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1899 – Forrest Lewis, actor (Monster of Piedras Blancas)

1900 – Philip MacDonald, sci-fi author (Forbidden Planet)

1910 – General Sir John Hackett, author (The Third World War: August 1985)

1913 – John McGiver, actor (Way Out, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1916 – Willoughby Gray, actor (Solarbabies)

1918 – Alan Tilvern, actor (Superman, UFO, The Frozen Dead, Out of the Unknown, Doctor Who, H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man)

1925 – Robert Fortier, actor (The Outer Limits, Star Trek)

Robert Fortier in The Outer Limits: The Production and Decay of Strange Particles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Kenneth Waller, actor (Doctor Who)

1932 – Jan Shutan, actress (Star Trek, The Outer Limits)

Jan Shutan in Star Trek

1933 – Herb Edelman, actor (Out of This World, It’s About Time)

1934 – Victor Argo, actor (The Terminal Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1935 – Dick Davalos, actor (Battle Beyond the Stars)

1935 – David Battley, actor (Krull)

1937 – Harris Yulin, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, Multiplicity)

 

 

 

1938 – Chris Robinson, actor (Beast from Haunted Cave, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Chris Robinson in The Invaders: The Organization

1940 – Elke Summer, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Astral Factor)

1943 – Sam Shepard, actor (Stealth)

1949 – Armin Shimerman, actor (Sliders, Star Trek: DS9, Warehouse 13, Invasion, Tremors, The Invisible Man, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG, The Lost World)

1955 – Nestor Serrano, actor (Fringe, The Day After Tomorrow, The X-Files)

1956 – Eugene Lipinski, actor (Fringe, Year of the Creature, Rollerball (2002), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Outland, Superman II)

1957 – Jon Eric Hexum, actor (Voyager from the Unknown, Voyagers!)

 

1958 – Robert Patrick, actor (Terminator II, Stargate: Atlantis, The X-Files, The Outer Limits)

Robert Patrick in Terminator II

1960 – Tilda Swinton, actress (The Zero Theorum, Possible Worlds

1962 – Michael Gaston, actor (Inception, Fringe)

1964 – Famke Janssen, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1966 – Leni Parker, actor (Helix, Gallidor: Defenders of the Outer Dimension, Earth: Final Conflict)

1967 – Judy Reyes, actress (Godzilla 1997)

1968 – Robert Ayres, actor, d @ 54 (Time Slip, First Man Into Space, Battle Beneath the Earth)

1968 – J.D. Evermore, actor (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Mysterious Island, Hell Swarm)

1968 – Seth Gilliam, actor (Starship Troopers)

1968 – Estelle Hemsley, actress, d @ 81 (Leech Woman)

1968 – Sam Rockwell, actor (Galaxy Quest, Moon,Hithchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Cowboys and Aliens)

1969 – David Mattey, actor (The Toxic Avenger IV, Alien Hunger, Star Trek: Enterprise)

1969 – Pat Kilbane, actor (Day of the Dead, Evolution, Star Patrol)

1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, actress (Doctor Who

1971 – Corin Nemec, actor (Star Trek: Renegades, Robocroc, Nuclear Family, RoboDoc, The Sea Beast, My Apocalypse, S. S. Doomtrooper, Mansquito, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, The Stand, Solar Crisis)

1971 – Chris Addison, actor (Doctor Who, Apocalypse 2012)

1975 – Stafford Repp, actor, d @ 56 (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

1984 – Mario Yedidia, actor (The Invaders)

1990 – Herbert Berghof, actor, d @ 81 (Out There, Red Planet Mars)

1991 – Fred MacMurray, actor, d @ 83 (The Swarm, Beyond the Bermuda Triangle)

1995 – Madison McLaughlin, actress (Meteor Apocalypse)

2003 – The Matrix Revolutions released

2008 – Michael Higgins, actor, d @ 88 (The Outer Limits)

2010 – Jill Clayburgh, actress, d @ 66 (The Terminal Man)

2014 – Interstellar released