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1897 – Hal K Dawson, actor (Superman and the Mole-Men, Twilight Zone, The Alligator People, Science Fiction Theatre)

1907 – John Marley, actor (Twilight Zone, Land of the Giants, Threshold)

1913 – Robert Lowery, actor (Adventures of Superman, The Monster and the Ape, Revenge of the Zombies)

1914 – Jerry Siegel, writer (Superman)

1917 – Marsha Hunt, actress (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

Marsha Hunt in The Outer Limits: ZZZZZ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Tom Poston, actor (Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, Lights Out, The Lone Gunmen, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Mork & Mindy, Zotz!)

1926 – Beverly Garland, actress (The Neanderthal Man, The Rocket Man, Science Fiction Theatre, It Conquered the World , Not of This Earth, The Alligator People, Twilight Zone, Planets of the Apes, The 6 Million Dollar Man, Lois & Clark)

Beverly Garland in Not of This Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 – Julie Adams, actress (Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Underwater City, The Incredible Hulk, Sliders)

1937 – Paxton Whitehead, actor (RocketMan, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1943 – Sabrina Scharf, actress (Star Trek)

Sabrina Scharf in Star Trek

1943 – Michael Reeves, director (She Beast, Castle of the Living Dead)

1945 – Thomas Kopache, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: TNG, Babylon 5, Strange Invaders)

1947 – Michael McKean, actor (Smallville, The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, Coneheads, Earth Girls are Easy, Short Circuit 2, D.A.R.Y.L.)

1948 – George Wendt, actor (Alien Avengers, Space Truckers, Twilight Zone, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again)

1948 – Margot Kidder, actress (Superman, Smallville, Earth: Final Conflict)

1955 – Sam Bottoms, actor (The X-Files)

1957 – Vincent Van Patten, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1958 – John Neilsen, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, NYPD 2069, Race to Space)

1963 – Cynthia Bain, actress (Spontaneous Combustion, Quantum Leap)

1965 – Andrea Powell, actress (Ender’s Game)

1966 – Mark Gatiss, actor (Frankenstein, Doctor Who, First Men in the Moon, Clone, Jekyll, The Quatermass Experiment)

1969 – Wood Harris, actor (Dredd)

1972 – Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, actress (Battlestar Galactica, Flash Gordon, I Robot, Stargate SG-1, Smallville)

1974 – Rizwan Manji, actor (FlashForward, Transformers)

1977 – Alimi Ballard, actor (Deep Impact)

1978 – Bruce Mackinnon, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jekyll)

1978 – Erin Karpluk, actress (Delete, Captain Starship, Flash Gordon, Bionic Woman, Earthsea, 10.5, Battlestar Galactica, Taken, Seven Days)

1979 – John Stuart, actor, d @ 81 (Space School, Quatermass II: Enemy From Space)

1983 – Felicity Jones, actress (Doctor Who)

Felicity Jones in Doctor Who

1990 – Bianca Bree, actress (U.F.O.)

1991 – Dora Madison Burge, actress (Star-Crossed, Humans versus Zombies)

1997 – Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, d @ 54

2003 – Janice Rule, actress, d @ 72 (Twilight Zone)

2004 – Julius Harris, actress, d @ 81 (Eerie, Indiana, The Incredible Hulk)

2004 – Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars debuted