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1904 – Helene Heigh, actress (Voyagers!)

1904 – Ballard Berkeley, actor (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1910 – Charles Crichton, director (Alien Attack, Space: 1999, The Day After Tomorrow)

1926 – Frank Finlay, actor (Lifeforce)

1926 – J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, [aka Janet Asimov], author (2nd Experiment)

1928 – Norman Barthold, actor (Capricorn One, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Westworld, My Favorite Martian)

1934 – Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor, Xanth)

1937 – Barbara Windsor, actress (Doctor Who)

1938 – Paul Bartel, actor (Escape from L.A., Heartbeeps, Death Race 2000)

1940 – Louise Sorel, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek)

Louise Sorel in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 – Michael Anderson Jr., actor (The Martian Chronicles, Logan’s Run, Land of the Giants)

Michael Anderson Jr in Logan’s Run

1950 – Dorian Harewood, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Kyle XY, Stargate SG-1, Earth: Final Conflict, Time Trax, Solar Crisis)

1951 – Catherine Hicks, actress (Star Trek IV)

1956 – Ian R. MacLeod, sci-fi author (The Great Wheel, The Summer Isles)

1962 – Michelle Yeoh, actress (Babylon A.D.)

1964 – Cedric Hardwicke, actor, d @ 71 (The Unknown, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The War of the Worlds, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man Returns, Things to Come

1966 – Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53

1966 – Cordwainer Smith, sci-fi author, d @ 53 (Author, The Instrumentality of Mankind)

1970 – M Night Shyamalan (Signs, Unbreakable, After Earth)

1971 – Merrin Dungey, actor (Beyond, Deep Impact, Babylon 5)

1972 – Jason O’Mara, actor (Terra Nova, Resident Evil: Extinction, Space Truckers)

1972 – Paolo Bacigalupi (2010 Hugo and Nebula for The Windup Girl)

1973 – Vera Farmiga (Source Code)

Vera Farmiga in Source Code

1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, actress (Piranhas)

1982 – Romola Garai, actress (The Last Days on Mars)

2000 – Max Phipps, actor, d @ 60 (Farscape, Sky Pirates, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior)

2009 – John Hughes, writer, d @ 59 (Weird Science)

2011 – John Wood, actor, d @ 81 (WarGames)