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1909 – Anne Seymour, actress (Planet of the Apes, Trancers)

1917 – Herbert Lom, actor (Whoops Apocalypse, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Mysterious Island, Project M7)

1926 – Alfred Slote, sci-fi author (My Robot Buddy, Omega Station)

1926 – Lee Richardson, actor (Fly 2)

Lee Richardson in The Fly 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Earl Holliman, actor (Forbidden Planet, Twilight Zone, Visit to a Small Planet, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1929 – Eve Brent, actress (Roswell, Weird Science, BrainWaves, Adventures of Superman)

1930 – Sam Reese, actor (The Outer Limits)

Sammy Reese in The Outer Limits: Behold Eck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Ian Abercrombie, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000, Otherworld, Voyagers!, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Young Frankenstein, The Questor Tapes)

1936 – Charles Dierkop (Star Trek, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Charles Dierkop in Star Trek

1940 – Brian De Palma (Mission to Mars)

1945 – Felton Perry, actor (RoboCop 1 – 3, Automan)

1948 – Michael Sacks (Slaughterhouse-Five, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

1949 – Kathrine Baumann, actress (The Thing with Two Heads)

1950 – Amy Madigan, actress (Fringe, Doppelganger, The Day After)

1956 – Tony Gilroy, writer (Armageddon)

1958 – Scott Patterson, actor (The Event, Them, The Lost World)

1958 – Roxann Dawson, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)

 

1958 – Julia Nickson, actress (Half-Life, SeaQuest 2032, Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)

1959 – John Hawkes, actor (S. Darko, Strange Frequency, Taken, The X Files, Steel, Future-Kill)

1960 – Anne Ramsay, actress (Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: TNG)

1961 – Virginia Madsen, actress (The Astronaut Farmer, Star Trek: Voyager, The Apocalypse Watch, Earth 2, Zombie High, Creator, Dune)

1964 – Roxanne Biggs-Dawson, actress (Star Trek Voyager)

1967 – Harry Connick Jr., Actor (Bug, Independence Day)

1970 – Chester Morris, actor, d @ 69 (The She-Creature)

1971 – Percy Helton, actor, d @ 77 (Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1977 – Leonard Carey, actor, d @ 90 (Adventures of Superman, The Invisible Man’s Revenge, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1979 – Ariana Richards, actress (Spaced Invaders, Jurassic Park, Tremors)

1979 – Cameron Richardson, actor (10.0 Earthquake)

1985 – Sam Reese, actor, d @ 55 (The Outer Limits)

1987 – Lorne Greene, actor, d @ 72 (Battlestar Galactica)

1994 – Jessica Tandy, actress, d @ 85 (*batteries not included, Cocoon)

1998 – Dane Clark, actor, d @ 86 (Salvage 1, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

2002 – Kim Hunter, actress d @ 79 (Planet of the Apes 1, 2, 3)

2003 – John Ritter, actor, d @ 55 (It Came From the Sky)

2009 – Zakes Mokae, actor, d @ 75 (The X Files, Waterworld, Outbreak)

2010 – Harold Gould, actor, d @ 86 (The Outer Limits, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Project X, The Invaders, The Satan Bug, Twilight Zone, The Man from Planet X)

2010 – Kevin McCarthy, actor, d @ 96 (Invasion of Body Snatchers [1958 & 1978], Innerspace, Trail of the Screaming Forehead, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, Slipstream, Final Approach, Eve of Destruction, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Exo-Man, The Invaders, ‘Way Out, Twilight Zone)

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1882 – Paul Harvey, actor (The Flying Missile)

1898 – Bessie Love, actress (The Hunger, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Andromeda Breakthrough, The Lost World)

1914 – Robert Wise, director (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Andromeda Strain, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1915 – Edmond O’Brien died 9 May 1985 (1984, Fantastic Voyage, Moon Pilot)

1927 – Gwen Watford, actress (Doomwatch)

1928 – Leo P[atrick] Kelley, sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space)

1931 – Philip Baker Hall, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Roswell, M.A.N.T.I.S., Man from Atlantis)

1948 – Judy Geeson, actress (Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion, Star Trek: Voyager, Horror Planet, Star Maidens, Space: 1999)

Judy Geeson in Space: 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1951 – Harry Groener (Star Trek: TNG, Roswell, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Day the World Ended, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: Voyager, Quantum Leap)

1953 – Amy Irving, actress(Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics)

Amy Irving in Rod Serling’s Lost Classics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1953 – Stuart Milligan, actor (Doctor Who, Whoops Apocalypse, Outland)

Stuart Milligan in Doctor Who

1954 – Don Wilson, actor (Sci-Fighter, Virtual Combat, Cyber Tracker)

1954 – Clark Johnson, actor (Re-Generation, Murder in Space)

1957 – Jim Jackman, actor (Zombthology, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Spaceballs)

1958 – Chris Columbus, director (Bicentennial Man)

1959 – Stacey Nelkin, actress (Fringe, Twilight Zone)

1963 – Jay Laga’aia, actor (Star Wars: Episodes II and III, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!, Mysterious Island)

1969 – Johnathon Schaech, actor (Star-Crossed, Quarantine)

1972 – James Duval, actor (Lazarus: Day of the Living Dead, Evilution, Donnie Darko, Independence Day)

1974 – Ryan Phillippe, actor (Invader)

1974 – Sebastian Gutierrez, writer (The Eye, Gothika)

1974 – Sarah Danielle Goldberg, actress (Savage Planet, Jurassic Park III)

1976 – George Baxter, actor, d @ 71 (Flying Saucer, Unknown World, Twilight Zone, She Devil, Space Patrol),

1981 – Lindsay Maxwell, actress (The Butterfly Effect 2, Stargate SG-1, Seven Days)

1984 – Harry Treadaway, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies)

1985 – Elyse Levesque, actress (SGU Stargate Universe, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Smallville, Flash Gordon, 2030 CE)

1994 – Charles Drake, actor, d @ 76 (Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Invaders, Tobor the Great, It Came from Outer Space)

2010 – Resident Evil: Afterlife released

2010 – E C Tubb, sci-fi author, d @ 90

2014 – Richard Kiel, actor, d @ 74 (Twilight Zone, Moonraker, The Phantom Planet, The Nutty Professor, The Human Duplicators, The Humanoid, Out of this World, The Incredible Hulk TV series, Our Robot Overlords)

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1899 – Neil Hamilton, actor (The Outer Limits)

Neil Hamilton in The Outer Limits: The Invisibles

 

1914 – James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man, Killers From Space, The Flying Missle, When Worlds Collide, Day the Earth Stood Still, Phantom From Space, War of the Worlds, Science Fiction Theatre, The Amazing Colossel Man, World of Giants, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders)

1919 – Richard Webb, actor (Invisible Monster)

 

 

 

1923 – Cliff Robertson, actor (Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits (original & Showtime versions)

Cliff Robertson in The Outer Limits: Galaxy Being

1929 – Nick Ramus, actor (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

1931 – Margaret Tyzack, actress (Quatermass, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange)

1935 – Topol, actor (Flash Gordon, SeaQuest 2032)

1943 – Art LaFleur, actor (Space Rangers, Trancers I & II, The Blob, Zone Troopers, WarGames, The Invisible Woman, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, The Incredible Hulk)

1944 – Jeffrey Alan Chandler, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Twilight Zone)

 

1950 – Norbert Wiener, who had earlier coined the term “cybernetics” in his 1948 book of that title, publishes The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, arguing the benefits of automation but warning of possible misuse and wide unemployment.

1951 – Tom Wopat, actor (Smallville, Meteorites)

1952 – Angela Cartwright, actress (Logan’s Run, Lost in Space)

Angela Cartwright as Penny Robinson in Lost in Space

1953 – Janet Fielding, actress (Doctor Who)

1954 – Jeffrey Alan Combs, actor (Star Trek: DS9, SharkMan)

1957 – The 15th annual World Science Fiction convention in London is the first held outside North America and draws an attendance of 268. John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, becomes the first three-time guest of honor (he had previously been guest of honor in 1947 and 1954).

1959 – Bruce Stait, actor (Fringe, Tron: Legacy, Smallville, Blade: The Series, Stargate: Atlantis, The 4400, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, First Wave, The X-Files)

1964 – Robert Duncan McNeil, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

 

1965 – Charles Esten, actor (The Postman, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG)

1965 – Michelle Johnson, actress (Specimen)

1965 – Brenda Epperson, actress (Bug Buster)

1966 – Time Tunnel Debuted on ABC

1966 – Nestor Paiva, actor, d @ 61 (They Saved Hitler’s Brain, Jesse James Meet Frankenstein’s Daughter, My Living Doll, The Three Stooges in Orbit, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, World of Giants, The Mole People, Tarantula, Revenge of the Creature, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Creature from the Black Lagoon)

1966 – Adam Sandler, actor (Coneheads)

1966 – David Bennent, actor (Legend)

1968 – Julia Sawalha, actress (Comic Relief: Doctor Who – The Curse of Fatal Death)

1971 – Eric Stonestreet, actor (The Island)

1971 – Henry Thomas, actor (ET)

1972 – Goran Visnjic, actor (Extant, The Deep, Elektra)

1975 – Ethel Griffies, actress (It Happened Tomorrow)

1975 – John McGiver,actor, d @ 61 (Way Out, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1976 – Rogelio T. Ramos, actor (Zombie Night)

1980 – Michelle Williams, actress (Timemaster, Species)

1987 – Burgess Meredith, actor, d @ 89 (The Twilight Zone)

1994 – Patrick O’Neal, actor, d @ 66 (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1994 – Roy Castle, actor dies (Dr Who & the Daleks)

1995 – Keith Wayne, actor, d @ 50 (Night of the Living Dead)

1999 – Ruth Roman, actress, d @ 76 (Day of the Animals, The Outer Limits)

2003 – Larry Hovis, actor, d @ 67 (Holmes & Yo-Yo, My Living Doll)

2014 – Denny Miller, actor, d @ 80 (V, Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Beyond Westworld, Battlestar Galactica, Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man, Doomsday Machine)

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1894 – William Fawcett, actor (The Munsters, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, Twilight Zone, Commando Cody, Captain Video, Atom Man vs. Superman)

1907 – Sid Tomack, actor (The Space Children)

1911 – Brian Morrow, actor (The Bionic Woman, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Invaders, Cyborg 2087, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Twilight Zone)

Brian Morrow as Komack in Star Trek: Amok Time

1922 – Harry Harris, director (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

1934 – Michael A. Hoey, director (The Navy vs. the Night Monsters)

1937 – Archie Goodwin, writer (Marvel Comics and Warren Publications)

1941 – Christopher Connelly, actor (The Bronx Warrier, The Raiders of Atlantis, Earthbound, Beyond Westworld, The Martian Chronicles, Salvage 1, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1942 – Nancy Ann Dibble, Netherlands, sci-fi author (Summerfair)

1945 – Willard Huyck, writer/director (Howard the Duck)

 

1948 – Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, sci-fi author (Black Flame)

1950 – A. E. van Vogt publishes The Voyage of the Space Beagle, a “fix-up” novel from previously published stories, one of which would much later provide the inspiration for the film Alien.

1954 – Mark Lindsay Chapman, actor (Lois & Clark, Weird Science, The Langoliers, Swamp Thing, Max Headroom)

Mark Lindsay Chapman in Swamp Thing

 

 

 

 

 

1955 – Julian Richings, actor (Man of Steel, Survival of the Dead, Re-Generation, My Best Friend is an Alien, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms, Cube, Mimic, RoboCop, War of the Worlds)

1957 – Heather Thomas, actress (Swamp Thing, Cyclone, Zapped!)

Heather Thomas in Swamp Thing

1957 – The 15th annual World Science Fiction convention in London is the first held outside North America and draws an attendance of 268. John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, becomes the first three-time guest of honor (he had previously been guest of honor in 1947 and 1954).

1958 – Sonja Smits, actress (TekWar, Videodrome)

1961 – David Knell, actor (The Invisible Man, Total Recall, ALF)

1962 – Thomas Kretschmann, actor (FlashForward, Bionic Woman, Frankenstein, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Blade II, Total Recall 2070, Total Reality)

 

 

1966 – Star Trek, Debuted NBC

Star Trek debuted

 

1971 – Martin Freeman, actor (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Shaun of the Dead)

1975 – Larenz Tate, actor (The Postman, The Twilight Zone)

1975 – John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82

1981 – Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor (Smallville)

1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, actor, d @ 78 (Doomsday Machine)

1991 – Brad Davis, actor, d @ 42 (Twilight Zone)

2006 – Frank Middlemass, actor, d @ 87 (The Invisible Man, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed)

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1900 – Emerson Treacy, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1902 – Roy Barcroft, actor, (Radar Men from the Moon, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Destination Inner Space )

Roy Barcroft in Commando Cody: Radar Men From the Moon

1937 – John Phillip Law, actor (Alienator, Barbarella)

1950 – Julie Kavner, actress (Revenge of the Stepford Wives)

1953 – The 11th World Science Fiction convention opens in Philadelphia, and is the first to present the Science Fiction Achievement Awards, informally known as Hugos. Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man wins best novel, and a Hugo for Best New Writer goes to Philip José Farmer.

1954 – Michael Emerson, actor (The X-Files)

1954 – Doug Bradley, actor (Proteus)

1954 – Corbin Bensen, actor (They Are Among Us, Beings, Atomic Twister, Spacejacked, Menno’s Mind, Inhumanoid, Aurora: Operation Intercept, Star Trek: TNG)

1955 – Mira Furlan, actor (Babylon 5, Space Command)

1957 – Stewart Finlay-McLennan, actor (E.A.R.T.H. Force)

1957 – The 15th annual World Science Fiction convention in London is the first held outside North America and draws an attendance of 268. John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, becomes the first three-time guest of honor (he had previously been guest of honor in 1947 and 1954).

1959 – The 17th annual World Science Fiction convention is held in Detroit, with an attendance of 371. James Blish wins the best novel Hugo for A Case of Conscience.

1958 – Queen of Outer Space released

1960 – Christopher Villiers, actor (Triassic Attack, From Time to Time, Doctor Who, Ultraviolet)

Christopher Villiers in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1962 – Cliff Simon, actor (Stargate)

1963 – W. Earl Brown, actor (The X Files, Deep Impact, Project: ALF)

1967 – Toby Jones, actor (The Hunger Games, Doctor Who, The Mist)

Toby Jones in Doctor Who

1969 – Angie Everhart, actress (Bugs, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1969 – Diane Farr, actress (Collision Earth, Roswell)

1973 – Alex Kurtzman, writer (Star Trek, Transformers, Fringe, Cowboys & Aliens, The Island)

1974 – Noah Huntley, actor (28 Days Later…, The Omega Code 2, Event Horizon)

1977 – Monique Gabriela Curnen, actress (Contagion)

1987 – Evan Rachel Wood, actor (S1m0ne)

1987 – Harry Locke, actor d @ 73 (The Creeping Flesh)

1996 – Bibi Besch, actress, d @ 56 (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Tremors, The Day After, The Six Million Dollar Man, Meteor)

1997 – Elisabeth Brooks, actress, d @ 46 (Deep Space, The Six Million Dollar Man)

2004 – Caitlin Clarke, actress, d @ 52 (The Stepford Husbands)

2009 – Ed Valigursky, artist, d @ 82 (Pulp magazines such as Saga, etc)

2010 – Glenn Shadix, d @ 58 (Planet of the Apes, Multiplicity, Demolition Man)