February 12

• 1980 – Christina Ricci, who portrayed “Wednesday Addams” in the “Addams Family” films and also starred in “Sleepy Hollow,” “After.Life” and “Cursed.” She also played the role of “Trixie” in the big screen version of “Speed Racer.”
• 1968 – Josh Brolin, son of James. He starred in the films “The Goonies,” “Mimic,” “The Hollow Man” and “Planet Terror,” “Jonah Hex”.
• 1965 – Christine Elise, appeared in “Child’s Play 2″, “Body Snatchers”, “Charmed (TV Series)”.
• 1952 – Simon MacCorkindale, who appeared in the TV series’ “Quatermass,” “Manimal” and the film “Jaws 3D.”
• 1950 – Michael Ironside, who appeared in the films “Scanners,” “Visiting Hours,” “Starship Troopers” and “Terminator Salvation.”
• 1945 – Gareth Thomas, who played “Roj Blake” on the TV series “Blake’s 7.”
• 1940 – Richard Lynch, who has starred in the films “Bad Dreams,” “Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge,” “Corpses Are Forever,” Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” and “Mil Mascaras vs the Aztec Mummy.”
• 1940 – Ralph Bates, who has starred in the Hammer classics, “Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde,” “Taste the Blood of Dracula” and “The Horror of Frankenstein.”
• 1919 – Forrest Tucker, best known for playing “Sgt. O’Rourke” on the TV series “F Troop.” He starred in the films “The Crawling Eye,” “The Abominable Snowman” and “The Cosmic Monsters.”
• 1899 – Edward L. Cahn, who directed the films “It, the Terror From Beyond Space,” “The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake” and “Invisible Invaders.”
• 1898 – Wallace Ford, who has appeared in the films “Freaks,” “The Mummy’s Hand” and “The Ape Man.”