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1891 – Donald Kerr, actor (Devil Bat, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1906 – John Huston, actor (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Tentacles, The Bermuda Triangle)

1914 – Parley Baer, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Roswell, Quantum Leap, Time Trackers, Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, The Outer Limits)

Parley Baer in The Outer Limits episode, Behold Eck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Mickey Shaughnessy, actor (Conquest of Space)

1920 – Selma Diamond, actress (Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1929 – Don Matheson, actor (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space)

Don Matheson in Lost in Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)

1933 – Joan Weldon, actress (Them!)

1934 – Zakes Mokae, actor (The X Files, Waterworld, Outbreak)

1935 – John Saxon, actor (Prisoners of the Lost Universe, Battle Beyond the Stars, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Strange New World, Planet Earth, The Time Tunnel, Blood Beast from Outer Space)

John Saxon in Battle Beyond the Stars

1940 – Natalie Trundy b. 1940 (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone)

1945 – Loni Anderson, actress (The Incredible Hulk, The Invisible Man (1975))

1948 – Larry Elmore, artist

1960 – Vivian Kubrick, actress (2001: A Space Odyssey)

1961 – Janet McTeer, actress (Insurgent)

1961 – Tawny Kitaen, actress (They Came from Outer Space)

1963 – Mark Strong, actor (John Carter, Babylon A.D., Stardust)

1966 – Jonathan Silverman, actor (Jekyll)

1969 – Chuck Campbell, actor (Sanctuary, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Jason X, Earth: Final Conflict)

1970 – James Gunn, director (Guardians of the Galaxy)

1972 – Darren Shahlavi, actor, d @ 43 14 January 2015 (Tomorrowland, Continuum, Bionic Woman (2007), Legion of the Dead)

1973 – Paul Kasey, actor (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Chronicles, 28 Days Later…, Blade II, Torchwood)

1973 – Lori Bagley, actress (The Stepford Wives (2004))

1980 – Sophia Winkleman, actress (Red Dwarf)

1980 – Victor Cruz, actor (Fringe)

1984 – Ryan McDonald, actor (Warehouse 13, Fringe, 2012)

1985 – Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author d @ 67 (Hugo, It, Caviar)

1988 – Ralph Meeker, actor, d @ 67 (The Outer Limits, The Food of the Gods, The Alpha Incident)

1997 – Don Steele, actor, d @ 61 (Death Race 2000)

1997 – Olivia Holt, actress (Girl vs. Monster)

2000 – Alec Guinness, actor, d @ 86 (Star Wars IV – VI)

2001 – Maddox Jolie-Pitt, actress (World War Z)

2011 – Rise of the Planet of the Apes released