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1897 – Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Walter Pidgeon in Forbidden Planet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Mickey Rooney, actor (The Atomic Kid, Twilight Zone, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Mickey Rooney in The Atomic Kid

1922 – Louise Latham, actress (The X-Files, Earth 2, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders)

1925 – Barry Linehan, actor (The Andromeda Breakthrough, The Tomorrow People)

1928 – Geoffrey John Barrett, sci-fi author

1945 – Paul Petersen, actor (In the Year 2889, The Monolith Monsters)

1946 – John Woo, director (The Robinsons: Lost in Space)

1952 – David Jensen, actor (This is the End, Looper, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Battleship, Creature, Battle Los Angeles, The Mist, Frankenstein)

1956 – Maren Jensen, actor (Battlestar Galactica)

1956 – Peter David, sci-fi author (Star Trek, Babylon 5)

1959 – Rosalind Chao, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, The Incredible Hulk)

1959 – Jason Alexander, actor (Meteor, Star Trek: Voyager, Coneheads)

Jason Alexander (right) in Coneheads

1960 – Jason Carter (Babylon 5, Starship II: Rendezvous with Ramses, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark)

1961 – Elizabeth Pena, actress (It Came from Outer Space II, The Invaders, *batteries not included)

1961 – Chi McBride, actor (I Robot)

1962 – Janelle Brady, actress (Class of Nuke ‘Em High)

1963 – Alex Proyas, director (I Robot)

1964 – Fred Wilcox, director, d @ 57 (Forbidden Planet)

 

1965 – Beatrice Ring, actress (Zombie Flesh Eaters 2, Interzone)

1968 – Christopher Peters, actor (Zombie High)

1978 – Anthony Mackie, actor (The Adjustment Bureau)

1978 – Keri Lynn Pratt, actor (Smallville)

1987 – Erland van Lidth, actor, d @ 34 (The Running Man)

1993 – William Cort, actor d @ 53 (Galactica 1980, Quantum Leap)

1998 – Mary Frann, actress, d @ 55 (Lois & Clark, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Journey)