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1892 – Henry Victor, actor (King of the Zombies)

1900 – Barton Yarbrough, actor (The Ghost of Frankenstein)

1906 – Willy Ley, sci-fi author (Adventure in Space)

1907 – George Grizzard, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Twilight Zone)

1909 – Alex Raymond, artist (Flash Gordon)

1911 – Jack Finney, sci-fi author (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1917 – Charles Drake, actor (Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Invaders, Tobor the Great, It Came from Outer Space)

Charles Drake in Star Trek

1925 – Rock Hudson, actor, d @ 85 (Martian Chronicles, Embryo)

1929 – Moses Gunn, actor (Salvage 1, Rollerball)

1933 – David Somerville, actor (Star Trek)

1936 – David Gale, actor (Guyver, Re-Animator, Bride of Re-Animator, The Brain)

1944 – Larry Ward, actor (voice of Jabba the Hutt and Greedo, both uncredited)

1944 – Vernor [Steffen] Vinge, US, sci-fi author (Witling, True Names, Hugos for A Fire on the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Rainbow’s End)

 

 

1948 – Persis Khambatta (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Lois & Clark)

Persis Khambatta in Star Trek The Motion Picture

1948 – Avery Brooks, actor (Star Trek: DS9)

1950 – Ian McNiece, actor (Doctor Who, Day of the Dead, White Noise, Frankenstein, Children of Dune, Dune, Bugs, The Tomorrow People, The Cloning of Joanna May, Time Riders, Whoops Apocalypse)

 

 

 

 

 

1950 – Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, loosely inspired by Robert A. Heinlein’s 1948 novel Space Cadet, debuts on CBS television, and will continue on various networks until 1955.

Tom Corbett Space Cadet

1951 – Sting, [Gordon Sumner] (Dune)

1952 – Robin Riker, actress (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Sliders, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Misfits of Science)

1958 – Jeffrey Weissman, actor (Flying Saucer Rock ‘N’ Roll, 2001: A Space Travesty, Back to the Future II & III, Max Headroom, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

 

 

 

1959 – The Twilight Zone debuts on CBS with Rod Serling as host and chief writer; it will feature scripts and adaptations by Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, and others, and become among the most influential of science fiction/fantasy TV series.

1962 – Joe Lara, actor (Doomsdayer, Warhead, American Cyborg: Steel Warrior)

1965 – Richard Ashton, actor (Space Precinct, The Fifth Element)

1967 – Suki Kaiser, actress (Category 7: The End of the World, Cyberjack, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Girl from Mars)

1967 – Lew Temple, actor (Zombex, The Walking Dead, Futurestates, Zombie Night)

1968 – Joey Slotnick, actor (Hollow Man)

1973 – Danny Smith, actor (Warehouse 13)

1973 – Paul Hartmann, actor, d @69 (The Reluctant Astronaut, Twilight Zone)

1974 – Michelle Krusiec, actress (Fringe, Star Trek: DS9)

1979 – Adam O’Byrne, actor (Extant)

1979 – Brianna Brown, actress (Night of the Living Dead 3D, Smallville)

1980 – Michele Nordin, actress (Alien Arsenal)

1981 – Milan Todorovic, director (Wrath of the Dead, Zone of the Dead)

1986 – Camilla Belle, actress (Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth, The Lost World: Jurassic Park)

1987 – James Dobson, actor (Mutiny in Outer Space)

1987 – Christopher Larkin, actor (The 100)

1994 – Brendan Meyer, actor (The 100, Girl vs. Monster, Dinosapien)

2005 – Hamilton Camp, actor d @ 70 (Starcrash, The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, The Zeta Project)

2006 – Tamara Dobson, actress, d @ 59 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Jason of Star Command)