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1889 – Cliff Clark, actor (War of the Worlds)

1908 – Robert Eddison, actor (Out of the Unknown)

1918 – Barry Morse, actor (TekWar, The Twilight Zone, Whoops Apocalypse, The Shape of Things to Come, Space: 1999, The Starlost, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, ‘Way Out)

Barry Morse in The Outer Limits episode Contolled Experiment

1921 – Garry Walberg, actor (The Andromeda Strain, The Immortal, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

1926 – Lionel Jeffries, actor, d @ 83 19 February 2010 (Lexx, First Men in the Moon, The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Quatermass Xperiment)

1927 – Sunshine Parker, actor (Tremors)

1929 – Lou Frizzell, actor, d @ 50 17 June 1979 (Project U.F.O.)

1937 – Luciana Paluzzi, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, The Green Slime)

1941 – Jurgen Prochnow, actor (Wing Commander, Judge Dredd, Terminus, Dune)

1941 – Mickey Jones, actor (It Came From Outer Space II, Total Recall, Misfits of Science, V, Starman, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980)

1947 – Randee Heller b. 1947 (ALF)

1949 – Frankie Faison, actor (Prey, The Langoliers, Freejack, Maximum Overdrive, C.H.U.D.)

1953 – The Twonky released

1954 – Rich Hall, actor (C.H.U.D. II – Bud the Chud)

1957 – Robert Clohessy, actor (Lois & Clark)

1962 – Gina Gershon, actress (Category 7: The End of the World, The Twilight Zone)

1962 – Carolyn Hennesy, actress (Once Upon a Time, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Deadly Invasion: The Killer Bee Nightmare)

1963 – Jeanne Tripplehorn, actress (Timecode, Waterworld)

1964 – Ben Daniels, actor (Doom)

1964 – Andrew Niccol, director (The Host, In Time, S1m0ne, Gattaca)

1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, actress (My Favorite Martian (1999), The Tomorrow People)

1968 – Mike Dopud, actor (Continuum, Man of Steel, Battlestar Galactica, Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, Warehouse 13, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Stargate, Smallville, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Blade: The Series, Kraken: Tentatcles of the Deep, Rollerball, Millennium, Futuresport, Welcome to Paradox)

1971 – Michael Rennie, actor, d @ 61 (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Invaders, Cyborg 2087, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, The Lost World)

1978 – Shane West, actor (Sliders)

1978 – DJ Qualls, actor (The Core)

1981 – Jonathan Bennett, actor (Smallville)

1981 – Toby Levins, actor (The 100, Fear the Walking Dead, Falling Skies, Godzilla 2014 , The Tomorrow People, Battlestar Galactica, Fringe)

1983 – Shanna Collins, actress (War of the Worlds)

1985 – Susannah Fielding, actress (Doctor Who)

Susannah Fielding in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

1989 – Richard Quine, actor/director, d @ 68 (The Flying Missile, Project U.F.O.)