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1888 – Miles Malleson, actor (First Men in the Moon, The Brain)

1922 – Syd Heylen, actor (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior)

1926 – Claude Akins, actor (Eerie, Indiana, Monster in the Closet, Tentacles, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1929 – Warren Frost, actor (The Stand, Quantum Leap, Slaughterhouse-Five)

1931 – John Gabriel, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek)

1932 – Roger Bowen, actor (Zapped!)

1933 – Sarah Marshall, actor (Twilight Zone, Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, Small Wonder)

Sarah Marshall in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – David Burke, actor (Space Precinct)

1935 – Ann Robinson, actress (War of the Worlds remake, War of the Worlds (TV), Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, The War of the Worlds, The Naked Monster)

Ann Robinson in War of the Worlds

1935 – Victoria Shaw, actress (Westworld)

1939 – Sir Ian McKellen, actor (The Five(ish) Doctors, Doctor Who, Stardust)

1944 – Frank Oz, actor (Star Wars, Zathura: A Space Adventure, Muppets from Space, The Stepford Wives)

1945 – Hersha Parady, actress (Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star)

1946 – Janet E[llen] Morris, sci-fi author (Golden Sword, Tempus)

1947 – Karen Valentine, actress (It’s About Time, Twilight Zone)

1949 – Barry Windsor-Smith, artist (Dr. Strange)

1949 – Joe Unger, actor (The Twilight Zone, UFOria)

 

1951 – Bob Gale, writer (Back to the Future)

1953 – It Came From Outer Space released

It Came From Outer Space released

1955 – Connie Selleca, actress (The Doomsday Rock, Beyond Westworld, The Bermuda Depths)

1964 – Ray Stevenson, actor (Divergent, The Book of Eli)

1966 – Andrew Fiscella, actor (Quarantine)

1969 – Anne Heche, actress (Toxic Skies)

1969 – Matt Borlenghi, actor (Camel Spiders, Dinocroc)

1970 – Michael Benyaer, actor (Transformer: Revenge of the Fallen, Bionic Woman (2007), Eureka, Smallville)

1970 – Jamie Kennedy, actor (Bermuda Tentacles, Eureka, Strange Frequency, Perversions of Science, V. R. Troopers)

1970 – Olivia Spencer, actress (Dollhouse, What Planet Are You From?, The X-Files)

1970 – Neil Marshall, director (Doomsday)

1971 – Terence De Marney, actor, d @ 63 (Doctor Who, Twilight Zone, Die Monster Die!)

1972 – Eli Craig, director (Zombieland)

1973 – Molly Sims, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1976 – Cillian Murphy, actor (Transcendence, In Time, TRON: Legacy, Inception, 28 Days Later…)

1976 – Ethan Suplee, actor (Rise of the Zombies, Evolution)

1977 – Star Wars IV: A New Hope released

1978 – Kick Gurry, actor (Jupiter Ascending, Edge of Tomorrow, Cybergeddon)

1979 – Alien released

1982 – Esme Bianco, actor(Chemical Wedding)

1982 – Brandy Kopp, actress (Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis, The 4400, Strange Frequency)

1982 – Larry J Blake, actor, d @ 68 (Earth vs the Flying Saucers, Time After Time, Project U.F.O., Demon Seed, The Immortal, The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Beginning of the End , Creature with the Atomic Brain)

1983 – Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi released

1986 – Markiss McFadden, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1990 – Back to the Future: Part III released

1990 – Vic Tayback, actor, d @ 60 (Land of the Giants, Star Trek)

1993 – Dan Seymour, actor, d @ 78 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Return of the Fly, Space Patrol, Adventures of Superman)

2000 – Nicholas Clay, actor, d @ 53 (Bugs, Terror of Frankenstein)

2005 – Graham Kennedy, actor, d @ 71 (On the Beach)

2007 – Charles Nelson Reilly, actor, d @ 76 (Millennium, The X Files)

2012 – MIB 3 released