February 8

• 1974 – Seth Green, who appeared in the films “Idle Hands,” “Ticks” and the TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
• 1965 – Mathilda May, best known for playing the “Naked Space Vampire” in the Tobe Hooper film “Lifeforce”.
• 1955 – Ethan Phillips, who appeared in the films “Critters,” “The Shadow,” “The Island” and the TV series’ “Werewolf” and “Star Trek: Voyager.”
• 1953 – Mary Steenburgen, who starred in the films “Time After Time,” “Dead of Winter” and “Back to the Future Part III.”
• 1949 – Brooke Adams, who co-starred in the films “Shockwaves,” the 1978 remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “The Dead Zone.”
• 1933 – Jack Larson, who played “Jimmy Olsen” on the “Adventures of Superman,” TV series.
• 1932 – John Williams, one of the greatest film composers of all-time. He composed the music for such films as “Jaws”, “Star Wars”, “Superman”, “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, “Jurassic Park”, “Harry Potter” and so many more too numerous to list here.
• 1902 – Lyle Talbot, who appeared in the films “Glen or Glenda,” “Tobor the Great” and “Plan 9 From Outer Space.”
• 1828 – Author Jules Verne, whose novels include “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Master of the World” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.”