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1904 – Frank Lawton, actor (Invisible Ray)

1932 – Antoinette Bower, actress (Time Walker, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Starlost, Superbeast, Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

Antoinette Bower in Star Trek: Catspaw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Len Cariou, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1943 – Ian Ogilvy, actor (Babylon 5, The Day the Fish Came Out, She Beast)

1946 – Dan O’Bannon, writer (Hemoglobin, The Return of the Living Dead, Alien, Aliens, Total Recall, Dark Star)

1947 – Rula Lenska, actress (Doctor Who, Space:1999)

Rula Lenska in Space 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rula Lenska in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950 – Victoria Tennant, actress (Twilight

Zone, Horror Planet)

1951 – Nicholas Yermakov, sci-fi author (Epiphany, Jehad, Clique)

1952 – Jack Wild, actor (Out of the Unknown)

1952 – Al Leong, actor (Escape from L.A., The Shadow, They Live, The Twilight Zone, My Science Project, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1952 – John Finn, actor (The X Files, Strange World, Invasion, SeaQuest 2032, Quantum Leap, The Incredible Hulk)

1953 – S.M. Stirling, sci-fi author

1953 – Donovan’s Brain released

1954 – Barry Williams, actor (Mega Piranha, Perversions of Science, The Invaders)

1956 – 1984 released

1957 – Quatermass II: Enemy from Space released

Quatermass II Enemy from Space released

1957 – Fran Drescher, actress (ALF)

1958 – The Brain Eaters released

1959 – Taylor Holmes, actor, d @ 81 (Tobor the Great)

1959 – Debrah Farentino, actress (Eureka, Earth 2)

1960 – Nicola Griffith, sci-fi author (Slow River)

1961 – Eric Stoltz, actor (The Fly 2, Caprica, The Triangle, The Butterfly Effect)

1964 – Monica Bellucci, actress (Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions)

1965 – E[dward] E[lmer] “Doc” Smith, sci-fi author, d @ 75 (Triplanetary)

1965 – Omid Djalili, actor (Alien Autopsy)

1967 – Andrea Roth, actress (The Time Tunnel, Earth: Final Conflict, Robocop)

1969 – Mark Rhino Smith, actor (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1970 – Patrick Aherne, actor, d @ 69 (Rocketship X-M, The Son of Jekyll, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1970 – Tony Hale, actor (Ctrl)

1974 – Daniel Wu, actor (Europa Report)

1975 – Marion Cotillard, actress (Inception, Contagion)

1977 – Maia Brewton, actress (Back to the Future)

1977 – Sean Rogerson, actor (Continuum, Extraterrestrial, Sanctuary, Smallville, Fringe, Stargate: Atlantis, Underworld: Evolution)

1978 – Stark Sands, actor (Day of the Dead)

1980 – Toni Trucks, actress (Star Runners)

1982 – Lacey Chabert, actress (Lost in Space)

Lacey Chabert in Lost in Space

1982 – Teal Redmann, actress (Chameleon 3: Dark Angel)

1985 – Greyston Holt, actor (Sanctuary, SGU Stargate Universe, Fringe, Flash Gordon, The 4400, Smallville)

1987 – Alfred Bester, sci-fi author, d @ 73 (Dark Side of Earth, Demolished Man)

1994 – Raphael Coleman, actor (The Fourth Kind, It’s Alive)

1998 – Marius Goring, actor, d @ 86 (Doctor Who)

2012 – Turhan Bey, actor, d @90 (Babylon 5, VR.5, SeaQuest 2032)