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1906 – Don Randolph, actor (The Deadly Mantis)

1914 – George Reeves, actor (Superman and the Mole-Men, Adventures of Superman)

George Reeves as Superman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Wolf Morris, actor (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Return to the Lost Planet)

1931 – Robert Duvall, actor (The Outer Limits, Deep Impact, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, THX 1138, Countdown, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

Robert Duvall in The Outer Limits episode, The Inheritors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – David Ryall, actor (Blakes 7, Automata)

David Ryall in Blakes 7 episode, Cygnus Alpha.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940 – Dany Saval, actress (Moon Pilot)

1942 – Cliff Potts, actor (Silent Running, Star Trek: TNG, Starman)

1945 – Roger Spottiswode, director(The Sixth Day)

1946 – Diane Keaton, actress (Sleeper)

1947 – Ted Lange, actor (Weird Science)

1950 – Robert Catrini, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Star-Crossed)

1950 – The Flying Saucer released

The Flying Saucer released

1954 – Cisse Cameron, actress (Space Mutiny)

1959 – Clancy Brown, actor (Cowboys & Aliens, Star Trek: Enterprise, Starship Troopers, The Outer Limits, Earth 2, The Bride, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai)

1962 – Joel Wyner, Producer/Writer/director (Fringe)

1965 – Vinnie Jones, actor (Powers, Mysterious Island, Slipstream)

1967 – Ricky Paull Goldin, actor (The Blob, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning)

1967 – Joe Flanigan, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Ferocious Planet, Warehouse 13, Stargate SG-1)

1967 – Ross Mullan, actress (Doctor Who)

1969 – Paul McGillion, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, Star Trek, Replicant, Tomorrowland, Fringe, Captain Starship, Iron Invader, Sanctuary, V, Jake 2.0, The Twilight Zone, Stargate: SG-1, The X-Files, Sliders, First Wave)

 

 

1972 – Jason Miller, actor (Battle Planet, Day of the Dead)

1973 – Derek Cecil, actor (Men in Black II)

1975 – Bradley Cooper, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, Limitless)

1975 – Michelle Parylak, actor (Star Trek (2009))

1977 – Onslow Stevens, actor, d @ 74 (Them!, The Creeper)

1978 – America Olivo, actor (Warehouse 13, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)

1978 – January Jones, actress (Last Man on Earth)

1979 – Paul Jarrett, actor (Continuum, Fringe, Smallville, Stargate, Millennium, The X-Files, Sliders)

1980 – Garette Patrick Ratliff, actor (Arachnophobia, Radioactive Dreams

1982 – Hans Conried, actor, d @ 64 (The Cat from Outer Space, Quark, The Monster That Challenged the World, Lost in Space)

1982 – Harvey Lembeck, actor, d @ 56 (Mork & Mindy, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, My Favorite Martian)

1990 – Arthur Kennedy, actor, d @ 76 (Fantastic Voyage)

1993 – Franz Drameh, actor (Edge of Tomorrow)

1998 – Hal Baylor, actor, d @ 79 (A Boy and his Dog, Planet of the Apes (TV), Star Trek, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, Tobor the Great)

2001 – Nancy Parsons, actress, d @ 58 (Star Trek: TNG)

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1900 – Nellie Burt, actress (The Outer Limits, It’s About Time, The Invaders)

Nellie Burt in The Outer Limits episode, Don’t Open Till Doomsday.

1905 – Sterling Holloway, actor (Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Superman)

1916 – Robert Parrish, director (Twilight Zone, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)

1920 – Rosalie Crutchley, actress (The Gamma People)

 

 

 

 

1927 – Barbara Rush, actress (When Worlds Collide, The Outer Limits, The Unknown, It Came from Outer Space, The Bionic Woman)

Barbara Rush in The Outer Limits episode, The Form of Things Unknown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Iain Cuthbertson, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Doctor Who)

Iain Cuthbertson in Doctor Who.

1930 – Sorrell Booke, actor (Slaughterhouse-Five, The Cat from Outer Space)

1932 – Richard Stahl, actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Terminal Island, Beware! The Blob, Slaughterhouse-Five)

1938 – Jim Norton, actor (Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG, Memoirs of an Invisible Man)

1941 – John Bennett Perry, actor (Independence Day, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1946 – Diana Ewing, actress (The Girl with Something Extra, Star Trek)

1956 – Ann Magnuson, actress (The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas)

1953 – Arthur Hoyt, actor, d @ 78 (The Lost World)

 

1957 – The final issue of Collier’s magazine, which earlier in the decade had prominently featured science fiction writers such as Ray Bradbury and Jack Finney and promoted space travel in a series of nonfiction articles, is published, removing from the market one of the few general-interest magazines to feature science fiction.

1958 – Matt Frewer, actor (Max Headroom, The Stand, Falling Skies, Taken, Dawn of the Dead, The Incredible Hulk, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: TNG, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Supergirl, Delete, Eureka, Weirdsville,, Lawnmower Man 2, The Stand, Eerie Indiana)

1958 – Gary Jones, actor (Stargate: SG1, SGU Stargate Universe, Stargate Continuum, Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods – Final Cut, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Andromeda, Snakehead Terror, The Outer Limits)

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

1962 – Patrick Cassidy, actor (Smallville, Perversions of Science, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

1963 – Dave Foley, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, Eureka)

1964 – Ralph Dumke, actor, d @ 64 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1965 – Julia Ormond, actress (Exploding Sun)

1969 – Lindsay Kennedy, actor (Galactica 1980)

1970 – Josh Stamberg, actor (Dark Skies, Legion. The Time Machine)

1971 – Jeremy Licht, actor (Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Next One, The Phoenix, The Swamp Thing (TV))

1976 – Seth Grahame-Smith, writer (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

1980 – Greg Cipes, actor (Supergator)

1980 – Erin Cahill, actress (Storm War, Jekyll, Creature Unknown)

1983 – Kerry Condon, actor (The Walking Dead)

1985 – Lenora Crichlow, actress (Doctor Who)

1990 – Robert F Adams, sci-fi author, d @ 57 (Castaways in Time)

1991 – Berry Kroeger, actor, d @ 78 (Demon Seed, Young Frankenstein,The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, The Time Travelers, World of Giants)

1997 – Bill Lancaster, writer, d @ 49 (The Thing (1982))

2000 – Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, actress (Hulk)

2012 – Harry Fowler, actor, d @ 85 (Doctor Who)

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1889 – Miles John Breuer, sci-fi author

1905 – Ray Milland, actor (Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, The Darker Side of Terror, Battlestar Galactia, The Thing with Two Heads, Frogs, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes)

1910 – John Sturges, director (Marooned, The Satan Bug)

1912 – Robert Flemyng, actor (The Body Stealers)

1919 – Jesse White, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut, Monster in the Closet, The Cat From Outer Space, Twilight Zone, Land of the Giants, Small Wonder, The Munsters)

Jessie White, better known as the original Maytag repairman in the Twilight Zone episode The Time Element.

1921 – John Russell, actor, d @ 70 (Jason of Star Command)

1922 – Bill Travers, actor (Gorgo)

1923 – Charles Tingwell, actor (UFO, Out of the Unknown, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)

1930 – Robert Loggia, actor (The Lost Missle, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Independence Day, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Outer Limits)

1932 – Mara Corday, actress (Tarantula, Black Scorpion, The Giant Claw)

 

 

1932 – Dabney Coleman, actor (The Outer Limits, Target Earth, WarGames, The Invaders)

Dabney Coleman in The Outer Limits episode. Specimen Unknown.

1935 – Jeremy Kemp, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Space: 1999)

1937 – Glen A. Larson, writer/producer (Battlestar Galactica, Automan, Manimal, Conquest of the Earth, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War)

1956 – Mel Gibson, actor (Signs, Mad Max)

1958 – Jewel Shepard, actress (Return of the Living Dead, Zapped!)

1960 – Joan Chen, actress (Judge Dredd, Fringe, The Outer Limits)

1966 – Rex Lease, actor, d @ 62 (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1968 – Shannon Sturges, actress (Convict 762)

1969 – Howard McNear, actor, d @ 63 (Twilight Zone)

 

1970 – Matt Ross, actor (Twelve Monkeys, Invasion)

1971 – Sarah Alexander, actress (Stardust, Red Dwarf)

1973 – Rebecca Broussard, actress (Mars Attacks!)

1975 – Danica McKellar, actress (The Twilight Zone, Babylon 5)

1975 – Jason Marsden, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Eerie Indiana, The Munsters Today, Robot Jox)

1976 – Alisen Down, actress (The Day the Earth Stood Still, 12 Monkeys (2015), Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville)

1979 – Jennifer Lynn Warren, actress (Creature)

1980 – Ivan Triesault, actor, d @ 81 (The Amazing Transparent Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, World of Giants, Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1981 – Zak Santiago, actor (Continuum, Chupcabra vs. the Alamo,Battlestar Galactica, Fringe, V, Stargate, Eureka, The 4400, Smallville, Seven Days)

1985 – Julia Levy-Boeken, actress (World War Z)

1989 – Jean Willes, actress, d @ 65 (The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Adventures of Superman, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1989 – Alex D. Linz, actor (Lois & Clark)

1990 – Ken Hill, actor, d @ 49 (The Twilight Zone)

1992 – Judith Anderson, actress, d @ 93 (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

2009 – Pat Hingle, actor, d @ 84 (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

2011 – Jill Haworth, actress, d @ 65 (The Mutations, It!, The Outer Limits)

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1889 – Walter Baldwin, actor (The Invaders)

1891 – Charles P. Thompson, actor (Twilight Zone)

1915 – Alvin Hammer, actor (Planet of the Apes (1974 TV))

1916 – Osa Massen, actress, d @ 89 (Rocketship XM, Science Fiction Theatre)

1920 – Isaac Asimov, sci-fi author died 4/6/1992

1922 – Jason Evers, actor (The Brain that Wouldn’t Die, Basket Case 2, Bionic Woman, The Fantastic Journey, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Illustrated Man, Star Trek, The Invaders)

1928 – Howard Caine, actor (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian)

Howard Caine in The Outer Limits episode, The Chameleon.

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Charles Beaumont, writer d @ 48 21 February 1967 (Queen of Outer Space, Twilight Zone)

1938 – John Considine, actor (Out of this World, Timestalkers, Endangered Species, My Favorite Martian, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

John Considine in The Outer Limits episode, The Man Who Was Never Born.

1948 – Deborah Watling, actress (Doctor Who, H.G. Wells Invisible Man)

1950 – Rocketship X-M Released

1952 – Wendy Phillips, actress (The Stand, The Twilight Zone)

1956 – John Bedford Lloyd, actor (Aliens in the Family, SeaQuest2032, The Abyss, C.H.U.D.)

1957 – Joanna Pacula, actress (Virus, Dinocroc, Lightning: Bolts of Destruction, Timemaster, E.A.R.T.H. Force)

1957 – Joanna Pacula, actress (Dinocroc, Virus, Timemaster, E.A.R.T.H. Force)

1963 – Jack Carson, actor, d @ 52 (Twilight Zone)

1966 – Kate Hodge, actress (Fringe, Level 9)

1967 – James Marshall, actor (Alien Lockdown)

1967 – Tia Carrere actress (Warehouse 13, Supernova, Quantum Leap

1968 – Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Outbreak, Hardwired)

1968 – Evan Parke, actor (Planet of the Apes)

1969 – Georges Renevant, actor, d @ 74 (The Invisible Ray)

1971 – Taye Diggs, actor (Equalibrium)

1973 – Lucy Davis, actress (Shaun of the Dead)

1975 – Dax Shepard, actor (Zathura: A Space Adventure)

1978 – Blakes 7 debuts on BBC1

1979 – Suranne Jones, actress (Doctor Who)

1980 – David Gyasi, actor (Doctor Who, Interstellar, Torchwood)

1983 – Kate Bosworth, actress (Superman Returns)

1984 – Kristen Hager, actress (A Little Bit Zombie, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem)

1990 – Alan Hale, Jr., actor, d @ 68 (ALF, The Giant Spider Invasion, Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martian, The Crawling Hand, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1992 – Virginia Field, actress, d @ 74 (The Earth Dies Screaming)

2002 – Bibi Osterwald, actress, d @ 83 (Out of this World)

2004 – Lynn Cartwright, actress, d @ 76 (The Wasp Woman, The Lucifer Complex, Far Out Space Nuts, Queen of Outer Space, Science Fiction Theatre)

2008 – Dante 01 released

2009 – Steven Gilborn, actor, d @ 72 (Evolution, Lois & Clark)

2011 – Anne Francis, actress, d @ 80 (Forbidden Planet, The Twilight Zone, The Invaders, The Rocket Man)

2011 – Patricia Smith, actress, d @ 80 (Planet Earth, My Favorite Martian, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

2011 – Pete Postlethwaite, actor, d @ 64 (Jurassic Park, Inception, Æon Flux, Alien 3)

2013 – Ned Wertimer, actor d @ 89 (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians)

2014 – Donna Douglas, actress, d @ 81 (Twilight Zone, Project U.F.O.)

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1879 – E.M. Forster, sci-fi writer (The Machine Stops)

1889 – Tom Dugan, actor (Hypernauts)

1901 – Ignatius Donnelly, sci-fi author, d @ 69 (Caesar’s Column, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World)

1909 – Dana Andrews, actor (Twilight Zone, Crack in the World, The Satan Bug, The Frozen Dead)

Dana Andrews in The Frozen Dead.

1910 – Russ Bender, actor (The Navy vs. the Night Monsters , The Satan Bug, Space Twilight Zone, Panic in Year Zero!, Probe Taurus, War of the Colossal Beast, Amazing Colossal Man, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Day the Earth Stood Still, It Conquered the World)

1927 – Barbara Baxley, actress (The Twilight Zone, Twilight Zone, ‘Way Out)

 

 

 

1930 – Ty Hardin, actor (Image of the Beast, I Married a Monster from Outer Space, The Space Children)

Ty Hardin in I Married a Monster from Outer Space.

1932 – Jacqueline Scott, actress (The Outer Limits, Empire of the Ants, Salvage 1, The Immortal, Twilight Zone)

1933 – Norman Yemm, actor (Ultraman: Towards the Future)

1938 – Frank Langella, actor (Superman Returns, Robot & Frank, Parts Per Billion, The Time Being, The Box, 10.5: Apocalypse, Masters of the Universe, Star Trek: DS9)

1943 – Stanley Kamel, actor d @ 65 8 April 2008 (Dark Skies, Star Trek: TNG, Mork & Mindy, The Incredible Hulk)

1943 – Don Novello, actor (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)

1946 – Rick Hurst, actor (Return of the Killer Shrews, Earth Girls Are Easy, Starman, The Cat from Outer Space, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Girl With Something Extra)

1949 – Don Keith Opper, actor (Infection, Harsh Realm, Critters 1 – 4, Quantum Leap, Android)

1953 – The ABC radio series Tales of Tomorrow, intended as a companion to the network’s TV series of the same name, debuts, drawing most of its stories from Galaxy magazine. It continues only until April 9.

1954 – Richard Edson, actor (The Astronaut Farmer, Frankenfish, Strange Days, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993 TV), Howard the Duck)

1954 – Jodi Long, actress (RoboCop 3)

1957 – Madolyn Smith Osbourne, actress (2010)

1958 – Ren Woods, actress (The Brother from Another Planet)

1960 – Alexia Robinson, actress (Total Recall)

1961 – Mark Wingett, actor (War of the Dead)

1961 – Marcia Cross, actress (The Outer Limits)

1964 – DeDee Pfeiffer, actress (Journey to the Center of the Earth, AVH: Alien vs. Hunter)

1964 – Juliana Donald, actress (The X-Files, Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Superboy)

1969 – Morris Chestnut, actor (V)

1969 – Verne Troyer, actor/stuntman (Men in Black / Rocketman, Volcano)

1969 – Sophie Okonedo, actress (After Earth, Doctor Who, Martian Child, Æon Flux, Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka)

1969 – Barton MacLane, actor, d @ 66 (The Munsters, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Walking Dead)

1970 – Gabriel Jarret, actor (Real Genius)

1975 – Arthur Pierson, producer, d @ 73 (Renegade Satellite, Beyond the Moon, Blast Off, Forbidden Moon, Manhunt in Space, Menace from Outer Space, The Cold Sun, The Magnetic Moon, The Robot of Regalio, Silver Needle in the Sky, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Crash of Moon, Duel in Space)

1879 – E.M. Forster, sci-fi author, d @ 91 died 7 June 1970 (The Machine Stops)

1980 – Christopher Redman, actor (Stargate SG-1)

1981 – Jonas Armstrong, actor (Edge of Tomorrow)

1982 – Victor Buono, actor, d @ 43 (Man from Atlantis, Moonchild, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1986 – Colin Morgan, actor (Doctor Who)

1987 – Jeff Gulka, actor (The X Files, Stargate SG-1, Millennium)

1994 – Cesar Romero, actor, d @ 86 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Latitude Zero, Lost Continent)

1997 – Joan Rice, actress, d @ 66 (The Horror of Frankenstein)

1998 – Lara Robinson, actress (Childhood’s End, Knowing)

2001 – Ray Walston, actor, d @ 86 (‘Way Out, My Favorite Martian, The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek: Voyager, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Galaxy of Terror, Otherworld, Misfits of Science, The Stand)

2002 – Meg Wyllie, actress, d @ 84 (Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

2003 – Cyril Shaps, actor, d @ 79 (The Invisible Man, Unidentified Flying Oddball, Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, Quatermass II)

2005 – Robert Fortier, actor, d @ 78 (The Outer Limits, Star Trek)

2009 – Edmund Purdom, actor, d @ 84 (2019: After the Fall of New York)

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1896 – Ronald Adam, actor (The Man Who Could Cheat Death)

1897 – Rhys Williams, actor (The Invaders, Adventures of Superman)

1906 – Theresa Harris, actress (I Walked with a Zombie)

1910 – Dick Kollmar, actor (Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man)

1917 – Paul Christian, actor (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

1920 – Richard Hamilton, actor (The Visitor (1997 TV), Men in Black)

1931 – Bob Shaw, sci-fi author (Light of Other Days, The Ragged Astronauts)

1933 – Edward Bunker, actor (The Running Man)

1937 – Anthony Hopkins, actor (Westworld (2015 TV), Slipstream, Freejack)

1938 – Rosalind Cash, actress (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Omega Man, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde)

1941 – Sean S. Cunningham, director (Terminal Invasion, DeepStar Six)

1943 – Ben Kingsley, actor (Our Robot Overlords, Ender’s Game, What Planet Are You From?, Species, Slipstream, A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1945 – Vernon Wells, actor (Innerspace, Alien Hunger, Cowboys vs Dinosaurs, Jurassic Block, The Sector, Rise of the Dinosaurs, 100,000 Zombie Heads, The Dead Undead, World’s End, Silent Night, Zombie Night, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Saurian, The Man with No Eyes, Starforce, Space Truckers, Manosaurus, T-Force, Circuitry Man, Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II, Weird Science)

1945 – Connie Willis, sci-fi author (Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of a Dog, Blackout/All Clear)

1946 – Barbara Carrera, actress (The Island of Dr. Moreau, Embryo)

1947 – Tim Matheson, actor (Solar Crisis)

1948 – Joe Dallesandro, actor (Flesh For Frankenstein

1952 – Elizabeth Norment, actress (Runaway, Twilight Zone)

1953 – Jane Badler, actress (V, Sky Trackers, The Lost World)

Jane Badler in V.

1953 – James Remar, actor (FlashForward, Battlestar Galactica, Blade: Trinity, The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, Robo Warriors, Judge Dredd, Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1955 – Day the World Ended released

1957 – Peter Williams, actor (Stargate: SG-1, Earthsea, The Chronicles of Riddick, The X-Files)

1957 – The Monolith Monsters released

1958 – Fiend Without a Face released

1958 – The Lost Missile released

1958 – The Strange World of Planet X released

1958 – The Crawling Eye released

1959 – Bebe Neuwirth, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1959 – Val Kilmer, actor (The Thaw,Red Planet, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Real Genius)

1961 – Joanna Johnson, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1963 – Amelia Kinkade, actress (Misfits of Science)

1963 – Roberto Lombardi, actor (Perfect: Android Rising, Zombie eXs, The Happening)

1964 – Michael McDonald, actor (The Unborn II, Carnosaur 2, Carnosaur 3: Primal Species

1965 – Gaston Glass, production manager, d @ 65 (Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1965 – Geoff Meed, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Resident Evil: Extinction, Star Trek: Enterprise, Babylon 5)

1965 – Li Gong, actor (2046)

1966 – Bruce Ramsay, actor (Continuum, Riverworld, Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, Island of the Dead)

1969 – Martha Byrne, actress (Anna to the Infinite Power)

1970 – Chandra West, actress (Universal Soldier II and III, Earth: Final Conflict)

1973 – Jennifer Hill, actress (Mutant X)

1974 – Kenny Morrison, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1976 – Steve Byers, actor (Alphas, Total Recall (2012), Immortals, Smallville, The Dresden Files)

1977 – Nora Marlowe, actress, d @ 62 (Westworld, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1979 – G. Michael Gray, actor (Fringe, Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: The Series, Terminal City, A Wrinkle in Time)

1986 – Lloyd Haynes, actor, d @ 54 (Star Trek)

1986 – Bronson Pelletier, actor (Dinosapien)

1987 – G Randall P D Garrett, sci-fi author, d @ 60 (Lord Darcy, Takeoff 1 & II)

1990 – Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting

Sci-fi channel begins broadcasting.

1993 – Bob Johnson, actor, d @ 73 (Star Trek, The Outer Limits)

1994 – Leo Fuchs, actor, d @ 83 (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1994 – Woody Strode, actor, d @ 80 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

2001 – Eileen Heckart, actress, d @ 82 (Out There)

2003 – Paula Raymond, actress, d @ 79 (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Flight That Disappeared)

2007 – Bill Idelson, writer / actor, d @ 88 (The Crawling Hand, Twilight Zone / My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

2013 – James Avery, actor, d @ 68 (Star Trek: Enterprise, Epoch, Timestalkers,)

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1892 – John Litel, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Flight to Mars)

John Litel in Flight to Mars.

1896 – Tom Keene, actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space, Red Planet Mars)

1911 – Jeanette Nolan, actress (The Reluctant Astronaut, The Invaders, Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk, The Manitou)

1917 – Nancy Coleman, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1920 – Jack Lord, actor (The Invaders)

1934 – Russ Tamblyn, actor (Babylon 5, Invisible Mom, The War of the Gargantuas, Quantum Leap, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Aftershock)

1934 – Joseph Bologna, actor (Alligator II: The Mutation, Not Quite Human)

 

1935 – Jack Riley, actor (Spaceballs, C.H.U.D. II, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, ALF, The Girl With Something Extra)

1942 – Fred Ward, actor (Tremors I & 2, Invasion: Earth, UFOria, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, The Incredible Hulk)

1945 – Concetta Tomei, actress (Deep Impact, Star Trek: Voyager, Max Headroom)

1947 – Michael Burns, actor (The Bionic Woman, Twilight Zone)

1950 – Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author

1956 – Sheryl Lee Ralph, actress (V)

1957 – Patricia Kalember, actress (Signs, Limitless)

1960 – Kelli Maroney, actress (Gila!, Not of This Earth, Night of the Comet)

1964 – George Newbern, actor (Perversions of Science)

1964 – Sophie Ward, actress (Dinotopia, Waxwork II: Lost in Time)

1968 – Bryan Burk, producer (Cloverfield, Star Trek, Fringe, Revolution, Westworld (2015), Star Wars: Episode VII, Super 8, Future Shock)

1969 – Meredith Monroe, actress (Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Minority Report)

1971 – C.S. Lee, actor (Toxin, The Stepford Wives (2004))

1972 – Maureen Flannigan, actress (Out of This World, Star Trek: DS9)

1973 – Jason Behr, actor (Roswell. Alien Nation: Millennium)

1975 – Zahf Paroo, actor (Polaris, Continuum, Fringe, 10.5, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1)

1977 – Lucy Punch, actress (Dinotopia)

1978 – Tyrese Gibson, actor (Death Race, Transformers)

1980 – Eliza Dushku, actress (Dollhouse, Torchwood)

1982 – Kristin Kreuk, actress (Smallville, Space Milkshake)

1983 – Ashley Bashioum, actress (Flight of the Living Dead)

1986 – Faye Marsay, actress (Doctor Who)

1988 – Jena Sims, actress (Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader)

1996 – Jack Nance, actor, d @ 53 (Dune, The Blob)

1996 – Lew Ayres, actor, d @ 88 (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, End of the World, Battlestar Galactica, The Fantastic Journey, The Bionic Woman, The Questor Tapes, Earth II)

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1883 – Forrest Taylor, actor (The Lost Planet)

1907 – Freda Jackson (Blakes 7, The Valley of Gwangi, Monster of Terror)

1920 – Viveca Lindfors (Stargate, Frankenstein’s Aunt, The Hand, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1923 – Mike Nussbaum, actor (Men in Black, The X Files)

1923 – Dina Merrill, actress (Anna to the Infinite Power)

1928 – Bernard Cribbins, actor (Doctor Who, Space: 1999, Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.)

Bernard Cribbins in Daleks Invasion: Earth 2150 AD.

1932 – Inga Swenson, actress (Earth II)

1934 – Ed Flanders, actor (Tomorrow’s Child)

1937 – Barbara Steele, actress (The Space-Watch Murders, Piranha)

1938 – Jon Voight, actor (Transformers)

1947 – Vincent Winter, actor (Superman)

1950 – Jon Polito, actor (Rock Monster, Mimic 2, The Invisible Man, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Invasion, The Invaders, The Rocketeer, C.H.U.D.)

 

1957 – Paul Rudnick, writer (The Stepford Wives (2004))

1959 – Brain Sergent, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1959 – Patricia Clarkson, actress (The Maze Runner)

1963 – Dave McKean, director (Luna)

1964 – Michael Cudlitz, actor (Last Exit to Earth)

1964 – Kimberly Russell, actress (Roswell)

1966 – Alexandra Kamp-Groenveld, actress (Dracula 3000, Deep Freeze, 2001: A Space Travesty)

1967 – Andy Wachowski, director (The Matrix, Jupiter Ascending)

1969 – Jennifer Ehle, actress (Contagion, RoboCop, The Adjustment Bureau)

1969 – Patrick Fischler, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)

1970 – Kevin Weisman, actor (Fringe, The X-Files, Roswell)

1971 – Stuart Holmes, actor, d @ 87 (The Nutty Professor, Twilight Zone, The Lost World, Adventures of Superman, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Rocketship X-M, The Creeper)

1972 – Leonor Varela, actress (Blade II, Stargate:Atlantis)

1972 – Jude Law, actor (Contagion, Repo Men, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, eXistenZ, Gattaca)

Jude Law in Repo Men.

1974 – Mekhi Phifer, actor (Insurgent, Divergent, Torchwood, Dawn of the Dead)

1976 – Danny McBride, actor (This Is the End)

1979 – Diego Luna, actor (Elysium)

1980 – Roy Engle, actor, d @ 67 (The Flying Saucer, The Man from Planet X, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Zombies of the Stratosphere, The Magnetic Monster, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Not of this Earth, The Colossus of New York, My Favorite Martian, The Invaders, Silent Running, Kingdom of the Spiders)

1981 – Charlotte Riley, actress (Edge of Tomorrow)

1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, director, d @ 54 (Solaris)

 

1995 – Twelve Monkeys released

1998 – Don Taylor, director, d @ 78 (Escape from the Planet of the Apes)

2001 – Robert Patten, actor, d @ 76 (Project U.F.O., Westworld, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

2003 – Dinsdale Landen, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Morons from Outer Space, Out of this World)

2010 – Bill Erwin, actor, d @ 96 (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, Voyagers!, The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

2012 – Jean Topart, actor, d @ 90 (Fantastic Planet)

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1908 – Lew Ayres, actor (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, End of the World, Battlestar Galactica, The Fantastic Journey, The Bionic Woman, The Questor Tapes, Earth II, Donovan’s Brain)

1913 – Charles Maxwell, actor (Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, World of Giants, Adventures of Superman)

1916 – Noel Johnson, actor (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, Doomwatch, A for Andromeda, The Andromeda Breakthrough)

1917 – Kim Chan, actress (The Fifth Element, Robot in the Family)

1923 – Andrew Duggan, actor (Frankenstein Island, A Fire in the Sky, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Time Machine (1998 TV), The Invaders)

Andrew Duggan as General Theodore Beaumont in The Invaders episode, Doomsday Minus One.

1924 – Pamela Duncan, actress (Attack of the Crab Monsters, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger)

1931 – Martin Milner, American actor (RoboCop, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, On the Threshold of Space)

1933 – Nichelle Nichols, actress (Star Trek, The Cabonauts, Heroes, Surge of Power)

1934 – Maggie Smith, actress (From Time to Time)

1954 – Denzel Washington, actor (The Book of Eli, Virtuosity)

1959 – Phil Abrams, actor (The X-Files, Roswell)

1960 – Chad McQueen, actor (V)

 

1960 – Terri Garber, actress (Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone)

1966 – Josephine Byrnes, actress (The Matrix Reloaded, The Lost World (2001 TV))

1969 – Henry Oscar, actor, d @ 78 (Out of the Unknown)

1970 – Elaine Hendrix, actress (Futurestates, The Chronicle (TV), The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas)

1973 – Seth Meyers, actor (Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1976 – Brendan Hines, actor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1979 – Noomi Rapace, actress (Prometheus, Prometheus: Paradise)

Naoomi Rapace in Prometheus.

1979 – Bree Williamson, actress (Mutant X, Odyssey 5, Earth: Final Conflict)

1981 – Sienna Miller, actress (Stardust)

1982 – Beau Garrett, actor (TRON: Legacy, Unearthed)

1983 – William Demarest, actor, d @ 91 (Twilight Zone)

1987 – Thomas Dekker, actor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Kaboom, IQ-145, Heros, Honey I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Generations)

1987 – Hannah Toiton, actress (The Lost Future)

1987 – Adam Gregory, actor (Dystopia: 2013)

 

1988 – Andrew Jenkins, actor (Stormworld, Zombie Punch)

1990 – Kiel Martin, actor, d @ 46 (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1991 – Jacques Aubuchon, actor, d @ 61 (Project U.F.O., Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

1991 – Cassandra Harris, actress, d @ 43 (Space: 1999)

1993 – Howard Caine, actor, d @ 65 (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian)

1999 – Clayton Moore, actor, d @ 85 (Radar Men from the Moon)

2004 – Jerry Ohrbach, actor, d @ 69 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers)

2013 – Joseph Ruskin, actor, d @ 89 (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, Planet of the Apes, The Bionic Woman, Project U.F.O, Star Trek:DS9, Star Trek:Voyager, Star Trek:Enterprise, Star Trek: Insurrection, King Cobra, Cyber Tracker, Max Headroom, The Time Tunnel)

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1888 – Thea von Harbou, writer (Metropolis)

1901 – Irene Handl, actress, (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1911 – Guy Rolfe, actor (The Bride, Space: 1999)

1938 – Jean Hale, actress (My Favorite Martian)

1939 – John Amos, actor (The Outer Limits, Hologram Man, Future Cop)

John Amos in The Outer Limits episode, Zig Zag.

1945 – Ciaran Madden, actress (Star Maidens, The Beast Must Die)

1948 – Gérard Depardieu, actor (Glenn, the Flying Robot, Babylon A.D., The Machine)

1950 – Kent Williams, actor (WarGames)

1951 – Charles Band, producer/director (Re-Animator, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, Parasite)

1951 – Aharon Ipale, actor (Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight, Salvage 1)

1958 – Barbara Crampton, actress (Space Truckers, Robot Wars, Trancers II, From Beyond, Re-Animator)

 

1960 – Maryam D’Abo, actress (Xtro, Timelock, Space Precinct, Something Is Out There)

1961 – Shashawnee Hall, actress (M.A.N.T.I.S., Lois & Clark, Manimal)

1964 – Ian Gomez, actor (Heros)

1966 – Eva LaRue, actress (RoboCop III, They Came from Outer Space (1991 TV))

1967 – Mitzi Martin, actress (The Island, S1m0ne)

1969 – John Henry Canavan, actor (Odyssey 5)

1969 – Chyna, actress (Illegal Aliens, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion)

1972 – Thomas Wilson Brown, actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)

1972 – Alex Skuby, actor (Pandemic)

1973 – Wilson Cruz, actor (Supernova)

1974 – Masi Oka, actor (Heros)

1975 – Aaron Stanford, actor (12 Monkeys (2015 TV))

1977 – Noah Cappe, actor (The Fifth Quadrant)

1977 – Jacqueline Pillon, actress (Starhunter)

1978 – Lisa Jakub, actress (Independence Day, War of the Worlds (1990 TV), The Twilight Zone)

1981 – Emilie de Ravin, actress (Roswell)

1983 – Marek Oravec, actor (Torchwood)

1985 – Jessica Harmon, actress (Chupacabra vs. the Alamo, Kyle XY, Battlestar Galactica)

1988 – Fox Harris, actor, d @ 52 (Alienator, Repo Man, Mutant / aka Forbidden World, Deep Space, Warlords)

1993 – Casey Campbell, actor (10,000 Days, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)

1993 – Olivia Cooke, actress (The Signal)

1995 – Laurence Belcher, actor (Doctor Who)

2003 – Alan Bates, actor, d @ 69 (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

2005 – Dee Pollock, actor, d @ 68 (The Outer Limits)

Dee Pollock in The Outer Limits episode, The Inheritors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2012 – Harry Carey, Jr., actor, d @ 91 (Back to the Future III, Cherry 2000, UFOria, Cyborg 2087, Men into Space)