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1891 – Parker Fennelly, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1908 – John Sutton, actor (Return of the Fly, Men Into Space)

John Sutton in Return of the Fly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1908 – John Zaremba, actor (Earth vs. Flying Saucers, 20 Million Miles to Earth, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, The Time Machine)

John Zaremba in The Time Tunnel

1914 – William F. Claxton, director (The Night of the Lepus, Twilight Zone)

1916 – Sidney Miller, director (My Favorite Martian, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock)

1917 – Joan Fontaine, actress (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1919 – Doris Lessing, sci-fi author (Children of Violence, Canopus in Argos)

1927 – James Grout, actor (Cyberzone)

1932 – Barboura Morris, actress (Wasp Woman, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes)

1936 – Gary Vinson, actor (The Incredible Hulk, The Munsters’ Revenge, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invisible Boy)

 

1938 – Derek Jacobi, actor (Doctor Who)

Derek Jacobi in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

1938 – Christopher Lloyd, actor (Back to the Future 1, 2, 3, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Piranha 3DD, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future

1942 – Annette Funicello, actress (Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine)

1943 – Jim Baen, founder, publisher and editor (Baen Books)

1948 – Christopher Curry, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek: Voyager, Starship Troopers, Babylon 5, Quantum Leap, C.H.U.D.)

 

 

 

1952 – Jeff Goldblum, actor (Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Earth Girls are Easy, The Fly, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Threshold, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

Jeff Goldblum in The Fly

1952 – John Howard, actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Girl from Tomorrow)

1962 – Suzanne Snyder, actress (Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Return of the Living Dead II, Weird Science, The Last Starfighter)

1965 – Valeria Golino, actress (Escape from L.A.)

1968 – Jay Johnston, actor (Men in Black II, Bicentennial Man)

1972 – Saffron Burrows, actress (Deep Blue Sea, Perfect Creature, Wing Commander)

 

1974 – Layla Roberts , actress (Armageddon)

1981 – Michael Fishman, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1981 – Michael Granger, actor, d @ 58 (Creature with Atom Brain, Science Fiction Theatre)

1981 – John Boyd, actor (Fringe)

1986 – Kyle Gallner, actor (The Walking Dead, Smallville)

1990 – Jonathan Lipnicki, actor (Meego)

1992 – Cleavon Little, actor, d @ 53 (ALF)

1995 – Mary Wickes, actress, d @ 85 (ALF Loves a Mystery)

1918 – Ivor Francis, actor, d @ 77 (Alien Zone, Man From Atlantis, The Six Million Dollar Man)

2006 – Arthur Hill, actor d @ 84 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Andromeda Strain, Futureworld, Murder in Space, Prototype)

2006 – Richard Mayes, actor, d @ 83 (Doctor Who, A for Andromeda)