Beyond The Threshold

1918 – Maxine Stuart, actress (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Maxine Stuart in The Outer Limits episode. The Man Who Was Never Born/

1926 – Mel Brooks (Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein)

Mel Brooks in Spaceballs

1928 – Don Dubbins, actor (Starman, The Illustrated Man, Mork & Mindy, The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space, From the Earth to the Moon)

1932 – Pat Morita, actor (Earth Minus Zero, Timemaster, Space Rangers, The Munsters Today, Slapstick (Of Another Kind), The Incredible Hulk, Man from Atlantis)
1938 – John Byner, actor (Robodoc)

1946 – Bruce Davison (Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager, V, The Astronauts, Return of the Killer Shrews, Earth’s Final Hours, The Sarah Jane Chronicles, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek)
1946 – Robert Asprin, sci-fi author (Myth Adventures, Thieves’ World)
1948 – Kathy Bates, actress (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dragonfly, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Stand, The Morning After)

1951 – David Gautreaux, actor (The Event, Threshold, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Man from Atlantis)
1951 – Lalla Ward, actress (Doctor Who)

Lalla Ward as Romana in Doctor Who

1952 – Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” is published in Collier’s, and over the next four decades will become probably the most frequently reprinted American science fiction story.
1954 – Raffaella De Laurentiis, producer (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Kull the Conqueror, Dune)
1954 – Alice Krige, actress (Children of Dune, Dinotopia, Star Trek: Voyager, Welcome to Paradox, Star Trek: First Contact)
1959 – Christopher Doohan, actor (Star Trek Continues, Star Trek ID, Star Trek, Star Trek: the Motion Picture)

1966 – John Cusack (2012, Hot Tub Time Machine)
1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, actress (The Stepford Wives)
1966 – Sara Stewart, actress (Wizards vs. Aliens, Doctor Who, Space Island One)
1967 – Gil Bellows, actor (Extraterrestrial, Sanctuary, FlashForward, Smallville, Infected, Final Days of Planet Earth)
1969 – Ayelet Zurer, actor (Man of Steel, Halo 4: Forward Into Dawn)

1970 – Steve Burton, actor (Taken, Manimal)
1972 – Alessandro Nivola, actor (The Eye, Jurassic Park III)
1973 – Carsten Bjornlund, actor (The Thing)
1974 – Frank Sutton, actor d @ 50 (Captain Video and His Video Rangers, Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, Twilight Zone)
1975 – Rod Serling, writer/producer d @ 50 (Twilight Zone)
1975 – Jeff Geddis, actor (Monster Island, Odyssey 5, Earth: Final Conflict)
1979 – Felicia Day, actress (Eureka, Dollhouse)

1985 – James Craig, actor, d @ 73 (Doomsday Machine, Venus Flytrap, Science Fiction Theatre)

1990 – Nicholas Purcell, actor (Surrogates)
1992 – Joan Marshall, actress d @ 61 (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)
1993 – Lifepod released
1995 – Kare Hedebrant, actress (Let the Right One In)

2006 – Superman Returns released
2006 – Jim Baen, editor, publisher, founder of Baen Books, d @ 62