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1882 – Bela Lugosi, actor (The Invisible Ray, Son of Frankenstein, The Phantom Creeps, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Ape Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Return of the Ape Man, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 From Outer Space)

Bela Lugosi in Plan 9 From Outer Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

1887 – Addison Richards, actor (Science Fiction Theatre)

1913 – Barney Phillips, actor (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1918 – Anton Diffring, actor (Doctor Who, The Beast Must Die, Fahrenheit 451, H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man)

Anton Diffring in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

1922 – John Anderson, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Starman, Project U.F.O, The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, Star Trek: TNG, Quantum Leap, Voyagers!, The Satan Bug)

John Anderson as Ebonite Interrogator in The Outer Limits episode, “Nightmare.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Michael Dunn, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek, The Mutations)

1935 – Jerry Ohrbach, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Universal Soldier)

1941 – Anneke Wills, actress (Doctor Who)

Anneke Wills in Doctor Who

1945 – George Wyner, actor (Spaceballs, Stargate SG-1, Quantum Leap)

1948 – Alan Ackles, actor (Benji Zax & the Alien Prince)

1949 – George Harris, actor (Flash Gordon)

1949 – George Harris, actor (Starhunter, Flash Gordon)

1950 – William Russ, actor (Stargate SG-1, SeaQuest 2032, V)

1956 – Danny Boyle, director (28 Days Later)

1965 – William Zabka, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine, Mindstorm, Interceptor Force, To the Ends of Time)

1970 – Patrick Wymark, actor, d @ 44 (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)

1971 – Kenneth Choi, actor (Heroes, Roswell, Deep Core)

1977 – Sam Witwer, actor (Battlestar Galatica, Star Trek:Enterprise, Smallville, The Mist, The Walking Dead)

1980 – Niall Matter, actor (Primeval: New World, Eureka, Warehouse 13, Stargate: Atlantis)

1983 – Alona Tal, actor (Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D)

1987 – Rose McIver, actress (iZombie)

1988 – Adam Butcher, actor (ReGenesis)

1990 – Freda Jackson, actress, d @ 82 (Blakes 7, The Valley of Gwangi, Monster of Terror)

1994 – Burt Lancaster, actor, d @ 80 (Island of Dr. Moreau, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1995 – Christopher Stone, actor, d @ 53 (Manimal, Galactica 1980, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman, Logan’s Run)

2003 – Jack Elam, actor, d @ 82 (Twilight Zone, The Aurora Encounter)

2006 – Jane Wyatt, actress, d @ 96 (Star Trek, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Gemini Man)

2008 – John Ringham, actor, d @ 80 (Doctor Who)

2009 – John Hart, actor, d @ 91 (Blackenstein, The Astral Factor, World of Giants)

2014 – Ox Baker, actor, d @ 80 (Escape from New York)

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1903 – Tor Johnson, actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Unearthly, The Beast From Yucca Flats, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

Tor Johnson (center) in Plan 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1909 – Robert Beatty, actor (Superman III, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, The Martian Chronicles, Unidentified Flying Oddball, Blakes 7, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Doctor Who, Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Project M7, Devil’s Plot, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

Robert Beatty in Blake’s 7 The Way Back

1910 – Dan Tobin, actor (Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian)

1916 – David Lewis, actor (The Wide World of Mystery: Alien Lover, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lights Out: The Martian Eyes, The Girl with Something Extra)

1918 – Bob Sweeney, director (Starman, Misfits of Science)

1921 – George Nader, actor (Beyond Atlantis, The Great Space Adventure, Robot Monster, The Human Duplicators)

1932 – Robert Reed, actor (Galactica 1980)

1936 – Shelby Grant, actress (Fantastic Voyage)

1936 – Tony Lo Bianco, actor (Endangered Species, Twilight Zone)

1940 – Michael Gambon, actor (Doctor Who, Mary Reilly)

1941 – Simon Ward, actor (Supergirl, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed)

Simon Ward (left) in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1945 – John Lithgow (Third Rock from the Sun, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Day After, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 2010, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Interstellar)

John Lithgow in Buckaroo Banzai

 

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Kenneth Washington, actor (Westworld, Star Trek)

Kenneth Washington (left) in Star Trek

1949 – Jim Starlin, artist (Guardians of the Galaxy)

1951 – Annie Golden, actress (The American Astronaut, Twelve Monkeys)

1955 – John Hodiak, actor, d @ 41 (On the Threshold of Space)

1958 – Tiriel Mora, actor (Stepsister from Planet Weird, Farscape, Time Trax, Future Schlock)

1966 – Roger R. Cross, actor (Continuum, Eureka, The X-Files, The Strain, Fringe, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Bionic Woman, The 4400, The Chronicles of Riddick, Star Trek: Enterprise, Taken, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, First Wave, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

 

1966 – Jon Favreau, director / actor (Revolution, Cowboys & Aliens, Zathura: A Space Adventure / John Carter, Deep Impact)

1966 – Amy Linker, actress (D.A.R.Y.L.)

1969 – Anna Galvin, actress (SGU Stargate Universe, Caprica, Smallville, Kyle XY, The Andromeda Strain, Tin Man, Eureka, Timecop)

1970 – Chris Kattan, actor (Undead or Alive: A Zombedy)

1972 – Tony Crane, actor (S1m0ne, Out of This World)

1976 – Desmond Harrington, actor (Taken)

1978 – Gig Young, actor, d @ 64 (Twilight Zone)

1980 – Benjamin Salisbury, actor (S1m0ne)

1982 – Gillian Jacobs, actor (Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Fringe)

1991 – Kevin Alves, actor (How to Build a Better Boy, Warehouse 13)

2003 – Guy Rolfe, actor, d @ 91 (The Bride, Space: 1999)

2006 – Phyllis Kirk, actress, d @ 78 (Twilight Zone)

2009 – Joseph Wiseman, actor, d @ 91 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone)

2010 – Tom Bosley, actor, d @ 73 (Out of This World)

2014 – Lynda Bellingham, actress, d @ 66 (Doctor Who, Blakes 7)

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1915 – Victor Sen Yung, (Captain Midnight)

1923 – Boris Sagal, director (World War III, The Omega Man, Twilight Zone)

1926 – Klaus Kinski, actor (Timestalkers, Creature, Android, Lifespan)

1927 – George C. Scott, actor (Day of the Dolphin)

1934 – Inger Stevens, actress (Twilight Zone)

Inger Stevens in The Twilight Zone: The Hitchhiker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Calvin Lockhart, actor (Predator 2)

Calvin Lockhart losing his head in Predator 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Peter Boyle, actor (Young Frankenstein, Outland, Species II, The X-Files, Los & Clark, Solar Crisis)

Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1938 – Dawn Wells, actress (Meego, ALF, The Invaders)

Dawn Wells in The Invaders: Dark Outpost

1944 – Katherine Kurtz, sci-fi author (Deryni Rising, Saint Camber)

1946 – Howard Shore, composer (eXistenZ)

1947 – Joe Morton, actor (Brother from Another Planet, Terminator 2, Eureka, Coma, Warehouse 13, Thoughtcrimes, Smallville, Dragonfly, The X-Files, The Astronaut’s Wife)

1951 – Pam Dawber, actress (Mork and Mindy, The Twilight Zone)

1954 – Arliss Howard, actor (The Incredible Hulk, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Twilight Zone, The Day After)

1955 – David Twohy, director (Riddick, The Chronicles of Riddick, Pitch Black, Disaster in Time)

1958 – Corinne Bohrer, actress (Star Kid, The Powers of Matthew Star, Zapped!)

1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor (Universal Soldier, U.F.O., Cyborg, Timecop)

1960 – Erin Moran, actress (Galaxy of Terror)

1968 – Lee Tracy, actor, d @ 70 (Doctor X, Lights Out)

1974 – Joy Bryant, actress (Virtuality)

1984 – Tod Fennell, actor (The 4400, Brainscan)

1984 – Frieda Pinto, actress (Rise from the Planet of the Apes)

1984 – Jon Eric Hexum, actor, d @ 26 (Voyager from the Unknown, Voyagers!)

1987 – Zac Efron, actor (Firefly)

Zac Efron in Firefly

1991 – Tyler Posey, actor (Smallville)

2000 – Gwen Verdon, actress, d @ 75 (Cocoon I & II)

2002 – Kam Fong, actor, d @ 84 (The Lost Missile)

2005 – John Hollis, actor, d @ 74 (Superman I, II and IV, The Day of the Triffids (TV), Flash Gordon, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Blakes 7, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, Creatures the World Forgot, A for Andromeda)

 

2013 – Mary Carver, actress, d @ 89 (Star Trek: Enterprise, The Visitor, Beyond Westworld, Twilight Zone)

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1897 – Hal K Dawson, actor (Superman and the Mole-Men, Twilight Zone, The Alligator People, Science Fiction Theatre)

1907 – John Marley, actor (Twilight Zone, Land of the Giants, Threshold)

1913 – Robert Lowery, actor (Adventures of Superman, The Monster and the Ape, Revenge of the Zombies)

1914 – Jerry Siegel, writer (Superman)

1917 – Marsha Hunt, actress (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

Marsha Hunt in The Outer Limits: ZZZZZ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Tom Poston, actor (Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, Lights Out, The Lone Gunmen, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Mork & Mindy, Zotz!)

1926 – Beverly Garland, actress (The Neanderthal Man, The Rocket Man, Science Fiction Theatre, It Conquered the World , Not of This Earth, The Alligator People, Twilight Zone, Planets of the Apes, The 6 Million Dollar Man, Lois & Clark)

Beverly Garland in Not of This Earth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 – Julie Adams, actress (Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Underwater City, The Incredible Hulk, Sliders)

1937 – Paxton Whitehead, actor (RocketMan, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1943 – Sabrina Scharf, actress (Star Trek)

Sabrina Scharf in Star Trek

1943 – Michael Reeves, director (She Beast, Castle of the Living Dead)

1945 – Thomas Kopache, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: TNG, Babylon 5, Strange Invaders)

1947 – Michael McKean, actor (Smallville, The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, Coneheads, Earth Girls are Easy, Short Circuit 2, D.A.R.Y.L.)

1948 – George Wendt, actor (Alien Avengers, Space Truckers, Twilight Zone, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again)

1948 – Margot Kidder, actress (Superman, Smallville, Earth: Final Conflict)

1955 – Sam Bottoms, actor (The X-Files)

1957 – Vincent Van Patten, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1958 – John Neilsen, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, NYPD 2069, Race to Space)

1963 – Cynthia Bain, actress (Spontaneous Combustion, Quantum Leap)

1965 – Andrea Powell, actress (Ender’s Game)

1966 – Mark Gatiss, actor (Frankenstein, Doctor Who, First Men in the Moon, Clone, Jekyll, The Quatermass Experiment)

1969 – Wood Harris, actor (Dredd)

1972 – Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, actress (Battlestar Galactica, Flash Gordon, I Robot, Stargate SG-1, Smallville)

1974 – Rizwan Manji, actor (FlashForward, Transformers)

1977 – Alimi Ballard, actor (Deep Impact)

1978 – Bruce Mackinnon, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jekyll)

1978 – Erin Karpluk, actress (Delete, Captain Starship, Flash Gordon, Bionic Woman, Earthsea, 10.5, Battlestar Galactica, Taken, Seven Days)

1979 – John Stuart, actor, d @ 81 (Space School, Quatermass II: Enemy From Space)

1983 – Felicity Jones, actress (Doctor Who)

Felicity Jones in Doctor Who

1990 – Bianca Bree, actress (U.F.O.)

1991 – Dora Madison Burge, actress (Star-Crossed, Humans versus Zombies)

1997 – Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, d @ 54

2003 – Janice Rule, actress, d @ 72 (Twilight Zone)

2004 – Julius Harris, actress, d @ 81 (Eerie, Indiana, The Incredible Hulk)

2004 – Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars debuted

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1902 – Anthony Nicholls, actor (Space: 1999)

1910 – Douglas Walton, actor (The Bride of Frankenstein)

1912 – Maidie Norman, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone)

1912 – Berry Kroeger, actor (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)

1917 – Alice Pearce, actress (Twilight Zone)

1921 – Michael Conrad, actor (Way Out, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, The Incredible Hulk, Lost In Space, The Immortal, The 6 Million Dollar Man)

Michael Conrad (Right) in Lost in Space

1921 – Robert Urquhart, actor, d @ 72 (The Curse of Frankenstein, Doomwatch)

1926 – Ed Valigursky, artist (Pulp magazines such as Saga, Amazing, etc)

1940 – Barry Corbin, actor (Alien Express, Race to Space, Timequest, Virus, The Twilight Zone, My Science Project, WarGames)

1943 – Christopher Mitchum, actor (Aftershock, The Day Time Ended)

1943 – Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi author, d @ 54

1946 – Suzanne Somers, actress (The Six Million Dollar Man)

 

1947 – Guy Siner, actor (Bug, Star Trek: Enterprise, Babylon 5, Doctor Who)

Guy Siner in Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

1949 – David Greenwalt, writer (Eureka, Surface, Jake 2.0, The X Files)

1951 – Daniel Gerroll, actor (Mann & Machine)

1952 – Martha Smith, actress (They Came from Outer Space, Swamp Thing)

1952 – Ron Taylor, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Quantum Leap, The Ice Pirates)

1958 – Tim Robbins, actor (Mission To Mars, War of the Worlds, Howard the Duck, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1962 – Flea, actor (Back to the Future: Part II & III, Stranded)

1963 – Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff, actress (Superboy, Otherworld)

1963 – The Outer Limits debuted on ABC

The Outer Limits debuted on ABC

1968 – Randall Batinkoff, actor (The Stepford Children)

1968 – Todd Stashwick, actor (Warehouse 13, Revolution, Heroes, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Star Trek: Enterprise)

1968 – Ron Rogge, actor (A Zombie Next Door, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1972 – Leo G. Carroll, actor, d @ 85 (Tarantula)

1975 – Kellie Martin, actress (SeaQuest 2032, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth)

1978 – Daniel Kountz, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1981 – Brea Grant, actress (Heroes, Battle Planet)

1981 – Caterina Scorsone, actress (Flash Forward)

1984 – Trevor Blumas, actor (Warehouse 13, Earth: Virtual Mom, Final Conflict)

1984 – Peggy Ann Garner, actress, d @ 52 (The Outer Limits)

1989 – Jack Salvatore Jr., actor (Donnie Darko, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

2000 – Rick Jason, actor, d @ 77 (Automan, Manimal)

2006 – Jack DeLeon, actor, d @ 81 (The Lost Saucer)

2010 – Barbara Billingsley, actress, d @ 94 (Mysterious Ways, Invaders from Mars)

2013 – Ed Lauter, actor, d @ 74 (The Clone Master, Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, Manimal, Automan, The Rocketeer, Star Trek: TNG, The X-Files, Millennium, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation)

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1856 – Gregory Casparian, sci-fi author

1865 – John Mastin, sci-fi author

1880 – Arthur Benjamin Reeve, sci-fi author

1900 – Fritz Feld, actor (Way…Way Out, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants)

Fritz Feld in Lost in Space. He would reprise this role two more times in the series.

1903 – George Alexis Milkomanov Milkomane aka George Borodin, sci-fi author

1905 – C P Snow, sci-fi author

1911 – James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author (Lion Game)

1915 – Paul Scheerbart, sci-fi author, d @ 51

1919 – E C Tubb, sci-fi author

 

 

 

 

1924 – Mark Lenard, actor (Way Out, Planet of the Apes, The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Girl With Something Extra, Otherworld)

Mark Lenard in Star Trek

1927 – Eileen Ryan, actress (Eight Legged Freaks, Twilight Zone)

1929 – Women in the Moon Released

1932 – Virginia Leith (The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, On the Threshold of Space)

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Peter Haskell, actor (The Outer Limits, Land of the Giants, The Bionic Woman, Robot Wars)

Peter Haskell in The Outer Limits: Wolf 359

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943 – Penny Marshall, actress (Mork & Mindy)

1946 – John Getz, actor (Zenon: The Zequel, The Fly I and II)

John Getz in The Fly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1947 – Lynn Lowry, E St Louis Ill, actress (The Crazies, Ombis: Alien Invasion)

1953 – Larry Miller, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Frankenstein: The College Years)

1954 – Jere Burns, actor (Max Headroom)

Jere Burns in Max Headroom

1957 – Camila More, actress (The Dark Side of the Moon)

1957 – Jayne Modean, actress (Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1958 – John Hamilton, actor, d @ 71 (Adventures of Superman, Donovan’s Brain, The Flying Missile, The Invisible Monster, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe)

1959 – Kellie Flanagan, actress (Star Trek)

1966 – Jeffrey Jacquet, actor (Mork & Mindy)

1967 – Gotz Otto, actor (Iron Sky, Alien Autopsy, Deep Freeze)

1969 – Dominic West, actor (John Carter, From Time to Time, Star Wars: Episode I )

1970 – Zak Orth, actor (Fringe)

1972 – Matt Keeslar, actor (Dune, Dollhouse, Jekyll)

1973 – Paul Logan, actor (Mega Piranha, Re-Generator, Aliens on Crack, Komodo vs. Cobra, The Curse of the Komodo)

1978 – Devon Gummersall, actor (Relativity, Earth Vs the Spider, Independence Day, Roswell)

1979 – Robert Baker, actor (Our RoboCop Remake, Virtually Heroes, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

1981 – Frank DeKova, actor, d @ 71 (The Incredible Hulk, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Teenage Cave Man)

1984 – Chris Olivero, actor (Séance: The Summoning, Kyle XY, Alien Arsenal)

1984 – Gary Vinson, actor, d @ 47 (The Incredible Hulk, The Munsters’ Revenge, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invisible Boy)

1995 – Billy Unger, actor (Lab Rats, Monster Mutt, No Ordinary Family, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1999 – Bailee Madison, actress (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

2006 – Derek Bond, actor, d @ 86 (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2007 – Larry Ward, actor, d @ 63 (voice of Jabba the Hutt and Greedo, both uncredited)

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1891 – L. F. Hay, sci-fi author

1890 – Frank Conroy, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1904 – Alice Martha Lightner Hopf, sci-fi author

1914 – Woody Chamblis, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Logan’s Run, Glen and Randa)

1916 – Jack Arnold, director (Creature From the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Tarantula, It Came From Outer Space)

1922 – Sergio Franz Funaro, sci-fi author

1923 – Nicholas Fisk, sci-fi author

1924 – Robert Webber, actor (Out There, Tales of Tomorrow, The Outer Limits, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

Robert Webber in The Outer Limits: Keeper of the Purple Twilight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Wilanne Schneider Belden, sci-fi author

1926 – Genrikh [Saulovich Altshuller] Altov, sci-fi author

1926 – Cleveland [Langston] Moffett, sci-fi author, d @ 63

1927 – Roger Moore, actor (Moonraker, The Man Who Wouldn’t Die)

Roger Moore in Moonraker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – John Robert Russell, sci-fi author

1931 – James England, sci-fi author

1943 – Dyanne Thorne, actor (Space, Star Trek)

Dyanne Thorne (left) in Star Trek A Piece of the Action

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 – Udo Kier, actor (Iron Sky, Blade, Armageddon, Johnny Mnemonic, SeaQuest 2032)

1945 – Miles John Breuer, sci-fi author, d @ 56

1948 – Gerard Murphy, actor (Waterworld, Doctor Who)

1949 – Katy Manning, actress (Doctor Who)

Katy Manning in Doctor Who

1951 – John Sumner, actor (District 9, The Tommyknockers, Atomic Twister)

1952 – Rick Aviles, actor (Waterworld, The Stand)

1952 – Harry Anderson, actor (Lois & Clark)

1953 – Greg Evigan, actor (The 6 Million Dollar Man, Northstar, Deepstar Six, Tekwar, The Outer Limits, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Metal Tornado, Invasion Roswell)

1953 – Richard Christian Matheson, sci-fi author

1953 – Noëlle Roger, sci-fi author, d @ 79

1961 – Elizabeth Pena, actress, d @ 55 (It Came from Outer Space II, The Invaders, *batteries not included)

1962 – Trevor Goddard, actor (The X-Files, Babylon 5)

1963 – Lori Petty, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Alien Nation, Twilight Zone)

1968 – Robert C. Cooper, Producer (Stargate SG-1)

1970 – Jon Seda, actor (Twelve Monkeys)

1970 – Paul Fitzgerald, actor (Fringe, Roswell)

1972 – Nels Lennarson, actress (The Tomorrow People, Smallville, The Andromeda Strain, Bionic Woman, Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: The Series, Stargate SG-1, Strange Frequency, Andromeda)

1980 – Ben Whishaw, actor (The Zero Theorem)

1983 – Paul Fix, actor, d @ 82 (Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1985 – Daniel Clark, actor (Earth: Final Conflict, My Best Friend Is an Alien)

1986 – Keenan Wynn, actor, d @ 70 (Twilight Zone, The Dark, Manimal, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star)

1988 – Max Thieriot, actor (The Astronaut Farmer)

1988 – Mackenzie Mauzy, actress (Forever)

1989 – Michael Carmine, actor, d @ 30 (Batteries Not Included)

1992 – Critters 4 released

1999 – Geoffrey John Barrett, sci-fi author, d @ 71

1999 – Richard B. Shull, actor, d @ 70 (Heartbeeps, Holmes and Yo-Yo, Ssssssss, Slither)

2002 – Wilfred Greatorex, writer, d @ 80 (1990)

2009 – Collin Wilcox Paxton, actor, d @ 74 (The Immortal, Twilight Zone)

2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, actor d @ 58 (Manimal, Wing Commander, Earth: Final Conflict, Quatermass (TV), The Quatermass Conclusion)

2012 – John Clive, actor, d @ 79 (A Clockwork Orange)

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1867 – Guy Boothby, sci-fi author

1889 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor (Twilight Zone)

1906 – Joseph Samachson, sci-fi author

1910 – Earnest K Gann, sci-fi author

1917 – Jane Dulo, actress, (The Lost Saucer, Soylent Green)

1917 – Robert Bray, actor (Twilight Zone, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, The Thing from Another World)

1918 – Jack McGowan, actor (The Brain, The Giant Behemoth)

1920 – Philip McCutchan, sci-fi author

1923 – Cyril Shaps, actor (The Invisible Man, Unidentified Flying Oddball, Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, Quatermass II)

Cyril Shaps in Doctor Who

1923 – Mike Dolinsky, sci-fi author and writer

1931 – Janice Elliott, sci-fi author

1932 – Jack Colvin, actor (The Terminal Man, The Invisible Man, Embryo, Exo-Man, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk)

1936 – Jim McMullan, actor (Virus, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Beyond Westworld, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1936 – Cliff Gorman, actor (Time Tunnel, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Stowaway to the Moon, Beyond Westworld, Probe, Virus)

 

 

1939 – Melinda Dillon, actress (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Twilight Zone, Space)

Melinda Dillon in Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1947 – Susan Blommaert, actress (The X-Files, Edward Scissorhands)

1948 – William Zappa, actor (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Farscape, Man-Thing)

1952 – John Lone, actor (Iceman)

1952 – Bob Ingersoll, sci-fi author

1952 – Beverly Johnson, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark, The Meteor Man)

1954 – Stephen Gallagher, sci-fi author and writer

1956 – Chris Carter, writer (The X-Files, Harsh Realm, The Lone Gunmen)

1957 – Lincoln Child, sci-fi author

1959 – Wayne Pygram, actor (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Farscape, Time Trax, The Girl from Tomorrow)

1962 – T’Keyah Crystal Keymah, actress (The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, Quantum Leap)

1962 – Kelly Preston, actress (Battlefield Earth, SpaceCamp, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn)

Kelly Preston in Metalstorm

1963 – Hiro Kanagawa, actor (M.A.N.T.I.S., Cyberjack, Sliders, The X-Files, Future Sport, First Wave, The Outer Limits, The Sixth Day, Seven Days, The Lone Gunman, Replicant, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, The 4400, Masters of Science Fiction, Sanctuary, Hardwired, Fringe, Earth’s Final Hours, Doomsday Prophesy, Continuum, Caprica, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Millennium)

1964 – Christopher Judge, actor (Stargate, Doomed Planet, Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark, Paradox, Stargate, Andromeda, First Wave)

1966 – Deborah Abela, sci-fi author

1967 – Bernard Beckett, sci-fi author

1969 – Aaron Rosenberg, sci-fi author

1969 – Tushka Bergen, actress (FreakyLinks, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Invisible Child, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)

1974 – Branden Williams b. 1974 (The X-Files)

1975 – Robin Parrish, sci-fi author

1976 – Jennifer Sky, actress (The Helix… Loaded, Cleopatra 2525, SeaQuest 2032)

1980 – Ashanti, actress (Mutant World, Resident Evil:Extinction)

1981 – Vanesa Tomasino, actress (Chupacabra vs. the Alamo, Defying Gravity, The X Files: I Want to Believe, Kyle XY, Absolute Zero, Smallville)

1982 – Nicole Garza, actress (Invasion)

1983 – Felicity Jones, actress (Doctor Who)

Felicity Jones in Doctor Who

1984 – Lauren DeStefano, sci-fi author

1996 – Beryl Reid, actress, d @ 77 (Doctor Who)

2002 – Keene Curtis, actor, d @ 79 (Stargate: SG-1, Star Trek: Voyager, Logan’s Run, Strange New World, Stowaway to the Moon)

2002 – Dennis Patrick, actor, d @ 84 (The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, Lost in Space, The Time Travelers, Tales of Tomorrow)

 

2012 – Gary Collins, actor, d @ 74 (The Fantastic Journey, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, King Kong vs. Godzilla)

2014 – Elizabeth Norment, actress, d @ 61 (Runaway, Twilight Zone)

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1908 – Arthur Space, actor (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth)

Arthur Space in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1916 – Lock Martin, actor (Invaders from Mars, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Incredible Shrinking Man)

Lock Martin (mutant left) in Invaders from Mars

1924 – Randy Stuart, actor (The Incredible Shrinking Man)

1926 – Edwin A. Abbott, sci-fi author, d @ 87 (Flatland)

1928 – Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur)

1950 – Susan Anton, actress (Out of This World, Quantum Leap, Making Mr. Right)

1953 – Michael Bofshever (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Roswell)

 

1958 – Ed Hinton, actor, d @ 39 (Lost Continent, Red Planet Mars, Space Patrol, Captain Midnight, Adventures of Superman)

1960 – Hiroyki Sanada, actor (Sunshine Extant, Helix, Super Electric Bioman, Message from Outer Space)

1962 – Carlos Bernard, actor (Alien Raiders, 10.5: Apocalypse, Babylon 5: A Call to Arms)

1962 – Deborah Foreman, actress (Lobster Man from Mars)

Deborah Foreman in Lobster Man From Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1963 – JoAnn Willette, actress (Twilight Zone, Real Genius)

1966 – Jonathan Crombie, actor (Earth: Final Conflict)

1968 – Mark Donovan, actor (The World’s End, Shaun of the Dead, Cyberon)

Mark Donovan (second from left) in Shawn of the Dead

1968 – Hugh Jackman, actor (Real Steel)

1970 – Kirk Cameron, actor (The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

1974 – Kate Beahan, actress (The Matrix Revolutions, Farscape, Strange Planet)

1975 – Dion Johnstone, actor (Defiance, The X Files: I Want to Believe, The Core, Stargate SG-1, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)

1979 – Celia Lovsky, actress, d @ 82 (Soylent Green, Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

1986 – Marcus T. Paulk, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1986 – Tyler Blackburn, actor (Brave New World)

 

1991 – Regis Toomey, actor, d @ 93 (Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (movie & TV))

1992 – John Hancock, actor, d @ 51 (Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk)

1992 – Josh Hutcherson, actor (The Hunger Games, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Zathura: A Space Adventure)

1993 – Leon Ames, actor, d @ 91 (Testament)

1995 – David McLean, actor, d @ 73 12 October 1995 (Deathsport, Kingdom of the Spiders, The Andromeda Strain, I Dream of Jeannie, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1997 – Nicholas Elia, actor (Eureka, White Noise)

2001 – The American Astronaut released

2007 – Lonny Chapman, actor, d @ 73 (The Incredible Hulk, Planet of the Apes (TV))

2009 – Dean Ellis, illustrator, d @ 88

2009 – Travis Davis, actor, d @ 40 (Space Marines)