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1919 – Ward Costello, actor, d @ 89 4 June 2009 (Star Trek: TNG, Project X, Firefox, Terror from the Year 5000)

1928 – Warren Oates, actor (Lost in Space, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Warren Oates in The Outer Limits episode, The Mutant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Katherine Helmond, actress (Brazil, Time Bandits, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1930 – John Wood, actor (WarGames)

1936 – Shirley Knight, actress (VR.5, The Invaders, The Outer Limits)

Shirley Knight in The Outer Limits episode, The Man Who Was Never Born.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1948 – William Hootkins, actor (The Omega Code, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), The Tomorrow People (1994), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Flash Gordon, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

William Hootkins in Star Wars

1950 – Huey Lewis, actor (Sphere, Back to the Future)

1954 – Don Stark, actor (John Carter, Stargate SG-1, Dark Skies, Earth Minus Zero, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: DS9, Liquid Dreams, The Twilight Zone)

1956 – Lewis Herthum, actor (Tekken, The Mist, The Tomorrow Man)

1960 – Pruitt Taylor Vince, actor (Mysterious Island, The Walking Dead, Creature, The X-Files, Quantum Leap)

1964 – Ronald D. Moore, writer (Battlestar Galactica, Roswell, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: TNG)

1966 – Claudia Wells, actress (Starship: Rising, Alien Armageddon, Back to the Future)

1968 – Jillian Armenante, actress (Dollhouse, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1980 – Eva Green, actress (Clone)

1991 – Mildred Dunnock, actress, d @ 90 (‘Way Out, The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1992 – Georgia Brown, actress, d @ 58 (Star Trek: TNG)

2007 – Kerwin Mathews, actor d @ 81 (Battle Beneath the Earth)

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1910 – Gloria Stuart, actress (The Invisible Man 1933 and 2001)

1924 – Eva Marie Saint, actress (Superman Returns)

1925 – Eric Fleming, actor (Queen of Outer Space, Conquest of Space)

Eric Fleming in Queen of Outer Space

 

 

 

 

1928 – Warren Oates, actor (Lost in Space, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Warren Oates in The Outer Limits episode, The Mutant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Stephen Boyd, actor (Fantastic Voyage)

Stephen Boyd in Fantastic Voyage

1945 – Bruce French, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Jurassic Park III, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1946 – Ed O’ Ross, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Universal Soldier)

1950 – David Robbins, sci-fi author (Blade)

1961 – Ted Elliott, writer (Godzilla 1988)

1964 – Ronald D. Moore, actor and producer (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek)

1966 – Marni McPhail, actor (Sliders, The X-Files, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Voyager, Space: Above and Beyond)

1966 – Lee Reherman, actor (Star Trek: ID, The X-Files)

1970 – Marti Matulis, actor (Men in Black 3, Land of the Lost, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Nemesis)

1971 – August Derleth, sci-fi author, d @ 62 (The Trail of Cthulhu, the Solar Pons series)

1976 – Rohan Nicol, actor (Terra Nova, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith)

1989 – Vic Perrin, actor, d @ 73 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Star Trek, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, The Twonky)

1995 – Eva Gabor, actress, d @ 76 (Tales of Tomorrow)

2008 – Thomas M[ichael] Disch, sci-fi author, d @ 68 (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)

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1906 – George Sanders, actor (The Body Stealers, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1920 – Louise Allbritton, actress (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1926 – Rae Allen, actor (Stargate)

1927 – Ken Russell, actor (Altered States)

1927 – Tim O’Connor, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Sssssss, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, ‘Way Out)

Tim O’ Conner in The Outer Limits episode, Moonstone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Carol Ohmart, actress (Men Into Space)

1937 – Tom Stoppard, writer (Brazil)

1943 – Kurtwood Smith, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Deep Impact, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, Star Trek VI, RoboCop)

Kurtwood Smith as Federation President in Star Trek The Undiscovered Country

1944 – Paul Young, actor (The Omega Factor, Mad Max)

1945 – Michael Cole, actor (Beyond Westworld)

1947 – Betty Buckley, actress (The Happening)

1952 – Cork Hubbert, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1956 – Rick Ducommun, actor (Ghost in the Machine, Encino Man, Spaceballs, Max Headroom)

1962 – Hunter Tylo, actor (SharkMan)

1962 – Tom Cruise, actor (Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, War of the Worlds, Minority Report)

1962 – Thomas Gibson, actor (Category 6: Day of Destruction)

1965 – Connie Nielsen, actress (Mission to Mars)

1965 – Tommy Flanagan, actor (Alien vs. Predator)

1969 – Justin Dreyfuss, actor (Close Encounters of the Third Kid)

1970 – Shawnee Smith, actress (The Island, Armageddon, The X-Files, The Stand, The Blob (1988))

Shawnee Smith in The Blob (1988)

1973 – Patrick Wilson, actor (Space Station 76, Prometheus)

1978 – Ian Anthony Dale, actor (The Event, Tekken, Dollhouse)

1978 – James Daly, actor d @ 79 (Twilight Zone, The Invaders, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek)

1980 – Kevin Hart, actor (This is the End)

1981 – Brandon Jay McLaren, actor (Dead Before Dawn 3D, Falling Skies, Kyle XY, Smallville, Blade: The Series)

 

1981 – Ross Martin, actor, d @ 61 (Mork & Mindy, Quark, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man, The Immortal, Twilight Zone, The Colossus of New York, Conquest of Space)

1984 – Corey Sevier, actor (Smallville, Metamorphosis, The Dresden Files, 2030 CE)

1985 – Back to the Future released

1989 – Jim Backus, actor, d @ 76 (C.H.O.M.P.S., Ark II)

1991 – Terminator 2 released

1993 – Curly Joe DeRita, actor, d @ 83 (Three Stooges in Orbit, Have Rocket — Will Travel)

2002 – Men In Black II released

2007 – Transformers released

2012 – Andy Griffith, actor, d @ 86 (Salvage 1)

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1927 – Brock Peters, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Alligator II: The Mutation, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman)

Brock Peters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Robert Ito, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, The Omega Code, The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Rollerball, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Terminal Man, Soylent Green, Dimension 5, Women of the Prehistoric Planet)

Robert Ito in Star Trek TNG

1932 – Kenneth McMillan, actor (Dune)

1946 – Ron Silver, actor (Timecop, The Entity, Xenophobia, The Arrival, Lifepod)

1947 – Stephen Stucker, actor (Mork & Mindy)

1948 – Saul Rubinek, actor (Warehouse 13, Eureka, Stargate SG-1, The Android Affair, Star Trek: TNG)

1949 – Nancy Stephens, actress (Dark Skies, Escape form New York)

1951 – Elisabeth Brooks, actress (Deep Space, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1954 – Wendy Schaal, actress (The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, *batteries not included, Innerspace)

 

 

1955 – Andrew Divoff, actor (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Xtro 3, Mac and Me, The Twilight Zone, Misfits of Science)

Andrew Divoff in Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

1956 – Jerry Hall, actress (Freejack)

1960 – Terry Rossio, writer (Godzilla)

1970 – Yancy Butler, actor (Perversions of Science, Mann & Machine)

1973 – George Macready, actor, d @ 73 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Alligator People, The Monster and the Ape)

1978 – Owain Yeoman, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1984 – Vanessa Lee Chester, actress (The Lost World: Jurassic Park)

1985 – Ashley Tisdalem, Actress (Donnie Darko)

 

 

1989 – Franklin J. Schaffner, director, d @ 69 (The Boys from Brazil, Planet of the Apes)

1989 – Ben Wright, actor, d @ 74 (The Outer Limits, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Munster, Go Home!, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, The Lost World)

1990 – Margot Robbie, actress (About Time)

1996 – Independence Day released

1997 – Men in Black released

2001 – Jack Gwillim, actor, d @ 91 (A for Andromeda)

2003 – Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines released

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1896 – Bill Walker, actor (Twilight Zone, Dimension 5, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, World of Giants)

1899 – Charles Laughton, actor (Island of Lost Souls)

1903 – Beatrix Lehmann, actress (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown)

1906 – Frank Parker, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1916 – Olivia de Havilland, actress (The Swarm)

1920 – Harold Sakata, actor (Death Dimension, Dimension 5)

1923 – Constance Ford, actress (Twilight Zone, ‘Way Out)

1925 – Farley Granger, actor (The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1931 – Tab Hunter, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1934 – Jean Marsh, actress (An Adventure in Space and Time, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, UFO, Unearthly Stranger, Twilight Zone)

1934 – Jamie Farr, actor (Out of this World, My Favorite Martian)

1935 – Ron Masack, actor (They Came from Outer Space, Starman (TV), The Aliens Are Coming, Laserblast, Land of the Lost, Twilight Zone)

1935 – David Prowse, actor (Star Wars, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Space: 1999, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, A Clockwork Orange, The Horror of Frankenstein)

David Prowse as Darth Vader

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Karen Black, actress (Light Speed, Invisible Dad, The Invisible Kid, The Invaders)

Karen Black in The Invaders episode, The Ransom.

1940 – Inga Neilsen, actress (Beyond Westworld, The Invisible Man)

1942 – Genevieve Bujold, actress (Coma)

1944 – Tony DiBenedetto, actor (Lois & Clark)

1945 – Deborah Harry, actress (Anamorph, Videodrome)

1951 – Daryl Anderson, actor (The Phoenix

1951 – Trevor Eve, actor (Doomwatch: Winter Angel)

1951 – Terrence Mann, actor (Solarbabies)

1952 – Brian George, actor (The 4400, Andromeda, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: DS9, Weird Science, Here Come the Munsters, Quantum Leap, Martians Go Home)

 

1952 – Dan Aykroyd, actor (Evolution, Coneheads, My Stepmother Is and Alien, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1954 – Thea von Harbou, writer, d @ 65 (Metropolis)

1955 – Robby the Robot built (Lost in Space, Earth Girls are Easy, Mork & Mindy, Project U.F.O., Space Academy, Ark II, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, The Invasion of the Neptune Men, The Invisible Boy, Forbidden Planet)

Robby the Robot

1956 – Earth vs the Flying Saucers released

1956 – Alan Ruck, actor (Zombie Night, Fringe, Eureka, The Happening, InAlienable, Stargate: Atlantis, Star Trek: Generations)

1959 – Dale Midkiff, actor (Flight of the Living Dead, Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion, Time Trax)

1962 – Andre Braugher, actor (The Andromeda Strain, The Mist, Frequency)

1962 – Dominic Keating, actor (Enterprise, Heroes)

1968 – Colin Patrick Lynch, actor (Serenity, Firefly, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

1977 – Liv Tyler, actress (Space Station 76, The Incredible Hulk, Armageddon)

 

1979 – Elizabeth Thai, actress (Man of Steel, Eureka, Fringe, The Dresden Files, The 4400, Smallville, Andromeda)

1979 – Richard Ward, actor, d @ 64 (The Immortal)

1980 – C P Snow, sci-fi author, d @ 74

1981 – Clemency Burton-Hill, actress (Supernova)

1981 – Kim Jackson, actress (Iron Sky)

1982 – Hilarie Burton, actress (Extant, Forever)

1986 – Roy Poole, actor, d @ 62 (The Bionic Woman, The Invaders)

1986 – Alice Nunn, actress, d @ 60 (Misfits of Science)

1989 – Hannah Murray, actress (Clone)

1990 – Anna Palk, actress, d @ 48 (Frozen Dead, Fahrenheit 451)

1998 – Armageddon released

2004 – Marlon Brando, actor, d @ 80 (The Island of Dr. Moreau, Superman)

2009 – Karl Malden, actor, d @ 97 (Meteor)

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1918 – Maxine Stuart, actress (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Maxine Stuart in The Outer Limits episode. The Man Who Was Never Born/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 – Mel Brooks (Spaceballs, Young Frankenstein)

Mel Brooks in Spaceballs

1928 – Don Dubbins, actor (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)

1932 – Pat Morita, actor (Earth Minus Zero, Timemaster, Space Rangers, The Munsters Today, Slapstick (Of Another Kind), The Incredible Hulk, Man from Atlantis)

1938 – John Byner, actor (Robodoc)

 

1946 – Bruce Davison (Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager, V, The Astronauts, Return of the Killer Shrews, Earth’s Final Hours, The Sarah Jane Chronicles, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek)

1946 – Robert Asprin, sci-fi author (Myth Adventures, Thieves’ World)

1948 – Kathy Bates, actress (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dragonfly, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Stand, The Morning After)

1951 – David Gautreaux, actor (The Event, Threshold, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Man from Atlantis)

1951 – Lalla Ward, actress (Doctor Who)

Lalla Ward as Romana in Doctor Who

1952 – Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” is published in Collier’s, and over the next four decades will become probably the most frequently reprinted American science fiction story.

1954 – Raffaella De Laurentiis, producer (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Kull the Conqueror, Dune)

1954 – Alice Krige, actress (Children of Dune, Dinotopia, Star Trek: Voyager, Welcome to Paradox, Star Trek: First Contact)

1959 – Christopher Doohan, actor (Star Trek Continues, Star Trek ID, Star Trek, Star Trek: the Motion Picture)

1966 – John Cusack (2012, Hot Tub Time Machine)

1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, actress (The Stepford Wives)

1966 – Sara Stewart, actress (Wizards vs. Aliens, Doctor Who, Space Island One)

1967 – Gil Bellows, actor (Extraterrestrial, Sanctuary, FlashForward, Smallville, Infected, Final Days of Planet Earth)

1969 – Ayelet Zurer, actor (Man of Steel, Halo 4: Forward Into Dawn)

1970 – Steve Burton, actor (Taken, Manimal)

1972 – Alessandro Nivola, actor (The Eye, Jurassic Park III)

1973 – Carsten Bjornlund, actor (The Thing)

1974 – Frank Sutton, actor d @ 50 (Captain Video and His Video Rangers, Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, Twilight Zone)

1975 – Rod Serling, writer/producer d @ 50 (Twilight Zone)

1975 – Jeff Geddis, actor (Monster Island, Odyssey 5, Earth: Final Conflict)

1979 – Felicia Day, actress (Eureka, Dollhouse)

1985 – James Craig, actor, d @ 73 (Doomsday Machine, Venus Flytrap, Science Fiction Theatre)

1990 – Nicholas Purcell, actor (Surrogates)

1992 – Joan Marshall, actress d @ 61 (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)

1993 – Lifepod released

1995 – Kare Hedebrant, actress (Let the Right One In)

2006 – Superman Returns released

2006 – Jim Baen, editor, publisher, founder of Baen Books, d @ 62

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1907 – John McIntire, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone)

1909 – Billy Curtis, actor (Space Patrol, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Angry Red Planet, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Twilight Zone)

1911 – Skelton Knaggs, actor (Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1927 – George McCowan, director (War of the Worlds (TV), The Shape of Things to Come, The Starlost, Frogs, The Invaders)

1938 – Shirley Anne Field, actress (U.F.O.)

1940 – Sandra Smith, actress (Star Trek)

Sandra Smith in Star Trek

1942 – Peter Madsen, Actor (The Outer Limits) Last Outer Limits lookup

1944 – Paul Koslo, actor (Stargate SG-1, Xtro II, Solar Crisis, Robot Jox, Misfits of Science, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Omega Man)

1950 – Ken Marshall, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Quantum Leap, Krull)

1950 – James Daughton, actor (Hologram Man, Weird Science (TV), V, The Incredible Hulk, Future Cop, Planet of the Apes (TV))

 

 

 

 

1950 – George Pal’s film Destination Moon, directed by Irving Pichel and with Robert A. Heinlein as a script consultant, opens in New York. It is the first American film to attempt to depict space travel in technologically realistic terms.

Destination Moon released

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1951 – Julia Duffy, actress (Voyagers!, Battle Beyond the Stars)

Julia Duffy in Battle Beyond the Stars

1966 – J.J. Abrams, director/writer (Star Wars: Episode VII, Fringe, Star Trek, Super 8, Armageddon)

1975 – Tobey Maguire, actor (Eerie, Indiana)

1978 – Courtney Ford, actress (Alien Raiders)

1981 – Sam Hoare, actor (An Adventure in Space and Time)

1986 – Sam Claflin, actor (The Hunger Games, The Lost Future)

1987 – Ed Westwick, actor (S. Darko, Children of Men)

1999 – Chandler Riggs, actor (The Walking Dead)

 

2000 – Logan Ramsey, actor, d @ 79 (Dr Hackenstein, ALF, Battlestar Galactica, Mork & Mindy, Star Trek)

2001 – Joan Sims, actress d @ 71 (Super Gran, Doctor Who, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing)

2008 – WALL-E released

2014 – Norma McCarty, actress, d @ 93 (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Adventures of Superman)

2014 – Transformers: Age of Extinction released

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