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1924 – Pat Hingle (Twilight Zone, The Invaders, Muppets from Space, The Six Million Dollar Man

1935 – Peter Birrel, actor (Doctor Who)

Peter Birrel as Draconian Prince in Doctor Who: Frontier in Space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – Richard Jordan (Dune, Logan’s Run, Solarbabies)

Richard Jordan in Logan’s Run

1944 – Tim McIntire, actor (A Boy and His Dog, The Invaders)

1945 – George Dzundza, actor (Stargate: SG-1, The Twilight Zone)

1949 – Ivar Kants, actor (Escape From Jupiter, Farscape)

1950 – Simon Cadell, actor (1990, Meteor)

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1956 – Peter Barton, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star)

1956 – K.A. Applegate, sci-fi author (Animorphs, The One and Only Ivan)

 

1957 – Terri Treas, actress (Alien Nation)

Terri Treas in Alien Nation

1961 – Campbell Scott, actor (Final Days of Planet Earth, Top of the Food Chain)

1962 – Anthony Edwards, actor (Zero Hour)

1966 – Nancy Carell, actress (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)

1969 – Bodhi Elfman, actor (Armageddon, Sliders, Godzilla, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1974 – Joe Flynn, actor, d @ 49 (Indestrutible Man, Men into Space)

1976 – Gene Roth, actor, d @ 73 (She Demons, Earth vs. the Spider , Attack of the Giant Leeches, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Outer Space Jitters, Science Fiction Theatre, Captain Midnight, Space Patrol, The Lost Planet, Red Planet Mars, Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere)

1976 – Benedict Cumberbatch, actor (Star Trek: ID)

1977 – Erin Cummings, actor (Dollhouse, Star Trek: Enterprise)

 

2005 – Edward Bunker, actor, d @ 71 (The Running Man)

2007 – Laura Devon, actress, d @ 76 (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

2006 – Jack Warden, actor, d. @ 86 (Tales of Tomorrow, Twilight Zone, The Invaders)

2013 – Mel Smith, actor, d @ 60 (Morons From Outer Space)