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1899 – Fred Astaire, actor (Battlestar Galactica, On the Beach)

1914 – Charles McGraw, actor (Twilight’s Last Gleaming, A Boy and his Dog, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1922 – Margaret Field, actress (Twilight Zone, The Man from Planet X)

Margaret Field in The Man From Planet X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Mari Blanchard, actress (She Devil, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

Mari Blanchard in She Devil

1929 – George Coe, actor (Smallville, The Lone Gunmen, The Omega Code, Star Trek: TNG, Max Headroom, The Entity, The Stepford Wives)

1934 – Gary Owens, actor (The Munsters)

1937 – Jonathan Hales, screenwriter (Star Wars , Episode II: Attack of the Clones)

 

 

 

 

1943 – David Clennon, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, John Carpenter’s The Thing)

David Clennon as Palmer in John Carpenter’s The Thing

1945 – David Huffman, actor (Firefox)

1948 – Meg Foster, actress (Sliders, Space Marines, Star Trek: DS9, Quantum Leap, Leviathan, The Twilight Zone, Masters of the Universe, They Live, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1965 – Tracy Tweed, actress (Johnny Mnemonic)

1966 – Jason Brooks, actor (Asteroid vs Earth, Revolution, Torchwood, Super 8, No Ordinary Family, Star Trek (2009), Flying Virus)

1967 – Philippa Bevans, actress, d @ 55 (Twilight Zone)

1968 – Eric Palladino, actor (Fringe, Strange Frequency)

1969 – John Scalzi, sci-fi author (won 2013 Hugo for Redshirts)

 

1970 – Gina Philips, actress (Seven Days, Sliders, Dark Skies, Star Trek: DS9)

1970 – Dallas Roberts, actor (The Walking Dead)

1971 – Leslie Stefanson, actor (Unbreakable, Flubber (1997), Alien Hunter)

1972 – Cary Guffy, actor (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1975 – Andrea Anders, actress (The Stepford Wives (2004))

1977 – Joan Crawford, actress, d @ 71 (Trog)

1985 – Odette Annable, actor (Astronaut Wives Club, The Unborn, Cloverfield, Transformers)

1986 – Erika Fong, actress (Transformers: Age of Extinction)

1990 – Susan Oliver, actress, d @ 58 (Star Trek, Tomorrow’s Child, Death in Space, The Invaders, Death in Space, Twilight Zone)

1993 – Halston Sage, actor (Scouts vs Zombies)

1996 – Cold Comfort Farm debuts

2000 – Craig Stevens, actor, d @ 81(The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., The Invisible Man, The Deadly Mantis, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

2005 – Val Guest, director, d @ 94 (Space: 1999, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Enemy from Space, The Quatermass Xperiment)

2010 – Frank Frazetta, illustrator, d @ 82