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1907 – John McIntire, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone)

1909 – Billy Curtis, actor (Space Patrol, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Angry Red Planet, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Twilight Zone)

1911 – Skelton Knaggs, actor (Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1927 – George McCowan, director (War of the Worlds (TV), The Shape of Things to Come, The Starlost, Frogs, The Invaders)

1938 – Shirley Anne Field, actress (U.F.O.)

1940 – Sandra Smith, actress (Star Trek)

Sandra Smith in Star Trek

1942 – Peter Madsen, Actor (The Outer Limits) Last Outer Limits lookup

1944 – Paul Koslo, actor (Stargate SG-1, Xtro II, Solar Crisis, Robot Jox, Misfits of Science, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Omega Man)

1950 – Ken Marshall, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Quantum Leap, Krull)

1950 – James Daughton, actor (Hologram Man, Weird Science (TV), V, The Incredible Hulk, Future Cop, Planet of the Apes (TV))

 

 

 

 

1950 – George Pal’s film Destination Moon, directed by Irving Pichel and with Robert A. Heinlein as a script consultant, opens in New York. It is the first American film to attempt to depict space travel in technologically realistic terms.

Destination Moon released

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1951 – Julia Duffy, actress (Voyagers!, Battle Beyond the Stars)

Julia Duffy in Battle Beyond the Stars

1966 – J.J. Abrams, director/writer (Star Wars: Episode VII, Fringe, Star Trek, Super 8, Armageddon)

1975 – Tobey Maguire, actor (Eerie, Indiana)

1978 – Courtney Ford, actress (Alien Raiders)

1981 – Sam Hoare, actor (An Adventure in Space and Time)

1986 – Sam Claflin, actor (The Hunger Games, The Lost Future)

1987 – Ed Westwick, actor (S. Darko, Children of Men)

1999 – Chandler Riggs, actor (The Walking Dead)

 

2000 – Logan Ramsey, actor, d @ 79 (Dr Hackenstein, ALF, Battlestar Galactica, Mork & Mindy, Star Trek)

2001 – Joan Sims, actress d @ 71 (Super Gran, Doctor Who, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing)

2008 – WALL-E released

2014 – Norma McCarty, actress, d @ 93 (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Adventures of Superman)

2014 – Transformers: Age of Extinction released