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1906 – Bruce Bennett, actor (The Cosmic Man)

1915 – Renee Asherson, actress (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

1922 – David McLean, actor (Deathsport, Kingdom of the Spiders, The Andromeda Strain, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

David McLean The Andromeda Strain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Bruce Bilson, director (They Came from Outer Space, The Twilight Zone, The Powers of Matthew Star, Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1931 – James Greene, actor (Doctor Who, Dinotopia)

1935 – David Hartman, actor (The Island at the Top of the World)

1937 – Pat Roach, actor (Starhunter, Kull the Conqueror, Space Precinct, Unidentified Flying Oddball)

1939 – James Fox, actor (Doctor Who: Shada, The Road to 1984)

1944 – Peter Mayhew, actor (Chewy in Star Wars)

Peter Mayhew as Chewy

1946 – Grace Jones, actress (Cyber Bandits)

1946 – Andre the Giant, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1948 – Bruce Jarchow, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Weird Science (TV), Meego, Outbreak, Time Trax)

1951 – Robert Harper, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1957 – Attack of the 50 ft Woman released

1964 – Sean Whalen, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Men in Black, Lois & Clark, Waterworld, Tammy and the T-Rex)

1966 – Polly Walker, actress (John Carter, Warehouse 13, Caprica)

1967 – Geraldine Somerville, actress (Automata)

1972 – Claudia Karvan, actress (Star Wars:Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Farscape, The Lost World (TV), Strange Planet)

1975 – Terence Yin, actor (Zombie Fight Club)

1982 – Erika Jordan, actress (Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, Avalance Sharks, Piranhaconda )

1988 – Lily Cole, actress (Doctor Who)

1989 – Robert Webber, actor d@ 64 (Out There, Tales of Tomorrow, The Outer Limits, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

1992 – Elinor Tomlinson, actress (Deadly Code, The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1999 – Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace released

2005 – Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith released

2008 – Donald Murphy, actor, d @ 90 (Frankenstein’s Daughter)

2011 – Jeff Jones, artist, d @ 67