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1902 – Curt Siodmak, sci-fi author (Donovan’s Brain)

1904 – Ray Walker, actor (Superman, The Atomic Kid, The Space Children)

Ray Walker in Superman and the Mole-Men

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1912 – Richard Reeves, actor (Target Earth, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, The Adventures of Superboy, Adventures of Superman)

1913 – Noah Beery Jr, actor (Rocketship X-M, The 6 Million Dollar Man)

1914 – Jeff Corey, actor (Star Trek, Babylon 5, Superman & Mole Men)

Jeff Corey in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1924 – Martha Hyer, actress (First Men in the Moon, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1928 – Gus Mercurio, actor (Time Trax, Badlands 2005, Escape 2000)

1932 – Murray Melvin, actor (Starhunter)

1933 – Lynn Cohen, actress (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)

1939 – Kate O’Mara, actress (Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time, The Horror of Frankenstein)

Kate O’Mara (left) in Doctor Who: Time and the Rani

1952 – Diane Venora, actress (Threshold, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2)

1954 – Rick Overton, actor (Cloverfield, The Astronaut Farmer, Eight Legged Freaks, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Lois & Clark, The Rocketeer, Earth Girls Are Easy, Traxx)

1958 – Don Swayze, actor (Tremors, The X Files, Lois & Clark)

1962 – Suzanne Collins, author (The Hunger Games)

1964 – Beverly Randolph, actress (The Return of the Living Dead)

1965 – Claudia Christian, actress (Starhyke, Babylon 5, Landelot: Guardian of Time, Space Rangers, Quantum Leap)

1973 – Rick Otto, actor (Dollhouse)

1974 – Ivor Dean, actor, d @ 56 (Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)

1976 – Ray Corrigan, actor, d @ 74 (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, The Monster and the Ape, The Monster Maker, Undersea Kingdom, Flash Gordon, The Phantom Empire)

1979 – JoAnna Garcia Swisher, actress (Once Upon a Time, The Astronaut Wives Club, From the Earth to the Moon, SeaQuest 2032, Superboy)

1982 – Devon Aoki, actor (Mutant Chronicles)

1990 – Lucas Till, actor (Battle Los Angeles)

2008 – Star Wars: The Clone Wars released

2011 – Love released