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1893 – Howard Smith, actor (Twilight Zone)

1898 – Oscar Homolka, actor(The Invisible Man, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1910 – Jane Wyatt, actress (Star Trek, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Gemini Man)

Jane Wyatt in Star Trek

 

1913 – Richard L. Bare, director (Twilight Zone)

1916 – Ralph Nelson, director (Twilight Zone)

1917 – Ken Dibbs, actor (The Immortal, Men into Space, Buck Rogers, Captain Midnight, Riders to the Stars, Space Patrol, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1927 – Dan Curtis, writer (Frankenstein)

1929 – John Bluthal, actor (Dark City, The Fifth Element, Superman III)

1931 – William Goldman, writer (Memoirs of an Invisible Man, The Stepford Wives)

 

1936 – Michael Coles, actor (Doctor Who and the Daleks)

Michael Coles in Doctor Who and the Daleks

1936 – Elizabeth Shepherd, actress (The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne)

1937 – Carol Eve Rossen, actor(The Stepford Wives, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1939 – Oliver Ford Davies (Star Wars)

1941 – Jennifer Warren, actress (Mutant)

1941 – Dana Ivey, actress (Explorers)

1944 – Bruce Solomon, actor (Twilight Zone)

1950 – Jim Beaver, actor (Revolution, Tremors, Star Trek: Enterprise, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The X Files, Lois & Clark)

 

1954 – Sam J. Jones, actor (Flash Gordon, Stargate SG-1, Earth Minus Zero)

Sam J. Jones as Flash Gordon

1954 – Ray Abruzzo, actor (Lois & Clark)

1956 – Bruce Greenwood, actor (Star Trek, Star Trek: ID, The Core, I, Robot)

1965 – Peter Krause, actor (Beastly, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1967 – Brett Sexton, actor (Surface, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The X Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1968 – Andras Jones, actor (Alien Nation)

1969 – Katherine Kendall, actress (Firefly)

1970 – Ellory Elkayem, director (Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave, Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis, Eight Legged Freaks)

1971 – Yvette Nicole Brown b. 1971, actress (Repo Men, The Island)

1971 – Rebecca Gayheart, actress (Invasion, Sliders, Earth 2)

1975 – Casey Affleck, actor (Interstellar)

1980 – Maggie Lawson, actress (Gamer, Smallville)

1981 – Natalie Mendoza, actress (Code 46, Farscape)

1982 – Henry Fonda, actor, d @ 77 (Fail-Safe, Tentacles, Meteor, The Swarm)

1988 – Leah Pipes, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

2007 – Merv Griffin, actor, d @ 82 (Slapstick (of Another Kind), The Man with Two Brains, The Girl with Something Extra, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

2014 – Arlene Martel, actress, d @ 78 (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men)