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1918 – Sebastian Cabot, actor (The Time Machine, The Twilight Zone)

1921 – Nancy Davis Reagan, actress (Donovan’s Brain)

Nancy Davis Reagan in Donovan’s Brain

1922 – William Schallert, actor (Lois and Clark, Star Trek: DS9, Quantum Leap, Innerspace, Twilight Zone, The Twilight Zone, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Hangar 18, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, Men Into Space, The Monolith Monsters, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Commando Cody, Tobor the Great, Them!, Invasion U.S.A., The Man from Planet X)

1925 – Merv Griffin, actor (Slapstick (of Another Kind), The Man with Two Brains, The Girl with Something Extra, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

1927 – Janet Leigh, actress (The Twilight Zone, Starman)

1937 – Ned Beatty, actor (Purple People Eater, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Superman I and II)

1943 – Rosemary Forsyth, actress (Ghosts of Mars, Star Trek: Voyager, The Incredible Hulk)

1944 – Ahna Capri, actress (Man from Atlantis, Piranha, The Invaders)

1945 – Burt Ward, actor (Star Quest, Homeboys in Outer Space, Beach Babes from Beyond, Cyber-C.H.I.C.)

Burt Ward in Star Quest

1946 – Sylvester Stallone, actor (Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, Death Race 2000)

1946 – Gloria Gifford, actress (The Incredible Hulk)

1947 – Shelley Hack, actress (SeaQuest 2032, Time After Time)

1950 – Gerladine James, actress (Robot Overlords, Hex)

1952 – Jennifer Savidge, actress (Evolution, Star Trek: DS9, House of Frankenstein (TV), Lois & Clark)

1954 – Allyce Beasley, actress (The Tommyknockers, Superboy, ALF)

1956 – Casey Sander, actor (Quantum Leap, Predator II, Spaced Invaders, V)

1966 – Mark Mitchinson, actor (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans)

1966 – Brian Posehn, actor (Undead or Alive: A Zombedy)

1969 – Brian Van Holt, actor (Threshold)

1970 – Symba, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Star Trek: DS9, Sliders, Star Trek: Voyager)

1972 – Brandon De Wilde, actor, d @ 30 (Journey to the Unknown)

1978 – Adam Busch, actor ( The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1980 – Eva Green, actress (Clone)

1980 – Kevin Hart, actor (This is the End)

1982 – Paula LaBaredas, actress (Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader, Camel Spiders, Paul)

1983 – Gregory Smith, actor (A Wrinkle in Time, Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, Meego, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1991 – Thorley Walters, actor, d @ 78 (The People That Time Forgot, Trog, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Frankenstein Created Woman, The Earth Dies Screaming)

1996 – Robert Naylor, actor (Helix, Race to Mars)

2002 – John Frankenheimer, director, d @ 72 (The Island of Dr. Moreau)

2003 – Buddy Ebsen, actor, d @ 95 (Twilight Zone)