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1892 – Henry Victor, actor (King of the Zombies)
1900 – Barton Yarbrough, actor (The Ghost of Frankenstein)
1906 – Willy Ley, sci-fi author (Adventure in Space)
1907 – George Grizzard, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Twilight Zone)
1909 – Alex Raymond, artist (Flash Gordon)
1911 – Jack Finney, sci-fi author (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1917 – Charles Drake, actor (Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Invaders, Tobor the Great, It Came from Outer Space)
1925 – Rock Hudson, actor, d @ 85 (Martian Chronicles, Embryo)
1929 – Moses Gunn, actor (Salvage 1, Rollerball)
1933 – David Somerville, actor (Star Trek)
1936 – David Gale, actor (Guyver, Re-Animator, Bride of Re-Animator, The Brain)
1944 – Larry Ward, actor (voice of Jabba the Hutt and Greedo, both uncredited)
1944 – Vernor [Steffen] Vinge, US, sci-fi author (Witling, True Names, Hugos for A Fire on the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, Rainbow’s End)
1948 – Persis Khambatta (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Lois & Clark)
1948 – Avery Brooks, actor (Star Trek: DS9)
1950 – Ian McNiece, actor (Doctor Who, Day of the Dead, White Noise, Frankenstein, Children of Dune, Dune, Bugs, The Tomorrow People, The Cloning of Joanna May, Time Riders, Whoops Apocalypse)
1950 – Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, loosely inspired by Robert A. Heinlein’s 1948 novel Space Cadet, debuts on CBS television, and will continue on various networks until 1955.
1951 – Sting, [Gordon Sumner] (Dune)
1952 – Robin Riker, actress (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Sliders, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Misfits of Science)
1958 – Jeffrey Weissman, actor (Flying Saucer Rock ‘N’ Roll, 2001: A Space Travesty, Back to the Future II & III, Max Headroom, Twilight Zone: The Movie)
1959 – The Twilight Zone debuts on CBS with Rod Serling as host and chief writer; it will feature scripts and adaptations by Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, and others, and become among the most influential of science fiction/fantasy TV series.
1962 – Joe Lara, actor (Doomsdayer, Warhead, American Cyborg: Steel Warrior)
1965 – Richard Ashton, actor (Space Precinct, The Fifth Element)
1967 – Suki Kaiser, actress (Category 7: The End of the World, Cyberjack, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Girl from Mars)
1967 – Lew Temple, actor (Zombex, The Walking Dead, Futurestates, Zombie Night)
1968 – Joey Slotnick, actor (Hollow Man)
1973 – Danny Smith, actor (Warehouse 13)
1973 – Paul Hartmann, actor, d @69 (The Reluctant Astronaut, Twilight Zone)
1974 – Michelle Krusiec, actress (Fringe, Star Trek: DS9)
1979 – Adam O’Byrne, actor (Extant)
1979 – Brianna Brown, actress (Night of the Living Dead 3D, Smallville)
1980 – Michele Nordin, actress (Alien Arsenal)
1981 – Milan Todorovic, director (Wrath of the Dead, Zone of the Dead)
1986 – Camilla Belle, actress (Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth, The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
1987 – James Dobson, actor (Mutiny in Outer Space)
1987 – Christopher Larkin, actor (The 100)
1994 – Brendan Meyer, actor (The 100, Girl vs. Monster, Dinosapien)
2005 – Hamilton Camp, actor d @ 70 (Starcrash, The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, The Zeta Project)
2006 – Tamara Dobson, actress, d @ 59 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Jason of Star Command)
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