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1896 – Howard Hawks, director, d @ 81 26 December 1977 (The Thing from Another World)

1908 – Mel Blanc, voice actor (The Jetsons, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Duck Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, Marvin the Martian)

1911 – Douglas Fowley, actor (Quark, Cat-Women of the Moon)

1912 – Hugh Griffith, actor (The Last Days of Man on Earth)

1917 – Peter Leeds, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, The Atomic Kid)

1919 – The First Men in the Moon, released

1920 – Franklin J. Schaffner, director (The Boys from Brazil, Planet of the Apes)

1922 – Harry Clement, sci-fi author (Mission of Gravity, Star Light, Needle, Iceworld)

1923 – Jimmy Lydon, actor (Misfits of Science, The Six Million Dollar Man, Twilight Zone, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1927 – Clint Walker, actor (Deadly Harvest, Killdozer)

Clint Walker in Killdozer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Ruta Lee, actress (Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills, Mork & Mindy, Doomsday Machine, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1936 – Keir Dullea, actor (Space Station 76, Alien Hunter, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Brain Waves, Brave New World, The Starlost, 2001: A Space Odyssey)

Keir Dullea in 2001

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – Deanna Lund, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Land of the Giants, Dimension 5)

1939 – Michael J Pollard, actor (Lost in Space, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Eerie Indiana, Superboy, Star Trek)

Michael J Pollard in Lost in Space

1939 – Joshua Bryant, actor (Starman (TV), The Powers of Matthew Star, Man from Atlantis)

1940 – David Ackroyd, actor (I Come in Peace, Exo-Man, Swamp Thing(TV))

1944 – Meredith MacRae, actress (Earthbound)

1948 – Michael Piller, writer (Star Trek, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1951 – Stephen Toblowsky, actor (The Time Traveler’s Wife, Heroes, Lloyd in Space, The Day the World Ended, Roswell, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Spaceballs, The Philadelphia Experiment)

1953 – Colm Meaney b. 1953 (Alice, Stargate: Atlantis, Zenon: Z3, The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

1957 – Carrie Dobro, actress (Babylon 5, Hypernauts)

 

1958 – Ted McGinley, actor (Space Case)

1960 – James McGowan, actor (Total Recall, Mutant X, Warriors of Terra)

1961 – Trey Parker, actor (Small Wonder)

1963 – Cynthia Gouw, actress (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)

1964 – Mark Sheppard, actor (Warehouse 13, Mysterious Island, Doctor Who, Xtinction: Predator X, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman. Jake 2.0, Deep Shock, Firelfly, Megalodon, Star Trek: Voyager, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., The X-Files)

1965 – Tammy Parks, actress (Attack of 60′ Centerfold)

1967 – Claude Rains, actor, d @ 77 (Invisible Man, The Lost World)

1970 – David Dukas, actor (District 9)

1971 – John Ross Bowie, actor (Dark Minions, Heroes)

1971 – Duncan Jones, director (Source Code, Moon)

1971 – Rodd Redwing, actor, d @ 66 (The Mole People, Creature from the Black Lagoon)

1972 – Darren E. Scott, actor (The Tomorrow People, Smallville, The 4400, Andromeda)

1976 – Omri Katz, actor (Eerie Indiana, Adventure in Dinosaur City)

1977 – Rachel Stirling, actress (Doctor Who)

1979 – Jack Raine, actor, d @ 82 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1981 – Adam Bond, actor (Victor Frankenstein)

1981 – Blake Bashoff, actor (Minority Report)

1986 – Will Peltz, actor (In Time)

1989 – Kevin Covais, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Men in Black 3)

1990 – Dark Side of the Moon released

1997 – Jake Short, actor (Jack and Janet Save the Planet)

2006 – Robert Sterling, actor, d @ 88 (Lights Out, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

2007 – Nick Ramus, actor, d @ 77 (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)