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1913 – Sidney James, actor (Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)

1915 – John Archer, actor (Destination Moon, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space, She Devil, Science Fiction Theatre)

1925 – Angela Stevens, actress (Creature with the Atom Brain)

1926 – Don Rickles, actor (The Munsters, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Twilight Zone)

1928 – John Bennett, actor (Minority Report, The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells, The Fifth Element, Alien Nation: Millennium, Blakes 7, 1990, Doctor Who)

John Bennett as General Finch in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1932 – Phyllida Law, actress (The Time Machine, The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1935 – Salome Jens, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Superboy, Tomorrow’s Child, The Outer Limits, Terror from the Year 5000)

John Bennett as General Finch in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Robert Dix, actor (Horror of the Blood Monsters, Frankenstein’s Daughter, Forbidden Planet)

1935 – Robert Dix, actor (Horror of the Blood Monsters, Frankenstein’s Daughter, Forbidden Planet)

Robert Dix as Forbidden Planet Crewman Grey

1937 – Thomas Pynchon, sci-fi author (Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland)

1938 – Moebius [Jean Henri Giraud], artist

1940 – Peter Benchley, sci-fi writer (The Beast, Creature)

1941 – Jim Mitchum, actor (Monster)

1944 – Abdul Salaam El Razzac, actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Star Trek: TNG)

1947 – Ron Miller, artist

1950 – Mark Blankfield, actor (Eerie Indiana, ALF, Frankenstein General Hospital, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

1951 – Deborah Harmon, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1954 – David Keith, actor (Deep Shock, Epoch: Evolution, Epoch, Anthrax, The Outer Limits)

1955 – Stephen Furst, actor (Babylon 5, The Day After)

1957 – Jeff Wincott, actor (The Invasion, Mutant X, Battle Queen 2020, Earth: Final Conflict, Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms, Future Fear)

1961 – David Winning, director (Dinosapien, Andromeda, Stargate: Atlantis, Dinotopia, Earth: Final Conflict)

1964 – Melissa Gilbert, actress (The Outer Limits, Babylon 5, The Reluctant Astronaut)

1968 – Anthony Reynolds, actor (The Hunger Games)

1978 – Matthew Davis, actor (S. Darko)

1980 – Saturn 3 released in UK

1981 – Stephen Amell, actor (ReGenesis)

1982 – Christina Cole, actress (Jupiter Ascending, Time Machine: Rise of the Morlocks, Doctor Who, Hex)

1983 – Elyes Gabel, actress (World War Z, Interstellar)

1984 – Matthew Boyle, actor (Undead)

2985 – Betsy Baker, actress (2084)

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

1985 – Dolph Sweet, actor, d @ 64 (Colossus: The Forbin Project)

1985 – Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, sci-fi author, d @ 67 (It, Caviar)

1988 – Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi author, d @ 80 ( Starship Troopers, The Puppet Masters, Destination Moon)

1991 – Ronnie Brody, actor, d @ 72 (Superman III, Cosmo and Thingy)

1992 – Richard Derr, actor, d @ 73 (When Worlds Collide, Firefox, Automan, Project U.F.O., Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Tales of Tomorrow)

1994 – Steven Keats, actor, d @ 49 (The Twilight Zone, Automan, Voyagers!, Hanger 18, The Lost Dinosaur)

1994 – George Peppard, actor, d @ 65 (Damnation Alley, Battle Beyond the Stars)

1998 – Deep Impact released

1999 – Dana Plato, actress, d @ 34 (Beyond the Bermuda Triangle, The Six Million Dollar Man)

2009 – Star Trek released

2013 – Brian Forbes, actor, d @ 86 (Quatermass II: Enemy from Space, Satellite in the Sky)

2013 – Jeanne Cooper, actress d @ 84 (Twilight Zone)

2013 – Dick Kollmar, actor, d @ 88 (Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man)