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1887 – Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman)

Estelle Hemsley as Malla in The Leech Woman.

1894 – Henry Daniell, actor (Lights Out, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1902 – Alexander Lockwood, actor (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Monster on the Campus, The Invisible Boy, Tales of Tomorrow)

 

 

 

1922 – Joseph Stefano, producer/writer (Swamp Thing, Star Trek: TNG, The Outer Limits)

Joseph Stefano producer/ writer The Outer Limits

1926 – Bing Russell, actor (The Munsters, The Twilight Zone, The Deadly Mantis, Tarantula)

1928 – Richard Schaal, actor (Slaughterhouse-Five)

1937 – Sandy Baron, actor (The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas, The Munsters Today)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940 – Lance Hendrikson, actor (Alien Rising, The Genesis Code, Supernova, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, TheX Files, Millennium, Alien³, The Terminator, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning, The Visitor (1979), Close Encounter of the Third Kind)

Lance Henriksen in Aliens

1942 – Mark Alaimo, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap, Total Recall, The Phoenix, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde)

1943 – Michael Palin, actor (Brazil, Time Bandits)

1944 – John Rhys-Davies, actor (Time Lapse, 100 Degrees Below Zero, Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Ferocious Planet, Revelations, Chupacabra Terror, Star Trek: Voyager, Sliders, Cyborg Cop, The Lost World

1944 – Roger Rees, actor (Warehouse 13, The Invasion, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1956 – Lisa Eilbacher, actress (Leviathan, The Twilight Zone, Man from Atlantis, Logan’s Run)

1957 – Richard E. Grant, actor (Doctor Who)

1962 – Manoj Sood, actor (Continuum, The 4400, Jake 2.0)

1968 – Albert Van Dekker, actor, D @ 62 (Dr Cyclops, She Devil, Gammera the Invincible, Lights Out: The Perfect Servant)

1978 – Santiago Cabrera, actor (Heroes)

1979 – Vincent Kartheiser, actor (In Time)

1980 – Alana Curry, actress (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Time Changer)

1981 – Danielle Fishel, actress (Rocket’s Red Glare)

1983 – John Williams, actor, d @ 80 (Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, Visit to a Small Planet)

1983 – Henry Cavill, actor (Batman vs. Superman, Man of Steel, Immortals, Stardust)

1985 – Clark Duke, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine)

2985 – Pauline Egan, actress (Elysium)

1988 – George Rose, actor, d @ 68 (The Andromeda Breakthrough)

1997 – Walter Gotell, actor, d @ 73 (The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, The Boys from Brazil, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, 1984)

2011 – Dana Wynter, actor, d @ 79 (The Questor Tapes, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

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