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1910 – John W. Campbell, sci-fi author / editor (Who Goes There? / Astounding Science Fiction, Analog)

1915 – Robert F. Young, sci-fi author (Jonathan and the Space Whale)

1917 – George Wallace, actor, (Minority Report, The X-Files, Multiplicity, Star Trek: TNG, The Bionic Woman, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Forbidden Planet)

George Wallace in Forbidden Planet

1918 – Robert Preston, actor (The Last Starfighter)

1921 – Sheila Ryan, actress, (Captain Midnight)

1923 – Myron Healey, actor (RoboCop, V, The Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Melting Man, Land of the Giants, Varan the Unbelievable, Men Into Space, Adventures of Superman)

1925 – Charles Tyner, actor (Space, The Incredible Hulk)

1928 – Kate Wilhelm, sci-fi author (Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang)

1930 – Henry Brandon, actor (War of the Worlds, The Outer Limits, The Land Unknown, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Buck Rogers)

1931 – Dana Wynter, actor (The Questor Tapes, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1933 – Joan Rivers, actress (Spaceballs)

1934 – Millicent Martin, actress (Max Headroom)

1936 – James Darren, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The Man from the 25th Century, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

James Darren in The Turtleneck,, I mean The Time Tunnel

1939 – Bernie Casey, actor (Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Time Trax, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Martian Chronicles, The Man Who Fell to Earth)

1941 – Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, actor (Swamp Thing, Star Trek: TNG, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

 

 

 

 

1943 – Colin Baker, actor (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7)

Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor.

1945 – Jack Sholder, director (Tremors)

1950 – Cathy Baker, actress (Edward Scissorhands)

1950 – Sonia Braga, actress (Warehouse 13)

1955 – Griffin Dunne, actor (The Android Affair, Amazon Women on the Moon)

1957 – Scott Adams, actor (Babylon 5)

1959 – Bernard White, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Reloaded, The X-Files)

1960 – Gary Trousdale, director (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)

1963 – Frank Grillo, actor (A Conspiracy on Jekyll Island, Minority Report)

1965 – Kevin P. Farley, actor (Roswell FM, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1969 – David Sutcliffe, actor (Mega Cyclone, Mutant X)

1970 – Kelli Williams, actress (Earth 2, Quantum Leap)

 

1971 – Matt Kaminsky, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)

1973 – Lexa Doig, actress (Continuum, Primeval: New World, Smallville, V, Stargate SG-1, The 4400, Andromeda, Jason X, Earth: Final Conflict, TekWar)

1976 – Eion Bailey, actor (Mindhunters)

1977 – Nate Dushku, actor (Dollhouse)

1989 – Moontrap released in West Germany

1991 – James Franciscus, actor, d @ 57 (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Marooned, Twilight Zone)

1992 – Melanie Tonello, actress (Resident Evil: Apocalypse)

2005 – Ed Bishop, actor, d @ 72 (Whoops Apocalypse, Saturn 3, 1990, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Day After Tomorrow, UFO, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Mouse on the Moon)

2012 – Prometheus released