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1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, sci-fi author (The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and Sun)

1891 – Victor Kilian, actor (Planet of the Apes, Unknown World)

1900 – Ludwig Donath, actor (Twilight Zone, Space Patrol)

Ludwig Donath (right) in the Twilight Zone

1906 – Lou Costello, actor (The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

1916 – Virginia Gregg, actress (Project U.F.O., Man From Atlantis, The Six Million Dollar Man, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

1928 – William F. Nolan, sci-fi author (Logan’s Run)

 

 

1930 – Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Men into Space)

Allison Hayes in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

1931 – John Smith, actor (Project U.F.O.)

1936 – Jean Boht, actress (The Cloning of Joanna May)

1937 – Anne Kristen, actress (Space Precinct)

1939 – David Spielberg, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: TNG, Starman, Automan, Mork & Mindy, The Henderson Monster)

1940 – Joanna Miles, actress (Star Trek: TNG, The Incredible Hulk, A Fire in the Sky, Bug)

1942 – Ben Murphy, actor (Time Walker, The Twilight Zone, Gemini Man)

1946 – Martin Kove, actor (Alien Lockdown, The Black Scorpion, Future Shock, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Twilight Zone, Beyond Westworld, The Incredible Hulk, Death Race 2000)

1947 – Judy Loe, actress (Doomwatch: Winter Angel, Space Island One)

1948 – Anna Maria Horsford, actress (Minority Report, The Chronicle)

Anna Maria Horsford in Minority Report

1952 – John David Carson, actor (Empire of the Ants, Creature from Black Lake, Day of the Dolphin)

1955 – Larry Cedar, actor (Philidelphia Experiment II, The Twilight Zone: The MovieTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: Enterprise, Honey, I Shrunk the Kid (TV), Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, C.H.U.D. II, Battlestar Galactica)

1957 – Eddie Deezen, actor (Lloyd in Space, Wargames, Zapped!, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Laserblast)

1958 – Richard Schenkman, director (The Man from Earth)

1959 – Michael Carmine, actor (Batteries Not Included)

1959 – Tom Arnold, actor (The Outer Limits, Coneheads)

1962 – Jonathan Scott-Taylor, actor (1990)

1964 – Edward Van Sloan, actor, d @ 81 (Frankenstein)

1968 – Moira Kelly, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1969 – Andrea Elson, actress (ALF)

1970 – Shane Brolly, actor (Deadly Swarm)

1970 – William Hopper, actor, d @ 55 (20 Million Miles to Earth, The Deadly Mantis, Conquest of Space)

1970 – Amy Pietz, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1972 – Dwayne Boyd, actor (Resurrection, The Hunger Games, Surface)

1974 – Sebastian Siegel, actor (Roswell)

1978 – Lara Cox, actress (The Lost World)

1979 – Charles Wagenheim, actor, d @ 83 (Ark II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Science Fiction Theatre)

1983 – Thelma Pelish, actress, d @ 56 (The Incredible Hulk)

1982 – Ayn Rand, author, d @ 77 (Fountainhead, Anthem, Atlas Shrugged)

1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, actor, d @ 78 (Doomsday Machine)

1986 – Joel Palmer, actor (First Wave, The X Files)

1986 – Adolph Caesar, actor, d @ 52 (The Twilight Zone)

1987 – Hannah Taylor-Gordon, actress (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

1989 – Harry Andrews, actor, d @ 77 (Superman, The Last Days of Man on Earth)

1992 – Elvia Allman, actress, d @ 87 (The Nutty Professor, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian)

1993 – Elise Eberle, actress (The Astronaut Farmer)

1993 – Elise Eberle, actress (The Astronaut Farmer)

1996 – Simon Cadell, actor, d @ 45 (1990, Meteor)

1997 – Alisha Bow, actress (Extant)

1999 – Dylan Schmid, actor (Stonados, Falling Skies, Fringe)

2000 – John Colicos, actor, d @ 71 (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, Star Trek: DS9, War of the Worlds, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Starlost)

2001 – Aryana Engineer, actress (Resident Evil: Retribution)

2004 – Frances Dee, actress, d @ 94 (I Walked with a Zombie)

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1894 – Henry Daniell, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon)

Henry Daniell in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Dr Zucco

1908 – Sophie Stewart, actress (Things to Come, Devil Girl from Mars)

1911 – Joseph Tomelty, actor (Devil Girl from Mars)

1920 – Virginia Christine, actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

1922 – James Noble, actor (Who?)

1926 – Joan Shawlee, actress (The Reluctant Astronaut, Conquest of Space)

 

1934 – Nicholas Smith, actor (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (TV),Doctor Who, Pathfinders to Mars)

1934 – James B Sikking, actor (Morons from Outer Space, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Outland, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, Capricorn One, Man from Atlantis, The Terminal Man, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, The Astronaut, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Immortal, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, The Outer Limits)

James B Sikking in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Paul Sand, actor (Sliders, The X Files, Eerie Indiana, Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone)

1936 – Dean Stockwell, actor (Quantum Leap, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Langoliers, Lois & Clark, The Twilight Zone, Dune, Paper Man, Twilight Zone)

Dean Stockwell in Twilight Zone

1938 – Fred Williamson, actor (Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption, Warriors of the Wasteland, Warriors of the Lost World, 1990: The Bronx Warriors, Star Trek)

1939 – Samantha Eggar, actress (The Brood, The Astronaut’s Wife, Star Trek: TNG)

1942 – Michael D[iamond] Resnick, sci-fi author (Sideshow, Eros Ascending)

1944 – Paul Sand, actor (Gods and Robots, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone)

1946 – Michael Warren, actor (Species III, Sliders, Invasion)

 

 

1954 – The Creature from the Black Lagoon, directed by Jack Arnold, firmly establishes this director’s reputation for popular low-budget science fiction monster movies.

1954 – Marsha Warfield, actress (Doomsday Rock)

1955 – Penn Jillette, actor (Babylon 5, VR.5, Lois & Clark)

1956 – Adriana Barraza, actress (The Strain)

1958 – Bill Timoney, actor (Mission to Mars)

1959 – David Fury, writer/actor (Fringe, Terra Nova)

1962 – Jonathan Penner, actor (Coneheads)

1968 – John Fawcett, director (The Dresden Files, Blade: The Series, Mutant X, Space Cases)

1969 – Paul Blackthorne, actor (Warehouse 13)

1969 – David Palffy, actor (Blade: The Series, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, House of the Dead, Replicant, Millennium, The X Files)

1969 – Paul Blackthorne, actor (Warehouse 13, The Dresden Files)

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

1974 – Matt Lucas, actor (Shaun of the Dead)

1975 – Jolene Blalock, actress (Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, Star Trek: Enterprise, Stargate: SG-1)

1975 – Kevin Cotteleer, actor (The Event, Men in Black II)

1978 – Kimberly McCullough, actress (Firefly)

1979 – Riki Lindhome, actress (Heroes)

1981 – Brenda De Banzie, actress, d @ 64 (Out of the Unknown)

1982 – Tania Saulnier, actress (Smallville)

1989 – Jake Lloyd, actor (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace)

1990 – Gary Merrill, actor, d @ 74 (Earth II, The Time Tunnel, Destination Inner Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Mysterious Island)

1996 – Whit Bissell, actor, D @ 86 (One Step Beyond, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Monster on the Campus , The Atomic Kid, Target Earth, Science Fiction Theatre, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, I Was a Teenage Werewolf , Time Machine, Time Tunnel, The Outer Limits, Soylent Green, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., Star Trek, The Invaders, The Bionic Woman, Land of the Giants, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1998 – Donald Woods, actor, d @ 91 (Beast from 20000 Fathoms, Lights Out, Men Into Space)

1999 – Richard Kiley, actor, d @ 76 (Jurassic Park, Star Trek: DS9, Howard the Duck, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Twilight Zone)

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1888 – Rafaela Ottiano, actress (The Devil-Doll)

1904 – George Gamow, sci-fi author, d @ 64 20 August 1968 (Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, One, Two, Three… Infinity)

1907 – Edgar Barrier, actor (Men into Space, World of Giants, The Giant Claw, The War of the Worlds)

1916 – William Alland, writer/producer (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, The Deadly Mantis)

1920 – Alan MacNaughtan, actor (Frankenstein Created Woman, Journey to the Unknown, Out of this World)

1921 – Joan Greenwood, actress (Barbarella)

1927 – Thayer David, actor (The Invisible Man, Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1934 – Anne Haney, actress (Quantum Leap, K-9000, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, The Invisible Woman)

1939 – Paula Prentiss, actress (The Stepford Wives)

Paula Prentiss in The Stepford Wives

1940 – Kas Garas, actor (Humanoids from the Deep, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1941 – John Aprea, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star)

1941 – John Hancock, actor (Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk)

1941 – Adrian Lyne, director (Jacob’s Ladder)

1945 – Frank Novak, actor (The X-Files, Lois & Clark, Independence Day, Carnosaur, Quantum Leap)

1953 – Kay Lenz, actress (Lois & Clark, Trapped in Space, Starman)

1954 – Adrian Zmed, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)

1956 – The Atomic Man released

1957 – Mykelti Williamson, actress (Species II, Time Trax, Salvage 1)

1957 – Ron Fassler, actor (Roswell, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: Voyager, Alien Nation (TV), Max Headroom)

1958 – Patricia Heaton, actress (Alien Nation (TV), Memoirs of an Invisible Man)

1960 – Mykelti Williamson, actor (Time Trax, The Outer Limits, Salvage 1)

1961 – Steven Weber, actor (Falling Skies, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: DS9, Helix)

Steven Weber in The Outer Limits

1962 – David Sparrow, actor (Alien Mysteries, Alphas, Savage Planet, Star Trek: Voyager)

1963 – Daniel Roebuck, actor (The Invisible Man, The Greatest Intergalactic Hero, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, Project X)

1965 – Stacy Edwards, actress (Spontaneous Combustion, Quantum Leap)

1965 – Paul Anderson, director (Event Horizon, Soldier, Resident Evil, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Death Race)

1965 – Kevin West, actor (Phil of the Future, Sliders, Killer Tomatoes Eat France!)

 

1966 – Steve Bastoni, actor (Thought Tracker, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, On the Beach, The Lost World, Time Trax

1968 – Patsy Kensit, actress (Strange Frequency)

1971 – Shavar Ross, actor (Frogs!)

1973 – Len Wiseman, director(Total Recall n(2012))

1981 – Torin Thatcher, actor, d @ 76 (Land of the Giants, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1983 – Jessica Heap, actress (Battle Los Angeles, Mutants)

1984 – Geoffrey Lumsden, actor, d @ 69 (The Horror of Frankenstein, Blood Beast from Outer Space, The Lost Planet)

1985 – Scott Michael Foster, actor (Zero Hour)

1986 – Margo Harshman, actress (Toxin)

1987 – Tamzin Merchant, actor (Red Faction: Origins)

1988 – Cody Longo, actor (Piranha 3D)

1994 – John Candy, actor, d @ 43 (Spaceballs)

1997 – William Alland, writer, d @ 81 (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, The Deadly Mantis)

1997 – Carey Lofton, actor/stuntman, d @ 83 (Star Trek, The Invaders, The Satan Bug, Radar Men from the Moon, Flying Disc Man from Mars, The Invisible Monster, The Purple Monster Strikes / The Incredible Hulk, Munster, Go Home!, THX 1138, Radar Men from the Moon, Flying Disc Man from Mars, Adventures of Superman, The Invisible Monsters, King of the Rocket Men, The Purple Monster Strikes)

1999 – Del Close, actor, d @ 64 (The Blob, Beware! The Blob)

2002 – Claire Davenport, actress, d @68 (Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Doctor Who)

2002 – Eric Flynn, actor, d @ 62 (Out of the Unknown, Doctor Who)

2010 – Roger Newman, actor, d @ 69 (Coma)

2010 – Nan Martin, actress, d @ 82 (The Invisible Man, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

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

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1913 – Harold J. Stone, actor (The Invisible Boy, Twilight Zone, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Harold J Stone in The Man with X-Ray Eyes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – James Doohan, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, Space Command, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Satan Bug, Star Trek series & 1-5, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Generations, Homeboys in Outer Space)

James Doohan as Scotty

1923 – Barney Martin, actor (I Married a Monster, The Twilight Zone)

1928 – Joe Conley (It’s About Time)

1939 – Robert Shaye, producer (Xtro, Critters)

1942 – Estaban Maroto, illustrator

1950 – Tim Kazurinsky, actor (The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue, Betaville)

 

 

1952 – The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas, with stories drawn from what has begun to be regarded as the most literary of the science fiction magazines is published.

1959 – Taylor Nichols, actress (Godzilla 2014, Jurassic Park III)

1959 – Lou Costello, actor, d @ 52 (The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

Lou Costello in Abbot and Costello Go to Mars

1961 – Mary Page Keller, actress (Timecop: The Berlin Decision)

1964 – Laura Harring, actress (Alien Nation (TV))

1966 – William Frawley, actor, d @ 79 (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

1966 – Alice Pearce, actress, d @ 48 (Twilight Zone)

1966 – Hope Marie Carlton, actress (The Stand, Quantum Leap)

1967 – Elizabeth Cheshire, actress (Ark II)

1970 – Julie Bowen, actress (The Last Man on Planet Earth, Multiplicity)

1973 – Matthew Marsden, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Resident Evil: Extinction)

1974 – Jared Rushton, actor (Honey I Shrank the Kids)

1974 – David Faustino, actor (RoboDoc, The X-Files, The Twilight Zone)

1974 – Frank Wilcox, actor, d @ 66 (It’s About Time, Beginning of the End, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Invaders from Mars, The Flying Missile)

1979 – Patrick Renna, actor (The X-Files, Lavalantula, Game Box 1.0)

1982 – Mercedes Mason, actress (Quarantine 2: Terminal)

1982 – Jessica Biel, actress (Total Recall (2012), Blade: Trinity)

1985 – Connie Gilchrist, actress, d @ 84 (Twilight Zone)

1987 – Danny Kaye, actor, d @ 76 (The Twilight Zone)

1989 – Andrea Brooks, actress (iZombie, Primeval: New World)

1992 – Robert Beatty, actor, d @ 82 (Superman III, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, The Martian Chronicles, Unidentified Flying Oddball, Blakes 7, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Doctor Who, Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Project M7, Devil’s Plot,

1994 – Ezra Stone, actor/director (Project U.F.O. / Lost in Space, Space Academy)

1997 – Suraj Partha, actor (Ender’s Game)

1999 – Lee Philips, director / actor, d @ 72 (Salvage 1 / Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

2003 – Horst Buchholz, actor, d @ 69 (Logan’s Run)

2004 – Cecily Adams, actress, d @ 46 (Star Trek: DS9, Total Recall 2070)

2012 – Leonardo Cimino, actor, d @ 94 (V, Dune, Waterworld, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

2012 – Ralph McQuarrie, production designer, d @ 72 (Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, E.T., Coccoon, Star Trek)

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1882 – Wallis Clark, actress (The Lady and the Monster, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1911 – William Hansen, actor (The Terminal Man, Fail-Safe)

1914 – Martin Ritt, actor (The Rocket)

1930 – John Cullum, actor (The Day After, Roswell, Quantum Leap)

1935 – Al Waxman, actor (Millennium, Spasms)

1938 – Richard Compton, director (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

1939 – Barbara Luna, actress (Unbelievable!!!!!, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek, The Invaders, The Outer Limits)

Barbara Luna in The Outer Limits episode It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

1939 – Hugh Walters, actor (Doctor Who, 1984, The Monster Club)

1941 – Gaye Brown, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Clockwork Orange)

1942 – Jon Finch, actor (The Martian Chronicles, The Last Days of Man on Earth, The Horror of Frankenstein)

1944 – Katherine Crawford, actress (Gemini Man)

1945 – Joy Garrett, actress (Star Trek: TNG, The Incredible Hulk, Robo Man)

1945 – Gordon Thompson, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Starship Invasions)

 

 

1949 – Gates McFadden, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact)

Gates McFadden in Star Trek TNG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950 – Mitchell Laurance, actor (Syngenor, The Outer Limits, Surface, Something Is Out There, The Bionic Woman)

Mitchell Laurance in The Outer Limits

1951 – Cassie Yates, actress (The Bionic Woman)

1952 – Laraine Newman, actress (Coneheads, Perversions of Science, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Invaders from Mars)

1952 – John Altman, actor (Return of the Jedi)

1955 – William Hope, actor (Spiders, Cold Fusion, Scanners)

1968 – Daniel Craig, actor (The Invasion, Cowboys and Aliens)

1971 – Amber Smith, actress (Mars)

1971 – Elizabeth Lackey, actress (Planet of the Apes, Heroes, Sliders)

1972 – Richard Ruccolo, actor (The X-Files)

1973 – Paul Popowich, actor (Phil The Alien, Mutant X, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: DS9

1975 – Scott E. Miller, actor (2012, Smallville, The 4400, Stargate: Atlantis)

1977 – Heather McComb, actress (2012: Supernova, The X-Files, Weird Science, Alien Nation)

 

1980 – Ingrid Bolso Berdal, actress (Westworld (2015))

1981 – Bryce Dallas Howard, actress (Jurassic World, Terminator Salvation)

1982 – Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, sci-fi author, d @ 53 (Heartsease)

1982 – Pilou Asbaek, actress (Lucy)

1986 – Ethan Peck, actor (In Time, The Selection)

1994 – Anita Morris, actress, d @ 50 (Martians Go Home)

1996 – Lyle Talbot, actor, d @ 84 (Amazon Women on the Moon, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Science Fiction Theatre, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Tobor the Great, Mesa of Lost Women, Space Patrol, Atom Man vs. Superman)

2004 – Mercedes McCambridge, actress, d @ 87 (Lost in Space, Tales of Tomorrow)

2009 – Rhae Andrece, actress, d @ 72 (Star Trek)

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1885 – Lionel Atwill, actor (House of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Night Monster, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Man Made Monster, The Son of Frankenstein, Doctor X)

1904 – Paul Hartman, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut, Twilight Zone)

1909 – Terence De Marney, actor (Doctor Who, Twilight Zone, Die Monster Die!)

1918 – Roger Delgado, actor (Doctor Who, First Man into Space, Quatermass II)

Roger Delgado as The Master in the Doctor Who episode, Colony in Space.

1926 – Cesare Danova, actor (Tenticles, The Astral Factor, Gemini Man)

1926 – Robert Clary, actor (The Munsters Today)

1930 – Raymond St Jacques, actor (They Live, The Powers of Matthew Star, Starman, Voyagers!, The Bionic Woman, Gemini Man, The Invaders)

 

 

 

 

1933 – Joan Hackett, actress (The Terminal Man, Twilight Zone)

Joan Hackett in Twilight Zone

1938 – Michael J[oseph] Kurland, sci-fi author (Infernal Device)

1942 – Dennis Lipscomb, actor (Roswell, The Invisible Man, Lois & Clark, The X Files, SeaQuest 2032, WarGames, The Day After, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1944 – Roger Daltrey, actor (Strange Frequency 2, Sliders, Lois & Clark)

1944 – Dirk Benedict, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Earthstorm)

1947 – Dougal Dixon, sci-fi author (After Man)

 

 

 

1954 – Ron Howard, actor (Land of the Giants, Village of the Giants, Twilight Zone)

Ron Howard

1956 – Tim Daly, actor (Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde)

1966 – JD Cullum, actor (Sliders, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: TNG)

1966 – John David Cullum, actor (Forever Young, Sliders, Lois & Clark, Star Trek:TNG)

1966 – Zach Snyder, director (Dawn of the Dead, Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, Man of Steel)

1968 – Steve Marshall, actor (Night of the Creeps)

1971 – Cara Buono, actress (Hulk, From Other Worlds)

1973 – Jack Davenport, actor (FlashForward)

1974 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor (Atomic Twister, Specimen, The Twilight Zone)

 

1976 – Luke Mayby, actor (28 Days Later)

1978 – Jensen Ackles, actor (Smallville)

1982 – Dominic Rains, actor (FlashForward)

1984 – Jackie Coogan, actor, d @ 69 (The Space Children)

1988 – Archie Goodwin, writer,d @ 50 (Marvel Comics and Warren Publications)

1993 – Terry Frost, actor, d @ 86 (The Monster Maker, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, Captain Midnight, Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, Mysterious Island)

2006 – Jack Wild, actor, d @ 53(Out of the Unknown)

2007 – Eddy Firestone, actor, d @ 86 (Conquest of the Earth, Galactica 1980, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., Logan’s Run, The Astral Factor, The Invisible Man)

2012 – Phillip R Allen, actor, d @ 72 (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Probe, Mork & Mindy)

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Leapers (2/29) celebrate their birthdays one of three ways. They celebrate on either 2/28, 3/1 or only on leap years. So 2/28 will due until leap year occurs.

1920 – Arthur Franz, actor (Invaders From Mars, King Monster, The Atomic Submarine, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, World of Giants, Men into Space, Science Fiction Theatre, Flight to Mars)

Arthur Franz in Inv.aders from Mars

1928 – Joss Ackland, actor (One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing)

1936 – Alex Rocco, actor (Small & Frye)

1940 – Harvey Jason, actor (The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Alien Nation (TV), Star Trek: TNG, Man From Atlantis, Genesis II)

1948 – Patricia [Anne] McKillip, sci-fi author (Fool’s Run)

1948 – Ken Foree, actor (Zone of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead (both of them), The X-Files, Babylon 5, M.A.N.T.I.S., Quantum leap, From Beyond)

1952 – Tim[othy] Powers, sci-fi author (Last Call, Declare)

 

1964 – Frank Albertson, actor, d @ 55 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1968 – Eamonn Roche, actor (The Event, Babylon 5)

1972 – Antonio Sabato Jr, actor (The Outer Limits, Lois & Clark, Earth 2)

1984 – Mike Dolinsky, sci-fi author and writer, d @ 60

1992 – Johnny Mack, actor, d @ 70 (Dr Who)

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1889 – Victor Sutherland, actor (Donovan’s Brain, Them!)

1905 – Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author, d @ 73 (Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides)

1908 – Billie Bird, actress (Max Headroom, Starman)

1909 – Olan Soule, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Project U.F.O., Battlestar Galactica, Fantastic Planet, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Land of the Giants, The Bubble, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, Twilight Zone, The Lost Missile, Captain Midnight, This Island Earth, Science Fiction Theatre, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Olan Soule in Captain Midnight

1911 – Gene O’Donnell, actor (Planet of the Apes, The Devil Bat)

1914 – Jim Boles, actor (Ark II, The Reluctant Astronaut, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, Tales of Tomorrow, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1918 – Alfred Burke, actor (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1923 – Jean Carson, actress (Twilight Zone, I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

1923 – Charles Durning, actor (Solarbabies, The Final Countdown, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

 

 

 

1927 – John Carson, actor (Doomsday, Doctor Who, 1990, The Plague of the Zombies, Blood Beast from Outer Space)

John Carson (left) in Blood Beast from Outer Space.

1928 – Tom Aldredge, actor (The Mind Snatchers, The American Astronaut, *batteries not included, The Mouse on the Moon)

1928 – Walter Tevis, sci-fi author d @ 56 8 August 1984 (The Man Who Fell to Earth)

1931 – Gavin MacLeod, actor (Time Changer, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, Men Into Space, World of Giants)

1932 – Don Francks, actor (Johnny Mnemonic, Swamp Thing, The Star Wars Holiday Special, Earth: Final Conflict, 984: Prisoner of the Future)

1936 – Gil Peterson, actor (The Brain Machine)

1942 – Frank Bonner, actor (Man from Atlantis)

1944 – Kelly Bishop, actress (Solarbabies)

1945 – Bubba Smith, actor (Escape from DS-3)

1948 – Bernadette Peters, actress (The Martian Chronicles)

1950 – Ilene Graff, actress (Mork & Mindy)

Ilene Graff in Mork & Mindy

1955 – Gilbert Gottfried, actor (Superboy)

1957 – John Turturro, actor (Transformers)

1960 – Dorothy Stratten, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Galaxina)

1961 – Rae Dawn Chong, actress (The Outer Limits, Time Runner, Deadly Skies)

1961 – Mark Ferguson, actor (Cleopatra 2525)

1966 – Jonathan Hale, actor, d @ 74 (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

1967 – Cecelia Specht, actress (No Ordinary Family, Star Trek: Enterprise)

1969 – Robert Sean Leonard, actor (Falling Skies, The Outer Limits)

 

 

1971 – Peter Stebbings, actor (Re-Generation, Stargate SG-1, Mutant X, The Outer Limits, The X-Files)

1972 – Rory Cochrane, actor (A Scanner Darkly)

1973 – Cecil Kellaway, actor, d @ 79 (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Destination Space, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

1974 – Michael Manasseri, actor (Weird Science, Quantum Leap, Sliders)

1976 – Ali Larter, actress (Heroes, Resident Evil: Extinction)

1978 – Philip Ahn, actor, d @ 72 (The Time Tunnel)

1979 – Jane Hylton, actress, d @ 51 (Manster, Journey to the Unknown, Doctor Who)

1983 – Ishiro Honda, director, d @ 71 (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)

1985 – Alex Arsenault, actress (Caprica)

1987 – Joan Greenwood, actress, d @ 65 (Barbarella)

1990 – Georgina Leonidas, actress (Wizards vs. Aliens)

1991 – Sarah Bolger, actress (Once Upon a Time, The Lazarus Effect, The Spiderwick Chronicles)

1992 – Angelique Pettyjohn, actress, d @ 49 (Star Trek)

1993 – Joyce Carey, actress, d @ 94 (Journey into the Unknown)

1995 – Quinn Shephard, actor (Believe, From Other Worlds)

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1892 – William Demarest, actor, d @ 91 (Twilight Zone)

1899 – Ian Keith, Boston actor (It Came from Beneath the Sea, Captain Midnight, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1905 – Franchot Tone, actor (Twilight Zone, Tales of Tomorrow)

1921 – Michael Fox, actor (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Twilight Zone, Voyagers!, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Gemini Man, Young Frankenstein, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, War of the Satellites, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre, Conquest of Space, The Magnetic Monster)

Michael Fox in the Twilight Zone episode, Sounds and Silences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Lynn Cartwright, actress (The Wasp Woman, The Lucifer Complex, Far Out Space Nuts, Queen of Outer Space, Science Fiction Theatre)

Lynn Cartwright in The Lucifer Complex

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Joanne Woodward, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1930 – Lieux Dressler, actress (Kingdom of the Spiders)

1937 – Barbara Babcock, actress (Star Trek)

Barbara Babcock in the Star Trek episode, A Taste of Armageddon.

1940 – Howard Hesseman, actor (Flight of the Navigator, Martian Child, Level 9, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Outer Limits, Amazon Women on the Moon)

1940 – Bill Hunter, actor (Space: Above and Beyond, Doctor Who)

1941 – Charlotte Stewart, actress (Tremors, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1990), UFOria)

1943 – Mary Frann, actress (Lois & Clark, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Journey)

1944 – Alan Fudge, actor (Man From Atlantis, Edward Scissorhands, Brainstorm, Galaxis, M.A.N.T.I.S., Quantum Leap, Alien Nation, The Twilight Zone, Chiller, Capricorn One)

1947 – Hajime Sorayama, illustrator

 

1951 – Stephen Leigh, sci-fi author (Dinosaur World, The Omega Egg, Wild Cards)

1951 – Mark Harrison, illustrator

1956 – Angela Aames, actress (Mork and Mindy, Automan)

1957 – Timothy Spall, actor (Red Dwarf)

1959 – First Man Into Space released

1961 – Grant Shaud, actor (Lois & Clark)

1962 – Adam Baldwin, actor (Stargate SG-1, Firefly, Control Factor, The X-Files, Hyper Sonic, The Outer Limits, Gargantua, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Visitor, Starquest II, Independence Day, Digital Man, VR.5, Predator 2)

1965 – Noah Emmerich, actor (Super 8, The Walking Dead)

1966 – Donal Logue, actor (Blade, The X-Files, Robotrix)

1969 – John Boles, actor, d @ 73 (Frankenstein)

1970 – Julia Parker, actress (A Girl a Guy a Space Helmet, Alien Armageddon)

1972 – Richard Coyle, actor (Ultra)

1973 – Bingbing Li, actress (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution)

1975 – Christina Nigra, actress (Out of This World, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1976 – Nikki Amuka-Bird, actress (Jupiter Ascending, Torchwood)

1977 – Allison Hayes, actress, d @ 46 (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Men into Space)

1981 – Juan Riedinger, actor (Continuum, Sanctuary, Collision Earth, Fringe, Smallville, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Bionic Woman (2007))

1983 – Kate Mara, actress (The Martian, Transcendence)

1985 – David Huffman, actor, d @ 39 (Firefox)

1985 – Pat J O’Malley, actor, d @ 80 (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Lights Out)

1989 – Joe Silver, actor, d @ 66 (Rabid, They Came from Within, Out There, Lights Out)

1998 – J T Walsh, actor, d @ 54 (Dark Skies, The X-Files, Outbreak, Lois & Clark)

2015 – Leonard Nimoy, actor, d @ 83 (Star Trek, Fringe, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Brave New World, The Lost World, The Outer Limits, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Twilight

Leonard Nimoy passed away today at 83. Here he is as Spock.

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1893 – William Frawley, actor (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, My Living Doll)

1905 – Arthur Brough, actor (Doomwatch)

1905 – Guy Boothby, sci-fi author, d @ 37

1907 – Dub Taylor, actor (Back to the Future III, Starman, Salvage 1, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Them!)

Dub Taylor in the My Favorite Martian episode, Poor Little Rich Cat.

1913 – Dane Clark, actor (Salvage 1, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1914 – Robert Alda, actor (Beyond Westworld, The Incredible Hulk, The Invisible Man, Tales of Tomorrow)

1918 – Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, sci-fi author (It, Caviar, More Than Human, Amok Time)

1919 – Mason Adams, actor (Not of this Earth, Northstar, Revenge of the Stepford Wives)

 

 

 

1931 – Lawrence Montaigne, actor Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)

Lawrence Montaigne in Star Trek.

1935 – Jane Wagner, writer (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

1933 – Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Beware! The Blob)

1937 – Cliff Osmond, actor (The Invisible Man (1975), The Six Million Dollar Man, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Land of the Giants, My Living Doll, Twilight Zone)

1938 – Jack Knight, actor (Out of this World, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1938 – Tony Selby, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Doctor Who, Superman)

1943 – Bill Duke, director / actor (The Twilight Zone, Starman (TV) / Predator, Battlestar Galactica)

 

1945 – Marta Kristen, actress (Lost in Space, Battle Beyond the Stars, Project U.F.O.)

Marta Kristen in Lost in Space

1946 – Phyllis Eisenstein, sci-fi author (Sorcerer’s Son, Born to Exile)

1953 – Barbara Niven, actress (I Married a Monster, Humanoids from the Deep)

1956 – Jonathan Schmock, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise. They Came from Outer Space, ALF)

1958 – Greg Germann, actor (Eureka, Quarantine, The Twilight Zone)

1960 – First Spaceship on Venus released (1962 USA release)

1963 – Chase Masterson, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Digital Man, Sliders)

 

1964 – Mark Dacascos, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, I Am Omega, Alien Agent, Solar Attack, DNA, The Island of Dr. Moreau

1966 – Minerva Urecal, actress, d @ 71 (The Ape Man)

1966 – Jennifer Grant, actress (Time Trax)

1967 – Currie Graham, actor (Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Total Recall, Fringe, Strange World

1968 – Eric Feldary, actor, d @ 55 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Men Into Space)

1968 – Ross Partridge, actor (The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Quantum Leap)

1968 – Ed Quinn, actor (Eureka, Behemoth)

1970 – Meeno Peluce, actor (Voyagers!, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk, World War III)

1975 – Drew Goddard, writer (Cloverfield)

1976 – Frieda Inescort, actress, d @ 74 (The Alligator People)

1976 – Margaret Leighton, actress (Journey Through the Black Sun, Space: 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1977 – James Wan, director (Insidious)

1986 – Teresa Palmer, actress (Parts Per Billion, I Am Number Four)

1991 – Max Lloyd-Jones, actor (iZombie)

1993 – Constance Ford, actress, d @ 69 (Twilight Zone, ‘Way Out)

1997 – David Doyle, actor, d @ 67 (Capricorn One, The Invisible Woman, Starman, Out of this World)

1997 – Wende Wagner, actress, d @ 55 ( Destination Inner Space)

2002 – Lawrence Tierney, actor, d @ 82 (Armageddon, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)

2009 – Wendy Richard, actress, d @ 65 (Doctor Who)

2010 – Richard Devon, actor d @ 83 (Quark, Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, War of the Satellites, Space Patrol)

2010 – Robert McCall, artist, d @ 90 (LIFE magazine, 2001: A Space Odyssey)