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1905 – Leo Genn, actor (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse)

1918 – Robert Aldrich, director (Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1923 – John Stevenson, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, The Invaders, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1927 – Daniel Keyes, sci-fi author (Flowers for Algernon)

1934 – Dick Anthony Williams, actor (The X Files, Edward Scissorhands, Space, The Powers of Matthew Star, Brave New World, Man from Atlantis)

1836 – Arthur Benjamin Reeve, sci-fi author, d @ 55

1938 – Burton Gilliam, actor (Sliders, Weird Science, Back to the Future Part III)

1942 – David Steinberg, director (The Twilight Zone)

1944 – Sam Elliott, actor (Hulk, Land of the Giants, Frog)

Sam Elliot in Hulk

1947 – John Varley, sci-fi author (Eight Worlds, Gaean, Slow Apocalypse)

1956 – Adam Nimoy, director (The Invisible Man, Sliders, Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

1957 – Melanie Griffith, actress (Cherry 2000)

1958 – Amanda Bearse, actress (Here Come the Munsters)

1965 – Josh Cox, actor (Revolution, A.I. Assault, Babylon 5, Sliders, Quantum Leap)

 

 

1968 – Gillian Anderson, actress (TheX Files)

Gillian Anderson in The X-Files

1968 – Eric Bana, actor (The Hulk, Star Trek, The Time Traveler’s Wife)

1968 – McG, director (Terminator Salvation)

1970 – Thomas Lennon, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine)

1972 – Liz Vassey, actress (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Superboy)

1972 – Ryan Bollman, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice, Small Wonder, Starman)

1975 – Anjali Jay, actress (Continuum)

 

 

1976 – Jessica Capshaw, actress (Minority Report)

Jessica Capshaw in Minority Report

1976 – Rhona Mitra, actress (SGU Stargate Universe, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Doomsday, Hollow Man)

1976 – James Lafazanos, actor (12 Monkeys (TV), The Time Traveler’s Wife, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate: Atlantis)

1980 – Alexia Fairbrother, actress (Continuum)

1983 – Ashley Johnson, actress (Dollhouse, Roswell, Lloyd in Space)

2003 – Gregory Hines, actor, d @ 57 (Eve of Destruction)

2005 – Matthew McGrory, actor, d @ 32 (Constantine Planet of the Pitts, Men in Black II)

2006 – Philip E. High, sci-fi author d @ 92 (b. 1914)

2008 – Bernie Mac, actor, d @ 50 (Transformers)

2009 – John Quade, actor, d @ 71 (Manimal)

2010 – George DiCenzo, actor, d @ 70 (M.A.N.T.I.S., Back to the Future, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Space Academy)

2013 – Elysium released