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1898 – Walter Abel, actor (The Human Duplicators, Tales of Tomorrow)

1918 – Richard Crane, actor (Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Men Into Space, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, The Neanderthal Man, Mysterious Island)

1932 – Billie Whitelaw, actor (The Cloning of Joanna May, Space: 1999, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1940 – Richard Paul, actor (Robo Cop, Out of This World, Space Force, Holmes and Yo-Yo)

1945 – David Dukes, actor (Space, Sliders, The Twilight Zone, Time Trax)

1946 – Erica Hagen, actress (Land of the Lost, Soylent Green)

1947 – Robert Englund, actor (Zombie Mutation, Sliders, Babylon 5, V, Manimal, Galaxy of Terror)

Robert Englund in V

1950 – Gary Graham, actor (Star Trek: Axanar, InAlienable, Star Trek: Enterprise, Alien Nation, Star Trek: Voyager, M.A.N.T.I.S.,, Robot Jox, The Incredible Hulk)

1954 – Harvey Fierstein, actor (Independence Day)

1955 – Cheryl Smith, actress (Independence Day, Parasite, Laserblast, The Incredible Melting Man, Phantom of the Paradise, Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural)

 

 

 

 

1958 – Danny Webb, actor (Doctor Who, Space Precinct, Alien³)

Danny Webb in Alien3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1959 – Amanda Pays, actress (Spacejacked, The X-Files, Leviathan, Max Headroom)

Amanda Pays in Max Headroom

1961 – Wes Johnson, actor (The Invasion)

1961 – Lisabeth Shatner, writer (TekWar )

1963 – Jason Isaacs, actress (Elektra, Resident Evil, Soldier, Armageddon, Event Horizon)

1964 – Jay Lake, sci-fi author (Green, City Imperishable, Mainspring)

1967 – Paul Giamatti, actor (Planet of the Apes)

1974 – Scott Peat, actor (Transformers)

1974 – Danny Strong, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1974 – Sonya Walger, actress (FlashForward, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1975 – Larry Blyden, actor, d @ 49 (The Twilight Zone)

1975 – Stacy Keenan, actor (Lois and Clark)

1976 – Jonathan Nolan, writer (Westworld (2015), Interstellar)

1977 – Sophie Stewart, actress, d @ 69 (Things to Come, Devil Girl from Mars)

1978 – Judith Barsi, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1981 – Philip McGinley, actor (Prometheus)

1983 – Cassie Shea Watson, actress (Tekken, Living/Dead)

1984 – A[rthur] Bertram Chandler,sci-fi author, d @ 72 (Empress of Outer Space)

1985 – Helena-Alexis Seymour, actress (Warehouse 13)

1986 – SpaceCamp released

1987 – Daniel Logan, actor (Star Wars: Attack of the Clones)

1994 – Barry Sullivan, actor, d @ 81 (The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man [1975], The Sixth Sense, The Immortal, Planet of the Vampires, Pyro… The Thing Without a Face)

2005 – Dana Elcar, actor, d @ 77 (Way Out, The Invaders, The 6 Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980, Voyagers)

2006 – Kasey Rogers, actress, d @ 80 (The Invisible Man, When Worlds Collide)

2014 – Edge of Tomorrow released