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1898 – Regis Toomey, actor, (Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (movie & TV))

1909 – Tristam Coffin, actor (The Time Tunnel, The Crawling Hand, The Night the World Exploded, Creature with the Atom Brain, King of the Rocket Men)

1909 – John Beal, actor (Ark II)

1909 – Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space, It Came from Outer Space, Revenge of the Creature, Twilight Zone, The Immortal)

1913 – Kurt Kasznar, actor (Land of the Giants)

Kurt Kasznar in Land of the Giants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Neville Brand, actor (Man from Atlantis, Twilight Zone)

1922 – Willard Sage, actor (The Outer Limits, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Star Trek)

Willard Sage in The Outer Limits: Nightmare

1922 – Buck Kartalian, actor (My Favorite Martian (1999), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Octaman, Planet of the Apes, The Munsters, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1929 – Pat Harrington Jr., actor (The Invisible Man, 2000 Years Later, The Munsters)

1941 – Erin Fleming, actress (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)

1944 – Kevin Tighe, actor (The 4400, Strange World, Star Trek: Voyager, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Immortal)

1946 – H. G. Wells, sci-fi writer, d @ 79 (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine)

1949 – Lillian Hurst, actress (The X-Files)

1950 – Jane Carr, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Babylon 5)

1952 – Tom Davis, writer (Coneheads)

1957 – Kathleen Gati, actress (Alphas, The Future)

1958 – It! The Terror from Beyond Space released (Rumored to be the inspiration for Alien)

It! The Terror From Beyond Space

 

1960 – Tony Alcantar, actor (Continuum, Stargate SG-1,Andromeda,Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Strange World)

1961 – Dawnn Lewis, actress (Sliders)

1962 – John Slattery, actor (The Adjustment Bureau)

1964 – Debi Mazar, actress (Space Truckers)

1966 – Sean Hood, writer (Cube²: Hypercube)

1972 – Heike Makatsch, actor (Resident Evil, Anatomy 2)

1972 – Crystal Allen, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise)

 

 

1976 – Jody Thompson, actress (Fringe, 2012, Smallville, Alien Trespass, Stargate: Atlantis, Flash Gordon (TV), The 4400, Stargate: SG-1, Blade: The Series, Andromeda, Mission to Mars)

1976 – Grégory Fitoussi, actor (World War Z)

1982 – Sebastian Stan, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine)

1982 – Joe E. Ross, actor, d @ 68 (It’s About Time, The Lost Saucer)

1999 – Charles Macaulay, actor, d @ 71 (V, The Munster’s Revenge, Star Trek)

2004 – Alien vs. Predator released

2006 – Tony Jay, actor, d @ 73 (Time Bandits, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Star Trek: TNG, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)