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1895 – Sidney Blackmer, actor (The Outer Limits)

Sidney Blackmer in The Outer Limits episode, The Hundred Days of the Dragon.

1928 – Sudie Bond, actress (Way Out)

1929 – Rene Laloux, director, d @ 74 14 March 2004 (Gandahar, Time Masters, Fantastic Planet)

1929 – Bob Crane, actor (Twilight Zone)

1940 – David Westburg, actor (Logan’s Run, Genesis II)

1940 – Patrick Stewart, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Lifeforce, Dune)

1941 – Robert Forster, actor (Heroes, Alligator, The Black Hole)

 

 

1942 – Harrison Ford, actor (Star Wars, Ender’s Game, Cowboys & Aliens, Blade Runner)

Harrison Ford as Han Solo

 

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Cheech Marin, actor (Planet Terror)

1946 – Michael Shea, sci-fi author (Fat Face, Polyphemus)

1952 – Rosemary Dunsmore, actress (ReGenesis, Last Exit to Earth, RoboCop, Total Recall, Twilight Zone)

Rosemary Dunsmore in Total Recall

1955 – Lance E. Nichols, actor (Creature, Swamp Shark, The Invisible Man, K-PAX, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Alien Nation, Project X, Twilight Zone)

1962 – Michael Jace, actor (Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: DS9)

1963 – Kenny Johnson, actor (Smallville, Blade, Sliders)

1968 – Robert Gant, actor (The Tomorrow People)

1969 – Ken Jeong, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1973 – Willy Fritsch, actor, d @ 72 (Women in the Moon)

1977 – Ashley Scott, actress (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)

 

1981 – Michael Mando, actor (Orphan Black, The Colony, Elysium)

1981 – Fran Kranz (Dollhouse, Donnie Darko)

1984 – The Last Starfighter released

1988 – Chris Sheffield, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1988 – Steven R. McQueen, actor (Piranha 3D, Minutemen, Threshold)

2001 – Eleanor Summerfield, actress, d @ 80 (UFO)

2006 – Red Buttons, actor, d @ 87 (Early Edition, C.H.O.M.P.S.)

2012 – Richard Darryl Zanuck,film producer, dies @ 77 (Cocoon 1 & 2, Deep Impact, Planet of the Apes (2001))

2013 – Cory Monteith, actor, d @ 31 (Flash Gordon (TV)), Kyle XY (TV), Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep, Stargate SG-1, Smallville)

2305 – Jean Luc Picard, fictional capt on Star Trek TNG