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1906 – Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home)

1913 – Eddie Constantine, actor (Frankenstein’s Aunt)

1925 – Ben Chapman, actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon)

1925 – Geraldine Brooks, actress (The Outer Limits)

Geraldine Brooks in The Outer Limits: Architects of Fear

Geraldine Brooks in The Outer Limits: Cold Hands Warm Heart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Robert Hardy, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Frankenstein)

1926 – Margaret Sheridan, actress (The Thing from Another World)

Margaret Sheridan in The Thing From Another World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Michael Jayston, actor (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Doctor Who, UFO)

1947 – Richard Dreyfuss, actor (Coma, Piranha 3D, Tin Man, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1957 – Dan Castellaneta, actor (Super 8, Stargate: SG-1, ALF)

Dan Castellaneta in Super 8

1963 – Adolphe Menjou, actor, d @ 73(Science Fiction Theatre)

1963 – Tim Minear, producer & writer (Dollhouse, Firefly, The X-Files, Lois and Clark)

1967 – Joely Fisher, actress (Something is Out There)

1968 – Grayson McCouch, actor (Armageddon)

1970 – Michael Daingerfield, actor (Smallville, The 4400, The Time Tunnel, Stargate SG-1, Earth: Final Conflict)

 

1971 – Winona Ryder, actress (Edward Scissorhands, Star Trek, Alien Resurrection, S1m0ne)

Winona Ryder in Alien Resurrection

1972 – Gabrielle Union, actress (Star Trek: DS9, FlashForward)

1977 – Brendan Fehr, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, Roswell)

1980 – Ben Foster, actor (30 Days of Night, FlashForward)

1982 – Chelan Simmons, actor (Kyle XY, Ogre, Stargate: Atlantis, Smallville)

1983 – Johnny Lewis, actor (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

1990 – Carlson Young, actor (Heroes)

1993 – India Eisley, actress (Underworld: Awakening)

1995 – Terry Southern, writer, d @ 71 (Barbarella)

1998 – Ted Hughes, sci-fi author, d @ 68 (The Iron Giant)

2005 – Lloyd Bochner, actor, d @ 80 (Superboy, Millennium, Manimal, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Starlost, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

2006 – Nigel Kneale, sci-fi author, d @ 84 (Quatermass)