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1914 – Clayton Moore, actor (Radar Men from the Moon)

Clayton Moore (left) in Radar Men From the Moon

 

 

 

 

 

 

1933 – Harve Presnell, actor (Lois & Clark, Star Trek: Voyager)

1936 – Walter Koenig, actor (Checkov-Star Trek, InAlienable, Babylon 5, Moontrap, The Questor Tapes, The Starlost)

Walter Koenig

 

1944 – Rowena Morrill, artist

1947 – Sam Neill, actor (Jurassic Park, Sci Fi Inside: ‘The Triangle’, Bicentennial Man, Event Horizon, Memoirs of an Invisible Man)

1950 – Howard Deutch, director (Warehouse 13)

1953 – Robert Wisdom, actor (Invader)

1959 – Wayne Morris, actor, d @ 45 (Science Fiction Theatre, The Return of Doctor X)

 

 

1959 – Mary Crosby, actress (Ice Pirates, Star Trek: DS9, Lois & Clark, Automan)

Mary Crosby as Ice Pirates Princess Karina

1959 – Kirk Baltz, actor (Level 9, Seven Days, NetForce)

1959 – Haviland Morris, actor (Aliens in the Family)

1960 – Radames Pera, actor (Starman, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man)

1960 – Callum Keith Rennie, actor (Alphas, FlashForward, Battlestar Galactica, The X Files: I Want to Believe, Tin Man, Bionic Woman, Smallville, Blade: Trinity, The Butterfly Effect, Mutant X, Strange World, eXistenZ, Timecop)

1960 – Melissa Leo, actress (Oblivion)

 

1964 – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Debuted on ABC

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea debuted

1967 – Dan Cortese, actor (Demolition Man)

1967 – K.C. Martel, actor (E.T. The Extra-terrestrial, The Munsters’ Revenge)

1969 – Joon-ho Bong, director (The Host)

1971 – Pat Healy, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)

1973 – Andrew Lincoln, actor (Moonshot)

1975 – Brian Klugman, writer/actor (Tron Legacy / Cloverfield)

1980 – Mark Wells (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)

1984 – Andre de Vanny, actor (Wicked Science)

1984 – Richard Brautigan, sci-fi author, d @ 49 (In Watermelon Sugar, The Hawkline Monster)

1989 – Jessica Brown Findlay, actress (Frankenstein)

1989 – Jesse James, actor (Jumper, The Butterfly Effect, Angel, The X-Files)

1999 – Charles Crichton, director, d @ 89 (Alien Attack, Space: 1999, The Day After Tomorrow)

2005 – Robert Wise died @ 91 (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Andromeda Strain, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

2006 – Mickey Hargitay, actor, d @ 80 (Lady Frankenstein)

2009 – Patrick Swayze, actor, d @ 57 (Donnie Darko)

2009 – Henry Gibson, actor, d @ 73 (Stargate SG-1, Total Recall 2070, Star Trek: DS9, Cyber Bandits, Eerie, Indiana, Twilight Zone, Small & Frye, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, My Favorite Martian)

2014 – Angus Lennie, actor, d @ 84 (Doctor Who)