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1903 – Rosa Turich, actress (Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter)

1919 – Gerd Oswald, director (The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Gerd Oswald, director

 

 

 

 

 

 

1919 – Robert Cummings, actor (My Living Doll, Twilight Zone)

Robert Cummings in My Living Doll

1925 – Keith Laumer, sci-fi author (Imperium, Retief)

1925 – Leo Summers, artist

1930 – Linwood V Carter, sci-fi author, d @ 57 (Lost World of Time)

1931 – Joan Marshall, actress (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)

1931 – Joe Santos, actor (The Postman, Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone)

1943 – Joe Haldeman, sci-fi author (The Forever War, The Hemingway Hoax, Graves, Forever Peace, Camouflage)

 

 

1950 – David Troughton, actor (The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, Doctor Who)

David Troughton in Doctor Who

1951 – James Newton Howard, composer (Signs, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Unbreakable, Waterworld, Outbreak, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1953 – Mark Jeffrey Miller, actor (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Revolution)

1956 – Kelly Connell, actress (K-PAX, Sliders, Star Trek: Voyager, Eerie Indiana)

1961 – Michael J. Fox, actor (Mars Attacks!, Back to the Future)

1962 – Rodman Flender, director (Millennium, Dark Skies)

1963 – David Koepp , writer (Zathura: A Space Adventure, War of the Worlds, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park)

1963 – Johnny Depp, actor (The Astronaut’s Wife, Edward Scissorhands)

 

1964 – Gloria Reuben, actress (Mr. Robot, Falling Skies, Timecop)

1968 – Haley Peterson, actress (Cyborg)

1971 – Harold Lloyd Jr, actor, d @ 40 (Frankenstein’s Daughter, Mutiny in Outer Space)

1975 – Katharine Cullen, actress (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, The Girl from Tomorrow)

1981 – Natalie Portman, actress (Star Wars: Episodes I – III, Mars Attacks!)

1985 – Colin Theys, director (Alien Opponent)

1988 – Mae Whitman, actress (Bionic Woman, Phil of the Future, Independence Day)

1989 – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier released

2008 – Algi Budrys, sci-fi author, d @ 77 (Man of Earth)

2013 – Iain [Menzies] Banks, sci-fi author, d @ 69 (Wasp Factory)