1893 – Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)

1907 – Jeff Morrow, actor (This Island Earth, The Twilight Zone, Octaman, Twilight Zone, The Giant Claw, Kronos, The Creature Walks Among Us)

Jeff Morrow in This Island Earth.

1916 – Osa Massen, actress (Rocketship XM, Science Fiction Theatre)

1918 – Steve Dunne, actor (Quatermass II)

1919 – Robert Stack, actor (Butt-Ugly Martians)

1923 – Jack Watling, actor (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

Jack Watling in Doctor Who

1925 – Gwen Verdon, actress (Cocoon I & II)

1925 – Rosemary Murphy, actress (‘Way Out)

1928 – David Sheiner, actor (Automan, Manimal, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Tom Corbett Space Cadet, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

1928 – Gregory Walcott, actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man)

Gregory Walcott in Plan 9 from Outer Space

1930 – Frances Sternhagen, actress (Outland, The Mist, The Outer Limits, Prototype, Independence Day, Communion)

1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly (Millennium, The X Files)

1932 – Ian Hendry, actor (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1932 – Jon Cypher, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Invaders (1995), RoboCop (TV), Spontaneous Combustion, Probe, Masters of the Universe, The Food of the Gods)

1933 – Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, sci-fi author / writer (Deadwalk, Plunder / Flash Gordon, TekWar)

1935 – Rip Taylor, actor (Virtual Combat)

1938 – Billy Gray, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters, Adventures of Superman)

1938 – William B. Davis, actor (Continuum, Caprica, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, Smallville, Andromeda, Singularity Principle, Sliders)

1942 – Carol Cleveland, actress (Moon Zero Two)

1943 – Richard Moll, actor (Smallville, Galaxis, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Evolution, Spiders II: Breeding Ground, Weird Science, The Munsters Today, Mork & Mindy, Ragewar, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn)

Richard Moll in Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.

1945 – [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], sci-fi author (High Kings)

1948 – Malcolm Story, actor (New Worlds, Jekyll, Star Trap)

1956 – Dwight H. Little, director (Tekken, Dollhouse, The X Files, Strange World, Millennium)

1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Robosapien: Rebooted)

1965 – Bill Bailey, actor (Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Spaced)

1966 – Patrick Dempsey, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), Outbreak, The Stuff)

1970 – Keith Coogan, actor (Python, Starman)

1971 – John Asher, actor (Space Cowboys, Weird Science (TV))

1972 – Nicole Eggert, actress (Amanda and the Alien, Annihilator)

1976 – Michael Peña, actor (Battle Los Angeles, The Twilight Zone, Roswell, Ant-Man)

1976 – Margaret Leighton, actress, d @ 53 (Journey Through the Black Sun, Space: 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1979 – Jill Wagner, actress (Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: The Series)

1983 – Arthur Space, actor, d @ 74 (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth)

1989 – Joe Spinell, actor, d @ 51 (Starcrash)

1989 – Beau Mirchoff, actor (I Am Number Four)

1990 – Liam Hemsworth, actor (The Hunger Games)

2000 – Elizabeth Kerr, actress, d @ 87 (Mork & Mindy, The Six Million Dollar Man)

2009 – Patrick McGoohan, actor, d @ 80 (Hysteria, Scanners)