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1915 – Leigh Brackett Hamilton [Douglass],sci-fi author/screenwriter (Ginger Star, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)

1917 – Hurd Hatfield, actor (Between Time and Timbuktu, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1923 – Ted Knight, actor (Twilight Zone, Countdown, The Invaders, The Immortal, The Outer Limits)

Ted Knight (third from left) in the Twilight Zone episode, The Lonely.

Ted Knight (left) in The Outer Limits episode, The Invisible Enemy.

1923 – Johnny Duncan, actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space)

1932 – Ellen Burstyn, Detroit, actress (Interstellar, The Fountain, Coma, The Time Tunnel, The Big Brain)

1937 – Kenneth Colley, actor (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi, A for Andromeda)

1945 – W.D. Richter, screenwriter/director (Invasion of the Body Snatchers / The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

 

1947 – Vincent Baggetta, actor (Embryo, Twilight Zone)

1947 – Wendy Padbury, actress (Doctor Who)

1949 – Tom Waits, actor (The Book of Eli)

1955 – Priscilla Barnes, actress (Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs. Tsunami, The Invisible Man, Time Trax, Lords of the Deep, The Time Machine)

1956 – Mark Rolston, actor (April Apocalypse, Star Trek: Enterprise, The X Files, Humanoids from the Deep, Lois & Clark, Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG, RoboCop 2, Aliens)

1963 – Jennifer Calvert, actress (Earthsea, Stargate SG-1, Proteus, Red Dwarf)

1964 – Patrick Fabian, actor (Timecop, StarTrek: Voyager)

1965 – Jeffrey Wright, actor (Source Code, The Invasion, Westworld (2015), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – 1 & 2)

1966 – C Thomas Howell, actor (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Outer Limits, Cybermaster, Zolar, War of the Worlds, Crimson Force, Xenophobia, War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave, The Day the Earth Stopped, The Land That Time Forgot, Alphas)

1972 – Christa Campbell, actress (Automata, Spiders, Day of the Dead, Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep, The Black Hole (TV), Mansquito)

1975 – Hardie Albright, actor, d @ 71 (Twilight Zone)

1976 – Mark Duplass, actor (Safety Not Guaranteed)

1978 – Shiri Appleby, actress (Roswell)

1978 – Kristofer Hivju, actor (After Earth, The Thing (2011))

1979 – Jennifer Carpenter, actress (Quarantine)

1979 – Star Trek: The Motion Picture released

Star Trek The Motion Picture released

 

 

 

1982 – Jack Huston, actor (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

1984 – 2010: The Year We Make Contact released

1988 – Christopher Connelly, actor, d @ 47 (The Bronx Warrier, The Raiders of Atlantis, Earthbound, Beyond Westworld, The Martian Chronicles, Salvage 1, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1989 – Nicholas Hoult, actor (Mad Max: Fury Road)

1989 – Caleb Landry Jones, actor (Antiviral)

2004 – Dracula 3000 released

2010 – Gus Mercurio, actor, d @ 82 (Time Trax, Badlands 2005, Escape 2000)

2011 – Harry Morgan, actor, d @ 96 (3rd Rock from the Sun, The Twilight Zone, Ex0-Man, The Cat from Outer Space, Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers)

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1900 – Agnes Moorehead, actress (Twilight Zone, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1924 – Wally Cox, actor (Twilight Zone, Lost in Space)

1928 – Lance Fuller, actor (This Island Earth, Twilight Zone, The She-Creature, The Bride and the Beast, The Andromeda Strain, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man)

1929 – King Moody,actor (Teenagers from Outer Space, Quantum Leap)

1932 – Declan Mulholland, actor (Time Bandits, Quatermass, Doctor Who)

1938 – Patrick Bachau, actor (Big Ass Spider, 2012, Earth 2)

1938 – Colin Farrell, actor (Blakes 7)

Colin Farrell in Blakes 7.

1941 – Leon Russum, actor (The X-Files, Strange World, Dark Skies, Alien Nation: Body and Soul, Star Trek: DS9, Space Rangers, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1941 – Wende Wagner, actress ( Destination Inner Space)

1945 – James Naughton, actor (Planet of the Apes (TV), Warehouse 13)

1948 – JoBeth Williams, actress (The Day After, Extant, TIMER, The World Beyond)

1953 – Gina Hecht, actress (FlashForward, Star Trek: TNG, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star)

1953 – Kin Shriner, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1953 – Thomas Hulce, actor (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

1954 – Miles Chapin, actor (Lightning: Fire from the Sky, Howard the Duck)

1962 – Colin Salmon (Doctor Who, Alien vs. Predator, Resident Evil, Annihilation Earth)

1962 – Janine Turner, actress (Quantum Leap, Fatal Error)

1963 – Ulrich Thomsen, actor (The Thing (2011), Fringe)

1967 – Sparky Marcus, actor (The Man with Two Brains)

 

1969 – Torri Higginson, actress (Stonehenge Apocalypse, Stargate, Storm of the Century, TekWar)

1972 – Vince Corazza, actor (Stargate SG-1, I Downloaded a Ghost, Earth: Final Conflict, Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business, Total Recall 2070, Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension, TekWar)

1972 – Janet Munro, British actress d @ 38(The Crawling Eye, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

1973 – Mike Coleman, actor (Smallville, Fringe, Stargate, Eureka, Alien Incursion)

1975 – Noel Clarke, actor (Star Trek Into Darkness, Doctor Who)

1976 – Lindsay Price, actress (Purple People Eater)

1978 – K. D. Aubert, actress (Frankenfish)

1978 – Angela Gots, actress (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1982 – Ryan Kennedy, actor (Defiance, Caprica, Super Hybrid, Sanctuary, V, SGU Stargate Universe, Smallville, The Invisible, Blade: The Series, Category 6: Day of Destruction)

1982 – C.J. Thomason, actor (Transformers)

1982 – Ryan Carnes, actor (Doctor Who)

1984 – Nora Kirkpatrick, actress (Growth)

1985 – Max Kasch, actor (The X-Files)

1987 – Kelly Paterniti, actress (Griff the Invisible, Storm World)

1987 – James Dobson, actor, d @ 67 (Mutiny in Outer Space)

1989 – Frances Bavier, actress, d @ 86 (Day the Earth Stood Still)

1991 – Star Trek VI:The Undiscovered Country released

1992 – Hank Worden, actor, d @ 91 (Ice Pirates, UFOria, Space Rage)

1992 – Percy Herbert, actor, d @ 72 (The Tomorrow People, Doomwatch, Mysterious Island, Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)

1993 – Don Ameche, actor, d @ 85 (Cocoon I & II)

2000 – Werner Klemperer, actor, d @ 80 (The Secret Files of Captain Video, Men Into Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space)

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1890 – Fritz Lang, director, d @ 85 2 August 1976 (Metropolis, Woman in the Moon)

1898 – Felipe Turich, actor (The Immortal, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter)

1901 – Walt Disney, producer (The Black Hole, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Absent Minded Professor, Son of Flubber)

1921 – Alvy Moore, actor (Space Patrol, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Boy, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, A Boy and His Dog)

1921 – Peter Hansen, actor (When Worlds Collide, The Outer Limits, Science Fiction Theatre, Space Patrol, Men Into Space, Starman)

1933 – Adolph Caesar, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1942 – Randy Kirby, actor (My Favorite Martian, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1951 – Morgan Brittany, actress (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

Morgan Brittany in The Outer Limits episode, The Inheritors.

 

1955 – Paul Harvey, actor, d @ 73 (The Flying Missile)

1963 – Carrie Hamilton, actress (The X-Files)

1967 – Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, director (28 Weeks Later)

1968 – Lisa Marie, actress (Mars Attacks!, Planet of the Apes, Dominion)

1968 – Fred Clark, actor, d @ 54 (Visit to a Small Planet, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine)

1971 – Kali Rocha, actress (Space Station 76)

1976 – Amy Acker, actor (Dollhouse, Warehouse 13)

1979 – Nick Stahl, actor (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

1980 – Flash Gordon released

1983 – Robert Aldrich, director, d @ 65 (Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1995 – Robert Parrish, director, d @ 79(Twilight Zone, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)

2004 – Recon 2020: The Caprini Massacre released (aka Power Corps.)

2008 – Nina Foch, actress, d @ 84 (Tales of Tomorrow, The Outer Limits, Alien Nation)

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1912 – John W Pritchard, [Ian Wallace], sci-fi author (Megalomania)

1920 – Michael Bates, actor, d @ 57 11 January 1978 (A Clockwork Orange)

1921 – Peter Hansen, actor (When Worlds Collide, The Outer Limits, Science Fiction Theatre, Space Patrol, Men Into Space, Starman)

1928 – Dena Dietrich, actress (Space Academy)

1933 – Horst Buchholz, actor (Logan’s Run)

1934 – Victor French, actor (My Favorite Martian)

1937 – Donnelly Rhodes, actor (TRON: Legacy, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Roswell: The Aliens Attack, The X-Files, Sliders)

1939 – Jimmy Hunt, actor (Invaders from Mars (1953 & 1986))

Jimmy Hunt in Invaders from Mars 1953 & 1986

1942 – Gemma Jones, actress (Atlantis)

1949 – Pamela Stephenson, actress (Superman 3, Space 1999)

1949 – Jeff Bridges, actor (TRON, TRON: Legacy, K-Pax, Starman)

1951 – Mick Garris, writer (The Fly 2, *batteries not included)

1954 – Tony Todd, actor (The Man from Earth, Stargate: SG-I, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Eden Formula, Control Factor, Andromeda, Babylon 5: A Call to Arms, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG)

 

1957 – Mars and Beyond, the third of the television program Disneyland’s programs devoted to space exploration, includes animated treatments of Mars as imagined by H. G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

1964 – Jonathan Goldstein, actor (Meteor)

1966 – Crahan Denton, actor, d @ 52 (The Outer Limits)

1970 – Kevin Sussman, actor (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)

1974 – Lee Kinsolving, actor, d @ 36 (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1979 – Robert Karnes, actor, d @ 62 (Riders to the Stars, Half Human, The Clone Master, Men Into Space, Twilight Zone)

1980 – Superman II released in US

1981 – Grant Pierce Myers, writer (The Maze Runner)

1987 – Orlando Brown, actor (Phil of the Future)

1987 – Rouben Mamoulian, director (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1988 – Hilary Cruz, actress (Sand Sharks)

1990 – Edward Binns, actor, d @ 74 (Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1997 – Richard Vernon, actor, d @ 72 (Journey to the Unknown, UFO, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

2004 – Carl Esmond, actor, d @ 102 (From the Earth to the Moon)

2008 – Forrest J. Ackerman d @ 92, invented the term “Sci-fi” (Famous Monsters of Filmland, Perry Rhodan, Northwest Smith, Scientifilm Marquee)

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1892 – Richard Talmadge, actor (The Phantom Empire)

1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, sci-fi author, d @ 44 (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1908 – Edward Underdown, actor (Day the Earth Caught Fire, Doctor Who)

1922 – Len Lesser, actor (Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!, Land of the Giants, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, The Outer Limits)

Len Lesser in The Outer Limits episode, The Invisibles.

1927 – Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress (Outland)

1934 – Nicolas Coster, actor (A Fire in the Sky, The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, War of the Worlds, Star Trek: TNG, Timecop, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1939 – Don Calfa, actor (The Return of the Living Dead, The Bionic Woman)

1941 – Mary Alice, actress (The Matrix Revolutions)

1943 – Valerie Perrine, actress (Slaughterhouse 5, Superman I & II)

1949 – Maria Ouspenskaya, actress, d @ 73 (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man)

1949 – Heather Menzies-Ulrich, actress (Logan’s Run (TV), The Six Million Dollar Man)

1951 – Eugene Clark, actor (Space Riders: Division Earth, RoboCop: Prime Directives, Earth: Final Conflict, TekWar, Millennium, The Twilight Zone, War of the Worlds (1988))

1952 – Mel Smith, actor (Morons From Outer Space)

1955 – Melody Anderson, actress (Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica, Manimal, Logan’s Run (TV))

1955 – Steven Culp, actor (Revolution,Stargate: Atlantis, Star Trek: Enterprise, How to Make a Monster)

1960 – Daryl Hannah, actress (Blade Runner, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, 2047 – Sights of Death, Zombie Night, My Favorite Martian (1999),Memoirs of an Invisible Man)

1960 – Julianne Moore, actress (Children of Men, The Forgotten, Evolution, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, The Lost World: Jurassic Park)

1965 – Andrew Stanton, writer (John Carter)

1965 – Steve Harris, actor (Minority Report)

1967 – Mark Deklin, actor (Warehouse 13, Riverworld)

1965 – Steve Harris, actor (Quarantine, Minority Report)

1968 – Brendan Fraser, actor (Journey to the Center of the Earth)

1968 – Kevin Telles, actor (Quantum Leap

1969 – Ruth White, actress, d @ 55 (Lights Out, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, ‘Way Out, Twilight Zone)

1971 – Keegan Connor Tracy, actress (First Wave, Millennium, Battlestar Galatica, Jake 2.0, Stargate SG-1, V (2011), Eureka, The 4400, Strange Frequency, Seven Days)

1974 – Joseph Gat, actor (Star Trek Into Darkness)

1974 – Joris Jarsky, actor (Survival of the Dead, The Incredible Hulk,Stargate: Atlantis,Mutant X)

1974 – Joseph Gatt, actor (Star Trek: ID, )

1980 – Cuyle Carvin, actor (Fat Planet, Terminal Legacy, The Cold Equations, Alien Opponent)

1981 – Brian Bonsall, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1985 – Amanda Seyfried, actress (In Time, Solstice)

1991 – Dominique Jackson, actor (My Parents Are Aliens, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1992 – Harry Ellerbe, actor, d @ 91 (The Magnetic Monster, The Outer Limits, Men Into Space)

1999 – Madeline Kahn, actress, d @ 57 (Young Frankenstein)

1999 – John Archer, actor, D @ 84 (Destination Moon, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space, She Devil, Science Fiction Theatre)

2003 – David Hemmings, actor, d @ 62 (Out of the Unknown, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

2009 – Richard Todd, actor, d @ 90 (Doctor Who)

2013 – Ronald Hunter, actor, d @ 70 (Man Without a Head)

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1875 – Frank Reicher, actor (Superman and the Mole-Men)

1902 – Robert F Simon, actor, (Tales of Tomorrow, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Reluctant Astronaut, The Six Million Dollar Man)

Robert F. Simon in The Outer Limits episode, The Zanti Misfits.

1904 – Donald Woods, actor (Beast from 20000 Fathoms, Lights Out, Men Into Space)

1910 – Robert Paige, actor (Out There)

1913 – Jerry Sohl, screenwriter (Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

1914 – Bill Erwin, actor (Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, Voyagers!, The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1914 – Ray Walston, actor (‘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)

1917 – Ezra Stone, actor/director (Project U.F.O. / Lost in Space, Space Academy, The Munsters, My Living Doll)

1922 – Leo V Gordon, actor/writer (Seaquest 2032, Alienator / Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Wasp Woman)

1922 – Don Fellows, actor (Superman II, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Destination Moonbase-Alpha, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Alien Attack, Space: 1999)

 

1927 – Jimmy Sangster, screenwriter (The Crawling Eye, X: The Unknown)

1937 – Brian Lumley, sci-fi author (Compleat Crow, Psychomech)

1939 – Linda Redfearn, actress (The Omega Man)

1942 – John D. Collins, actor (Doctor Who)

1944 – Cathy Lee Crosby, actress (The Dark)

1948 – T.C. Boyle, sci-fi author (Friend of the Earth)

1950 – Isaac Asimov publishes I, Robot, a collection of his popular robot stories, with Gnome Press, a small independent publisher devoted to science fiction.

1952 – Keith Szarabajka, actor (Babylon 5, The Burning Zone, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Roswell, Star Trek: Enterprise, Jedi Camp, Halo 4: Movie, The Zeta Project, Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Timecop)

1954 – Dan Butler, actor (Quantum Leap, The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager)

1955 – Dennis Christopher, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Roswell, SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: DS9, Plughead Circuitry Man 1 & 2, Alien Predator, The Time Tunnel)

1956 – Steven Bauer, actor (Planet Raptor, Raptor Island, The Outer Limits, Mutants, Welcome to Paradox)

1963 – Dan Gauthier, actor (Star Trek: TNG, No Ordinary Family, Sliders)

1965 – Frank Reicher, actor (Superman and the Molemen)

1968 – Rena Sofer, actress (Timecop, Heroes, Timecop)

1968 – Lucy Liu, actress (The X-Files, Cypher, The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human)

1971 – Frank Cho, artist (Hulk)

1976 – William Tannen, actor, d @ 65 (The Flying Missile, Captain Midnight)

1977 – Sadie Alexandru, actress (Gamer)

1982 – Marty Feldman, actor, d @ 49 (Slapstick (Of Another Kind, Young Frankenstein)

1983 – Jana Kramer, actress (Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis)

1990 – Robert Cummings, actor, d @ 71 (My Living Doll, Twilight Zone)

2013 – Christopher Evan Welch, actor, d @ 48 (War of the Worlds, The Stepford Wives)

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1899 – Tom Shirley, actor (‘Way Out)

1913 – Norman Leavitt, actor (Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, The Three Stooges in Orbit)

1910 – Joel Fluellen,actor (The Invaders, Gemini Man, The Monster from Green Hell)

1917 – John Merivale, actor (Caltiki the Undying Monster, The Invisible Man)

1921 – Ralph Manza, actor (I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Twilight Zone, This Is Not a Test, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Twilight Zone}

1922 – Paul Picerni, actor (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)

1929 – Dick Shawn, actor (Way… Way Out!, The Twilight Zone)

1926 – Robert Symonds, actor (Future Cop, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Ice Pirates , C.H.U.D. II, Quantum Leap, Mandroid, Star Trek: DS9)

1928 – Malachi Throne, actor (Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

Malachi Throne in The Outer LImits episode, Cold Hands Warm Heart.

1929 – David Doyle, actor (Capricorn One, The Invisible Woman, Starman, Out of this World)

1929 – Emily McLaughlin, actress (Twilight Zone)

1935 – Woody Allen, director (Sleeper)

1936 – Melissa Jaffer, actress (Farscape, The Lost World)

1940 – Richard Pryor, actor (Superman III)

1942 – John Crowley, sci-fi author (Deep, Beasts, Novelty)

1951 – Treat Williams, actor (Eve of Destruction, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Deep Rising, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader.)

1955 – Mark Thompson, actor (Perversions of Science, Quantum Leap)

1956 – Julee Cruise, writer (Free Enterprise)

1961 – Jeremy Northam, actor (The Invasion, Cypher, Mimic)

 

1964 – Jo Walton, sci-fi author (2012 Hugo & Nebula for Among Others)

1966 – Matthew Laborteaux, actor (The Aliens are Coming)

1966 – Katherine LaNasa, actress (Sliders 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1967 – Stephen Blackehart, actor (Jurassic City, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Trek: DS9, Brave New World, The Tromaville Café, Rockabilly Vampire, Tromeo and Juliet)

1968 – Justin Chadwick, director (Life Force)

1970 – Julie Condra, actress (Weird Science, Eerie, Indiana)

1970 – Sarah Silverman, actress (Evolution, What Planet Are You From?, Star Trek: Voyager)

1972 – Ron Melendez, actor (Sliders)

1974 – Michael Maize, actor (No Ordinary Family)

1976 – Dean O’Gorman, actor (Farscape)

1977 – Mark Ghanime, actor (Dark Universe, Helix, Eve of Destruction, Soldiers of the Apocalypse, Smallville)

1988 – Zoe Kravitz, actor (After Earth, Mad Max: Fury Road, Insurgent, Divergent)

2008 – Paul Benedict, actor, d @ 70 (The Electric Grandmother, The Man with Two Brains, The Twilight Zone, Attack of the 50ft Woman)

2011 – Bill McKinney, actor, d @ 80 (It Came from Outer Space II, Back to the Future Part III, Galactica 1980, Strange New World)

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1907 -Marie Astaire, actress (Last Man on Earth)

1916 – Michael Gwynn, actor (The Revenge of Frankenstein)

1918 – Efren Zimbalist Jr, actor (Babylon 5, The Visitor)

1922 – Jay Overholts, actor, d @ 45 25 April 1966 (Twilight Zone)

Jay Overholts in the Twilight Zone episode, The Odyssey of Flight 33.

1926 – Richard Crenna, actor (Intruders, Marooned, Leviathan, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (TV))

1928 – Rex Reason, actor (This Island Earth, The Creature Walks Among Us)

1931 – Jack Ging, actor (Men Into Space, Twilight Zone, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Galatica 1980)

1931 – Jack Sheldon, actor (Project U.F.O., Star Trek: TNG)

1937 – Ridley Scott, director (Blade Runner, Alien, Prometheus, The Martian)

1944 – William Dear, director (Journey to the Center of the Earth, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann)

1945 – Billy Drago, actor (Zombie Hunters, The X Files, Lunarcop, Automan)

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

 

1949 – Nicholas Woodeson, actor (John Carter)

1950 – Kathryn Witt, actress (Looker)

1951 – June Chadwick, actress (Forbidden World, V)

1952 – Mandy Patinkin, actor (Yentl, Alien Nation)

1955 – Brett Stimely, actor (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

1955 – Kevin Conroy, actor (Island City)

1956 – The Man without a Body released

1957 – Nancy Everhard, actress (DeepStar Six, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk)

1957 – Colin Mochrie, actor (Annedroids, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone)

1959 – Cherie Currie, actress (Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1964 – Richard Brake, actor (Doom)

1965 – Andrew Tiernan, actor (Doctor Who, The Quatermass Experiment (2005), Space Precinct)

1967 – Justin Lazard, actor (Universal Soldier: The Return, Welcome to Paradox, Species II)

1969 – Marc Forster, director (World War Z)

1970 – Walter Jones, actor (Space Cases)

1970 – Michelle Burke, actress (Sliders, Coneheads)

1970 – Perrey Reeves, actor (Sliders, The X Files)

1971 – Jessalyn Gilsig, actress (Heroes, Destination: Infestation, Seven Days)

1973 – Nimrod Antal, director (Predators)

1976 – Christopher John Fields, actor (Perversions of Science, Stargate, Jurassic Park, Alien³)

1976 – Fritz Rasp, actor, d @ 85 (Metropolis)

1978 – Gael Garcia Bernal, actor (Blindness)

1978 – Jordan Belfi, actor (Surrogates, Smallville)

1981 – Robert H Harris, actor, d @ 72 (Tales of Tomorrow, How to Make a Monster, Science Fiction Theatre, The Invisible Boy, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, Land of the Giants, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1985 – Kaley Cuoco, actress (10.5, Virtuosity)

1991 – Sydney White, actress (The Sarah Jane Chronicles)

1994 – Dylan Cash, actor (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1995 – William Roerick, actor, d @ 83 (Not of This Earth , Wasp Woman, Day of the Dolphin)

2009 – Christopher Anvil, sci-fi author, d @ 84 (Federation of Humanity, The Day the Machines Stopped)

2009 – Paul Naschy, actor, d @ 75 (Mystery on Monster Island, Night of the Howling Beast, Vengeance of the Zombies, Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror)

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1888 – Konstantin Shayne, actor (The Outer Limits)

Konstantin Shayne in The Outer Limits. He played in episodes, O.B.I.T. and The Duplicate Man

1898 – C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], sci-fi author (Silver Chair)

1906 – Luis Van Rooten, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, One Step Beyond, Curse of the Faceless Man)

1916 – Fran Ryan, actress (Salvage 1, Manimal, Quantum Leap)

1918 – Madeleine L’Engle, [Franklin], US, sci-fi author (Ilsa, Love Letters, A Wrinkle in Time)

1932 – Diane Ladd, actress (Embryo)

1950 – Kevin O’Donnell Jr, sci-fi author (Caverns, Reefs, Lava)

1961 – Kim Delaney, actress (Mission to Mars, Project: Metalbeast, Something is Out There)

1961 – Tom Sizemore, actor (The Relic, Red Planet)

1962 – Andrew McCarthy, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1964 – Don Cheadle, actor (Mission to Mars)

 

 

1964 – Kris Kamm, actor (Quantum Leap)

1967 – Theo Marcuse, actor, d @ 47 (Lights Out, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, The Invaders, Star Trek)

1972 – Brian Baumgartner, actor (Astronaut: The Last Push)

1972 – Larry Joe Campbell, actor (Pacific Rim)

1976 – Godfrey Cambridge, actor, d @ 43 (Beware! The Blob)

1981 – Natalie Wood, actress, d @ 43 (Meteor, Brainstorm)

1982 – Lucas Black, actor (The X-Files)

1986 – Herb Vigran, actor, d @ 76 (World Without End, Adventures of Superman, One Step Beyond, The Reluctant Astronaut, Galactica 1980, Starchaser: The Legend of Orin, Amazon Women on the Moon)

1987 – Irene Handl, actress, d @ 85 (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1991 – Ralph Bellamy, actor, d @ 87 (The Invaders, The Immortal, The Clone Master, The Twilight Zone, Amazon Women on the Moon)

1992 – Robert F Simon, actor, d @ 83 (Tales of Tomorrow, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Reluctant Astronaut, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1992 – Robert Shayne, actor, d @ 92 (Invaders from Mars, The Neanderthal Man , Adventures of Superman, Space Patrol, Tobor the Great, Indestructible Man, Kronos, The Giant Claw, Land of the Giants)

2003 – Harry Clement, sci-fi author, d @ 81 (Mission of Gravity, Star Light, Needle, Iceworld)

2004 – John Drew Barrymore, actor, d @ 72(The Clones)

2005 – Wendie Jo Sperber, actress, d @ 47 (Back to the Future I, II, III)

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1896 – Lilia Skala, actress (Probe, Tales of Tomorrow)

1923 – Gloria Grahame, actress (The Outer Limits)

Gloria Grahame in The Outer Limits episode, The Guests. The alien is studying his captives in the old mansion.

1925 – Virginia Hewitt, actress (Space Patrol, The Flying Saucer, The Guardians)

1946 – Joe Dante, director (Twilight Zone: The Movie, Innerspace, Warlord: Battle of the Galaxy, Matinee, Eerie, Indiana, Piranha)

1949 – Alexander Godunov, actor, d @ 45 12 May 1995 (Waxwork II: Lost in Time)

1950 – Ed Harris, actor (The Abyss, Coma, The Stand, Gravity, The Aliens Are Coming, Gravity)

1952 – S Epatha Merkerson, actress (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mann and Machine)

1952 – Jeff Fahey, actor (The Lawnmower Man, Planet Terror, The Eden Formula, Scorpius Gigantus, Absolute Zero, Locusts: The 8th Plague, Johnny 2.0, Perversions of Science, Under the Dome)

1955 – Jeffrey Byron, actor (Bionic Ever After?, Star Trek (reboot), Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, The Fantastic Journey, Twilight Zone)

1958 – Thom Matthews, actor (Alien from L.A., Return of the Living Dead I & II)

 

 

1959 – Judd Nelson, actor (The Day the Earth Stopped, The Black Hole (2006), Cybermutt, The Outer Limits, Strange Frequency)

1961 – Alfonso Cuarón, director (Gravity, Children of Men)

1961 – Jane Sibbett, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1961 – Martin Clunes, actor (Doctor Who)

1962 – Jane Sibbett, actress (The Arrival II, Shatterbrain, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG)

1962 – Rif Hutton, actor (Lois & Clark, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Generations, Alien Nation (TV), Wavelength)

1964 – Charles Meredith, actor, d @ 70 (Adventures of Superman, Them!, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Science Fiction Theatre)

1968 – Dawn Robinson, actress (Tank Girl, SeaQuest 2032)

1969 – Roy Barcroft, actor, d @ 67 (Radar Men from the Moon, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Destination Inner Space )

1975 – Maurissa Tancharoen, actress (Dollhouse)

1977 – Trevor Bardette, actor, d @ 75 (The Monolith Monsters, Adventures of Superman, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian)

1978 – Aimee Garcia, actress (RoboCop, Ultra, Global Frequency)

1978 – Andre Morell, actor, d @ 69 (Doctor Who, Quatermass and the Pit, The Giant Behemoth, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1979 – Daniel Henney, actor (Revolution)

1979 – Adam Chuckryk, actor (Jumper)

1983 – Emun Elliott, actor (Prometheus, Paradox)

1983 – Christopher George, actor, d @ 54 (Day of the Animals, Project X, The Immortal)

1984 – Mary Elizabeth Winstead, actress (The Thing (2011))

1984 – Alan Ritchson, actor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Smallville)

1987 – Karen Gillan, actress (Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Who)

1988 – Scarlett Pomers, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)

1990 – Tamara De Treaux, actress, d @ 31 (ET)

1992 – Bill Kearns, actor, d @ 69 (Mutant)

2003 – Terry Lester, actor, d @ 53 (Star Trek: Voyager, Ark II)

2010 – Leslie Nielsen, actor, d @ 84 (Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Travesty, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Tales of Tommorow, Lights Out, Out There)

Leslie Neilsen in Forbidden Planet.