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1874 – Noëlle Roger, sci-fi author

1919 – Betty Ballantine, editor and publisher, Science Fiction Hall of Fame

1925 – Steve Forrest, actor (Twilight Zone, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Six Million Dollar Man)

Steve Forrest in The Twilight Zone: The Parallel

1926 – Aldo Ray, actor (Biohazard, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie, Death Dimension)

1929 – Don Draper, actor (Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1943 – Robert Walden, actor (Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, Capricorn One)

1944 – Michael Douglas, actor (Coma)

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Felicity Kendal, actress (Doctor Who)

Felicity Kendal as Lady Clemency Eddison in Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp

1946 – Louisa Moritz, actress (Galaxis, The Incredible Hulk, Death Race 2000)

1946 – Heinrich George, actor, d @ 52 (Metropolis, She)

1948 – Mimi Kennedy, actress (No Ordinary Family, Twilight Zone)

1949 – Jack Bender, director (Under the Dome, Alphas)

 

 

 

 

1951 – Mark Hamill, actor (Star Wars, 3rd Rock from the Sun, SeaQuest 2032, Time Runner)

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker

1952 – Colin Friels, actor (Space: Above and Beyond)

1952 – Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman, Smallville)

1957 – Michael Madsen, actor (Quantum Leap, 2047 – Sights of Death, Infected, Frankenstein, Species 1 & 2)

1957 – Ian Reddington, actor (Doctor Who)

1962 – Beth Toussaint, actress (Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

1962 – Aida Turturro, actress (Deep Blue Sea)

1963 – Tate Donovan, actor (No Ordinary Family, SpaceCamp)

1964 – Maria Doyle Kennedy, actress (Orphan Black, Jupiter Ascending)

1965 – Gordon Currie, actor (Earth: Final Conflict, Mutant X, Code Name: Eternity, First Wave)

1966 – Jason Fleming, actor (Primeval, The Quatermass Experiment, Deep Rising)

1966 – Simon Barry, writer (Continuum)

1968 – Will Smith, actor (Men in Black, I Robot, I am Legend, Independence Day, After Earth)

1969 – Hal Sparks, actor (Lab Rats, Lois & Clark, Frog)

1976 – Charlotte Ayanna, actress (Weird Science)

1977 – Clea DuVall, actor (The Event, Virtuality, Heroes, Ghosts of Mars, How to Make a Monster, The Astronaut’s Wife)

1977 – Joel David Moore, actor (Shark Night 3D, Avatar)

1978 – Rossif Sutherland, actor (Timeline)

1984 – Walter Pidgeon, actor d @ 87 (Forbidden Planet, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1989 – Jordan Gavaris, actor (Orphan Black)

2006 – John M. Ford, sci-fi author, d @ 49

2009 – Pandorum released

2014 – Laura Waterbury, actress, d @ 66 (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Mac and Me, Innerspace, The Twilight Zone)