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1882 – Holmes Herbert, actor (The Son of Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Invisible Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein )

1916 – Dick Wilson, actor (Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian)

1927 – Richard Johnson, actor (Zombie, Space: 1999)

Richard Johnson in Space: 1999

1936 – John P. Ryan, actor (Class of 1999, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Futureworld, It’s Alive, It Lives Again)

1944 – Frances de la Tour, actor (Hugo, The Book of Eli)

1947 – William Atherton, actor (Defiance, Stargate SG-1, Headspace, Race to Space, The Twilight Zone)

1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor (Terminator, Terminator II, Terminator: Rise of the Machines, Terminator: Genisys, The 6th Day, Total Recall, The Running Man, Predator)

1948 – Carel Struycken, actress (Men in Black, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Journey to the Center of the Earth (TV), Star Trek: TNG, Ewoks: The Battle of Endor)

 

1948 – Jean Reno, actress (Rollerball (2002), Godzilla 1998, Le Dernier Combat)

1953 – Philip Davis, actor (Doctor Who, Alien³)

Philip Davis in the Doctor Who episode, The Fires of Pompeii.

1958 – Richard Burgi, actor (The Green Inferno, Firefly, Mann & Machine)

1960 – Richard Linklater, director (A Scanner Darkly)

1961 – Laurence Fishburne, actor (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man of Steel, The Signal, The Colony, Predators, The Matrix, Cherry 2000, Repo Men)

1962 – Myron McCormick, actor, d @ 54 (‘Way Out)

1964 – Vivica A. Fox, actress (Sharknado 2: The Second One, Tremors (TV), Independence Day)

 

1966 – Jason Watkins, actor (Atlantis, Doctor Who)

Jason Watkins in Doctor Who

1968 – Terry Crews, actor (Gamer, Terminator Salvation, The 6th Day)

1969 – Simon Baker, actor (Land of the Dead, Red Planet)

1970 – Christopher Nolan, director (Interstellar, Inception)

1972 – Eddie Carmel, actor, d @ 37 (The Brain That Wouldn’t Die)

1973 – Guy Middleton, actor, d @ 66 (Doctor Who)

1974 – Hilary Swank, actress (The Core)

1980 – Charles McGraw, actor, d @ 66 (Twilight’s Last Gleaming, A Boy and his Dog, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1982 – Yvonne Strahovski, actress (I Frankenstein)

1992 – Joe Shuster, artist/writer, d @ 78 (Superman)

1999 – Joey King, actor (Battle Los Angeles)

2010 – Lorene Yarnell Jansson, actress, d @ 66 (Spaceballs)

2012 – Jonathan Hardy, actor, d @ 71 (Farscape, Mad Max)

2014 – Robert Halmi Sr., producer, d @ 90 (Riverworld, Flash Gordon, Dinotopia, )

2014 – Dennis Lipscomb, actor, d @ 72 (Roswell, The Invisible Man, Lois & Clark, The X Files, SeaQuest 2032, WarGames, The Day After, The Powers of Matthew Star)

2014 – Dick Smith, make-up artist, d @ 92 (Starman, Scanners, Altered States, Stepford Wives, ‘Way Out, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV), The Alligator People)