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Today in Science Fiction History. Our past’s view of the present. #scifi #sciencefiction #doctorwho #startrek #starwars #scifiactor #ASMSG

1879 – Ernest Thesiger, actor (Bride of Frankenstein)

1896 – Marjorie Bennett, actress (The Reluctant Astronaut, My Living Doll, Twilight Zone, Have Rocket – Will Travel)

1901 – Harry Ellerbe, actor (The Magnetic Monster, The Outer Limits, Men Into Space)

Harry Ellerbe in The Outer Limits episode, The Man With the Power.

1904 – Ray Bolger, actor (Battlestar Galactica)

1905 – Torin Thatcher, actor (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)

1913 – Lloyd Bridges, actor (The Outer Limits, Battlestar Galactica, Stowaway to the Moon, Rocketship X-M)

1926 – Maria Schell, actress (Space 1999, Superman, The Martian Chronicles)

1927 – Phyllis Coates, actress (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, Lois & Clark, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Invasion U.S.A.)

1928 – Joanne Linville, actress (Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1932 – Dean Smith, stuntman / actor (Westworld / Timestalkers, The Astral Factor, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1935 – Robert Silverberg, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan’s Planet)

1937 – Margaret O’Brien, actress (Frankenstein Rising, Death in Space)

1947 – Andrea Martin, actress (Meego, Star Trek: DS9, Innerspace)

1948 – Tommy Nolan, actor (Out of this World, Voyage of the Rock Aliens)

1957 – Mario Van Peebles, actor (The Outer Limits)

1958 – Julian Sands, actor (Smallville, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Stargate: SG1)

1965 – James Nesbitt, actor (Jekyll, The Deep)

1968 – Chad Lowe, actor (Target Earth)

1971 – Regina King, actress (The Strain)

1972 – Ernie Reyes Jr., actor (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

1978 – Eddie Cahill, actor (Under the Dome)

1979 – Aubree Miller, actor (Ewoks: The Battle for Endor)

1981 – Zachary Bostrom, actor (Aliens for Breakfast, The Twilight Zone)

1983 – Shepperd Strudwick, actor, d @ 75 (The Monitors, Twilight Zone)

1984 – Victor Rasuk, actor (Godzilla 2014)

1986 – Jessy Schram, actress (Falling Skies)

1987 – Michael Seater, actor (ReGenesis, Future Fear)

1989 – Trent Ford, actor (Smallville)

1990 – Gordon Jackson, actor, d @ 66 (The Quatermass Xperiment , The Quatermass Experiment, The Medusa Touch)

1994 – Martin Kosleck, actor, d @ 86 (The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

2000 – Fran Ryan, actress, d @ 83 (Salvage 1, Manimal, Quantum Leap)

2005 – Deem Bristow, actor, d @ 57 (Quantum Leap)

2011 – Susannah York, actress, d @ 72 (Superman I, II & IV, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

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1908 – Carl Esmond, actor (From the Earth to the Moon)

1909 – Joseph Losey, director (X the Unknown, The Boy with Green Hair )

1919 – Douglas Henderson, actor (King Dinosaur, The Outer Limits, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, The War of the Worlds, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre, Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Invaders)

Douglas Henderson in The Outer Limits episode, The Architects of Fear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1919 – Joe Seneca, actor (SeaQuest 2032, The Blob (1988))

1924 – Guy Williams, actor (I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Lost in Space)

Guy Williams in Lost in Space.

1926 – Frank Aletter, actor (It’s About Time, Automan, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Planet of the Apes, My Favorite Martian, The Big Brain, Twilight Zone)

1926 – Tom Tryon, actor (I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

1926 – Warren Mitchell, actor (Moon Zero Two, Blood Beast from Outer Space, Out of the Unknown, The Crawling Eye)

1934 – Richard Briers, actor (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Doctor Who)

1940 – John Castle, actor (RoboCop 3)

1941 – Faye Dunaway, actress (Supergirl, The Gene Generation)

1941 – Marjoe Gortner, actor (Starcrash, Food of the Gods, Otherworld

1943 – Ronald Hunter, actor (Man Without a Head)

1943 – Holland Taylor, actor (Strange Frequency)

1945 – Vonetta McGee, actress (Brother Future, Repo Man)

1947 – Stuart Baird, director (Star Trek: Nemesis)

1948 – Carl Weathers, actor (Predator, Alien Siege, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1949 – Christine Belford, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Beyond Westworld, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1949 – Lawrence Kasdan, writer (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi)

1954 – Riders to the Stars released

1957 – Suzanne Danielle, actress (Flash Gordon, Doctor Who)

1957 – Humphrey Bogart, actor, d @ 57 (The Return of Doctor X)

1961 – Ernest Thesiger, actor, d @ 81 (Bride of Frankenstein)

1963 – Steven Soderbergh, director (Solaris, Contagion)

1964 – Mark Addy, actor (The Time Machine)

1965 – Jemma Redgrave, actress (Doctor Who)

1967 – Emily Watson, actress (Equilibrium)

1968 – LL Cool J, actor (Rollerball (2002), Deep Blue Sea)

1969 – Jason Bateman, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1973 – Katie Griffin, actress (Annedroids, Earth: Final Conflict, Total Recall 2070, RoboCop)

1974 – Kevin Durand, actor (Real Steel, I Am Number Four, Resident Evil: Retribution, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits)

1974 – Davis S. Hogan, actor (Z Nation)

1977 – Peter Finch, actor, d @ 60 (First Men in the Moon)

1978 – Blossom Rock, actress, d @ 81 (She Devil)

1990 – David Arkin, actor, d @ 49 (Whitney and the Robot)

1992 – Hari Rhodes, actor, d @ 59 (Earth II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Automan, Beyond Westworld, Salvage 1, Logan’s Run, The Bionic Woman, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, The Satan Bug, The Lost Missile, The Outer Limits)

1994 – Esther Ralston, actress, d @ 91 (Tales of Tomorrow)

2000 – Supernova released

2004 – Ron O’Neal, actor, d @ 66 (The Final Countdown, Hyper Space)

2004 – Uta Hagen, actress, d @ 84 (The Boys From Brazil, The Twilight Zone)

2007 – Barbara Kelly, computer voice d @ 82 (Space 1999, Alien Attack)

2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, actor, d @ 88 (Star Trek, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Escape From the Planet of the Apes )

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1893 – Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci)

1907 – Jeff Morrow, actor (This Island Earth, The Twilight Zone, Octaman, Twilight Zone, The Giant Claw, Kronos, The Creature Walks Among Us)

Jeff Morrow in This Island Earth.

1916 – Osa Massen, actress (Rocketship XM, Science Fiction Theatre)

1918 – Steve Dunne, actor (Quatermass II)

1919 – Robert Stack, actor (Butt-Ugly Martians)

1923 – Jack Watling, actor (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1925 – Gwen Verdon, actress (Cocoon I & II)

1925 – Rosemary Murphy, actress (‘Way Out)

1928 – David Sheiner, actor (Automan, Manimal, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Tom Corbett Space Cadet, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

1928 – Gregory Walcott, actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man)

1930 – Frances Sternhagen, actress (Outland, The Mist, The Outer Limits, Prototype, Independence Day, Communion)

1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly (Millennium, The X Files)

1932 – Ian Hendry, actor (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1932 – Jon Cypher, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Invaders (1995), RoboCop (TV), Spontaneous Combustion, Probe, Masters of the Universe, The Food of the Gods)

1933 – Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, sci-fi author / writer (Deadwalk, Plunder / Flash Gordon, TekWar)

1935 – Rip Taylor, actor (Virtual Combat)

1938 – Billy Gray, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters, Adventures of Superman)

1938 – William B. Davis, actor (Continuum, Caprica, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, Smallville, Andromeda, Singularity Principle, Sliders)

1942 – Carol Cleveland, actress (Moon Zero Two)

1943 – Richard Moll, actor (Smallville, Galaxis, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Evolution, Spiders II: Breeding Ground, Weird Science, The Munsters Today, Mork & Mindy, Ragewar, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn)

Richard Moll in Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn.

1945 – [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], sci-fi author (High Kings)

1948 – Malcolm Story, actor (New Worlds, Jekyll, Star Trap)

1956 – Dwight H. Little, director (Tekken, Dollhouse, The X Files, Strange World, Millennium)

1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, actress (Robosapien: Rebooted)

1965 – Bill Bailey, actor (Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Spaced)

1966 – Patrick Dempsey, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), Outbreak, The Stuff)

1970 – Keith Coogan, actor (Python, Starman)

1971 – John Asher, actor (Space Cowboys, Weird Science (TV))

1972 – Nicole Eggert, actress (Amanda and the Alien, Annihilator)

1976 – Michael Peña, actor (Battle Los Angeles, The Twilight Zone, Roswell, Ant-Man)

1976 – Margaret Leighton, actress, d @ 53 (Journey Through the Black Sun, Space: 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1979 – Jill Wagner, actress (Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: The Series)

1983 – Arthur Space, actor, d @ 74 (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth)

1989 – Joe Spinell, actor, d @ 51 (Starcrash)

1989 – Beau Mirchoff, actor (I Am Number Four)

1990 – Liam Hemsworth, actor (The Hunger Games)

2009 – Patrick McGoohan, actor, d @ 80 (Hysteria, Scanners)

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1876 – Jack London, author (author, The Iron Heel)

The Iron Heel by Jack London is regarded as the first dystopian novel.

1902 – Ray Teal, actor (Twilight Zone)

1916 – House Peters, actor (Twilight Zone, Target Earth, Red Planet Mars, The Day the Earth Stood Still, King of the Rocket Men, Flash Gordon)

1930 – Bruce Lansbury, writer (Swamp Thing, The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1934 – Bob Dishy, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1935 – Ron Harper, actor (Planet of the Apes)

1938 – Lewis Fiander, actor (Doctor Who, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)

1942 – Geoffrey Hoyle, sci-fi author (2010: Living in the Future)

1944 – Luke Bromley, actor (The World’s End, Torchwood)

1948 – Anthony Andrews, actor (Doomwatch)

1949 – Haruki Murakami, sci-fi author (1Q84, Sputnik Sweetheart)

 

1951 – Kirstie Alley, actress (Star Trek II, Runaway, Quark)

Kristie Alley in Star Trek II

1955 – Rockne S. O’Bannon, writer (Farscape, V, Alien Nation, Revolution, The Twilight Zone, SeaQuest 2032, Creature, Invasion)

1959 – Ralf Moller, actor (Mutant X, Andromeda, Universal Soldier)

1960 – Wanda Cannon, actress (Andromeda, Code Name: Eternity, Earth: Final Conflict, My Secret Identity)

1960 – Oliver Platt, actor (2012, Bicentennial Man, Martian Child, Flatliners)

1966 – Barbara Scolaro, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion)

1966 – Olivier Martinez, actor (Cybergeddon, Cybergeddon Zips)

1967 – Farrah Forke, actress (Bionic Ever After?, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Brain Twisters)

1968 – Rachel Harris, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, SeaQuest 2032)

1968 – Chris Gartin, actor (Transcendence, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

 

1980 – Vanessa Johansson, actress (Day of the Dead)

1987 – Naya Rivera, actress (Frankenhood)

1987 – Will Rothhaar, actor (Battle Los Angeles, Fringe, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1989 – Tiler Peck, actor (Donnie Darko)

1991 – Keye Luke, actor, d @ 86 (Superboy, Star Trek, Project X)

1998 – Nathan Gamble, actor (The Mist)

1999 – Betty Lou Gerson, actress, d @ 84 (Twilight Zone, The Fly)

2001 – Zenon: The Zequel debuted on Disney Channel

2010 – Ann Prentiss, actress, d @ 70 (My Stepmother Is an Alien, Quark)

2011 – Paul Picerni, actor, d @ 88 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Men Into Space, The Immortal, Capricorn One, Project U.F.O., The Incredible Hulk, The Powers of Matthew Star)

2014 – Frank Marth, actor, d @ 91 (The Incredible Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Marooned, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian)

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1888 – Chester Conklin, actor (The Beast with a Million Eyes)

Chester Conklin (dead on ground) in The Beast With a Million Eyes.

1909 – Robert Douglas, director, Man from Atlantis, Future Cop, The Immortal, The Invaders, Lost in Space)

1912 – Nick Cravat actor (Twilight Zone, The Island of Dr. Moreau)

1912 – Donald Barry, actor (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal, Land of the Giants, Frankenstein – 1970, Project U.F.O., The Munsters)

 

 

 

 

1922 – Kathleen Byron, actress (Blakes 7)

Kathleen Byron in Blakes 7.

1923 – Jerome Bixby, writer (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Fantastic Voyage, It! The Terror from Beyond Space)

1928 – Mitchell Ryan, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Dark Skys, Judge Dredd, Mann & Machine, ‘Way Out)

1930 – Angela Paton, actress (The X Files, Sliders, Star Trek: Voyager, Quantum Leap, Flatliners)

 

 

 

1930 – Rod Taylor, actor (The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy, The Time Machine, World Without End, Twilight Zone)

Rod Taylor in The Time Machine. He died a few days ago on Thursday.

1935 – Melvyn Hayes, actor (The Curse of Frankenstein, Quatermass II)

1937 – Felix Silla, actor (Spaceballs, Star Trek, Return of the Jedi, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, Demon Seed, Planet of the Apes)

1947 – Anna Calder-Marshall, actress (Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka)

1947 – Sondra Currie, actress (Alien Nation: Dark Horizon, RoboCop (TV), They Came from Outer Space, Misfits of Science, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk)

1953 – John Sessions, actor (Whoops Apocalypse)

1953 – John Sessions, actor (Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time)

 

1954 – Saskia ten Batenburg, actress (Supergirl)

1956 – Phyllis Logan, actress (Invasion: Earth, 1984)

1958 – Alyson Reed, actress (The X-Files)

1962 – Melanie Hill, Actress (Stardust)

1963 – Jason Connery, actor (Lightspeed, Smallville, Doctor Who, Alien Strain)

1965 – Loredana Romito, actress (Transformations)

1965 – Olivia Barash, actress (Repo Chick, Repo Man, Dr. Alien, The Incredible Hulk

1966 – Shelly Sweeney, actress (Godzilla: Final Wars, Godzilla 2000, Godzilla vs. Destroyah, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)

1967 – Derek Riddell, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Doctor Who)

1969 – Kyle Richards, actor (Time Express)

1972 – Amanda Peet, actress (2012, The X Files)

1972 – Konstantin Khabenskiy, actor (World War Z)

1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, actor (Alien Raiders, Earth 2)

1977 – Devin Ratray, actor (Surrogates)

1977 – James Huang, actor (Skyline)

1978 – Michael Bates, actor, d @ 57 (A Clockwork Orange)

1995 – Peter Pratt, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who)

2000 – Helena Carter, actress, d @ 79 (Invaders from Mars)

2003 – Richard Simmons, actor, d @ 89 (The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, The Munsters)

2007 – Solveig Dommartin, actress, d @ 45 (Until the End of the World)

2007 – Robert Anton Wilson, sci-fi author, d @ 74 (Trick Top Hat)

2009 – Harry Turner, artist, d @ 88

2013 – Mariangela Melato, actress, d @ 71 (Flash Gordon)

2015 – Anita Ekberg, actress, d @ 83 (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

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1883 – Francis X. Bushman, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Phantom Planet)

1901 – Harry Harvey Sr, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still, Lost in Space)

Harry Harvey Sr in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

1904 – Ray Bolger, actor (Battlestar Galactica)

1908 – Bernard Lee, actor (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Journey to the Unknown, The Brain)

 

 

 

 

1927 – Lee Philips, director / actor (Salvage 1 / Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

Lee Phillips in The Outer Limits episode, The Galaxy .

1929 – Douglas Hickox, director (The Giant Behemoth)

1932 – Elaine Devry, actress (Project U.F.O., The Atomic Kid)

1939 – Sal Mineo, actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Immortal)

1942 – Walter Hill, producer (Alien 1 – 4, Prometheus, Perversions of Science, W.E.I.R.D, Aliens vs Predator)

1944 – William Sanderson, actor (Blade Runner, Avatar, The Low Budget Time Machine, Babylon 5: Thirdspace, Hologram Man, The X-Files, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone)

1944 – Jeff Jones, artist

1947 – George Alec Effinger, sci-fi author (Nick of Time)

1948 – Lally Cadeau, actress (ReGenesis, The Twilight Zone, Videodrome, Threshold)

1961 – Mark Venturini, actor (Space Rangers, Return of the Living Dead)

1962 – Julie Moran, actress (Independence Day, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1964 – Tony Gardner, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Jekyll, My Parents are Aliens)

1964 – Krista Tesreau, actress (Quantum Leap)

1967 – Trini Alvarado, actress (Fringe)

1967 – Emerson Treacy, actor, d @ 66 (Science Fiction Theatre)

1968 – Basil Sydney, actor, d @ 73 (The Hands of Orlac)

1968 – Howard Smith, actor, d @ 74 (Twilight Zone)

1974 – Jemaine Clement, actor (Men in Black 3)

1978 – Antonio Cupo, actor (Andromeda)

1980 – Sarah Shahi, actress (The Death and Return of Superman)

1981 – Richard Boone, actor, d @ 63 (The Last Dinosaur)

1982 – Paul Lynde, actor, d @ 55 (The Munsters)

1989 – Emily Meade, actress (Fringe)

2000 – John Newland, director/actor/producer/host, d @ 82 (One Step Beyond, The Next Step Beyond, Star Trek / One Step Beyond, The Next Step Beyond, Lights Out, Tales of Tomorrow / Timestalkers / One Step Beyond, The Next Step Beyond)

2008 – Maila Nurmi [Vampira], actress, d @ 85 (Plan 9 From Outer Space)

2012 – Lila Kaye, actress, d @ 82 (Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde, The Invisible Man)

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1890 – Karel Capek, sci-fi author (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

1913 – Steve Plytas, actor, d @ 81 December 1994 (Superman 4, Doctor Who)

1915 – Fernando Lamas, actor (The Lost World)

1917 – Herbert Lom, actor (The Dead Zone, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Mysterious Island, Project M7)

1925 – Lee Van Cleef, actor (Space Patrol, Twilight Zone, Escape from New York, It Conquered the World, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

Lee Van Cleef in It Conquered The World

1931 – Paul Mantee, actor d @ 82 7 November 2013 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Logan’s Run, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Robinson Crusoe on Mars)

1931 – Algi Budrys, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)

1935 – Bob Denver, actor (The Invisible Woman, ALF, Far Out Space Nuts)

1939 – Susannah York, actress (Superman I, II & IV, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1940 – Jimmy Boyd, actor (Brainstorm, Space Force, Space Patrol)

1942 – K Callan, actress (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: DS9, The Unborn, Quantum Leap)

Kathryn Walker b. 1943 (D.A.R.Y.L., )

1945 – John Doman, actor (Star Trek: DS9)

1955 – J. K. Simmons, actor (Dark Skys, The Astronaut Farmer

1956 – Kimberly Beck Hilton, actress (Independence Day, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Land of the Giants)

1956 – Imelda Staunton, actress (Doctor Who)

1961 – Anthony Harrison, actor (Fringe, Aliens vs, Predator: Requiem, The 4400, Smallville, The Core, Strange World, The Sixth Day, The X-Files)

1963 – Joseph Culp, actor (Cyxork 7, Star Trek: DS9, Cyxork 7)

1965 – Joely Richardson, actress (Event Horizon, The Day of the Triffids)

1965 – Rhoda Griffis, actress (The Hunger Games, Surface)

1969 – Joey Lauren Adams, actor (Coneheads)

1970 – Marco Sanchez, actor (Star Trek ID, Dollhouse, Star Trek: Enterprise, SeaQuest 2032, Super 8)

1973 – Angela Bettis, actress (Sliders)

1975 – Patrick Sabongui, actor (TRON: Legacy, Stargate: Atlantis, Caprica)

1979 – Joshua Harto, actor (Invasion)

1981 – Julia Dietze, actress (Iron Sky)

1983 – David Ellison, producer (World War Z, Star Trek Into Darkness)

1995 – Nicola Peltz, actress (Transformers: Age of Extinction)

1992 – Steve Brodie, actor, d @ 72 (Science Fiction Theatre, The Giant Spider Invasion, Frankenstein Island, MST3K)

1995 – Madge Ryan, actress, d @ 75 (A Clockwork Orange)

1995 – Peter Cook, actor, d @ 57 (Whoops Apocalypse, Supergirl)

1996 – Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr, sci-fi author, d @ 72 (Hugo, View from Stars)

1997 – Jesse White, actor, d @ 80 (The Reluctant Astronaut, Monster in the Closet, The Cat From Outer Space, Twilight Zone)

2004 – Lyndon Brook, actor, d @ 77 (Invasion, 1990, Who?)

2006 – Don Stewart, actor, d @ 70 (Future Zone, The X-Files)

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1863 – Paul Scheerbart, sci-fi author

1889 – Paul Hartmann, actor (Twilight Zone)

1903 – Gene Roth, actor (She Demons, Earth vs. the Spider , Attack of the Giant Leeches, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Outer Space Jitters, Science Fiction Theatre, Captain Midnight, Space Patrol, The Lost Planet, Red Planet Mars, Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere)

1906 – Barry MacKay, actor (The Atomic Man)

1908 – William Hartnell, actor (Doctor Who)

William Hartnell as Doctor Who.

1912 – José Ferrer, actor (Dune, The Being, The Swarm, Exo-Man)

1919 – Madge Ryan, actress (A Clockwork Orange)

1923 – Charles Rea, actor (Doomwatch)

1923 – Larry Storch, actor (Small & Frye)

1924 – Ron Moody, actor (Unidentified Flying Oddball)

1926 – Kerwin Mathews, actor (Battle Beneath the Earth, Space Patrol)

1931 – May Wynn, actress (The Unknown Terror)

1934 – Roy Kinnear, actor (Blakes 7, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing)

1941 – Boris Vallejo, artist

1942 – Joan Freeman, actress (Project U.F.O., Land of the Giants, The Outer Limits, Panic in the Year Zero!)

1942 – Yvette Mimieux, actress (Time Machine, The Black Hole)

1944 – Terry Brooks, US, sci-fi author (Sword of Shannara)

1946 – Kathleen Noone, actress (Quantum Leap)

1947 – David Bowie, actor (The Man Who Fell to Earth)

1951 – John McTiernan, director (Predator, The Last Action Hero, Rollerball)

1952 – Dan Woren, ACTOR (Star Trek: First Contact, Babylon 5, The Invisible Woman)

1955 – Thomas G. Waites, actor (Sliders, The Thing (1982))

1955 – Harriet Sansom Harris, actress (Millennium, Space: Above and Beyond, The X Files)

1965 – Michelle Forbes, actress (Battlestar Galactica, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: TNG, Escape From L.A.)

1966 – Maria Pitillo, actress (Godzilla 1998)

1967 – Eric Scott Woods, actor (Sand Sharks, Quantum Leap)

1968 – Ami Dolenz, actress (Ticks, Superboy, Starman)

1974 – Matt Bushell, actor (Heroes)

1975 – Anthony Warde, actor, d @ 66 (Buck Rogers, The War of the Worlds, Mysterious Island)

1975 – John Dierkes, actor, d @ 69 (The Omega Man, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Thing From Another World)

1976 – Jenny Lewis, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1977 – Ryan Francis, actor (The Stepford Children)

1977 – Amber Benson, actress (Futurestates)

1979 – Sarah Polley, actress (Splice, eXistenZ, Dawn of the Dead)

1980 – Sam Riley, actor (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

1980 – Rachel Nichols, actress (Star Trek, Continuum)

1981 – Genevieve Cortese Padalecki, actress (FlashForward)

1981 – Woody Chamblis, actor, D @ 66 (The Six Million Dollar Man, Logan’s Run, Glen and Randa)

1982 – Reta Shaw, actress, d @ 69 (Lost in Space)

1983 – Christopher Russell, actor (iZombie, Bionic Woman, Land of the Dead)

1987 – Peter Adams, actor, d @ 69 (Donovan’s Brain, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Men Into Space, Project Moon Base, The War of the Worlds)

1987 – Freddie Stroma, actor (Extra Terrestrial)

1989 – Kenneth McMillan, actor, d @ 56 (Dune)

1994 – Pat Buttram, actor, d @ 78 (Back to the Future III)

2007 – Yvonne De Carlo d @ 84 (The Munsters)

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1896 – Arnold Ridley, actor (Out of the Unknown)

1903 – Alan Napier, actor (Twilight Zone, The Mole People)

1908 – Philip Bourneuf, actor (The Wide World of Mystery: Frankenstein, The Immortal)

1913 – Francis De Wolff, actor (The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll, The Man Who Could Cheat Death)

Francis de Wolff in Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus, episode 4.

1920 – Vincent Gardenia, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1924 – Gene L. Coon, writer (Star Trek)

1929 – “Buck Rogers,” 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres

1929 – Terry Moore, actress (Death Dimension)

1949 – Steven Williams, actor (Stargate SG-1, The X Files, SeaQuest 2032, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1949 – Anne Schedeen, actress (Alf, Embryo, The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., Exo-Man, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

 

 

1950 – Erin Gray, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, In-World War, Nuclear Hurricane, T-Force, Superboy, Starman, Star Trek Continues)

Erin Gray as Wilma Deering in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

1953 – Robert Longo, director (Johnny Mnemonic)

1957 – Kristen Meadows, actress (Evolution, Automan)

1960 – David Marciano, Newark NJ, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Superboy)

1960 – Tierre Turner, stunts/actor (Star Trek, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Earth 2, Predator 2 / Earth 2, Alien Nation, Ark II, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1961 – Mark Allen Shepherd, actor (Star Trek: DS9)

1962 – Hallie Todd, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1963 – Lester Speight, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1967 – Irrfan Khan, actor (Jurassic World)

1970 – Doug E Doug, actor (Eight Legged Freaks)

1970 – Robert Barrat, actor, d @ 81 (Flight to Mars)

1971 – Jeremy Renner, actor (28 Weeks Later)

1976 – Tyron Leitso, actor (House of the Dead, Dinotopia, Mysterious Ways, First Wave)

1977 – Dustin Diamond, actor (Star Trek: TNG, The Munsters Today, Purple People Eater)

1980 – Sarah Selby, actress, d @ 74 (Twilight Zone, Moon Pilot)

1980 – Merritt Wever, actor (Signs)

1982 – Lauren Cohan, actress (The Walking Dead)

1987 – Lyndsy Fonseca, actress (Hot Tub Time Machine, Heroes, Phil of the Future)

1988 – Robert Sheehan, actor (Summer of the Flying Saucer, Misfits)

1988 – Trevor Howard, actor, d @ 71 (Superman, Who?)

1988 – Haley Bennett, actress (The Hole)

1991 – Max Morrow, actor (Warehouse 13, Mutant X)

2002 – Avery Schreiber, actor, d @ 66 (Galaxina, The Twilight Zone)

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1895 – Tom Fadden, actor (Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, Empire of the Ants, Adventures of Superman)

1897 – Billy Greene, actor (The Cape Canaveral Monsters, My Favorite Martian, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1901 – Patrick Aherne, actor (Rocketship X-M, The Son of Jekyll, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

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

1907 – Iris Korn, actress, d @ 60 (The Incredible Hulk)

1911 – Billy Sands, actor (The Munster’s Revenge, The Reluctant Astronaut)

1913 – Tom Brown, actor (Men Into Space, World of Giants, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1926 – Mickey Hargitay, actor (Lady Frankenstein)

1930 – Toru Tanaka, actor (Last Action Hero, Alligator II: The Mutation, Darkman, The Running Man)

1930 – Vic Tayback, actor (Land of the Giants, Star Trek)

1933 – John Clive, actor (A Clockwork Orange)

1934 – Sylvia Sims, actress (Doctor Who)

1950 – Richard Norton, actor (Cyber Tracker, Future Hunters, Equalizer 2000)

1954 – Trudie Styler, actress (Moon)

1956 – Holly Fulger, actress (Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century)

1960 – Andrea Thompsonj, actress(Babylon 5, Quantum Leap, Heroes: Destiny, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth)

1969 – Vincenzo Natali, director (Darknet, Splice, Cypher, Earth: Final Conflict, Cube, Space Cases)

1969 – Norman Reedus, actor (Blade II, Mimic)

1969 – Aron Eisenberg, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills)

1976 – Danny Pintauro, actor (Timestalkers)

1977 – Niall MacGinnis, actor, d @ 63 (Island of Terror)

1978 – Tara Spencer-Nairn, actress (The Outer Limits, The Strain, ReGenesis)

1981 – Rinko Kikuchi, actress (Pacific Rim)

1982 – Eddie Redmayne, actor (Jupiter Ascending)

1983 – Cristina Rosato, actress (Helix, Survival Code)

1996 – Courtney Eaton, actress (Mad Max: Fury Road)

2001 – Scott Marlowe, actor, d @ 68 (The Outer Limits, Star Trek: TNG, Automan, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Unknown, The Time Tunnel)