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1908 – Walter Burke, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Munsters, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Walter Burke in The Outer Limits: The Invisibles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1908 – Philip Coolidge, actor (Tinglerj, Twilight Zone)

1909 – Michael Rennie (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Invaders, Cyborg 2087, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, The Lost World)

Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still

1913 – Don DeFore, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1917 – Mel Ferrer, actor (Eaten Alive, The Great Alligator, The Visitor, Screamers, The Amazing Captain Nemo, Logan’s Run)

1930 – Graham Jarvis Graham Jarvis, actor (Strange World, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The X Files, Star Trek: TNG, The Munsters Today)

1930 – Sean Connery, actor (Zardoz, Outland)

1931 – Bryan Mosley, actor (Out of the Unknown, Doctor Who)

 

 

1931 – Peter Gilmore, actor (Doctor Who, Warlords of the Deep)

Peter Gilmore in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

1933 – Tom Skerritt, actor (The Time Tunnel, My Favorite Martian, Alien, Ted, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Category 7: The End of the World, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Contact, The Twilight Zone, SpaceCamp, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Tom Skerritt in Alien

1939 – John Badham, director (Heroes, Short Circuit, WarGames)

1947 – Michael Kaluta, artist

1949 – John Savage, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Bermuda Tentacles, Alien Rising, Dreamkiller, Fringe, Alien Lockdown, Carnosaur 2)

1949 – Gene Simmons, actor (Runaway)

1958 – Tim Burton, director (Frankenweenie, Planet of the Apes, Mars Attacks, Edward Scissorhands)

1960 – Ashley Crow, actress (Heroes, Minority Report, Probe)

1961 – Ally Walker, actress (Universal Soldier)

1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, actor (Sharknado 2)

1964 – Marti Noxon, writer (I Am Number Four)

1964 – Blair Underwood, actress (The Event, Deep Impact, Gattaca)

1967 – Brad Dryborough, actor(Falling Skies, Fringe,Battlestar Galactica, Alien Trespass, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Stargate: Atlantis, Smallville, Alien Incursion)

1967 – Tom Hollander, actor (The Invisible Woman, About Time)

1968 – David Alan Basche, actor (Real Steel, The Adjustment Bureau, War of the Worlds)

1976 – Donavon Stinson, actor (Snowmageddon, Eureka, The X Files: I Want to Believe)

1976 – Alexander Skarsgard, actor (Battleship)

1980 – Toni Wynne, actress (Zombie Roadkill, 2095)

1981 – Rachel Bilson, actress (Jumper)

2005 – Terence Morgan, actor, d @ 83 (Out of the Unknown)

2012 – Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker, d @ 82 (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)