Alexis Thorpe, actress (Nightmare City 2035, The Man from Earth)

1981 – Hayden Christensen, actor (Star Wars, Jumper, Harrison Bergeron)

1986 – Jai Courtney, actress (Divergent, I, Frankenstein)

1989 – Simu Liu, actor (Omega, Warehouse 13)

2009 – J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, sci-fi author, d @ 78 (Drowned World)

2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, actress, d @ 65 (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, SJA: Alien Files, The Sarah Jane Adventures Comic Relief Special, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time, K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend, Doomwatch)

2013 – Alan Arbus, actor, d @ 95 (Salvage 1)

2013 – Oblivion released

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