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1892 – John Litel, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Flight to Mars)

John Litel in Flight to Mars.

1896 – Tom Keene, actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space, Red Planet Mars)

1911 – Jeanette Nolan, actress (The Reluctant Astronaut, The Invaders, Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk, The Manitou)

1917 – Nancy Coleman, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

 

 

 

 

1920 – Jack Lord, actor (The Invaders)

Jack Lord in The Invaders

1934 – Russ Tamblyn, actor (Babylon 5, Invisible Mom, The War of the Gargantuas, Quantum Leap, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Aftershock)

1934 – Joseph Bologna, actor (Alligator II: The Mutation, Not Quite Human)

1935 – Jack Riley, actor (Spaceballs, C.H.U.D. II, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, ALF, The Girl With Something Extra)

 

 

 

 

1942 – Fred Ward, actor (Tremors 1 & 2, Invasion: Earth, UFOria, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, The Incredible Hulk)

Fred Ward in Tremors

1945 – Concetta Tomei, actress (Deep Impact, Star Trek: Voyager, Max Headroom)

1947 – Michael Burns, actor (The Bionic Woman, Twilight Zone)

1950 – Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author

1956 – Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress (V)

1957 – Patricia Kalember, actress (Signs, Limitless)

1960 – Kelli Maroney, actress (Gila!, Not of This Earth, Night of the Comet)

1964 – George Newbern, actor (Perversions of Science)

1964 – Sophie Ward, actress (Dinotopia, Waxwork II: Lost in Time)

 

1968 – Bryan Burk, producer (Cloverfield, Star Trek, Fringe, Revolution, Westworld (2015), Star Wars: Episode VII, Super 8, Future Shock)

1969 – Meredith Monroe, actress (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Minority Report)

1971 – C.S. Lee, actor (Toxin, The Stepford Wives (2004))

1972 – Maureen Flannigan, actress (Out of This World, Star Trek: DS9)

1973 – Jason Behr, actor (Roswell. Alien Nation: Millennium)

1975 – Zahf Paroo, actor (Polaris, Continuum, Fringe, 10.5, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1)

1977 – Lucy Punch, actress (Dinotopia)

1978 – Tyrese Gibson, actor (Death Race, Transformers)

1980 – Eliza Dushku, actress (Dollhouse, Torchwood)

1982 – Kristin Kreuk, actress (Smallville, Space Milkshake)

1983 – Ashley Bashioum, actress (Flight of the Living Dead)

1986 – Faye Marsay, actress (Doctor Who)

1988 – Jena Sims, actress (Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader)

1996 – Jack Nance, actor, d @ 53 (Dune, The Blob)

1996 – Lew Ayres, actor, d @ 88 (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, End of the World, Battlestar Galactica, The Fantastic Journey, The Bionic Woman, The Questor Tapes, Earth II)

2006 – Frank Campanella, actor, d @ 87 (Salvage 1, Captain Video)