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1856 – Gregory Casparian, sci-fi author

1865 – John Mastin, sci-fi author

1880 – Arthur Benjamin Reeve, sci-fi author

1900 – Fritz Feld, actor (Way…Way Out, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants)

Fritz Feld in Lost in Space. He would reprise this role two more times in the series.

1903 – George Alexis Milkomanov Milkomane aka George Borodin, sci-fi author

1905 – C P Snow, sci-fi author

1911 – James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author (Lion Game)

1915 – Paul Scheerbart, sci-fi author, d @ 51

1919 – E C Tubb, sci-fi author

 

 

 

 

1924 – Mark Lenard, actor (Way Out, Planet of the Apes, The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Girl With Something Extra, Otherworld)

Mark Lenard in Star Trek

1927 – Eileen Ryan, actress (Eight Legged Freaks, Twilight Zone)

1929 – Women in the Moon Released

1932 – Virginia Leith (The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, On the Threshold of Space)

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Peter Haskell, actor (The Outer Limits, Land of the Giants, The Bionic Woman, Robot Wars)

Peter Haskell in The Outer Limits: Wolf 359

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 – Penny Marshall, actress (Mork & Mindy)

1946 – John Getz, actor (Zenon: The Zequel, The Fly I and II)

John Getz in The Fly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1947 – Lynn Lowry, E St Louis Ill, actress (The Crazies, Ombis: Alien Invasion)

1953 – Larry Miller, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Frankenstein: The College Years)

1954 – Jere Burns, actor (Max Headroom)

Jere Burns in Max Headroom

1957 – Camila More, actress (The Dark Side of the Moon)

1957 – Jayne Modean, actress (Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1958 – John Hamilton, actor, d @ 71 (Adventures of Superman, Donovan’s Brain, The Flying Missile, The Invisible Monster, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe)

1959 – Kellie Flanagan, actress (Star Trek)

1966 – Jeffrey Jacquet, actor (Mork & Mindy)

1967 – Gotz Otto, actor (Iron Sky, Alien Autopsy, Deep Freeze)

1969 – Dominic West, actor (John Carter, From Time to Time, Star Wars: Episode I )

1970 – Zak Orth, actor (Fringe)

1972 – Matt Keeslar, actor (Dune, Dollhouse, Jekyll)

1973 – Paul Logan, actor (Mega Piranha, Re-Generator, Aliens on Crack, Komodo vs. Cobra, The Curse of the Komodo)

1978 – Devon Gummersall, actor (Relativity, Earth Vs the Spider, Independence Day, Roswell)

1979 – Robert Baker, actor (Our RoboCop Remake, Virtually Heroes, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

1981 – Frank DeKova, actor, d @ 71 (The Incredible Hulk, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Teenage Cave Man)

1984 – Chris Olivero, actor (Séance: The Summoning, Kyle XY, Alien Arsenal)

1984 – Gary Vinson, actor, d @ 47 (The Incredible Hulk, The Munsters’ Revenge, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invisible Boy)

1995 – Billy Unger, actor (Lab Rats, Monster Mutt, No Ordinary Family, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1999 – Bailee Madison, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

2006 – Derek Bond, actor, d @ 86 (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2007 – Larry Ward, actor, d @ 63 (voice of Jabba the Hutt and Greedo, both uncredited)