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1893 – Carl Benton Reid, actor (The Underwater City)

1909 – Angela Clarke, actress (The Outer Limits)

Angela Clarke in The Outer Limits: Second Chance

 

1924 – Alice Ghostley, actress (Small Wonder)

1936 – Trevor Bannister, actor, (Object Z, Object Z Returns)

1940 – Alexei Panshin (winner of 1969 Nebula for Rite of Passage)

1945 – Steve Martin, actor (The Man with Two Brains)

1945 – William Wenders, director (Until the End of the World)

1946 – Antonio Fargas, actor (Heroes, Homeboys in Outer Space)

 

1948 – Lou Wagner, actor (Star Trek: DS9, TNG, The UFO Incident, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Beneath of the Planet of the Apes, Planet of the Apes, Lost in Space)

Lou Wagner in Lost in Space: The Haunted Lighthouse

1950 – Jim Wynorski, director

1951 – Carl Lumbly, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Strange World, M.A.N.T.I.S., The X Files, SeaQuest 2032, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Lifepod)

1953 – James Horner, composer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Testament, Brainstorm, Krull, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Cocoon, Project X, *batteries not included, Cocoon: The Return, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, Star Trek Logs: An MTV Big Picture Special Edition, We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story, Deep Impact, Bicentennial Man, Avatar, Shoestring Space Opera, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II)

1959 – Macia Gay Hardin, actress (The Invisible, Space Cowboys)

1961 – Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author, d @ 68 (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)

1963 – David Aaron Baker, actor (Revolution)

1964 – Andrew Kevin Walker, writer (Perversions of Science)

1964 – Cristi Conaway, actress (Timecop, The Advanced Guard, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman)

1965 – Brannon Braga (Star Trek: TNG, Terra Nova, FlashForward, Threshold, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: First Contact)

1966 – Halle Berry, actress (Extant, They Came from Outer Space)

1968 – Adrian Lester, actor (Doomsday, Day After Tomorrow)

1968 – Ben Bass, actor (Strange Frequency, The Lone Gunmen, The 6th Day, Stargate SG-1, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)

1968 – Catherine Bell, actress (Threshold, The Triangle, Alien Nation: Body and Soul)

1969 – Michelle Lintel, actress (Battle Planet)

1971 – Raoul Bova, actor (AvP: Alien vs Predator)

1974 – Christopher Gorham, actor (Once Upon a Time, Jake 2.0, Odyssey 5)

1979 – Zack Whedon, writer (Fringe)

1980 – Dorothy Stratten, actress, d @ 20 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Galaxina)

1981 – Nick Holmes, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Nick Holmes in Guardians of the Galaxy

1982 – Patrick McGee, actor, d @ 60 (The Last Days of Man on Earth, A Clockwork Orange, Monster of Terror)

1983 – Mila Kunis, actress (Jupiter Ascending, The Book of Eli, Piranha)

1985 – Gale Sondergard, actress, d @ 86 (The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1987 – Sydney Bromley, actor, d @ 78 (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Prehistoric Women, Night Creatures, Quatermass and the Pit, Quatermass II, 1984)

2009 – District 9 released,