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1913 – Richard Simmons, actor (The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, The Munsters)

1921 – Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek franchise, Andromeda, Planet Earth, The Questor Tapes, Genesis II)

Gene Roddenberry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1924 – William Marshall, actor (Dinosaur Valley Girls, Amazon Women on the Moon, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Star Trek)

William Marshall in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 – Angus Scrimm, actor (Phantasm I – IV, Mindwarp, Subspecies, Salvage 1, Project U.F.O.)

Angus Scrimm in Phantasm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – D[avid] G[uy] Compton, sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays)

1927 – L. Q. Jones, actor (Timerider: The Adventures of Lyle Swann, The Incredible Hulk, A Boy and His Dog, My Favorite Martian)

1938 – Diana Muldaur (Star Trek: TNG, The Incredible Hulk, PlanetEatth, Star Trek, The Invaders)

Diana Muldaur in Star Trek

1940 – Jill St. John, actress (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Lost World)

1946 – Christopher Malcolm, actor (Whoops Apocalypse, Superman III, The Empire Strikes Back)

1947 – Gerald McRaney, actor (The Incredible Hulk, The Aliens Are Coming, Logan’s Run, The Brain Machine, The Fantastic Journey, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1948 – Jim Carter, actor (Flash Gordon)

1952 – Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: TNG, Roswell, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark, Twilight Zone)

1956 – Adam Arkin, actor (Perversions of Science, Hard Time on Planet Earth, The Twilight Zone)

1961 – Tony Longo, actor (They Came from Outer Space, The X-Files)

1965 – Kevin Dillon, actor (Remote Control, The Blob (remake filmed in my hometown))

 

1966 – Hermione Baddeley, actress, d @ 79 (C.H.O.M.P.S., The Bionic Woman, Journey to the Unknown)

1973 – Ahmed Best (Star Wars)

1975 – Tracie Thomas b. 1975 (Looper)

1977 – Callum Blue, actor (Smallville, The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1978 – Michelle Borth, actor (Timer, Komodo vs. Cobra)

1983 – Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn released

1983 – Tammin Sursok, actor (Airship Dracula, Aquamarine)

1983 – Tania Nolan, actress (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans)

1987 – Hayden Rorke, actor d @ 76 (When Worlds Collide, Project Moon Base, Twilight Zone, I Dream of Jeannie)

1992 – John Sturges, director, d @ 82 (Marooned, The Satan Bug)

2011 – Jimmy Sangster, screenwriter, d @ 83 (The Crawling Eye, X: The Unknown)

2010 – Ahna Capri, actress, d @ 66 (Man from Atlantis, Piranha, The Invaders)

2013 – Lee Thompson Young, actor, d @ 29 (Smallville, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Jake 2.0)

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1912 – Emile Meyer, actor (My Favorite Martian)

1925 – Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy)

1929 – Joan Taylor, actress, d @ 82 4 March 2012 (Men Into Space, 20 Million Miles to Earth, Earth vs. Flying Saucers)

Joan Taylor in Earth vs the Flying Saucers

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Grant Williams (The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Monolith Monsters, Brain of Blood, The Munsters, The OuterLImits)

Grant Williams in The Monolith Monsters

1936 – Robert Redford, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1942 – Rafaela Ottiano, actress, d@ 54 (The Devil-Doll)

1943 – Martin Mull, actor (Lois & Clark)

1947 – Shirley Prestia, actress (Babylon 5, Species, ALF)

 

 

 

 

1948 – Joseph Marcell, actor (Doctor Who)

Joseph Marcell in Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks

1952 – Patrick Swayze, actor (Donnie Darko)

1957 – Dennis Leary, actor (Demolition Man)

1958 – Madeleine Stowe, actress (Twelve Monkeys)

1961 – Glenn Plummer, actor (The Day After Tomorrow, Strange Days)

1962 – Adam Storke, actor (The Invisible Man, Prey, Lifepod)

1964 – Craig Bierko, actor (Scary Movie 4, Red Dwarf)

1968 – Griffin Drew, actress (Dinosaur Island)

1969 – Edward Norton (Hulk)

1969 – Christian Slater, actor (Star Trek: VI The Undiscovered Country, Beyond the Stars)

 

1970 – Malcolm Jamal Warner, actor (Sliders

1971 – Jada Pinkett, actress (, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions)

1971 – Jacob Vargas, actor (Death Race, She-Bat, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1990 – B.F. Skinner, sci-fi author, d @ 86 (Walden Two)

1991 – David Gale, actor, d @ 54 (Guyver, Re-Animator, Bride of Re-Animator, The Brain)

1991 – Richard Harmon, actor (Continuum, The 100, Fringe, Caprica, Smallville, Flash Gordon)

1993 – Maia Mitchell, actress (After the Dark)

1995 – James Ackley Maxwell, actor, d @ 66 (The Evil of Frankenstein, Doctor Who, Doomwatch, Out of the Unknown)

1997 – Don Knight, actor, d @ 64 (Automan, Manimal, The Powers of Matthew Star, Small & Frye, Voyagers, Swamp Thing, Death in Space, The Immortal, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Munster Go Home! )

1998 – Persis Khambatta,actress, d @ 49 (Star Trek)

2003 – Max Charles, actor (White Space)

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1918 – Mort Marshall, actor, d @ 60 (Target Earth, Out There)

1918 – Evelyn Ankers, actress (The Invisible Man’s Revenge, The Ghost of Frankenstein)

1923 – Julius Harris, actress (Eerie, Indiana, The Incredible Hulk)

1930 – Ted Hughes, sci-fi author (The Iron Giant)

1930 – Harve Bennett, writer (Time Trax, Star Trek II -V, The Bionic Woman, The Invisble Man)

1933 – Glenn Corbett, actor (Automan, Manimal, The Immortal, City Beneath the Sea, Star Trek)

Glenn Corbett as Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: Metamorphosis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Floyd Red Crow Westerman, actor (The X-Files)

Floyd Red Crow Westerman in The X-Files

1939 – Anthony Valentine, actor (Alien Attack, Space: 1999, A for Andromeda)

1941 – Franco Columbu, actor (The Running Man, The Terminator)

1943 – Robert De Niro, actor (Brazil, Frankenstein)

1946 – Shane Briant, actor (Farscape, The Lost World, Chameleon 2 and 3, Time Trax, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell)

1947 – Jennifer Rhodes, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun, Quantum Leap)

1948 – Bo Rucker, actor (Superman)

1951 – Robert Joy, actor (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Star Trek: Voyager, The Outer Limits, Waterworld, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Millennium , Threshold)

1957 – Tim Bagley, actor (Zombieland, The Day After Tomorrow, The X Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1958 – Nicholas Bell, actor (I Frankenstein, Wicked Science, The Lost World, Chameleon, Sky Trackers)

1960 – The Time Machine released

The Time Machine released

1961 – Larry B. Scott, actor (Super Force, Hard Time on Planet Earth, SpaceCamp)

1963 – Don McKeller, actor (eXistenZ, RoboCop)

1968 – Andrew Koenig, actor (InAlienable, Deep Space Nine)

1968 – Helen McCrory, actress (Doctor Who, Frankenstein)

1969 – Donnie Wahlberg, actor (Dreamcatcher)

1970 – Rupert Degas, actor (Red Dwarf

1971 – Horace McMahon, actor, d @ 64 (Twilight Zone, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Tales of Tomorrow)

1974 – Edgar Dearing, actor, d @ 71 (Twilight Zone, Tarantula)

1976 – William Redfield, actor, d @ 49 (Fantastic Voyage, Conquest of Space, Tales of Tomorrow)

1982 – Barney Phillips, actor, d @ 68 (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1987 – Shaike Ophir, actor, d @ 57 (America 3000)

1988 – Victoria Shaw, actress, d @ 53 (Westworld)

1991 – Austin Butler, actor (Aliens in the Attic)

1991 – Don Dubbins, actor, d @ 63 (Starman, The Illustrated Man, Mork & Mindy, The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space, From the Earth to the Moon)

2000 – Emil [Theodore] Petaja, sci-fi author, d @ 85 (Star Mill, Tramontane)

2014 – Michael A. Hoey, director, d @ 79 (The Navy vs. the Night Monsters)

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1884 – Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer/editor (1960 Hugo, editor, Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories)

1899 – Glenn Strange, actor (Space Patrol, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, The Monster Maker, The Mad Monster, Flash Gordon)

1910 – Mae Clarke, actress (Frankenstein)

1921 – John Doucette, actor (The Time Machine, The Time Tunnel, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, The Flying Missile)

1924 – Fess Parker, actor (Them!)

1927 – Lois Nettleton, actress (Babylon 5, The Munsters Today, The Bamboo Saucer, Twilight Zone, Captain Video)

1928 – Ann Blyth, actress (Twilight Zone)

1930 – Robert Culp, actor (Outer Limits, Xtro 3: Watch the Skies, Lois & Clark, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

Robert Culp in The Outer Limits: Demon With a Glass Hand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1933 – Julie Newmar (My Living Doll, Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Oblivion 1 and 2, Deep Space, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Jason of Star Command, The Bionic Woman)

Julie Newmar in My Living Doll

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Diana Wynne Jones, sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week)

1934 – John Standing, actor (Lexx, Eerie, Indiana, Space: 1999)

John Standing in Space: 1999: The Mark of Archanon

1937 – Andrew Offutt, sci-fi author (Undying Wizard)

1939 – Maurice Hurley, writer/producer (Star Trek: TNG)

1945 – Robert Balaban, actor (Altered States, 2010, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1946 – Lesley Ann Warren, actress (It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!)

1950 – Marshall Manesh, actor (The X Files)

1954 – James Cameron, director ( Avatar, Terminator, Terminator 2:Judgment Day, The Abyss, Aliens, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning)

1955 – Jeff Perry, actor (Fringe, Invasion)

 

 

1956 – Bela Lugosi, actor d @ 73 (The Invisible Ray, Son of Frankenstein, The Phantom Creeps, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Ape Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Return of the Ape Man, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 From Outer Space)

1957 – Laura Innes, actress (Warehouse 13, The Event, Deep Impact)

1958 – Angela Bassett, actress (Supernova, Contact, Strange Days, Alien Nation)

1960 – Timothy Hutton, actor (Iceman)

1961 – Elpidia Carillo, actor (Solaris, Predator I & II)

1963 – Christine Cavanaugh, actress (The X-Files)

1965 – Andy Milder, actor (Transformers, Star Trek: Voyager, Armageddon, Star Trek: DS9)

1969 – Russ Bender, actor, d @ 59 (The Navy vs. the Night Monsters , The Satan Bug, Space Twilight Zone, Panic in Year Zero!, Probe Taurus, War of the Colossal Beast, Amazing Colossal Man, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Day the Earth Stood Still, It Conquered the World)

1971 – Paul Lukas, actor, d @ 80 (20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Tales of Tomorrow)

1975 – George Stults, actor (Hydra, Night Skies)

1982 – Todd Haberkorn, actor (Star Trek Continues, Warehouse 13: Grand Designs)

1985 – Arden Cho, actor (Mega Python vs. Gatoroid)

1988 – Kevin G. Schmidt, actor (The Butterfly Effect, Taken)

1992 – Malcolm Atterbury, actor, d @ 85 (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, How to Make a Monster)

1993 – Cameron Monaghan, actor (Fringe, Threshold)

1993 – Tom Fuccello, actor, d @ 56 (Mac and Me, V)

1998 – Phil Leeds, actor, d @ 82 (Alf, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie)

2002 – Jeff Corey d @ 88(Star Trek, Babylon 5)

2002 – The Adventures of Pluto Nash released

2008 – Roberta Collins, actor, d @ 57 (Death Race 2000)

2012 – William Windom, actor, d @ 88 (Star Trek, The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman)