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1902 – Lloyd Nolan, actor (The Outer Limits)

Lloyd Nolan in The Outer Limits episode, Soldier.

1911 – Henry Kulky, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Tobor the Great, Adventures of Superman, Red Planet Mars)

1914 – Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Timeslip)

1926 – Charles Cooper, actor (Star Trek V, Star Trek: TNG, Men into Space)

1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, director (Twilight Zone)

1932 – George Furth, actor, d @ 75 (Megaforce, The Man With Two Brains, Salvage 1)

 

 

 

1942 – Laurel Goodwin, actor (Star Trek)

Laurel Goodwin as Yeoman Colt in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 – Ian McDiarmid, actor (Star Wars)

Ian McDiarmid in Star Wars

1947 – Stuart Gordon, director (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Space Truckers, Robot Jox, Dolls, From Beyond, Re-Animator)

1950 – Adam LeFevre, actor (The Invasion)

1950 – Elya Baskin, actress (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Heroes, The Invisible Man, VR.5, Quantum Leap, DeepStar Six, 2010)

1964 – Miguel A. Nunez, actor (W.E.I.R.D. World, Carnosaur 2, Babylon 5, Lois & Clark, Twilight Zone, The Return of the Living Dead, Automan)

1965 – Viola Davis, actress (Ender’s Game, The Andromeda Strain, Threshold, Solaris)

1965 – Embeth Davidtz, actress (Bicentennial Man, Mutator, Army of Darkness)

1967 – Collin Chou, actor (The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Reloaded)

1968 – Anna Gunn, actress (NYPD 2069, Quantum Leap)

1973 – Peggy Castle, actress, d @ 45 (Beginning of the End, Invasion Earth, World of Giants)

1975 – Howard Wendell, actor, d @ 67 (The Munsters, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1979 – Drew Nelson, actress (The Strain, Fringe, Smallville, Earth: Final Conflict)

1982 – Tom Drake, actor, d @ 63 (The Cyclops)

1983 – Chris Hemsworth, actor (Star Trek & Star Trek: ID)

1994 – Peter Cushing, actor, d @ 81 (Star Wars, Dr Who)

2005 – James Booth, actor, d @ 77 (Deep Space, Programmed to Kill, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2009 – Richard Compton, director, d @ 71 (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

2014 – Robin Williams, actor, d @ 63 (Mork & Mindy, Bicentennial Man)