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1921 – William Self, actor & TV producer (The Thing from Another World, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants)

William Self (middle front) in The Thing From Another World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1924 – Carroll O’Connor, actor, d @ 76 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits)

Carrol O’Connor in The Outer Limits episode, Controlled Experiment.

1925 – Maureen Stapleton, actress (Cocoon, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, The Electric Grandmother)

1933 – Bernie Kopell, actor (The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, Bug Buster, The Six Million Dollar Man, My Favorite Martian)

1938 – Monte Markham, actor (Fringe, Millennium Man, Star Trek: DS9, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Incredible Hulk, Beyond Westworld, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Project X)

1938 – Ron Ely, actor (Superboy)

1940 – Mariette Hartley, actress (Encino Man, The Incredible Hulk, Logan’s Run (TV), Genesis II, Earth II, Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

 

1941 – Lyman Ward, actor (Independence Day, Weird Science (TV), Battlestar Galactica, Man from Atlantis)

1941 – Joe Flaherty, actor (Back to the Future Part II, Innerspace, Dave Thomas: The Incredible Time Travels of Henry Osgood)

1947 – Michael Gross, actor (Tremors)

1952 – Rachel Winfree, actress (Roswell, Donnie Darko, The X Files, Lois & Clark)

1953 – Michael Bowen, actor (The X-Files, Night of the Comet)

1953 – Robyn Douglass, actress (Galactica 1980)

1954 – Robert Pastorelli, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1957 – Berkeley Breathed, writer (Mars Needs Moms)

1964 – David Morrissey, actor (The Walking Dead, Extant, Earthbound, Doctor Who)

David Morrissey in Doctor Who

1964 – Doug Savant, actor (Godzilla 1998, Firefly)

1964 – Josh Pais, actor (Star Trek: DS9)

1965 – Lana Wachowski, director (director, Sense8, Jupiter Ascending, The Matrix)

1967 – Carrie Preston, actress (The Stepford Wives (2004))

1973 – Juliette Lewis, actress (My Stepmother Is an Alien)

1974 – Natasha Beaumont, actress (Inception, The Lost World, Farscape)

1974 – Maggie Siff, actress (The Fifth Wave)

1977 – Will Thorp, actor (Doctor Who)

1978 – Erica Durance, actress (Smallville, The Butterfly Effect 2, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, House of the Dead)

1978 – Garikayi Mutambirwa, actor (Clockstoppers, Seven Days)

1979 – Chris Pratt, actor (Jurassic World, Guardian of the Galaxy, Her, Path of Destruction)

1983 – Brian Sites, actor (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

1985 – Lifeforce released

1997 – Charlene Polite, actress, d @ 55 (Star Trek)

2002 – Minority Report released

2007 – Carlos Romero, actor, d @ 80 (Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Invaders)

2009 – Lorena Gale, actress, d @ 51 (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman, The 4400, Slither, The Chronicles of Riddick, 10.5, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Runaway Virus, Zenon; Girl of the 21st Century, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The X-Files, Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Fly II)

2013 – World War Z released

2013- Elliot Reid, actor, d @ 93 (Small Wonder, The Munsters)