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1912 – Don Porter, actor (Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1915 – Larry Gates, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1922 – Bert I. Gordon, director (Earth vs. the Spider, War of the Colossal Beast, The Amazing Colossal Man, The Cyclops, Beginning of the End, Empire of the Ants, The Food of the Gods, Village of the Giants)
1927 – Arthur Malet, actor (Young Frankenstein, My Favorite Martian, Munster, Go Home!)

1934 – John Brunner, sci-fi author (100th Millennium, Stand on Zanzibar)
1936 – Jim Henson, puppetier/producer/writer
1937 – Dee Pollock, actor (The Outer Limits)

Dee Pollock in The Outer Limits episode, The Inheritors.

Dee Pollock in The Outer Limits episode, The Inheritors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1942 – Kenneth Tigar, actor (Fringe, The X Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap, ALF, Phantasm II, Star Trek: TNG, Project U.F.O., Man from Atlantis)

Kenneth Tigar in Phantasm II

Kenneth Tigar in Phantasm II

1944 – Sven-Ole Thorsen, actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe, The Running Man, Predator)
1945 – David A[llen] Drake, sci-fi author (Cross the Stars, Rolling Hot)
1945 – Ian Stewart, writer (The Science of Discworld)
1948 – Phil Hartman, actor (Coneheads, Amazon Women on the Moon, Extra Terrorestrial Alien Encounter, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1951 – Rick Zumwalt, actor (Timecop)

 

1956 – Following the World Science Fiction Convention in New York, the first Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference convenes in Milford, Pennsylvania. Organized by Damon Knight, James Blish, and Judith Merril, it attracts many of the leading writers in the field and will become the forerunner of many later professional science fiction workshops, including the long-running Clarion program.
1957 – Brad Bird, director (Tomorrowland)
1958 – Kevin Sorbo, actor (Andromeda)

Kevin Sorbo in Andromeda

Kevin Sorbo in Andromeda

1961 – John Logan, writer (Star Trek:Nemesis)
1965 – Kieran Mulroney, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Seven Days, From the Earth to the Moon, Star Trek: TNG)
1968 – Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author d @ 47(Telepath, Power of X)
1969 – Megan Ward, actress (Dark Skies, Encino Man, Trancers II)

1970 – Marc Guggenheim, writer (FlashForward)
1975 – Clive Morton, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, The Monsters, Out of This World)
1976 – Bruno VeSota, actor, d @ 54 (The Wasp Woman, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Creature of the Walking Dead, Invasion of the Star Creatures, War of the Satellites)

1976 – Ian Bohen, actor (Weird Science)

1984 – Lara Jean Chorostecki, actress (Antiviral)
1984 – Neil Hamilton, actor, d @ 85 (The Outer Limits)
1985 – Jessica Lucas, actress (Cloverfield, 2030 CE, Seven Days)
1987 – Spencer Treat Clark, actor (Unbreakable)

1998 – Genrikh [Saulovich Altshuller] Altov, sci-fi author, d @ 71
1999 – Nicole Leduc, actress (Kyle XY)

2003 – Lyle Bettger, actor, d @ 88 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)
2004 – Tim Choate, actor, d @ 49 (Babylon 5)
2009 – Cargo released

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