April 26

• 1980 – Jordana Brewster, who co-starred in the recent smash hit “Furious Seven.” She also appeared in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning” and “The Faculty.”
• 1979 – Writer/Producer/Director/Actor Jose Prendes, who wrote directed and starred in “Corpses Are Forever” and “Monster Man.”. He also appeared in the film “The Day the Earth Stopped.”
• 1977 – Actor/writer/director of such films as “The Dark Avengers”, “The Black Dahlia Haunting”, “Dead Sea”, “House of Manson” and more.
• 1977 – Tom Welling, who plays “Clark Kent” (a.k.a. “The Blur”) on the “Smallville” TV show. Her also starred in the 2005 remake of “The Fog.”
• 1967 – Glen Jacobs, a.k.a. the wrestler Kane. He starred in the film “See No Evil” and the upcoming “See No Evil 2.”
• 1963 – Jet Li, who starred in “Black Mask” and “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.”
• 1961 – Joan Chen, who played “Jocelyn Packard” in the series’ “twin peaks” and the film “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.”
• 1940 – Giorgio Moroder who composed the scores for the film “Cat People” and created a new score for the silent film “Metropolis.”
• 1912 – Sci-fi writer Alfred Elton Van Vogt. He wrote the “Null” trilogy and episodes of the TV series’ “The Twilight Zone,” “Night Gallery” and “Tales Of Tomorrow.”
• 1910 – The late Tomoyuki Tanaka who produced films for Toho for 49 years, including just about every Godzilla film .
• 1897 – Philip Tonge who appeared in the films, “Invisible Invaders,” the original “House of Wax” and “Macabre.”