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1894 – Minerva Urecal, actress (The Ape Man)

1902 – John Houseman, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Rollerball, Mork & Mindy)

1907 – Shepperd Strudwick, actor (The Monitors, Twilight Zone)

1912 – Martha Scott, actress (Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman)

1915 – Emrys Jones, actor (Out of the Unknown)

1917 – Peter Adams, actor (Donovan’s Brain, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Men Into Space, Project Moon Base, The War of the Worlds)

1917 – Samuel A. Peeples, writer (Star Trek III: The Wrath of Khan)

1925 – Virginia Capers, actress (Starman)

1928 – Eugene Roche, actor (Slaughterhouse Five, Rosewell: The UFO Coverup, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Star Trek: Voyager, Roswell)

1931 – Fay Weldon, sci-fi author (The Cloning of Joanna May, Wolf: The Mechanical Dog)

1936 – Art Metrano, actor (The Incredible Hulk)

1936 – Asa Maynor, actor (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, Man Beast)

1938 – Robert Doyle, actor (The Outer Limits, Alligator, Future Cop, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Robert Doyle in The Outer Limits: Expanding Human

1943 – Toni Basil, actress (Village of the Giants)

1944 – Frazer Hines (Doctor Who, Z: The Unknown)

1945 – Paul LeMat, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theater)

1948 – Jim Byrnes, actor (Stargate: Infinity, Invader, Starlight, Robocop: Alpha Command, War Planets, First Wave, Level 9, The Outer Limits, Stargate: SG1, Andromeda, V TV series)

1952 – Larry Anderson, actor (Star Trek: Insurrection, Martians Go Home, Dr. Strange, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1954 – Shari Belafonte, actress (Babylon 5: Thirdspace, Mars, Beyond Reality, Time Walker)

 

1958 – Robert Keith, actor (Babylon 5, They Came from Outer Space)

1960 – Scott Baio, actor (Out of this World, Zapped!)

1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, actress (K-9000, The Omega Code, The Time Shifters, The Vector File, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, Higher Mission, Sharktopus vs. Mermantula)

1962 – Rob Stone, actor (V)

1963 – Stuart Fratkin, actor (Godzilla 1998, Tremors, Dr. Alien, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Sliders, They Came from Outer Space, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation)

1966 – Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster released

1966 – Ira Heiden, actor (Timelock, Lois & Clark)

1968 – Land of the Giants Debuted on ABC

Land of the Giants debuted

1971 – Elizabeth Bear, sci-fi author (The Promethean Age, New Amsterdam)

1971 – Lawrence Gilliard Jr, actor (The Walking Dead)

1975 – Mireille Enos (World War Z)

1976 – Chad Todhunter, actor (Sliders)

1978 – Daniella Alonso, actress (Revolution, Stargate: Atlantis)

1979 – MyAnna Buring, actress (Doctor Who)

1980 – Lou Holtz, actor, d @ 87 (Twilight Zone)

 

 

 

1982 – Billie Piper (Doctor Who)

Billie Piper in Doctor Who

1984 – Laura Vandervoort (V, Riverworld, Mutant X, Smallville)

1985 – Tatiana Maslany, actress (Alphas, 2030 CE, Orphan Black)

1987 – Tom Felton, actor (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Bugs)

1996 – Star Trek: First Contact released

1999 – George C. Scott, actor d @ 71 (Day of the Dolphin)

2003 – Gordon Jump, actor, d @ 71 (Hard Time on Planet Earth, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, The Lost Saucer, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)

2006 – Edward Albert, actor d @ 55 (Galaxy of Terror, Space Marines, Star Trek: DS9, Invasion America, The Girl From Mars)

2006 – Children of Men released in the UK

 

2007 – Karl Hardman, actor, d @ 80 (Night of the Living Dead)

2007 – Marcel Marceau, actor, d @ 77 (Barbarella)