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1891 – Donald Kerr, actor (Devil Bat, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1906 – John Huston, actor (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Tentacles, The Bermuda Triangle)

1914 – Parley Baer, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Roswell, Quantum Leap, Time Trackers, Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, The Outer Limits)

Parley Baer in The Outer Limits episode, Behold Eck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Mickey Shaughnessy, actor (Conquest of Space)

1920 – Selma Diamond, actress (Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1929 – Don Matheson, actor (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space)

Don Matheson in Lost in Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)

1933 – Joan Weldon, actress (Them!)

1934 – Zakes Mokae, actor (The X Files, Waterworld, Outbreak)

1935 – John Saxon, actor (Prisoners of the Lost Universe, Battle Beyond the Stars, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Strange New World, Planet Earth, The Time Tunnel, Blood Beast from Outer Space)

John Saxon in Battle Beyond the Stars

1940 – Natalie Trundy b. 1940 (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone)

1945 – Loni Anderson, actress (The Incredible Hulk, The Invisible Man (1975))

1948 – Larry Elmore, artist

1960 – Vivian Kubrick, actress (2001: A Space Odyssey)

1961 – Janet McTeer, actress (Insurgent)

1961 – Tawny Kitaen, actress (They Came from Outer Space)

1963 – Mark Strong, actor (John Carter, Babylon A.D., Stardust)

1966 – Jonathan Silverman, actor (Jekyll)

1969 – Chuck Campbell, actor (Sanctuary, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Jason X, Earth: Final Conflict)

1970 – James Gunn, director (Guardians of the Galaxy)

1972 – Darren Shahlavi, actor, d @ 43 14 January 2015 (Tomorrowland, Continuum, Bionic Woman (2007), Legion of the Dead)

1973 – Paul Kasey, actor (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Chronicles, 28 Days Later…, Blade II, Torchwood)

1973 – Lori Bagley, actress (The Stepford Wives (2004))

1980 – Sophia Winkleman, actress (Red Dwarf)

1980 – Victor Cruz, actor (Fringe)

1984 – Ryan McDonald, actor (Warehouse 13, Fringe, 2012)

1985 – Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author d @ 67 (Hugo, It, Caviar)

1988 – Ralph Meeker, actor, d @ 67 (The Outer Limits, The Food of the Gods, The Alpha Incident)

1997 – Don Steele, actor, d @ 61 (Death Race 2000)

1997 – Olivia Holt, actress (Girl vs. Monster)

2000 – Alec Guinness, actor, d @ 86 (Star Wars IV – VI)

2001 – Maddox Jolie-Pitt, actress (World War Z)

2011 – Rise of the Planet of the Apes released

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1910 – Anita Page, actress (Frankenstein Rising, The Crawling Brain)

1913 – Wesley Addy, actor (The Invaders, Out There, The Outer Limits)

Wesley Addy in The Outer Limits episode, The Brain of Colonel Barham.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1923 – Tom Hennesy, actor (Revenge of the Creature)

1939 – Frank Vincent, actor (Stargate: Atlantis)

1941 – Martin Jarvis, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, The Kid with X-ray Eyes, Space Island One, Space: Above and Beyond, Doctor Who)

Martin Jarvis in the Doctor Who episode, Vengence on Varos.

1942 – Don S. Davis, actor (Stargate, Flash Gordon, Andromeda, Atomic Train, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S)

1944 – Richard Belzer, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Species II, The X-Files, The Invaders, Not of This Earth, Lois & Clark)

1950 – Marc Clement, actor (Night Shadows)

1951 – Sara Botsford, actress (Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray, Three Moons Over Milford, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, Total Recall 2070, Sliders)

1954 – Donald Gibb, actor (Homeboys in Outer Space, Breakfast of Aliens, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, They Came from Outer Space, Otherworld)

1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, actor (The Astronaut Farmer, Armageddon)

1958 – Kym Karath, actress (Lost in Space)

Kym Karath in Lost in Space

 

1961 – Lauren Tom, actress (Threshold, Quantum Leap)

1963 – Tom Keene, actor, d @ 66 (Plan 9 from Outer Space, Red Planet Mars)

1964 – Sebastian Roche, actor (Fringe, Odyssey 5)

1965 – James Tupper, actor (Resurrection, Toxic Skies)

1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, actor (The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek: Enterprise, Hulk, Star Trek: Voyager, Brave New World)

1969 – Michael DeLuise, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, SeaQuest 2032)

1975 – John Baragrey, actor d @ 57 (Lights Out, The Colossus of New York, Gamera),

 

1976 – David Lewis, actor (Man of Steel, Fringe, Seeds of Destruction, Stonehenge Apocalypse, Zombie Punch, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Smallville, Eureka, The Butterfly Effect 2, Kyle XY, Alien Incursion, Stargate SG-1, Alienated, Level 9, Lexx, The X-Files)

1981 – Abigail Spencer, actress (Cowboys and Aliens)

1981 – Meghan Markle, actress (Fringe)

1981 – Melvyn Douglas, actor, d @ 80 (Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1984 – Walter Burke, actor, d @ 75 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Munsters, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1984 – Howard Culver, actor, d @ 66 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Swarm, Project U.F.O., The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, Space Patrol)

1991 – Lucinda Dryzek, actress (Doctor Who)

1991 – Terminator 2 released

1992 – Dylan Sprouse, actor (The Astronaut’s Wife)

1992 – Cole Sprouse, actor (The Astronaut’s Wife)

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1904 – Clifford D. Simak, sci-fi author (won 1964 Hugo for Here Gather the Stars, Empire, Way Station)

1911 – Alex McCrindle, actor (Star Wars IV)

1920 – P.D. James, sci-fi author (author, Children of Men)

1923 – Jean Hagen, actress, d @ 54 (Panic in Year Zero!)

1937 – Stephen Berkoff, actor (Doctor Who, Children of Dune, Star Trek: DS9, Space Precinct, Metamorphosis, Outland, A Clockwork Orange, UFO, Prehistoric Women)

1940 – Martin Sheen (Babylon 5, The Time Shifters, Total Recall 2070, Beyond the Stars, Roswell, The Outer Limits )

Martin Sheen in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare.

1940 – Phil Rubenstein, actor (RoboCop 2, ALF, Mannequin, Star Trek IV)

1949 – Philip Casnoff, actor (Dollhouse, Message from Space)

1950 – John Landis, director (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

 

 

 

 

1951 – Tales of Tomorrow, the first science fiction anthology TV series and reportedly the brainchild of Theodore Sturgeon, debuts on the ABC network with Sturgeon’s “Verdict from Space,” and will adapt classic tales by H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Mary Shelley, C. M. Kornbluth, and others. It will continue until 1953.

Tales of Tomorrow debuted

1952 – Frank Schaeffer, director (Rising Storm)

1952 – Kristoffer Tabori, actor (Sliders, SeaQuest 2032, Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone, Small and Frye, Brave New World)

1959 – John C. McGinley, actor (Target Earth)

1963 – Lisa Ann Walter, actress (War of the Worlds)

1963 – Isaiah Washington, actor (The 100, Bionic Woman)

1969 – Anne Marie DeLuise, actress (Smallville, Sanctuary, The Thaw, Stargate SG-1, Code Name: Eternity, First Wave, Total Recall 2070, Earth: Final Conflict, Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, Side Effects)

 

1970 – Elizabeth Berrington, actress (Doctor Who)

Elizabeth Berrington in Doctor Who

1972 – Melissa Ponzio, actress (The Walking Dead)

1972 – Brigid Brannagh, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise)

1973 – Michael Ealy, actor (Underworld: Awakening, FlashForward)

1977 – Franco Castan, actor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Revolution, Coma)

1977 – Tomas Lemarquis, actor (Snowpiercer, Errors of the Human Body)

1979 – Evangeline Lilly, actress (Ant-Man, Real Steel, Smallville)

1983 – Carolyn Jones, actress, d @ 53 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The War of the Worlds)

1984 – Kyle Schmid, actor (Smallville, Odyssey 5, My Best Friend is an Alien, Virus)

1993 – James Donald, actor d. @ 76 (Five Million Years to Earth aka Quatermass and the Pit),

1995 – Ida Lupino, actress, d @ 77 (Twilight Zone)

2007 – James T. Callahan, actor, d @ 76 (Return of the Living Dead III, Automan, Holmes and Yo-Yo, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

2011 – Bubba Smith, actor, d @ 66 (Escape from DS-3)

2012 – Total Recall released

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1915 – Gary Merrill, actor (Earth II, The Time Tunnel, Destination Inner Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Mysterious Island)

Gary Merrill in The Outer Limits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1919 – Nehemiah Persoff, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, Logan’s Run, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invisible Man,Land of the Giants, The Power, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

Nehemiah Persoff in The Time Tunnel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Theo Marcuse, actor (Star Trek, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone)

Theo Marcuse in The Outer Limits

1924 – Carroll O’Connor, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits)

1929 – Bernard L. Kowalski, diretor, d @ 78 (Sssssss, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Night of the Blood Beast)

1932 – Peter O’Toole, actor (Phantoms, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Creator, Supergirl)

1939 – Wes Craven, director (The Twilight Zone, Swamp Thing)

1940 – Sandra Ellis Lafferty, actress (The Hunger Games, Dark Skies)

1942 – Isabel Allende, sci-fi author (The City of the Beasts, The Infinite Plan)

1943 – Max Wright, actor (Quantum Leap, ALF, Misfits of Science)

1944 – Susan Denberg, actress (Frankenstein Created Woman, Star Trek)

1945 – Joanna Cassidy, actress (Blade Runner, Heroes, Ghosts of Mars, The Tommyknockers)

1948 – Robert P Holdstock, sci-fi author (Ghost Dance, Labyrinth)

1953 – Butch Patrick, actor (Zombie Dream, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian)

1954 – Ken McLeod, sci-fi author (The Fall Revolution)

1955 – Tim Dunigan, actor (They Came from Outer Space, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1959 – Victoria Jackson, actress (The X Files)

1960 – Olivier Gruner, actor (Sector 4: Extraction, Re-Generator, Interceptor Force 1 and 2, Velocity Trap, Mars, Automatic)

1962 – Cynthia Stevenson, actress (Max Headroom)

1971 – Tristan Tait, actor (28 Weeks Later, Quantum Leap)

1972 – Matthew Del Negro, actor (Stargate: Atlantis)

1972 – James Preston Rogers, actor (Alphas, Outlander, Pixels)

1978 – Ty O’Neal, actor (The Postman)

1976 – Sam Worthington, actor (Avatar, Terminator Salvation)

1977 – Edward Furlong, actor (Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Star Trek: Renegades, The Zombie King, Arachnoquake, Warriors of Terra, Brainscan)

1986 – Kerry James, actor (SGU Stargate Universe)

1991 – Zuleyka Silver, actor (In Time)

1992 – Hallie Kate Eisenberg, actress (Bicentennial Man)

1997 – William S. Burroughs, sci-fi author, d @ 83 (The Soft Machine, Naked Lunch, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead)

2002 – Signs released

2013 – Europa Report released

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1911 – Flora Campbell, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1912 – Henry Jones, actor (Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Girl with Something Extra, Project X, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

Henry Jones in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1914 – J. Lee Thompson, director (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)

1922 – Arthur Hill, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Andromeda Strain, Futureworld, Murder in Space, Prototype, Tomorrow’s Child, Revenge of the Stepford Wives)

Arthur Hill in The Invaders episode, The Leeches.

1922 – Paul Lambert, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Automan, Planet of the Apes, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)

1928 – Michael Sinelnikoff, actor (The Lost World, TekWar)

1933 – Dom Deluise, actor (Stargate SG-1, 3rd Rock from the Sun, SeaQuest 2032, The Munsters, Spaceballs)

1937 – Ian Hogg, actor (Doctor Who)

1939 – Terry Kiser, actor (Lois & Clark, Mannequin: On the Move, Hard Time on Planet Earth, The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, Automan, Manimal, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man)

 

1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, actor (Dune, Mimic)

1944 – Andrew G. Vajna, producer (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Judge Dredd, Total Recall)

1946 – David Calder, actor (Star Cops, Superman)

1955 – Annabel Jankel, director (Max Headroom)

1956 – Lewis Smith, actor (Badlands 2005, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

1958 – Adrian Dunbar, actor (The Quatermass Experiment)

Adrian Dunbar in The Quatermass Experiment

1959 – The Alligator People released

1960 – Mark McCracken, actor (Swamp Thing)

1963 – John Carroll Lynch (Paul, Star Trek:Voyager)

 

 

 

 

1964 – Melanie Shatner, actress (Perversions of Science, TekWar, The Alien Within, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek)

Melanie Shatner with dad in Star Trek

1970 – Jennifer Gareis, actress (The 6th Day)

1971 – The Omega Man released

1972 – Charles Malik Whitfield, actor (Warehouse 13, Seven Days)

1973 – Kris Holden-Ried, actress (Underworld: Awakening, Habitat)

1975 – Annett Culp, actor (Babylon 5: In the Beginning)

1979 – Jason Momoa (Conan, Stargate:Atlantis)

1980 – Strother Martin, actor, d @ 61 (The Invaders, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, The Magnetic Monster)

1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, sci-fi writer, d @ 58 (Altered States)

1981 – Miracle Laurie (Dollhouse)

1982 – Monserrat Lombard, actor (Hyperdrive)

1988 – Max Carver, actor (Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn)

 

1988 – Sasha Jackson, actress (Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader)

2000 – Space Cowboys released

2013 – Gail Kobe, actress, d @ 81 (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Destination Space)

2014 – Guardians of the Galaxy released

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1889 – Donald Foster, actor (Twilight Zone)

1914 – Mario Bava, director, (Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, Planet of the Vampires, The Immortal Monster)

1918 – Basil Henson, actor (The Final Programme, Out of the Unknown, The Frozen Dead)

1919 – Primo Levi, sci-fi author (The Periodic Table)

1925 – Gore Vidal, author / actor, d @ 86 (Visit to a Small Planet / Gattaca)

1929 – Don Murray, actor (The Stepford Children, Radioactive Dreams, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)

1932 – Ted Cassidy, actor (Man From Atlantis, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Genesis II, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Angry Red Planet)

Ted Cassidy as the slave in the Lost in Space episode, The Thief of Outer Space.

1935 – Geoffrey Lewis, actor (Odyssey 5, The X-Files, The Lawnmower Man, Annihilator, Amazing Stories, Night of the Comet, Mork & Mindy, Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1939 – France Nuyen, actor (Automan, The Six Million Dollar Man, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, Dimension 5)

1943 – Sab Shimono, actor (Waterworld, The X-Files, Max Headroom)

1944 – Geraldine Chaplin, actress ( Z.P.G.)

1947 – Richard Griffiths, actor (Superman II)

1950 – Lane Davies, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Babylon 5: In the Beginning, Lois & Clark)

1951 – Barry Van Dyke, Atlanta Ga, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder)

1953 – James Read, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark)

1955 – Creature with the Atomic Brain released

1956 – Michael Biehn, actor (Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Planet Terror, Clockstoppers, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, Asteroid, The Abyss, The Seventh Sign, Aliens, The Terminator, Logan’s Run (TV), Alien 5)

Michael Biehn in Aliens

1957 – Dirk Blocker, actor (The X Files, Quantum Leap, Starman, Beyond Westworld)

1957 – The 27th Day released

1958 – Greg Travis, actor (Night of the Living Dead 3D, Starship Troopers, Humanoids from the Deep)

 

 

 

1959 – Return of the Fly released

Return of the Fly

1962 – Wesley Snipes, actor (Blade, Futuresport, Demolition Man)

1965 – Ian Roberts, actor (Infected, Superman Returns)

1965 – Pat Finn, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1966 – Jim True-Frost, actor (Fringe, W.E.I.R.D. World)

1966 – Dean Cain b. 1966 (Smallville, 10.5: Apocalypse, Lost, Futuresport, Lois & Clark)

1971 – Christina Cox, actress (Elysium, Stargate: Atlantis, The Chronicles of Riddick, Andromeda, Mutant X, Code Name: Eternity, Earth: Final Conflict, First Wave)

1975 – Annie Parisse, actress (Fringe, NYPD 2069)

 

1978 – James Harvey Ward, actor (No Ordinary Family)

1979 – Beatrix Lehmann, actress, d @ 76 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown)

1981 – Eric Lively, actor (The Butterfly Effect 2)

1992 – Percy Herbert, actor (The Tomorrow People, Doomwatch, Mysterious Island, Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)

2001 – Poul Anderson, sci-fi author d @ 75 (The Technic History series, Hoka, Tales of Known Space)

2003 – Fred Coffin, actor, d @ 60 (The Invisible Man (TV), Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, The X-Files, Something is Out There, The Twilight Zone)

2004 – Virginia Grey, actress, d @ 87 (Science Fiction Theatre)

2011 – Carl Steven d @ 36 (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

2013 – Michael Ansara, actor, d @ 91 (The Outer Limits, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, It’s Alive, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel)