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1930 – Joan Sims, actress (Super Gran, Doctor Who, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing)

1938 – Michael Stroka, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1943 – Virginia Wetherell, actress (A Clockwork Orange, Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Doctor Who)

Virginia Wetherell in Doctor Who The Daleks The Escape as Dyoni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Candice Bergen, actress (The Day the Fish Came Out)

1955 – Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Predator, Predator 2, Misfits of Science)

Kevin Peter Hall as the Predator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1956 – Wendy Crewson, actress (Antiviral, ReGenesis, The Sixth Day, Bicentennial Man, Murder in Space)

1957 – Tessa Peake-Jones, actress (Doctor Who, The Lost World)

Tessa Peake-Jones in Doctor Who The Time of the Doctor

1958 – Chuck Russell, director (The Blob)

1958 – Lorena Gale, actress (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman, The 4400, Slither, The Chronicles of Riddick, 10.5, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Runaway Virus, Zenon; Girl of the 21st Century, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The X-Files, Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Fly II)

1961 – John Corbett, actor (The Sky’s on Fire, The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy, The Visitor)

 

1972 – Megumi Odaka, actress (Godzilla vs. Destroyah, Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mecagodzilla, Gojira vs. Mosura, Godzilla vs. Biollante, Princess from the Moon)

1977 – Karl Thanning, actor (Dredd, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, Doomsday, The Triangle, Supernova)

1979 – Rosario Dawson, actress (Parts Per Billion, Men in Black 2)

1985 – Chris Zylka, actor (Piranha 3DD, Shark Night 3D)

1985 – Edmond O’Brien d @69 (1984, Fantastic Voyage)

1986 – Grace Gummer, actress (Extant)

1997 – Hoke Howell, actor, d @ 67 (Alien Species, Alienator, Humanoids from the Deep, Project U.F.O., Kingdom of the Spiders, Lost in Space, The Munsters, My Living Doll)