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1927 – Brock Peters, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Alligator II: The Mutation, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman)

Brock Peters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Robert Ito, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, The Omega Code, The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Rollerball, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Terminal Man, Soylent Green, Dimension 5, Women of the Prehistoric Planet)

Robert Ito in Star Trek TNG

1932 – Kenneth McMillan, actor (Dune)

1946 – Ron Silver, actor (Timecop, The Entity, Xenophobia, The Arrival, Lifepod)

1947 – Stephen Stucker, actor (Mork & Mindy)

1948 – Saul Rubinek, actor (Warehouse 13, Eureka, Stargate SG-1, The Android Affair, Star Trek: TNG)

1949 – Nancy Stephens, actress (Dark Skies, Escape form New York)

1951 – Elisabeth Brooks, actress (Deep Space, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1954 – Wendy Schaal, actress (The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, *batteries not included, Innerspace)

 

 

1955 – Andrew Divoff, actor (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Xtro 3, Mac and Me, The Twilight Zone, Misfits of Science)

Andrew Divoff in Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

1956 – Jerry Hall, actress (Freejack)

1960 – Terry Rossio, writer (Godzilla)

1970 – Yancy Butler, actor (Perversions of Science, Mann & Machine)

1973 – George Macready, actor, d @ 73 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Alligator People, The Monster and the Ape)

1978 – Owain Yeoman, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1984 – Vanessa Lee Chester, actress (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)

1985 – Ashley Tisdalem, Actress (Donnie Darko)

 

 

1989 – Franklin J. Schaffner, director, d @ 69 (The Boys from Brazil, Planet of the Apes)

1989 – Ben Wright, actor, d @ 74 (The Outer Limits, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Munster, Go Home!, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, The Lost World)

1990 – Margot Robbie, actress (About Time)

1996 – Independence Day released

1997 – Men in Black released

2001 – Jack Gwillim, actor, d @ 91 (A for Andromeda)

2003 – Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines released