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1891 – Fritz Rasp, actor (Metropolis)

Fritz Rasp in Metropolis

1922 – Bea Arthur, actress (The Star Wars Holiday Special)

1937 – Beverly Owen, actress (The Munsters)

1937 – Roger Zelazny, sci-fi author, d @ 58 (won 1966 Hugo for … And Call Me Conrad and the 1968 Hugo for Lord of Light)

1937 – Zohra Lampert, actor (The Girl with Something Extra)

1938 – Buck Taylor, actor (Cowboys & Aliens, The Mist, Starman (TV), Timestalkers, My Favorite Martian)

1938 – Milton Johns, actor (The X Files, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Doctor Who)

1939 – Harvey Keitel, actor (Saturn 3)

 

1945 – Sam Anderson, actor (NetForce, The X-Files, Millennium, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Alien Nation, Star Trek: TNG, Critters 2)

1946 – Marv Wolfman, sci-fi author (Blade)

1946 – Tim Pigott-Smith, actor (Doctor Who)

Tim Pigott-Smith as Derek Martin in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1947 – Mark Heap, actor (The World’s End, Stardust)

1949 – Zoe Wanamaker, actress (Doctor Who)

Zoe Wanamaker in Doctor Who

1949 – Franklyn Ajaye, actor (The Bionic Woman)

1950 – Joe Johnston, director (Jurassic Park III, Jumanji, The Rocketeer, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)

1953 – Zlatko Buric, actor (2012)

1957 – Mark Heap, actor (The World’s End, Misfits, Stardust)

1961 – Siobhan Fallon, actor (Holes, Men in Black)

1964 – Stephen Colbert, actor (Monsters vs. Aliens)

1966 – Wanda Acuna, actress (House of Frankenstein (1997), Encino Man)

1967 – Frank McGrath, actor, d @ 64 (The Reluctant Astronaut)

1967 – Shon Greenblatt, actor (Chopper Chicks in Zombietown)

1971 – Imogen Boorman, actress (The Tripods)

1971 – Fana Mokoena, actress (World War Z)

1972 – Solaris released in Cannes

1972 – Dan Blocker, actor, d @ 43 (Outer Space Jitters)

1973 – Bridgett Riley, actress (Space Truckers)

1977 – Samantha Morton, actress (John Carter, Code 46, Minority Report)

1977 – Neil Hopkins, actor (Skyline, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The 4400, The Net 2.0)

1977 – Christopher Ralph, actor (Warehouse 13)

2000 – Paul Bartel, actor, d @ 61 (Escape from L.A., Heartbeeps, Death Race 2000)

2001 – Jason Miller, actor, d @ 62 (The Henderson Monster)

2008 – John Phillip Law d @ 70 (Barbarella)

2009 – Frank Aletter, actor, d @ 83 (It’s About Time, Automan, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Planet of the Apes, My Favorite Martian, The Big Brain, Twilight Zone)