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1912 – Emile Meyer, actor (My Favorite Martian)

1925 – Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)

1929 – Joan Taylor, actress, d @ 82 4 March 2012 (Men Into Space, 20 Million Miles to Earth, Earth vs. Flying Saucers)

Joan Taylor in Earth vs the Flying Saucers

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Grant Williams (The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Monolith Monsters, Brain of Blood, The Munsters, The OuterLImits)

Grant Williams in The Monolith Monsters

1936 – Robert Redford, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1942 – Rafaela Ottiano, actress, d@ 54 (The Devil-Doll)

1943 – Martin Mull, actor (Lois & Clark)

1947 – Shirley Prestia, actress (Babylon 5, Species, ALF)

 

 

 

 

1948 – Joseph Marcell, actor (Doctor Who)

Joseph Marcell in Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks

1952 – Patrick Swayze, actor (Donnie Darko)

1957 – Dennis Leary, actor (Demolition Man)

1958 – Madeleine Stowe, actress (Twelve Monkeys)

1961 – Glenn Plummer, actor (The Day After Tomorrow, Strange Days)

1962 – Adam Storke, actor (The Invisible Man, Prey, Lifepod)

1964 – Craig Bierko, actor (Scary Movie 4, Red Dwarf)

1968 – Griffin Drew, actress (Dinosaur Island)

1969 – Edward Norton (Hulk)

1969 – Christian Slater, actor (Star Trek: VI The Undiscovered Country, Beyond the Stars)

 

1970 – Malcolm Jamal Warner, actor (Sliders

1971 – Jada Pinkett, actress (, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions)

1971 – Jacob Vargas, actor (Death Race, She-Bat, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1990 – B.F. Skinner, sci-fi author, d @ 86 (Walden Two)

1991 – David Gale, actor, d @ 54 (Guyver, Re-Animator, Bride of Re-Animator, The Brain)

1991 – Richard Harmon, actor (Continuum, The 100, Fringe, Caprica, Smallville, Flash Gordon)

1993 – Maia Mitchell, actress (After the Dark)

1995 – James Ackley Maxwell, actor, d @ 66 (The Evil of Frankenstein, Doctor Who, Doomwatch, Out of the Unknown)

1997 – Don Knight, actor, d @ 64 (Automan, Manimal, The Powers of Matthew Star, Small & Frye, Voyagers, Swamp Thing, Death in Space, The Immortal, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Munster Go Home! )

1998 – Persis Khambatta,actress, d @ 49 (Star Trek)

2003 – Max Charles, actor (White Space)