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1910 – Signe Hasso, actor (The Outer Limits)

Nigel Terry in Doctor Who: The Doctor’s Daughter

1949 – Ann Ryerson, actress (Minority Report)

1950 – Tess Harper, actress (Starflight: The Plane That Coundn’t Land)

1957 – Zeljko Ivanek, actor (Revolution, The Event, Heroes, The X-Files)

1962 – David Zayas, actor (Skyline)

1963 – Andy Forrest, actor (The Future)

1964 – Michael Berresse, actor (Meet Dave, A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1968 – Debra Messing, actress (Prey)

 

1970 – Lisa Robin Kelly, actress, d @ 43 (The X-Files)

1970 – Anthony Anderson, actor (Transformers, Alien Avengers)

1972 – Ben Affleck, actor (Armageddon)

1974 – Natasha Henstridge, (Ghosts of Mars, Species 1-3, Outer Limits)

1974 – Edmund Cobb, actor, d @ 82 (The Atomic Submarine, The Amazing Colossal Man, The She-Creature)

1984 – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension released

1990 – Jennifer Lawrence, actress (Hunger Games)

1990 – Nina Bara, actress d @ 66 (Missile to the Moon)

1996 – Joe Seneca, actor, d @ 77 (SeaQuest 2032, The Blob (1988))

1997 – Event Horizon released in US

2012 – Harry Harrison, sci-fi author, d @ 87 (Deathworld Trilogy, Make Room! Make Room! (Basis for Solent Green))

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1893 – Carl Benton Reid, actor (The Underwater City)

1909 – Angela Clarke, actress (The Outer Limits)

Angela Clarke in The Outer Limits: Second Chance

 

1924 – Alice Ghostley, actress (Small Wonder)

1936 – Trevor Bannister, actor, (Object Z, Object Z Returns)

1940 – Alexei Panshin (winner of 1969 Nebula for Rite of Passage)

1945 – Steve Martin, actor (The Man with Two Brains)

1945 – William Wenders, director (Until the End of the World)

1946 – Antonio Fargas, actor (Heroes, Homeboys in Outer Space)

 

1948 – Lou Wagner, actor (Star Trek: DS9, TNG, The UFO Incident, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Beneath of the Planet of the Apes, Planet of the Apes, Lost in Space)

Lou Wagner in Lost in Space: The Haunted Lighthouse

1950 – Jim Wynorski, director

1951 – Carl Lumbly, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Strange World, M.A.N.T.I.S., The X Files, SeaQuest 2032, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Lifepod)

1953 – James Horner, composer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Testament, Brainstorm, Krull, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Cocoon, Project X, *batteries not included, Cocoon: The Return, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Rocketeer, Star Trek Logs: An MTV Big Picture Special Edition, We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story, Deep Impact, Bicentennial Man, Avatar, Shoestring Space Opera, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II)

1959 – Macia Gay Hardin, actress (The Invisible, Space Cowboys)

1961 – Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author, d @ 68 (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)

1963 – David Aaron Baker, actor (Revolution)

1964 – Andrew Kevin Walker, writer (Perversions of Science)

1964 – Cristi Conaway, actress (Timecop, The Advanced Guard, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman)

1965 – Brannon Braga (Star Trek: TNG, Terra Nova, FlashForward, Threshold, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: First Contact)

1966 – Halle Berry, actress (Extant, They Came from Outer Space)

1968 – Adrian Lester, actor (Doomsday, Day After Tomorrow)

1968 – Ben Bass, actor (Strange Frequency, The Lone Gunmen, The 6th Day, Stargate SG-1, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)

1968 – Catherine Bell, actress (Threshold, The Triangle, Alien Nation: Body and Soul)

1969 – Michelle Lintel, actress (Battle Planet)

1971 – Raoul Bova, actor (AvP: Alien vs Predator)

1974 – Christopher Gorham, actor (Once Upon a Time, Jake 2.0, Odyssey 5)

1979 – Zack Whedon, writer (Fringe)

1980 – Dorothy Stratten, actress, d @ 20 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Galaxina)

1981 – Nick Holmes, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Nick Holmes in Guardians of the Galaxy

1982 – Patrick McGee, actor, d @ 60 (The Last Days of Man on Earth, A Clockwork Orange, Monster of Terror)

1983 – Mila Kunis, actress (Jupiter Ascending, The Book of Eli, Piranha)

1985 – Gale Sondergard, actress, d @ 86 (The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1987 – Sydney Bromley, actor, d @ 78 (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Prehistoric Women, Night Creatures, Quatermass and the Pit, Quatermass II, 1984)

2009 – District 9 released,

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1898 – Regis Toomey, actor, (Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (movie & TV))

1909 – Tristam Coffin, actor (The Time Tunnel, The Crawling Hand, The Night the World Exploded, Creature with the Atom Brain, King of the Rocket Men)

1909 – John Beal, actor (Ark II)

1909 – Dave Willock, actor (Queen of Outer Space, It Came from Outer Space, Revenge of the Creature, Twilight Zone, The Immortal)

1913 – Kurt Kasznar, actor (Land of the Giants)

Kurt Kasznar in Land of the Giants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Neville Brand, actor (Man from Atlantis, Twilight Zone)

1922 – Willard Sage, actor (The Outer Limits, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Star Trek)

Willard Sage in The Outer Limits: Nightmare

1922 – Buck Kartalian, actor (My Favorite Martian (1999), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Octaman, Planet of the Apes, The Munsters, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1929 – Pat Harrington Jr., actor (The Invisible Man, 2000 Years Later, The Munsters)

1941 – Erin Fleming, actress (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)

1944 – Kevin Tighe, actor (The 4400, Strange World, Star Trek: Voyager, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Immortal)

1946 – H. G. Wells, sci-fi writer, d @ 79 (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine)

1949 – Lillian Hurst, actress (The X-Files)

1950 – Jane Carr, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Babylon 5)

1952 – Tom Davis, writer (Coneheads)

1957 – Kathleen Gati, actress (Alphas, The Future)

1958 – It! The Terror from Beyond Space released (Rumored to be the inspiration for Alien)

It! The Terror From Beyond Space

 

1960 – Tony Alcantar, actor (Continuum, Stargate SG-1,Andromeda,Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Strange World)

1961 – Dawnn Lewis, actress (Sliders)

1962 – John Slattery, actor (The Adjustment Bureau)

1964 – Debi Mazar, actress (Space Truckers)

1966 – Sean Hood, writer (Cube²: Hypercube)

1972 – Heike Makatsch, actor (Resident Evil, Anatomy 2)

1972 – Crystal Allen, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise)

 

 

1976 – Jody Thompson, actress (Fringe, 2012, Smallville, Alien Trespass, Stargate: Atlantis, Flash Gordon (TV), The 4400, Stargate: SG-1, Blade: The Series, Andromeda, Mission to Mars)

1976 – Grégory Fitoussi, actor (World War Z)

1982 – Sebastian Stan, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine)

1982 – Joe E. Ross, actor, d @ 68 (It’s About Time, The Lost Saucer)

1999 – Charles Macaulay, actor, d @ 71 (V, The Munster’s Revenge, Star Trek)

2004 – Alien vs. Predator released

2006 – Tony Jay, actor, d @ 73 (Time Bandits, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Star Trek: TNG, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

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1893 – Howard Smith, actor (Twilight Zone)

1898 – Oscar Homolka, actor(The Invisible Man, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1910 – Jane Wyatt, actress (Star Trek, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Gemini Man)

Jane Wyatt in Star Trek

 

1913 – Richard L. Bare, director (Twilight Zone)

1916 – Ralph Nelson, director (Twilight Zone)

1917 – Ken Dibbs, actor (The Immortal, Men into Space, Buck Rogers, Captain Midnight, Riders to the Stars, Space Patrol, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1927 – Dan Curtis, writer (Frankenstein)

1929 – John Bluthal, actor (Dark City, The Fifth Element, Superman III)

1931 – William Goldman, writer (Memoirs of an Invisible Man, The Stepford Wives)

 

1936 – Michael Coles, actor (Doctor Who and the Daleks)

Michael Coles in Doctor Who and the Daleks

1936 – Elizabeth Shepherd, actress (The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne)

1937 – Carol Eve Rossen, actor(The Stepford Wives, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1939 – Oliver Ford Davies (Star Wars)

1941 – Jennifer Warren, actress (Mutant)

1941 – Dana Ivey, actress (Explorers)

1944 – Bruce Solomon, actor (Twilight Zone)

1950 – Jim Beaver, actor (Revolution, Tremors, Star Trek: Enterprise, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The X Files, Lois & Clark)

 

1954 – Sam J. Jones, actor (Flash Gordon, Stargate SG-1, Earth Minus Zero)

Sam J. Jones as Flash Gordon

1954 – Ray Abruzzo, actor (Lois & Clark)

1956 – Bruce Greenwood, actor (Star Trek, Star Trek: ID, The Core, I, Robot)

1965 – Peter Krause, actor (Beastly, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1967 – Brett Sexton, actor (Surface, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The X Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1968 – Andras Jones, actor (Alien Nation)

1969 – Katherine Kendall, actress (Firefly)

1970 – Ellory Elkayem, director (Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave, Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis, Eight Legged Freaks)

1971 – Yvette Nicole Brown b. 1971, actress (Repo Men, The Island)

1971 – Rebecca Gayheart, actress (Invasion, Sliders, Earth 2)

1975 – Casey Affleck, actor (Interstellar)

1980 – Maggie Lawson, actress (Gamer, Smallville)

1981 – Natalie Mendoza, actress (Code 46, Farscape)

1982 – Henry Fonda, actor, d @ 77 (Fail-Safe, Tentacles, Meteor, The Swarm)

1988 – Leah Pipes, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

2007 – Merv Griffin, actor, d @ 82 (Slapstick (of Another Kind), The Man with Two Brains, The Girl with Something Extra, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

2014 – Arlene Martel, actress, d @ 78 (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men)

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1902 – Lloyd Nolan, actor (The Outer Limits)

Lloyd Nolan in The Outer Limits episode, Soldier.

1911 – Henry Kulky, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Tobor the Great, Adventures of Superman, Red Planet Mars)

1914 – Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Timeslip)

1926 – Charles Cooper, actor (Star Trek V, Star Trek: TNG, Men into Space)

1927 – Stuart Rosenberg, director (Twilight Zone)

1932 – George Furth, actor, d @ 75 (Megaforce, The Man With Two Brains, Salvage 1)

 

 

 

1942 – Laurel Goodwin, actor (Star Trek)

Laurel Goodwin as Yeoman Colt in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 – Ian McDiarmid, actor (Star Wars)

Ian McDiarmid in Star Wars

1947 – Stuart Gordon, director (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Space Truckers, Robot Jox, Dolls, From Beyond, Re-Animator)

1950 – Adam LeFevre, actor (The Invasion)

1950 – Elya Baskin, actress (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Heroes, The Invisible Man, VR.5, Quantum Leap, DeepStar Six, 2010)

1964 – Miguel A. Nunez, actor (W.E.I.R.D. World, Carnosaur 2, Babylon 5, Lois & Clark, Twilight Zone, The Return of the Living Dead, Automan)

1965 – Viola Davis, actress (Ender’s Game, The Andromeda Strain, Threshold, Solaris)

1965 – Embeth Davidtz, actress (Bicentennial Man, Mutator, Army of Darkness)

1967 – Collin Chou, actor (The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Reloaded)

1968 – Anna Gunn, actress (NYPD 2069, Quantum Leap)

1973 – Peggy Castle, actress, d @ 45 (Beginning of the End, Invasion Earth, World of Giants)

1975 – Howard Wendell, actor, d @ 67 (The Munsters, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1979 – Drew Nelson, actress (The Strain, Fringe, Smallville, Earth: Final Conflict)

1982 – Tom Drake, actor, d @ 63 (The Cyclops)

1983 – Chris Hemsworth, actor (Star Trek & Star Trek: ID)

1994 – Peter Cushing, actor, d @ 81 (Star Wars, Dr Who)

2005 – James Booth, actor, d @ 77 (Deep Space, Programmed to Kill, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2009 – Richard Compton, director, d @ 71 (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

2014 – Robin Williams, actor, d @ 63 (Mork & Mindy, Bicentennial Man)

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1902 – Curt Siodmak, sci-fi author (Donovan’s Brain)

1904 – Ray Walker, actor (Superman, The Atomic Kid, The Space Children)

Ray Walker in Superman and the Mole-Men

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1912 – Richard Reeves, actor (Target Earth, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, The Adventures of Superboy, Adventures of Superman)

1913 – Noah Beery Jr, actor (Rocketship X-M, The 6 Million Dollar Man)

1914 – Jeff Corey, actor (Star Trek, Babylon 5, Superman & Mole Men)

Jeff Corey in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1924 – Martha Hyer, actress (First Men in the Moon, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1928 – Gus Mercurio, actor (Time Trax, Badlands 2005, Escape 2000)

1932 – Murray Melvin, actor (Starhunter)

1933 – Lynn Cohen, actress (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)

1939 – Kate O’Mara, actress (Doctor Who, Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time, The Horror of Frankenstein)

Kate O’Mara (left) in Doctor Who: Time and the Rani

1952 – Diane Venora, actress (Threshold, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2)

1954 – Rick Overton, actor (Cloverfield, The Astronaut Farmer, Eight Legged Freaks, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Lois & Clark, The Rocketeer, Earth Girls Are Easy, Traxx)

1958 – Don Swayze, actor (Tremors, The X Files, Lois & Clark)

1962 – Suzanne Collins, author (The Hunger Games)

1964 – Beverly Randolph, actress (The Return of the Living Dead)

1965 – Claudia Christian, actress (Starhyke, Babylon 5, Landelot: Guardian of Time, Space Rangers, Quantum Leap)

1973 – Rick Otto, actor (Dollhouse)

1974 – Ivor Dean, actor, d @ 56 (Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)

1976 – Ray Corrigan, actor, d @ 74 (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, The Monster and the Ape, The Monster Maker, Undersea Kingdom, Flash Gordon, The Phantom Empire)

1979 – JoAnna Garcia Swisher, actress (Once Upon a Time, The Astronaut Wives Club, From the Earth to the Moon, SeaQuest 2032, Superboy)

1982 – Devon Aoki, actor (Mutant Chronicles)

1990 – Lucas Till, actor (Battle Los Angeles)

2008 – Star Wars: The Clone Wars released

2011 – Love released

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1905 – Leo Genn, actor (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse)

1918 – Robert Aldrich, director (Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1923 – John Stevenson, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, The Invaders, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1927 – Daniel Keyes, sci-fi author (Flowers for Algernon)

1934 – Dick Anthony Williams, actor (The X Files, Edward Scissorhands, Space, The Powers of Matthew Star, Brave New World, Man from Atlantis)

1836 – Arthur Benjamin Reeve, sci-fi author, d @ 55

1938 – Burton Gilliam, actor (Sliders, Weird Science, Back to the Future Part III)

1942 – David Steinberg, director (The Twilight Zone)

1944 – Sam Elliott, actor (Hulk, Land of the Giants, Frog)

Sam Elliot in Hulk

1947 – John Varley, sci-fi author (Eight Worlds, Gaean, Slow Apocalypse)

1956 – Adam Nimoy, director (The Invisible Man, Sliders, Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

1957 – Melanie Griffith, actress (Cherry 2000)

1958 – Amanda Bearse, actress (Here Come the Munsters)

1965 – Josh Cox, actor (Revolution, A.I. Assault, Babylon 5, Sliders, Quantum Leap)

 

 

1968 – Gillian Anderson, actress (TheX Files)

Gillian Anderson in The X-Files

1968 – Eric Bana, actor (The Hulk, Star Trek, The Time Traveler’s Wife)

1968 – McG, director (Terminator Salvation)

1970 – Thomas Lennon, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine)

1972 – Liz Vassey, actress (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Superboy)

1972 – Ryan Bollman, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice, Small Wonder, Starman)

1975 – Anjali Jay, actress (Continuum)

 

 

1976 – Jessica Capshaw, actress (Minority Report)

Jessica Capshaw in Minority Report

1976 – Rhona Mitra, actress (SGU Stargate Universe, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Doomsday, Hollow Man)

1976 – James Lafazanos, actor (12 Monkeys (TV), The Time Traveler’s Wife, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate: Atlantis)

1980 – Alexia Fairbrother, actress (Continuum)

1983 – Ashley Johnson, actress (Dollhouse, Roswell, Lloyd in Space)

2003 – Gregory Hines, actor, d @ 57 (Eve of Destruction)

2005 – Matthew McGrory, actor, d @ 32 (Constantine Planet of the Pitts, Men in Black II)

2006 – Philip E. High, sci-fi author d @ 92 (b. 1914)

2008 – Bernie Mac, actor, d @ 50 (Transformers)

2009 – John Quade, actor, d @ 71 (Manimal)

2010 – George DiCenzo, actor, d @ 70 (M.A.N.T.I.S., Back to the Future, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Space Academy)

2013 – Elysium released

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1903 – Dayton Lummis, actor (The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Flight That Disappeared, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Red Planet Mars)

1908 – Ford Rainey, actor, d @ 96 25 July 2005 (The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits)

Ford Rainey in The Outer Limits episode, I, Robot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1917 – Earl Cameron, actor (Inception, Battle Beneath the Earth, Doctor Who, The Andromeda Breakthrough)

Earl Cameron in Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, producer (Dune, Army of Darkness)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Harry Turner, artist

1921 – William Asher, director (Twilight Zone)

1922 – Rory Calhoun, actor (Hell Comes to Frogtown, Night of the Lepus)

1926 – Richard Anderson, actor (The Stepford Children, Automan, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Astronaut, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Forbidden Planet, Captain Midnight)

Richard Anderson in Forbidden Planet

1928 – Tom Reese, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone)

1930 – Terry Nation, writer (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7)

1931 – Roger Penrose, sci-fi author (White Mars)

1937 – Adam Roarke, actor (Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, Frogs, Women of the Prehistoric Planet)

1937 – Dustin Hoffman, actor (Sphere, Outbreak)

 

1949 – Keith Carradine, actor (Cowboys & Aliens, Dollhouse, Star Trek: Enterprise, Perversions of Science, Special Report: Journey to Mars)

1952 – Alfre Woodard (Star Trek: First Contact, True Blood)

1953 – Donnie Most, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Dark Skies, Sliders, The Munsters Today)

1955 – Branscombe Richmond, actor (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Tremors, Alien Nation, Misfits of Science, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Automan, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1984 – Richard Deacon, actor, d @ 63 (Piranha, The Lost Saucer, The Munsters, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, This Island Earth, Invaders form Mars)

1984 – Walter Tevis, sci-fi author, d @ 56 (The Man Who Fell to Earth)

1986 – Peyton List, actress (The Tomorrow People, Smallville, FlashForward)

1988 – Alan Napier, actor, d @ 85 (Twilight Zone, The Mole People)

1993 – Harry Bellaver, actor, d @ 88 (The Stuff, Tom Corbett Space Cadet)

1993 – Mickey Morton, actor, d @ 66 (The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Bionic Woman, Star Trek)

2004 – Fay Wray, actress d @ 96 (King Kong, Doctor X)

2010 – Patricia Neal, actress, d @ 84 (Day The Earth Stood Still , Stranger from Venus aka Immediate Disaster)

2013 – Karen Black, actress, d @ 74 (Light Speed, Invisible Dad, The Invisible Kid, The Invaders)

2014 – Menahem Golan, producer of numerous sci-fi movies, d @ 85

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1918 – Jane Adams, actress (Adventures of Superman)

1924 – Adrian Ricard, actor (I Robot, Lois & Clark, The Man with Two Brains, Gemini Man)

1932 – Edward Hardwicke, actor, (Journey to the Unknown, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1933 – Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle, sci-fi author (Mercenary, Red Dragon)

1934 – Steve Ihnat, actor (Star Trek, Countdown, I Dream of Jeannie, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Steve Ihnat in The Outer Limits episode, The Inheritors.

1936 – Richard L[ouis] Tierney,sci-fi author (Winds of Zarr)

1942 – Tobin Bell, actor (Alien Nation)

1944 – David Rasche, actor (Men in Black 3)

1944 – John Glover, actor (Smallville, Heroes, Star Trek: DS9, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, RoboCop 2, Twilight Zone, The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

1952 – Caroline Aaron, actress (What Planet Are You From?, Edward Scissorhands, The Brother from Another Planet)

 

 

1952 – Alexei Sayle, actor (Solarbabies, Doctor Who, Whoops Apocalypse)

Alexei Sayle in Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks

 

1953 – Spaceways released

1955 – Wayne Knight, actor (Jurassic Park, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1958 – Shannon Cochran, actress (Fringe, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

 

 

 

1960 – David Duchovny, actor (X Files, Evolution, Space: Above and Beyond)

David Duchovny As Fox Mulder In The X-Files

1963 – Ramon Estevez, actor (Alligator II: The Mutation)

1963 – Harold Perrineau, actor (28 Weeks Later, The Matrix Revolutions, The Matrix Reloaded)

1968 – Paula Jean Hixson, actor (Source Code)

1972 – Greg Serano, actor (Doomed Planet, Terminator Salvation, The Postman)

1972 – Joi Lansing, actress, d @ 43 (The Atomic Submarine, Adventures of Superman)

1974 – Michael Shannon, actor (Man of Steel, Bug, Chain Reaction)

1975 – Charlize Theron, actress (Aeon Flux, Prometheusj, The Astronaut’s Wife, Mad Max: Fury Road)

 

1978 – Alexandre Aja, director (Piranha 3D)

1978 – Cirroc Lofton, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Invasion)

1982 – Brit Marling, actress (I Origins, Another Earth)

1982 – Abbie Cornish, actress (RoboCop)

1987 – Masters of the Universe released

1992 – John Anderson, actor, d @ 69 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Starman, Project U.F.O, The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap, Voyagers!, The Satan Bug)

1993 – Charles Maxwell, actor, d @ 79 (Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, World of Giants, Adventures of Superman)

1994 – Robert Hutton, actor ,d @ 74 (They Came From Beyond Space, The Slime People, Rocket)

1996 – Anne Kristen, actress, d @ 59 (Space Precinct)

1996 – Liam James, actor (Fringe, 2012, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

1999 – Brion James, actor d @ 54 (Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Enemy Mine)

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1904 – Helene Heigh, actress (Voyagers!)

1904 – Ballard Berkeley, actor (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1910 – Charles Crichton, director (Alien Attack, Space: 1999, The Day After Tomorrow)

1926 – Frank Finlay, actor (Lifeforce)

1926 – J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, [aka Janet Asimov], author (2nd Experiment)

1928 – Norman Barthold, actor (Capricorn One, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Westworld, My Favorite Martian)

1934 – Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor, Xanth)

1937 – Barbara Windsor, actress (Doctor Who)

1938 – Paul Bartel, actor (Escape from L.A., Heartbeeps, Death Race 2000)

1940 – Louise Sorel, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek)

Louise Sorel in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 – Michael Anderson Jr., actor (The Martian Chronicles, Logan’s Run, Land of the Giants)

Michael Anderson Jr in Logan’s Run

1950 – Dorian Harewood, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Kyle XY, Stargate SG-1, Earth: Final Conflict, Time Trax, Solar Crisis)

1951 – Catherine Hicks, actress (Star Trek IV)

1956 – Ian R. MacLeod, sci-fi author (The Great Wheel, The Summer Isles)

1962 – Michelle Yeoh, actress (Babylon A.D.)

1964 – Cedric Hardwicke, actor, d @ 71 (The Unknown, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The War of the Worlds, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man Returns, Things to Come

1966 – Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53

1966 – Cordwainer Smith, sci-fi author, d @ 53 (Author, The Instrumentality of Mankind)

1970 – M Night Shyamalan (Signs, Unbreakable, After Earth)

1971 – Merrin Dungey, actor (Beyond, Deep Impact, Babylon 5)

1972 – Jason O’Mara, actor (Terra Nova, Resident Evil: Extinction, Space Truckers)

1972 – Paolo Bacigalupi (2010 Hugo and Nebula for The Windup Girl)

1973 – Vera Farmiga (Source Code)

Vera Farmiga in Source Code

1976 – Soleil Moon Frye, actress (Piranhas)

1982 – Romola Garai, actress (The Last Days on Mars)

2000 – Max Phipps, actor, d @ 60 (Farscape, Sky Pirates, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior)

2009 – John Hughes, writer, d @ 59 (Weird Science)

2011 – John Wood, actor, d @ 81 (WarGames)