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1890 – Fritz Lang, director (Metropolis, Woman in the Moon)

1915 – Gary Merrill, actor (Earth II, The Time Tunnel, Destination Inner Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Mysterious Island)

1919 – Nehemiah Persoff, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, Logan’s Run, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invisible Man,Land of the Giants, The Power, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

1920 – Theo Marcuse, actor (Star Trek, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone)

1924 – Carroll O’Connor, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits)

1929 – Bernard L. Kowalski, diretor, d @ 78 (Sssssss, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Night of the Blood Beast)

1932 – Peter O’Toole, actor (Phantoms, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Creator, Supergirl)

1939 – Wes Craven, director (The Twilight Zone, Swamp Thing)

1940 – Sandra Ellis Lafferty, actress (The Hunger Games, Dark Skies)

1942 – Isabel Allende, sci-fi author (The City of the Beasts, The Infinite Plan)

1943 – Max Wright, actor (Quantum Leap, ALF, Misfits of Science)

1944 – Susan Denberg, actress (Frankenstein Created Woman, Star Trek)

1945 – Joanna Cassidy, actress (Blade Runner, Heroes, Ghosts of Mars, The Tommyknockers)

1948 – Robert P Holdstock, sci-fi author (Ghost Dance, Labyrinth)

1953 – Butch Patrick, actor (Zombie Dream, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian)

1954 – Ken McLeod, sci-fi author (The Fall Revolution)

1960 – Olivier Gruner, actor (Sector 4: Extraction, Re-Generator, Interceptor Force 1 and 2, Velocity Trap, Mars, Automatic)

1962 – Cynthia Stevenson, actress (Max Headroom)

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

1972 – Matthew Del Negro, actor (Stargate: Atlantis)

1972 – James Preston Rogers, actor (Alphas, Outlander)

1976 – Sam Worthington, actor (Avatar, Terminator Salvation)

1977 – Edward Furlong, actor (Terminator 2, Star Trek: Renegades, The Zombie King, Arachnoquake )

1986 – Kerry James, actor (SGU Stargate Universe)

1991 – Zuleyka Silver, actor (In Time)

1997 – William S. Burroughs, sci-fi author, d @ 83 (The Soft Machine, Naked Lunch, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead)

2002 – Signs released

2008 – The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor released

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1911 – Flora Campbell, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1912 – Henry Jones, actor (Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Girl with Something Extra, Project X, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

1914 – J. Lee Thompson, director (Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)

1922 – Arthur Hill, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Andromeda Strain, Futureworld, Murder in Space, Prototype, Tomorrow’s Child, Revenge of the Stepford Wives)

1922 – Paul Lambert, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Automan, Planet of the Apes, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)

1933 – Dom Deluise, actor (Stargate SG-1, 3rd Rock from the Sun, SeaQuest 2032, The Munsters, Spaceballs)

1939 – Terry Kiser, actor (Lois & Clark, Mannequin: On the Move, Hard Time on Planet Earth, The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, Automan, Manimal, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, Gemini Man, The Invisible Man)

1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, actor (Dune, Mimic)

1946 – David Calder, actor (Star Cops, Superman)

1955 – Annabel Jankel, director (Max Headroom)

1956 – Lewis Smith, actor (Badlands 2005, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Buckaroo Banzai)

1958 – Adrian Dunbar, actor (The Quatermass Experiment)

1959 – The Alligator People released

1963 – John Carroll Lynch (Paul, Star Trek:Voyager)

1972 – Charles Malik Whitfield, actor (Warehouse 13, Seven Days)

1979 – Jason Momoa (Conan, Stargate:Atlantis)

1980 – Strother Martin, actor, d @ 61 (The Invaders, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, The Magnetic Monster)

1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, sci-fi writer, d @ 58 (Altered States)

1981 – Miracle Laurie (Dollhouse)

1982 – Monserrat Lombard, actor (Hyperdrive)

1988 – Max Carver, actor (Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn)

1988 – Sasha Jackson, actress (Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader)

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1876 – Maria Ouspenskaya, actress (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man)

1907 - Melvin Mouron Belli, actor (Star Trek)

1922 – Frank Marth, actor (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)

1925 – Lloyd Bochner, actor (Superboy, Millennium, Manimal, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Starlost, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

1933 – Robert Fuller, actor (The Brain from Planet Arous)

1941 – David Warner, actor (Doctor Who, Cyber Wars, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Planet of the Apes, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, Total Recall 2070, Wing Commander, Perversions of Science, Babylon 5, Lois & Clark, The Lost World, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Frankenstein, TRON, Time Bandits, Time After Time)

1952 – Wendy Hughes, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1953 – Charles Hallahan actor (Roswell, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Thing, The Visitor)

1958 – Marcus Gilbert, actor (Army of Darkness, Doctor Who)

1960 – Brian Peck, actor (Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest, Return of the Living Dead I, II and III)

1963 – Alexandra Paul, actor (A.I. Assault, Cyber Bandits)

1965 – Dean Haglund, actor (The Icarus II Project, Atlantis Down, The X Files, The Lone Gunmen)

1966 – Richard Steven Horvitz, actor (Babylon 5, The Munsters Today)

1969 – Timothy Omundson, actor (Warehouse 13, Starship Troopers, Dark Skies, SeaQuest 2032)

1971 – Graham McGrath, actor (Krull, Frankenstein)

1972 – Wil Wheaton, actor (Eureka, T, Star Trek: Nemesis, The Invisible Man, Deep Core, Perversions of Science, Star Trek: TNG, The Last Starfighter)

1973 – Stephen Dorff, actor (Immortals, Blade, Space Truckers)

1973 – Dileep Rao, actor (Inception, Avatar)

1975 – James Blish, sci-fi author, d @ 54 (A Case Of Conscience)

1980 – Megan Hayes, actress (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)

1982 – Allison Mack, actress (Smallville)

1982 – Dominic Burgess, actor (Doctor Who)

1982 – Harold Sakata, actor, d @ 62 (Death Dimension, Dimension 5)

1990 - Maurice Braddell, actor (Things to Come), dies

2001 – Alex Nicol, actor, d @ 85 (Ape, The Clones, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

2011 – Cowboys & Aliens released

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1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, sci-fi author, d @ 36 (Empires of the Moon and Sun)

1909 – Brenda De Banzie, actress (Out of the Unknown)

1911 – Ann Doran, actress (Twilight Zone, Project U.F.O., It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Adventures of Superman)

1931 – Darryl Hickman, actor (The Tingler, Space Stars, Sky Commanders)

1939 – Charles Cyphers, actor (Sliders, SeaQuest 2032, Lois & Clark, Escape from New York, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1940 – Phil Proctor, actor (Lobster Man from Mars, The Twilight Zone)

1943 – Charles Hallahan, actor, (The Thing, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Roswell, The Visitor)

1944 – Frances Lee McCain, actor (Back to the Future)

1946 – Gwynne Gilford, actress (Masters of the Universe, Beware the Blob)

1950 – Tony Carroll, actor (Masters of the Universe, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1954 – Bruce Abbott, actor (Black Scorpion, Bride of Re-Animator, Re-Animator, Interzone, The Last Starfighter)

1955 – Nina Axelrod, actress (Brainstorm, Time Walker)

1958 – Michael Hitchcock, actor (Super 8, Serenity, Bug)

1967 – Carlos Jacott, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Firefly, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1968 – Rachel Blakely, actress (The Lost World)

1969 – Alexis Arquette, actress (Alien Nation)

1972 – Elizabeth Berkley, actress (S. Darko, Threshold, Control Factor, Perversions of Science)

1973 – Royal Butler, actor, d @ 80 (Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, Mysterious Island)

1974 – Truman Bradley, TV host, d @69 (Science Fiction Theater)

1979 – Gabriel Pimentel, actor (InAlienable)

1985 – Grant Williams, actor (The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Monolith Monsters) dies of toxic poisoning at 54

1993 – Hannah Lochner, actress (Dawn of the Dead, Terminal Invasion)

1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, actress, d @ 77 (The Gamma People)

2004 – Sam Edwards, actor (Project U.F.O., The Invaders, Space Patrol)

2006 – Patrick Allen, actor, d @ 79 (UFO, Journey to the Unknown, Island of the Burning Damned, 1984)

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1916 – Keenan Wynn, actor (Twilight Zone, The Dark, Manimal, Hyper Sapien: People from Another StarManimal, The Clonus Horror, The Lucifer Complex, Piranha, The Bionic Woman, Laserblast, The Girl with Something Extra)

1931 – Robert Gunner, actor (Planet of the Apes)

1942 – John Pleshette, actor (Lois & Clark)

1942 – Lanny Flaherty, actor (Men in Black 3, Signs, Waterworld)

1946 – Rade Serbedzija, actor (Surface, Space Cowboys)

1946 – Maury Chaykin, actor (Eureka, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Lexx, Twilight Zone, Def-Con 4, WarGames)

1950 – Simon Jones, actor (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Twelve Monkeys, Brazil)

1952 – Roxanne Hart, actress (Meteorites)

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1968 – Cliff Curtis, actor (Mysterious Island)

1969 – Bryan Fuller, writer (Heroes, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9)

1969 – Paul Levesque, actor (Blade: Trinity)

1970 – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, actor (Oblivion)

1972 – Maya Rudolph, actress (Gattaca)

1983 – Blair Redford, actress (FlashForward, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1985 – Lou Taylor Pucci, actor (Carriers)

1996 – Ashlyn Sanchez, actress (The Happening)

2001 – Planet of the Apes released

2010 – Maury Chaykin, actor, d @ 61 (Eureka, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Lexx, Twilight Zone, Def-Con 4, WarGames)

2012 – Geoffrey Hughes, actor, d @ 68 (Doctor Who)

2012 – R G Armstrong, actor, d @ 95 (Predator, Salvage 1, Quantum Leap, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone)

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1894 – Aldous L Huxley, author (Brave New World)

1901 – John Bleifer, actor (Men Into Space, Queen of Outer Space, The 27th Day)

1918 – Stacy Harris, actor, (Men into Space, The Adventures of Superboy)

1919 – Virginia Gilmore, actress, d @ 66 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1922 – Jason Robards, actor (The Day After, A Boy and His Dog)

1926 – James Best, actor (The Twilight Zone, The Killer Shrews, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

1928 – Stanley Kubrick, director (A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey)

1931 – Robert Colbert, actor (Disaster in Time, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, My Favorite Martian, Have Rocket – Will Travel)

1943 – Peter Hyams, director (Threshold, End of Days, Timecop, 2010, Outland, Capricorn One)

1943 – Mick Jagger, actor (Freejack)

1944 – Kiel Martin, actor, d @ 46 (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1944 – Celeste Yarnall, actress (Land of the Giants, Star Trek)

1945 – Helen Mirren, actress (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Twilight Zone, 2010)

1945 – Linda Harrison, actress (Planet of Apes + Beneath and 2001), Cocoon (1 and Return)

1950 – Susan George, actress (Computercide, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1954 – Lawrence Watt-Evans, sci-fi author (Hugo, Sword of Bheleu)

1956 – Danny Bilson, writer (The Rocketeer, Zone Troopers, Trancers)

1957 - Nana Visitor, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Battlestar Galatica, The Twilight Zone)

1959 – Kevin Spacey (Superman Returns, Moon, K-Pax)

1964 – Sandra Bullock, actress (Gravity, Demolition Man, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman)

1964 – Danny Woodburn, actor (Lois & Clark)

1965 – Jeremy Piven, actor (Edge of Tomorrow, Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde)

1967 – Jason Statham, actor (Death Race, Ghosts of Mars)

1972 – Spencer Wilding, actor (Frankenstein, Jupiter Ascending, Guardians of the Galaxy, Atlantis, Doctor Who, Stardust, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1973 – Kate Beckinsale, actress (Total Recall, Underworld)

1975 – Ben Cotton, actor (Defiance, The 100, Continuum, Battlestar Galactica, The Tomorrow People, Fringe, Seeds of Destruction, Kyle XY, Stargate: Atlantis, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Bionic Woman, Flash Gordon, The 4400, The Chronicles of Riddick, , Smallville, Strange Frequency, The Immortal)

1978 – Eve Myles, actress (Doctor Who)

1987 – Miriam McDonald, actress (The Sea Beast)

2002 – Tony Anholt, actor, d @ 61 (Space: 1999, Destination Moonbase-Alpha, Cosmic Princess)

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1899 – Ralph Dumke, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1908 – Jack Gilford, actor (Cocoon)

1914 – Woody Strode, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Kingdom of the Spiders)

1933 – Ken Swofford, actor (Max Headroom, The Incredible Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Andromeda Strain, The Intruders)

1943 – Janet Margolin, actress, (Planet Earth)

1948 – Brian M[ichael] Stableford, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath)

1954 – Lynne Frederick, actress (Space: 1999, Phase IV, Vampire Circus, No Blade of Grass)

1955 – Iman, actress (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)

1959 – The Head released

1965 – Illeana Douglas, actress (Strange Frequency)

1967 - Matt LeBlanc, actor (Lost in Space)

1967 – Jack Perrin, actor (Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1973 – David Denman, actor (After Earth, The X-Files)

1974 – Aaron Craven, actor (100,000 Zombie Heads, Continuum, Fringe, Smallville, Alien Trespass, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Stargate: Atlantis, Kyle XY, The 4400)

1974 – Jason Marin, actor (Back to the Future)

1974 – Jay R. Ferguson, actor (Surface)

1984 – Akihiko Hirata, actor, d @ 56(Godzilla, Rodan, The Mysterians, The H-Man, Mothra, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Atragon, Ghidorah, Ultraman, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, Son of Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)

1985 – James Lafferty, actor (Oculus, S. Darko)

1987 – Michael Welch, actor (Day of the Dead, Stargate SG-1, The Invisible Man, The X-Files, Star Trek: Insurrection)

1988 – Douglas Hickox, director, d @ 59 (The Giant Behemoth)

1990 – Julian Rivero, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

2000 – Preston Bailey, actor (Children of the Corn)

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1914 – Robert Emhardt, actor (Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1909 – Sydney Bromley, actor, d @ 78 14 August 1987 (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Prehistoric Women, Night Creatures, Quatermass and the Pit, Quatermass II, 1984)

1936 – Mark Goddard, actor (Lost in Space, Strange Invaders)

1940 - Dan Hedaya, actor (Alien Resurrection, Twilight Zone, Buckaroo Banzie, Earthlings)

1942 – Chris Sarandon, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The Outer Limits, Perversions of Science, Frankenstein)

1945 – Linda Harrison, actress (Planet of the Apes, Cocoon, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)

1947 - Robert Hays, actor (Starman, Deadly Invasion)

1949 – Michael Richards, actor (Coneheads, Whoops Apocalypse)

1951 – Lynda Carter, actress (Smallville)

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1957 – Nevil Shute’s On the Beach is published in the U.S. It later provides the basis for Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film.

1965 – Paul Ben-Victor, actor (The Invisible Man, Red Scorpion 2, The X-Files)

1968 – Laura Leighton, actress (The Outer Limits)

1969 – Jennifer Lopez, actress (The Cell)

1969 – Rick Fox, actor (Dollhouse, Holes)

1979 – Archie Duncan, actor, d @ 79 (R3, The Mouse on the Moon, X: The Unknown, Devil’s Plot)

1979 – Rose Byrne, actress (28 Weeks Later, Star Wars II)

1981 – Summer Glau, actress ( Dollhouse, Firefly/Serenity, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1982 – Elisabeth Moss, actress(Invasion)

1990 – Daveigh Chase, actor (S. Darko, Donnie Darko)

1991 – Isaac Bashevis Singer sci-fi author, d @ 88 (The Golem)

1991 – Emily Bett Rickards, actress (Soldiers of the Apocalypse)

1996 – Virginia Christine, actress, d @ 76 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

1997 – Brian Glover, actor, d @ 63 (Alien 3, Doctor Who)

2002 – Maurice Denham, actor, d @ 92 (Doctor Who, Blood Beast from Outer Space, Out of This World, Project M7)

2012 – Sherman Hemsley, actor, d @ 74 (Lois & Clark, The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk)

2012 – Chad Everett, actor, d @ 75 (When Time Expires)

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1889 – James Whale, director (The Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein)

1926 – Brian Forbes, actor (Quatermass II: Enemy from Space, Satellite in the Sky)

1928 – Orson Bean, actor (Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, Alien Autopsy, Being John Malkovich, Monsters, Innerspace, Twilight Zone)

1931 - Perry Lopez, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek, Time Tunnel, The Creature From the Black Lagoon)

1930 - Marcia Henderson, actress (Men Into Space)

1934 – Louise Fletcher, actress (The Genesis Code, Strange Invaders, Brainstorm, Invaders From Mars, Star Trek: DS9, VR.5, Frankenstein and Me, The Stepford Husbands, Virtuosity, The Ray Bradbury Theater)

1938 – Terence Stamp, actor (Smallville, Elektra, Red Planet, Star Wars: Episode I, Alien Nation, Superman I and II, HU-Man)

1944 – Nick Brimble, actor (Frankenstein Unbound, Cosmic Princess, Blakes 7, Space: 1999)

1944 – Peter Jason b. 1944 (Robosapien: Rebooted, Planet Raptor, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [2006], Alien Apocalypse, Raptor Island, Carnivale, Ghosts of Mars, Perversions of Science, Escape from L.A., Mortal Kombat, Congo, Village of the Damned, Quantum Leap, Arachnophobia, They Live, Alien Nation, Prince of Darkness, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star, Amazing Stories, Dreamscape, The Incredible Hulk, The Amazing Captain Nemo, Shadow on the Land, Land of the Giants)

1946 – Danny Glover, actor (Toxin, 2047 – Sights of Death, Space Warriors, 2012, Earthsea, Predator 2)

1947 – J. Kenneth Campbell, actor (Mars Attacks!, The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, The Abyss)

1947 – Albert Brooks, actor (Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1951 – Tisa Farrow, actress (Anthropophagus, Hunter of the Apocalypse, Zombie)

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1955 – Willem Dafoe, actor (John Carter, 4:44 Last Day on Earth, eXistenZ)

1964 – David Spade, actor (ALF)

1964 – John Leguizamo, actor (Repo Men)

1964 - Adam Godley, actor (Battleship, Dollhouse, The X Files: I Want to Believe, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1972 – Colin Ferguson, actor (Eureka, Primeval: New World, Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray)

1977 - Jaime Murray, actress (Warehouse 13)

1978 – Candace Kroslak, actress (Planet of the Apes)

1988 – Duane Jones, actor, d @ 52 (Night of the Living Dead)

2000 – Eric Christmas, actor, d @ 84 (The Philadelphia Experiment, The X-Files, ALF, Probe, Misfits of Science, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!)

2005 – George Wallace, actor, d @ 88 (Minority Report, The X-Files, Multiplicity, Star Trek: TNG, The Bionic Woman, Planet of the Apes, The Six Million Dollar Man, Forbidden Planet)

2011 – Tom Aldredge, actor, d @ 83 (The Mind Snatchers, The American Astronaut, *batteries not included, The Mouse on the Moon)

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1924 – Don Knotts, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut)

1925 – Al Checco, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, The Terminal Man, The Reluctant Astronaut, The 6 Million Dollar Man)

1925 - Anne Meacham, actress (Way Out)

1926 – Queenie Watts, actress (Doomwatch)

1926 - Norman Jewison, producer (Rollerball)

1926 – Paul Burke, actor (Adventures of Superman, Men Into Space)

1929 – John Woodvine, actor (Doctor Who)

1938 – Terence Stamp, actor (Superman, Star Wars)

1943 – Edward Herrmann, actor (Day of the Dolphin, The Electric Grandmother, Here Comes the Munsters)

1944 – David Feintuch, sci-fi author

1948 – Art Hindle, actor (The Clone Master, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mutant X, Total Recall 2070)

1951 - Robin Williams, actor (Mork & Mindy, Bicentennial Man)

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1964 – Rory Stevens, actor (The Munsters, My Favorite Martian)

1956 – Satellite in the Sky released

1957 – Jon Lovitz, actor (The Stepford Wives, Coneheads, Mom and Dad Save the World, My Stepmother is an Alien)

1960 – Plan 9 from Outer Space released

1960 – Lance Guest, actor (The Last Starfighter, Stepsister from Planet Weird, The X-Files)

1962 – Ike Eisenmann, actor (Fantastic Journey, Star Trek II; The Wrath of Khan)

1965 – Trevor Etienne, actor (Falling Skies, Terminator Salvation)

1967 – Basil Rathbone, actor, d @ 75 (Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Science Fiction Theatre)

1967 – Reed Diamond (Dollhouse)

1969 – Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)

1973 – Ali Landry, actress (Repli-Kate)

1974 – Ray Galletti, actor (Smallville, The Core, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda)

1978 – Josh Hartnett, actor (30 Days of Night)

1980 – Sprague Grayden, actor (Biohazardous)

1985 – Mickey Shaughnessy, actor d. @ 65 (Conquest of Space)

1986 – Virginia Hewitt, actress, d @ 60 (Space Patrol, The Flying Saucer, The Guardians)

1989 – Rory Culkin, actor (Signs)

1993 – Robert J Glass, film producer, killed @ 53 (ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1996 – Wolf Morris, actor d. @ 71 (Microbes and Men, Doctor Who, Return to the Lost Planet)

2003 – Walter M. “Matt” Jefferies, American film art director d. @ 81 (Star Trek)

2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, composer d @ 75 (Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Congo)

1996 – Wolf Morris, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Return to the Lost Planet)

2006 – Mako, actor, d @ 72 (Salvage 1, The Incredible Hulk)