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1907 – Gordon Douglas, director (Them!)

1909 – Jack Gwillim, actor (A for Andromeda)

1921 – Bob Todd, actor (Superman III)

1925 – Kasey Rogers, actress (The Invisible Man, When Worlds Collide)

Kasey Rogers in When Worlds Collide

1935 – Rueven Bar-Yotam, actor (The Invisible Man, Small Wonder)

1937 – John [Thomas] Sladek, sci-fi author (Tik-Tok, Bugs)

1944 – Morgan Paull, actor (Blade Runner, Beyond Westworld, The Swarm, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1945 – Thaao Penghlis, actor (Altered States)

1948 – David Gwillim, actor (The Invisible Man)

1948 – Melanie Chartoff, actress (Weird Science)

 

 

1948 – Cassandra Harris, actress (Space: 1999)

Cassandra Harris in Space 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1949 – Don Johnson, actor (A Boy and His Dog, Revenge of the Stepford Wives)

Don Johnson in A Boy and His Dog

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1952 – Marta DuBois, actress (Star Trek: TNG, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, Starman (TV), Voyagers!)

Marta DuBois in Star Trek TNG

1953 – Robert Charles Wilson, sci-fi author (2006 Hugo for Spin)

1954 – Alex Cox, director (Repo Chick, Repo Man)

1959 – Heidi Bohay, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1960 – Don Franklin, actor (Seaquest 2032, The Outer Limits, Asteroid)

1963 – Helen Slater, actress (Supergirl, Smallville)

1965 – Anjul Nigam, actor (Terminator Salvation, Cloverfield, NetForce)

1966 – Molly Price, actress (Bionic Woman (2007))

1966 – Walt Disney, producer, d @ 65 (The Black Hole, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Absent Minded Professor, Son of Flubber)

1968 – Garrett Wang, actor (Star Trek Voyager, The Crypto-Historians, Unbelievable!!!!!, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men)

1969 – Ralph Ineson, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy)

 

1970 – Michael Shanks, actor (Stargate, Elysium, Smallville, Eureka, Andromeda)

1972 – Stuart Townsend, actor (AEon Flux)

1972 – Edward Earle, actor, d @ 90 (The She-Creature, Science Fiction Theatre, Flight to Mars)

1977 – Geoff Stults, actor (The Chronicle)

1978 – Superman released

1979 – Bern Hoffman, actor, d @ 66 (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)

1979 – Adam Brody, actor (Smallville)

1981 – Victoria Summer, actress (Terrordactyl, Transformers: Age of Extinction, The Zombie Diaries)

1981 – Brendan Fletcher, actor (13 Eerie, Defying Gravity, Ogre, Smallville, Jake 2.0, Millennium)

1982 – Charlie Cox, actor (A for Andromeda)

1983 – Jessica Borden, actress (Dark Skies)

1984 – Sonalii Castillo, actress (Heroes)

1986 – John Zaremba, d @ 78 (Earth vs. Flying Saucers, 20 Million Miles to Earth, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)

1989 – Edward Underdown, actor, d @ 81 (Day the Earth Caught Fire, Doctor Who)

1989 – Arnold Moss, actor, d @ 79 (The Time Tunnel, Star Trek, The 27th Day, Tales of Tomorrow)

1998 – Chandler Canterbury, actor (The Host (2013), Fringe, Repo Men, )

2007 – John Berg actor, d @ 58 (Star Trek: Nemesis)

2013 – Peter O’Toole, actor, d @ 81 (Phantoms, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Creator, Supergirl)

2013 – Joan Fontaine, actress, d @ 96 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

2014 – Booth Colman, actor, d @ 91 (Star Trek: Voyager, Galactica 1980, Project U.F.O., Time Travelers, Planet of the Apes (TV), The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Moonfleet, Them!)