1876 – Jack London, author (author, The Iron Heel)

1902 – Ray Teal, actor (Twilight Zone)

1916 – House Peters, actor (Twilight Zone, Target Earth, Red Planet Mars, The Day the Earth Stood Still, King of the Rocket Men, Flash Gordon)

1930 – Bruce Lansbury, writer (Swamp Thing, The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1934 – Bob Dishy, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1935 – Ron Harper, actor (Planet of the Apes)

Ron Harper in The Planet of the Apes: Escape from Tomorrow

1938 – Lewis Fiander, actor (Doctor Who, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)

Lewis Fiander in Doctor Who

1942 – Geoffrey Hoyle, sci-fi author (2010: Living in the Future)

1944 – Luke Bromley, actor (The World’s End, Torchwood)

1948 – Anthony Andrews, actor (Doomwatch)

1949 – Haruki Murakami, sci-fi author (1Q84, Sputnik Sweetheart)

1951 – Kirstie Alley, actress (Star Trek II, Runaway, Quark)

Kirstie Alley in Star Trek II

1955 – Rockne S. O’Bannon, writer (Farscape, V, Alien Nation, Revolution, The Twilight Zone, SeaQuest 2032, Creature, Invasion)

1959 – Ralf Moller, actor (Mutant X, Andromeda, Universal Soldier)

1960 – Wanda Cannon, actress (Andromeda, Code Name: Eternity, Earth: Final Conflict, My Secret Identity)

1960 – Oliver Platt, actor (2012, Bicentennial Man, Martian Child, Flatliners)

1899 – Nevil Shute, sci-fi author, d @ 60 (On the Beach)

1966 – Barbara Scolaro, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion)

1966 – Olivier Martinez, actor (Cybergeddon, Cybergeddon Zips)

1967 – Farrah Forke, actress (Bionic Ever After?, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Brain Twisters)

1968 – Rachel Harris, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, SeaQuest 2032)

1968 – Chris Gartin, actor (Transcendence, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1980 – Vanessa Johansson, actress (Day of the Dead)

1987 – Naya Rivera, actress (Frankenhood)

1987 – Will Rothhaar, actor (Battle Los Angeles, Fringe, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1989 – Tiler Peck, actor (Donnie Darko)

1991 – Keye Luke, actor, d @ 86 (Superboy, Star Trek, Project X)

1998 – Nathan Gamble, actor (The Mist)

Nathan Gamble in The Mist

1999 – Betty Lou Gerson, actress, d @ 84 (Twilight Zone, The Fly)

2001 – Zenon: The Zequel debuted on Disney Channel

2009 – Russ Conway, actor, d @ 95 (The Space-Watch Murders, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, The Munsters, The War of the Worlds, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Flight to Mars, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

2010 – Ann Prentiss, actress, d @ 70 (My Stepmother Is an Alien, Quark)

2011 – Paul Picerni, actor, d @ 88 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Men Into Space, The Immortal, Capricorn One, Project U.F.O., The Incredible Hulk, The Powers of Matthew Star)

2014 – Frank Marth, actor, d @ 91 (The Incredible Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Marooned, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian)

2014 – Alexandra Bastedo, actress, d @ 67 (The Starlost)