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1913 – Sidney James, actor (Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)

1915 – John Archer, actor (Destination Moon, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space, She Devil, Science Fiction Theatre)

1925 – Angela Stevens, actress (Creature with the Atom Brain)

1926 – Don Rickles, actor (The Munsters, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Twilight Zone)

1928 – John Bennett, actor (Minority Report, The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells, The Fifth Element, Alien Nation: Millennium, Blakes 7, 1990, Doctor Who)

John Bennett as General Finch in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1932 – Phyllida Law, actress (The Time Machine, The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1935 – Salome Jens, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Superboy, Tomorrow’s Child, The Outer Limits, Terror from the Year 5000)

John Bennett as General Finch in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Robert Dix, actor (Horror of the Blood Monsters, Frankenstein’s Daughter, Forbidden Planet)

1935 – Robert Dix, actor (Horror of the Blood Monsters, Frankenstein’s Daughter, Forbidden Planet)

Robert Dix as Forbidden Planet Crewman Grey

1937 – Thomas Pynchon, sci-fi author (Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland)

1938 – Moebius [Jean Henri Giraud], artist

1940 – Peter Benchley, sci-fi writer (The Beast, Creature)

1941 – Jim Mitchum, actor (Monster)

1944 – Abdul Salaam El Razzac, actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Star Trek: TNG)

1947 – Ron Miller, artist

1950 – Mark Blankfield, actor (Eerie Indiana, ALF, Frankenstein General Hospital, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

1951 – Deborah Harmon, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1954 – David Keith, actor (Deep Shock, Epoch: Evolution, Epoch, Anthrax, The Outer Limits)

1955 – Stephen Furst, actor (Babylon 5, The Day After)

1957 – Jeff Wincott, actor (The Invasion, Mutant X, Battle Queen 2020, Earth: Final Conflict, Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms, Future Fear)

1961 – David Winning, director (Dinosapien, Andromeda, Stargate: Atlantis, Dinotopia, Earth: Final Conflict)

1964 – Melissa Gilbert, actress (The Outer Limits, Babylon 5, The Reluctant Astronaut)

1968 – Anthony Reynolds, actor (The Hunger Games)

1978 – Matthew Davis, actor (S. Darko)

1980 – Saturn 3 released in UK

1981 – Stephen Amell, actor (ReGenesis)

1982 – Christina Cole, actress (Jupiter Ascending, Time Machine: Rise of the Morlocks, Doctor Who, Hex)

1983 – Elyes Gabel, actress (World War Z, Interstellar)

1984 – Matthew Boyle, actor (Undead)

2985 – Betsy Baker, actress (2084)

1985 – Edmond O’Brien, actor, d@ 69 (Fantastic Voyage, 1984)

1985 – Dolph Sweet, actor, d @ 64 (Colossus: The Forbin Project)

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

1988 – Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi author, d @ 80 ( Starship Troopers, The Puppet Masters, Destination Moon)

1991 – Ronnie Brody, actor, d @ 72 (Superman III, Cosmo and Thingy)

1992 – Richard Derr, actor, d @ 73 (When Worlds Collide, Firefox, Automan, Project U.F.O., Star Trek, The Outer Limits, Tales of Tomorrow)

1994 – Steven Keats, actor, d @ 49 (The Twilight Zone, Automan, Voyagers!, Hanger 18, The Lost Dinosaur)

1994 – George Peppard, actor, d @ 65 (Damnation Alley, Battle Beyond the Stars)

1998 – Deep Impact released

1999 – Dana Plato, actress, d @ 34 (Beyond the Bermuda Triangle, The Six Million Dollar Man)

2009 – Star Trek released

2013 – Brian Forbes, actor, d @ 86 (Quatermass II: Enemy from Space, Satellite in the Sky)

2013 – Jeanne Cooper, actress d @ 84 (Twilight Zone)

2013 – Dick Kollmar, actor, d @ 88 (Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man)

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1888 – Selmer Jackson, actor (The Lost Missile, Adverntures of Superman, Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere)

1908 – Valentine Dyall (Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Stranger from Space)

1911 – Ishiro Honda, director (Godzilla 1977, Mecha Godzilla, Ultraman Returns, Godzilla’s Revenge, Yog: Monster from Space, Latitude Zero, Destroy All Monsters, The War of the Gargantuas, Invasion of the Astro Monster, Frankenstein Conquers the World, Ghidorah, Motrha vs. Godzilla, Atrtagon, Matango, Varan, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Gorath, Mothra, Battle in Outer Space, The H-Man, The Mysterians, Rodan, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Godzilla 1954)

1922 – Darren McGavin, actor (The X-Files, Firebird 2015 AD, Hanger 18, The Martian Chronicles, The Six Million Dollar Man, Mission Mars, Tales of Tomorrow)

Darren McGavin in The Martian Chronicles

1924 – Albert Band, director (Prehysteria!, Robot Wars)

1927 – James Broderick, actor (Twilight Zone)

1928 – John Ingle, actor, (ALF, Robocop 2)

1931 – Gene Wolfe, sci-fi author (The Claw of the Conciliator)

1933 – Roger Perry, actor (The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Thing with Two Heads, The Invaders, Star Trek, The Munsters)

1941 – Lee de Broux, actor (Mars, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, RoboCop, Max Headroom, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, The Terminal Man, The Day the World Ended)

1950 – Randall “Tex” Cobb, actor (The X-Files)

1951 – John Fleck, actor (The World, Star Trek: Enterprise, Carnivale, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Waterworld, Lois & Clark, Babylon 5: The Gathering, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Mutant on the Bounty, Max Headroom, Howard the Duck)

1957 – Ned Bellamy, actor (Under the Dome, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Starman (TV), The Twilight Zone)

1962 – Patrick Read Johnson, director (Spaced Invaders)

1962 – David Franklin, actor (Farscape, The Matrix Reloaded, Time Trax)

1967 – Judith Evelyn, actress, d @ 54 (The Tingler)

1968 – Tracy Lords, actress (D.R.E.A.M. Team, Blade, Virtuosity, Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II, The Tommyknockers, Super Force, Not of This Earth)

1971 – Ivan Sergei, actor (Warehouse 13, 10.5, Bionic Ever After)

1974 – Breckin Meyer, actor (Heroes, Escape from L.A.)

1976 – Carrie Henn, actress (Aliens)

1976 – Arnold Chun, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)

1992 – Alexander Ludwig, actor (The Hunger Games)

1997 – The Fifth Element released

2000 – Maxwell Perry Cotton, actor (Elysium)

2007 – Nicholas Worth, actor, d @ 69 (Star Trek: Voyager, Starforce, The X Files, Sliders, Star Trek: DS9, Timelock, Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II, Darkman, Swamp Thing, Coma, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man)

2013 – Aubrey Woods, actor, d @ 87 (Blakes 7, Doctor Who)

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1904 – Raymond Bailey, actor (The Incredible Shrinking Man, Twilight Zone, The Space Children, Science Fiction Theatre, Tales of Tomorrow)

Raymond Bailey as Dr Thomas Silver in The Incredible Shrinking Man

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1915 – Orson Welles, writer / actor (War of the Worlds (radio))

1923 – Gordon C. Davies, artist (many sci-fi covers)

Gordon C Davies art

1931 – Jack Sharkey, sci-fi author, d @ 61 (Ultimatum in 2050 A.D.)

1936 – Joanna Dunham, actress (Space: 1999, The Day After Tomorrow, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1945 – Richard Eyer, actor (The Invisible Boy, Invasion U.S.A.)

1947 – Alan Dale, actor (Dominion, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Star Trek: Nemesis, The X-Files, The Lost World (TV), Space: Above and Beyond, Time Trax)

1948 – Paul Linke, actor (K-PAX, Smart House, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap, Space Rage)

 

 

 

 

1950 – Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is published by Doubleday

The Martian Chronicles

1952 – Michael O’Hare, actor (Babylon 5, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, C.H.U.D.)

1952 – Gregg Henry, actor (Dollhouse, Slither (2006), Star Trek: Enterprise, Firefly, Star Trek: Insurrection, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1961 – George Clooney, actor (Gravity, Solaris, Tomorrowland)

1961 – Carlos Lauchu, actor (Stargate)

1964 – Dana Hill, actress (Mork & Mindy)

1965 – Leslie Hope, actress (The Strain, Revolution, RoboCop: Prime Directives, Star Trek: DS9, SeaQuest 2032)

1967 – Robert Floyd, actor (Sliders, Godzilla 1998)

1970 – Kavan Smith, actor (Eureka, Stargate (TV), The 4400, Battlestar Galactica, Blade: The Series, The Time Tunnel (2006), Smallville, Mission to Mars, Escape from Mars)

1976 – Kyle Cassie, actor (Fringe, Andromeda, Jake 2.0, Stargate SG-1)

 

1981 – Will Blagrove, actor (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Divergent)

1983 – Adrianne Palicki, actress (The Robinsons: Lost in Space, Smallville)

1986 – Tyler Hynes, actor (Warehouse 13)

1989 – Mark Daugherty, actor (No Ordinary Family)

1993 – Naomi Scott, actress (The Martian, Terra Nova)

1996 – Dominic Scott Kay, actor (Minority Report)

2012 – George Lindsey, actor, d @ 83 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

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1887 – Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman)

Estelle Hemsley as Malla in The Leech Woman.

1894 – Henry Daniell, actor (Lights Out, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1902 – Alexander Lockwood, actor (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Monster on the Campus, The Invisible Boy, Tales of Tomorrow)

 

 

 

1922 – Joseph Stefano, producer/writer (Swamp Thing, Star Trek: TNG, The Outer Limits)

Joseph Stefano producer/ writer The Outer Limits

1926 – Bing Russell, actor (The Munsters, The Twilight Zone, The Deadly Mantis, Tarantula)

1928 – Richard Schaal, actor (Slaughterhouse-Five)

1937 – Sandy Baron, actor (The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas, The Munsters Today)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940 – Lance Hendrikson, actor (Alien Rising, The Genesis Code, Supernova, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, TheX Files, Millennium, Alien³, The Terminator, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning, The Visitor (1979), Close Encounter of the Third Kind)

Lance Henriksen in Aliens

1942 – Mark Alaimo, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap, Total Recall, The Phoenix, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde)

1943 – Michael Palin, actor (Brazil, Time Bandits)

1944 – John Rhys-Davies, actor (Time Lapse, 100 Degrees Below Zero, Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Ferocious Planet, Revelations, Chupacabra Terror, Star Trek: Voyager, Sliders, Cyborg Cop, The Lost World

1944 – Roger Rees, actor (Warehouse 13, The Invasion, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1956 – Lisa Eilbacher, actress (Leviathan, The Twilight Zone, Man from Atlantis, Logan’s Run)

1957 – Richard E. Grant, actor (Doctor Who)

1962 – Manoj Sood, actor (Continuum, The 4400, Jake 2.0)

1968 – Albert Van Dekker, actor, D @ 62 (Dr Cyclops, She Devil, Gammera the Invincible, Lights Out: The Perfect Servant)

1978 – Santiago Cabrera, actor (Heroes)

1979 – Vincent Kartheiser, actor (In Time)

1980 – Alana Curry, actress (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Time Changer)

1981 – Danielle Fishel, actress (Rocket’s Red Glare)

1983 – John Williams, actor, d @ 80 (Battlestar Galactica, Twilight Zone, Visit to a Small Planet)

1983 – Henry Cavill, actor (Batman vs. Superman, Man of Steel, Immortals, Stardust)

1985 – Clark Duke, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine)

2985 – Pauline Egan, actress (Elysium)

1988 – George Rose, actor, d @ 68 (The Andromeda Breakthrough)

1997 – Walter Gotell, actor, d @ 73 (The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, The Boys from Brazil, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, 1984)

2011 – Dana Wynter, actor, d @ 79 (The Questor Tapes, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

What if there was something worse than aliens at Roswell.

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1893 – Edgar Dearing, actor (Twilight Zone, Tarantula)

1893 – Royal Butler, actor (Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, Mysterious Island)

1903 – Luther Adler, actor (Twilight Zone)

1906 – Esmond Knight, actor (Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, The Invisible Man, Doctor Who, A for Andromeda, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1909 – Howard Da Silva, actor (The Outer Limits)

1910 – James Ellison, actor, d @ 93 23 December 1993 (I Walked with a Zombie, The Undying Monster)

 

 

 

1915 – Curt Conway, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Curt Conway in The Outer Limits episode, Moonstone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Bob Johnson, actor (Star Trek, The Outer Limits)

Bob Johnson as Nils Pitcairn on Star Trek

1939 – Paul Gleason, actor (Dark Skies, Digital Man, Lois & Clark, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, The Invaders, Panic in Year Zero!)

1940 – Robin Cook, sci-fi author (Coma, Invasion, Virus)

1947 – Richard Jenkins, actor (What Planet Are You From?)

1947 – Harry Winer, director (Invasion, Jake 2.0, SpaceCamp)

1949 – Sybil Danning, actress (Battle Beyond the Stars, Virus X , Superboy, The Phantom Empire, Amazon Women on the Moon, V, Meteor

1952 – Anthony Hamilton, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1954 – Pia Zadora, actress (Voyage of the Rock Aliens, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians)

1955 – Jeff Lester, actor (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

1956 – Steve Barron, director (Coneheads)

1964 – Juliette Cummins, actress (Max Headroom)

 

1967 – Stevie Ray Dallimore, actor (Ender’s Game)

1967 – Ana Gasteyer, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun

1970 – Will Arnett, actor (Men in Black 3

1972 – John Rawls, actor (T30 Days of Night)

1974 – John Wengraf, actor, d @ 77 (12 to the Moon, The Time Tunnel, Gog)

1975 – Moe Howard, actor, d @ 77 (The Three Stooges in Orbit, Have Rocket — Will Travel, Flying Saucer Daffy, Space Master X-7, Outer Space Jitters, Space Ship Sappy)

1977 – Emily Perkins, actress (Extraterrestial, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files)

1983 – Jesse Moss, actor (Extraterrestrial, Continuum, Seeds of Destruction, The Andromeda Strain, Level 9, Stargate SG-1, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)

1984 – Diana Dors, actress, d @ 52 (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1984 – Christian Howard, actor (U.F.O. (2012))

1989 – Freddie Fox, actor (Victor Frankenstein)

1992 – Ashley Rickards, actress (Gamer)

1994 – Alexander Gould, actor (The Day the World Ended, Superman Unbound)

1997 – Alvy Moore, actor, d @ 75 (Space Patrol, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Boy, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, A Boy and His Dog)

2009 – Dom Deluise, actor, d @ 75 (Stargate SG-1, 3rd Rock from the Sun, SeaQuest 2032, The Munsters)

2011 – Mary Murphy, actress, d @ 80 (The Outer Limits, The Electronic Monster)

2013 – Mario Machado, actor, d @ 78 (RoboCop 1, 2, & 3)

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1924 – Mary Carver, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, The Visitor, Beyond Westworld, Twilight Zone)

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1928 – Jeanne Bal, actress (Star Trek)

Jeanne Bal in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1933 – Alex Cord, actor (War of the Worlds (TV), The Six Million Dollar Man, Genesis II)

Alex Cord in Genesis II

1933 – Frederick Kerr, actor, d @ 74 (Frankenstein)

1936 – Fox Harris, actor, d @ 52 (Alienator, Repo Man, Mutant / aka Forbidden World, Deep Space, Warlords)

1948 – Chris Mulkey, actor (K-9000, The Twilight Zone, Runaway, Dreamscape, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann)

1948 – Larry Brandenburg, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Quantum Leap)

1949 – Ron Canada, actor (Stargate SG-1, The X Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Babylon 5, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, Star Trek: TNG)

1952 – Toni Naples, actor (Dinosaur Island)

1952 – Caitlin Clarke, actress, d @ 52 (The Stepford Husbands)

 

1954 – Peter Duncan, actor (Flash Gordon, Space: 1999, The Tomorrow People)

Peter Duncan in Space: 1999

1962 – Joseph J. Lawson, director (Age of Dinosaurs, Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future)

1966 – Firdous Bamji, actor (Unbreakable)

1968 – Amy Ryan, actress (War of the Worlds, Quantum Leap)

1969 – Karl Freund, cinematographer, d @ 79 (Metropolis, The Golem)

1972 – Kristin Lehman, actress (The Chronicles of Riddick, Andromeda, The X Files)

1972 – Bruce Cabot, actor, d @ 68 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1974 – Joseph Kosinski, director (Oblivion, TRON: Legacy)

1975 – Christina Hendricks, actress (Firefly)

1975 – Dule Hill, actor (10.5)

1975 – Jonas Ball, actor (The Objective)

1980 – Candace Hutson, actress (Quantum Leap)

1982 – Rebecca Hall, actor (Transcendence)

 

1986 – Robert Alda, actor, d @ 72 (Beyond Westworld, The Incredible Hulk, The Invisible Man, Tales of Tomorrow)

2010 – Jimmy Gardner, actor, d @ 85 (Doctor Who)

2014 – Leslie Carlson, actress, d @ 81 (Plague City: SARS in Toronto, Anonymous Rex, Odyssey 5, The X-Files, The Girl from Mars, The Twilight Zone, War of the Words (TV), The Fly (86), Videodrome, The Neptune Factor)

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1890 – Edward E. “Doc” Smith, sci-fi author (Lensman, Subspace, The Galaxy Primes)

1924 – Theodore Bikel, actor (Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG, Twilight Zone)

Theodore Bikel in the Twilight Zone episode, Four O’ Clock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Roscoe Lee Browne, actor, d @ 81 11 April 2007 (Swamp Thing (TV), Moon 44, Space, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Logan’s Run, Planet of the Apes (TV), The Invaders)

Roscoe Lee Browne as Arnold Andrew Warren in The Invaders episode, The Vise.

1925 – John Neville, actor (Odyssey 5, The X Files, The Fifth Element, Star Trek: TNG, Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1931 – Phil Bruns, actor (Digital Man, Return of the Living Dead II, The Twilight Zone, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1932 – Bruce Glover, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, My Favorite Martian, Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster)

1936 – Don Marshall, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman, The Thing with Two Heads, Land of the Giants, Star Trek)

1940 – Jo Ann Pflug, actress (Gemini Man, Cyborg 2087)

1943 – Regina Carrol, actress (Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Brain of Blood)

1946 – David Suchet, actor (Wing Commander)

1952 – Christine Baranski, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1959 – Brian Tochi, actor (Starship Troopers, The Twilight Zone, Project U.F.O., Space Academy, The Omega Man, Star Trek)

1961 – Brad Wright, writer (Stargate)

1969 – Karel Dobry, actor (Children of Dune, Dune)

1971 – Katherine Willis, actress (Resurrection, Revolution)

1972 – Dwayne Johnson, actor (Journey 2: The MysteriousIsland,Star Trek: Voyager)

Dwayne Johnson in Star Trek Voyager

1973 – Jarred Blancard, actor (Millennium)

1974 – Matt Berry, actor (Moon)

1975 – Finlay Robertson, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Doctor Who, Lexx)

1981 – Alicia Ziegler, actress (Rise of the Dinosaurs)

1981 – Robert Buckley, actor (iZombie)

1984 – Lauren Eckstrom, actress (Star Kid)

1985 – Michael Caloz, actor (Screamers, The Lifeforce Experiment)

1986 – Thomas McDonell, actor (The 100)

1990 – Kay Panabaker, actress (No Ordinary Family, Phil of the Future)

 

1995 – Michael Hordern, actor, d @ 83 (Man in the Moon)

1996 – Megan McKinnon, actress (Alien Agenda: Project Grey)

1998 – Maidie Norman, actress, d @ 85 (The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone)

2012 – Tracy Reed, actress, d @ 69 (Dr. Strangelove, UFO, Out of the Unknown, Journey to the Unknown)

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1902 – Brian Aherne, actor, d @ 83 (Twilight Zone)

Brian Aherne as Booth Templeton in the Twilight Zone episode The Trouble with Templeton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1913 – Louis Nye, actor (The Munsters)

Louis Nye as Zombo in The Munsters

1916 – Glenn Ford, actor (Day of Resurrection, Superman, The Visitor)

1919 – Dan O’Herlihy, actor (RoboCop, RoboCop 2, VR.5, The Last Starfighter, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Death Ray 2000, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, Invasion U.S.A.)

1924 – Terry Southern, writer (Barbarella)

1925 – Roscoe Lee Browne, actor (Logan’s Run, SeaQuest 2032, Swamp Thing, Moon 44, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

1931 – Phil Bruns, actor (Digital Man, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Twilight Zone, The Six Million Dollar Man)

 

1940 – Joy Harmon, actress (Village of the Giants)

Joy Harmon in Village Of The Giants

1942 – Sharon Spelman, actress (The Blob (1988), The Stepford Children)

1942 – Stephen Macht, actor (Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Galaxina, The Six Million Dollar Man

1949 – Douglas Barr, actor (Spaced Invaders, Superboy)

1950 – John Diehl, actor (Singularity Principle, Jurassic Park III, The X-Files, Stargate, The Dark Side of the Moon, \Escape from New York)

1954 – Joel Rosenberg, sci-fi author

1966 – Todd Eric Andrews, actor (Zapped Again!)

1969 – Carrie Stevens, actress (Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, Dinocroc vs. Supergator, Weird Science (TV))

 

1971 – Kendrick Cross, actor (Insurgent, Under the Dome)

1972 – Bailey Chase, actress (Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice)

1972 – Julie Benz, actress (Defiance, No Ordinary Family, Roswell, Sliders)

1976 – Darius McCrary, actor (Transformers)

1978 – James Badge Dale, actor (World War Z)

1980 – George Pal, producer/director, d @ 72 (Conquest of Space,The War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide, Destination Moon, The Time Machine, Atlantis, the Lost Continent)

1982 – Hugh Marlowe, actor, d @ 71 (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1982 – Margaret Sheridan, actress, d @ 55 (The Thing from Another World)

1987 – Emilia Clarke, actress (Terminator: Genesis, Triassic Attack)

1988 – Nicholas Braun, actor (Brave New World)

1990 – Caitlin Stasey, actress (I Frankenstein)

1990 – Sunset Carson, actor, d @ 69 (Alien Outlaw)

1990 – David Rappaport, actor, d @ 38 (Time Bandits)

1997 – Ariel Gade, actress (Meteor, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Invasion)

1999 – Oliver Reed, actor, d @ 62 (Spasms, The Brood, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2006 – Betsy Jones-Moreland, actress, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, Creature from the Haunted Sea)

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1916 – Phil Brown, actor, d @ 99 9 February 2006 (Superman, Star Wars: A New Hope, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Journey to the Unknown)

1923 – Al Lewis, actor (The Munsters, Here Come the Munsters, Munster’s Revenge, Munster, Go Home!, Lost in Space)

Al Lewis in The Munsters

1925 – Corinne Calvet, actress (Dr. Heckle and Mr. Hype)

1926 – Edmund Cooper, sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came)

1926 – Cloris Leachman, actress (Young Frankenstein, Twilight Zone)

1938 – Larry Niven, sci-fi author (Ringworld)

1938 – Gary Collins, actor (The Fantastic Journey, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, King Kong vs. Godzilla)

1940 – Burt Young, actor (Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

 

 

 

1944 – Jill Clayburgh, actress (The Terminal Man)

Jill Clayburgh in The Terminal Man

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 – Antonia Ellis, actor (UFO)

1944 – Antonia Ellis, actor (UFO)

1947 – Leslie Grantham, actor (Morons from Outer Space, Doctor Who)

Leslie Grantham as Kiston in Doctor Who

1948 – Perry King, actor (The Day After Tomorrow, Slaughterhouse-Five)

1948 – Bertrand Cadart, actor (Mad Max)

1948 – Allan Arkush, director (Defiance, Heroes, Timecop, Mann & Machine, The Twilight Zone, Heartbeeps)

1954 – The Rocket Man released

1954 – Thom Bray, actor (DeepStar Six)

1955 – Rudolf Klein-Rogge, actor, d @ 69 (Metropolis)

1957 – Kronos released

1959 – Paul Gross, actor (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 TV), The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

 

1965 – Adrian Pasdar, actor (Heroes, Near Dark, House of Frankenstein (1997 TV), Near Dark, Solarbabies)

1967 – Steven Mackintosh, actor (Doctor Who, Robot Overlords)

1970 – Inger Stevens, actress, d @ 36 (Twilight Zone)

1972 – Kevin Sizemore, actor (Under the Dome, Dollhouse, Supernova, Resurrection, Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1974 – Agnes Moorehead, actress, d @ 73 (Twilight Zone, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1975 – Michael Chaturantabut, actor (The Time Machine)

1975 – Johnny Galecki, actor (In Time)

1978 – Inga Cadranel, actress (Orphan Black, ReGenesis, The Strain)

1980 – Sam Heughan, actor (Outlander)

1982 – Kirsten Dunst, actress (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

1985 – Gal Gadot, actor (Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice)

1986 – Dianna Agron, actress (I am Number Four, Heroes)

1986 – Robert Stevenson, director, d @ 81 (One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, The Island at the Top of the World, Son of Flubber, The Absent-Minded Professor)

1989 – Guy Williams, actor, d @ 65 (I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Lost in Space)

1996 – David Opatoshu, actor, d @ 78 (Alien Nation, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Salvage 1, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

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1894 – Ken Tyrell, actor (Master of the World, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Brain from Planet Arous, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, Indestructible Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Zombies of the Stratosphere, Radar Men from the Moon, Flying Disc Man from Mars, The Invisible Monster)

1908 – Jack Williamson, actor (author, The Legion of Time, Starchild, The Man from Outside)

1912 – Richard Carlson, actor (The Magnetic Monster, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Came from Outer Space, Riders to the Stars, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush in It Came from Outer Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1923 – Irvin Kershner, director (SeaQuest 2032, RoboCop 2, The Empire Strikes Back)

1934 – Akira Takarada, actor (Godzilla vs. Mothra, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, King Kong Escapes, Godzilla 2014, Godzilla 1977, Godzilla 1954], Invasion of Astro-Monster)

Akira Takarada acted in many of the Godzilla movies

1936 – Lane Smith, actor, d @ 69 13 June 2005 (Lois & Clark, Duplicates, V)

1946 – Wayne Robson, actor (The Timekeeper, The Incredible Hulk, Lexx, Cube, RoboCop, The Twilight Zone)

1948 – Reb Brown, actor (Space Mutiny, Robowar, Yor, the Hunter from the Future, Brave New World, Strange New World, The Six Million Dollar Man, Ssssss)

 

 

 

 

1951 – The Thing from Another World, based on a story by John W. Campbell, Jr. and directed by Christian Nyby (with uncredited direction by Howard Hawks), opens in the U.S., helping to initiate a cycle of popular science fiction monster movies. It will later be remade in 1982 and in 2011.

The Thing from Another World released in US

1951 – Ellen Crawford, actress (The Man From Earth, Soldier, The Invisible Kid)

1952 – Robert Towers, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Masters of the Universe)

1952 – Nora Dunn, actress (What Planet Are You From?, The X Files)

1954 – Gavin O’Herlihy, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Superman III, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1955 – Kate Mulgrew, actress (Warehouse 13, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: Voyager)

1955 – Leslie Jordan, actress (Undead or Alive: A Zombedy, Weird Science, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, JasonFrankenstein General Hospital)

1958 – Michelle Pfeiffer, actress (Stardust)

1958 – Eve Plumb, actress (Lois & Clark)

1960 – Robert J. Sawyer, sci-fi author (The Terminal Experiment, Hugo for Homonids)

 

 

1963 – Bruce Harwoord, actor (The X-Files, Alienated, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, The Lone Gunmen, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Fly II, Earth Star Voyager)

1966 – Vincent Ventresca, actor (Dollhouse, Mammoth, The Invisible Man [TV])

1970 – Uma Thurman, actress (Gattaca)

1972 – Derek Mears, actor (Predators, Star Trek: Enterprise, Men in Black II)

1973 – David Belle, actor (Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Babylon A.D.)

1975 – April Telek, actress (Strange Empire, Tin Man, Stargate SG-1, Replicant, First Wave, Millennium, Sliders)

1977 – David Sullivan, actor (The Astronaut Farmer)

1978 – Tyler Labine, actor (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Invasion, Jake 2.0, Evil Alien Conquerors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The X-Files)

1984 – Firass Dirani, actor (Pitch Black)

1984 – Taylor Cole, actor (Heroes, Surrogates)

1992 – Mae Clarke, actress, d @ 81 (Frankenstein)

2005 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe released

2008 – Julie Ege, actress, d @ 64 (The Last Days of Man on Earth, Creatures the World Forgot)

2011 – Joanna Russ, sci-fi author, d @ 74 (Female Man, Alyx)

2014 – Bob Hoskins, actor, d @ 71 (Brazil, The Lost World, Doomsday)