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1907 – Willis Bouchey, actor (The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Panic in Year Zero!, Them!, Red Planet Mars)

1912 – Joseph Anthony, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1914 – Lilli Palmer, actress (Boys from Brazil)

1916 – Peter Whitney, actor (Adventures of Superman)

1925 – Mai Zetterling, actress (H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man)

1927 – Richard Garland, actor (Mutiny in Outer Space, Panic in Year Zero!, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Adventures of Superman)

1938 – Tommy Chong, actor (Sliders)

1948 – James Cosmo, actor (Flashforward, Super Gran)

1949 – Jim Broadbent, actor (Cloud Atlas, Harry Potter, Comic Relief: Doctor Who – The Curse of Fatal Death, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Brazil, Time Bandits)

1952 – Sybill Danning, actress (Virus X, Superboy, The Phantom Empire, Amazon Women on the Moon, V, Battle Beyond the Stars, Meteor)

1953 – Alfred Molina, actor (Species)

1960 – Kristin Scott Thomas, actress (Code 46)

1960 – Doug Jones, actor (Hellboy, The Strain, Falling Skies, Fallout: Nuka Break, Quarantine, Doom, Men in Black II, The Time Machine, Side Effects, Alien Hunter, Monkeybone, Bug Buster, Mimic, Galgameth)

1963 – Michael Chabon, sci-fi author (The Yiddish Policeman’s Union)

1965 – John C. Reilly, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy)

John C. Reilly in Guardians of the Galaxy

 

 

 

 

 

 

1967 – Dana Ashbrook, actress (Welcome to Paradox, W.E.I.R.D. World, Return of the Living Dead II, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!)

1967 – Dana Ashbrook, actress (Welcome to Paradox, W.E.I.R.D. World, Return of the Living Dead II, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!)

1972 – Greg Berlanti, writer (The Tomorrow People, No Ordinary Family)

1974 – Dash Mihok, actor (I Am Legend, The Day After Tomorrow)

1975 – Will Sasso, actor (TheX Files, Sliders, Doctor Who)

Will Sasso as Leslie Stokes in The X-Files

 

 

 

 

 

 

1977 – Naomi Ryan, actress (Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy)

Naomi Ryan as Nova Centurion in Guardians of the Galaxy

1978 – Barry Atwater, actor, d @ 60 (Star Trek, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1983 – Ricky Mabe, actor (This Is the End, Frankenstein and Me)

1997- Edward Mulhare, actor, d @ 74 (Battlestar Galactica, The Outer Limits)

2003 – Rachel Kempson, actress, d @ 92 (Curse of the Fly)

2008 – Dick Martin, actor, d @ 86 (3rd Rock from the Sun)