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1904 – William Challee, actor (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1916 – Phil Leeds, actor (Alf, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie)

1918 – Karen Verne, actress (Twilight Zone)

1928 – Joi Lansing, actress (The Atomic Submarine, Adventures of Superman)

1931 – Ivan Dixon, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1937 – Billy Dee Williams, actor (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi)

1938 – Roy Thinnes, actor (The Invaders, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, War of the Worlds, The Invaders TV movie, Spectropia, The X-Files)

1942 – Barry Levinson, director (Sphere)

1947 – John Ratzenberger, actor (Timestalkers, Outland, Superman, Superman II, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, Warlords of the Deep, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1948 – Patrika Darbo, actress (Lois & Clark, Spaced Invaders)

1949 – Jane Actman, actress (The Invisible Man, Planet of the Apes)

1952 – Judith McConnell, actress (Virus, Sliders, Alien Nation: Body and Soul, Star Trek)

1953 – Patrick Doyle, composer (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Frankenstein)

1953 – Abbott and Costello Go to Mars released

1954 – Judi Bowker, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1955 – Michael Rooker, actor (The 6th Day, Guardians of the Galaxy, Atlantis Down, Skeleton Man, Stargate SG-1, Tremors, Replicant, The Outer Limits)

1969 – Paul Rudd, actor (Ant-Man)

1972 – Jason Hervey, actor (Back to the Future, Frankenweenie)

1975 – Zach Braff, actor (Clone High)

1980 – Matthew Thomas Carey, actor (Creature)

1982 – Bret Harrison, actor (V)

1983 – Diora Baird, actress (Brain Blockers, Star Trek, Hot Tub Time Machine)

1992 – Isaac Asimov, sci-fi author, d @ 72

2010 – Corin Redgrave, actor, d @ 70 (Ultraviolet)

 

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1911 – Gordon Jones, actor (The Monster that Challenged the World)

1912 – John Le Mesurier, actor (Unidentified Flying Oddball, The Mouse on the Moon)

1916 – Gregory Peck, actor (Marooned, The Boys from Brazil, On the Beach)

1917 – Robert [Albert] Bloch,sci-fi author (Cthulhu Mythos, Star Trek)

1923 – Michael Vincent Gazzo, actor (Automan, Alligator, Future Cop)

1926 – Roger Corman, producer/director

1929 – Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Demolition Man)

1933 – Frank Gorshin, actor (The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, Black Scorpion, Twelve Monkeys, Lois & Clark, The Meteor Man, Monsters, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Star Trek, The Munsters, Invasion of the Saucer Men)

1941 – Michael Moriarty, actor (The 4400, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, The Stuff, Island of the Alive)

1943 – Max Gail, actor (Quantum Leap, The Aliens Are Coming)

1944 – Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)

1946 – Jane Asher, actress (A for Andromeda, Journey to the Unknown, Out of This World, The Quatermass Xperiment)

1949 – John Berg actor (Star Trek: Nemesis)

1949 – Larry Franco, producer (2012, Hulk, Jurassic Park III, Mars Attacks!, The Rocketeer, They Live, Starman, The Thing, Escape from New York)

1952 – Mitch Pileggi, actor (The X-Files, Shocker, Mega Cyclone, Stargate: Atlantis, The Lone Gunmen, Alien Nation)

1954 – Christopher S Nelson, actor (Without Warning, Ark II, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1961 – Lisa Zane, actress (The Outer Limits, The Incredible Hulk)

1961 – Greg Anderson, actor (Stargate, The 4400, The Outer Limits, Millennium, The X-Files)

1962 – Lana Clarkson, actress (Black Scorpion, Amazon Women on the Moon, Brainstorm)

1970 – Thea Gill, actress (Riverworld)

1971 – Krista Allen, actress (Alien Presence, Andromeda, Smallville, Mutant X, The X-Files, Avalon: Beyond the Abyss, Weird Science)

1972 – Brian Donlevy, actor, d @ 71 (The Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)

1974 – William Hudson, actor, d @ 55 (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Moon Pilot, Men Into Space, The Amazing Colossal Man, The Man Who Turned to Stone, Science Fiction Theatre, The She-Creature, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1986 – Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author, d @ 82 (Devil’s Planet)

2008 – Charlton Heston, actor, d @ 84 (Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, The Outer Limits, Armageddon, SeaQuest 2032, Call from Space, Solar Crisis)

 

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1902 – Stanley G Weinbaum, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey)

1914 – Richard Coogan, actor as Captain Video, d @ 99 (Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1916 - David White, actor (Lights Out, One Step Beyond, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping)

1924 – Peter Vaughan, actor (Time Bandits)

1925 – Elizabeth Wilson, actress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

1925 – Dorothy Alison, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Journey Into the Unknown)

1926 – Cloris Leachman, actress (Young Frankenstein, The Twilight Zone, Tales of Tomorrow)

1932 – Anthony Perkins, actor (The Black Hole, On the Beach)

1932 – Andrei Tarkovsky, director (Solaris)

1935 – Kenneth Mars, actor (Weird Science, Lois & Clark, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Twilight Zone, Misfits of Science, Project U.F.O., Young Frankenstein)

1944 – Craig T. Nelson, actor (Creature

1945 – Caroline McWilliams, actress (Lois & Clark, The Aliens are Coming, Project U.F.O., The Incredible Hulk)

1947 – James Hazeldine, actor (The Medusa Touch)

1948 – Dan Simmons, sci-fi author (1990 Hugo for Hyperion)

1950 – Christine Lahti, actress (The Henderson Monster)

1952 – Tim White artist

1954 – Julie Carmen, actress (The Twilight Zone

1959 – Phil Morris, actor (Smallville, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dark Planet, Babylon 5, Star Trek III; The Search for Spock, Star Trek)

1960 – Hugo Weaving, actor (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions)

1962 – Ava Fabian, actress (Lobster Man from Mars)

1964 – David Cross, actor (Men in Black II)

1965 – Robert Downey Jr, actor (Incredible Hulk, A Scanner Darkly, Weird Science)

1967 – Lisa Hammer, actress (Frankenstein and the Creature from the Blood Cove)

1970 – Byron Foulger, actor, d @ 70 (Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, Captain Midnight, The Rocket Man, Space Patrol, Superman and the Mole-Men)

1970 – Barry Pepper, actor (Battlefield Earth)

1979 – Edgar Buchanan, actor, d @ 76 (Twilight Zone)

1979 – Natasha Lyonne, actress (4:44 Last Day on Earth, Blade: Trinity)

1987 – Sarah Gadon, actress (Antiviral)

1987 – C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, sci-fi author, d @ 76 (Judgment Night)

1995 – Shirley Patterson, actress, d @ 72 (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, World Without End, The Land Unknown, Batman [1943])

1999 – Faith Domergue, actress, d @ 74 (This Island Earth, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, The Atomic Man, It Came from Beneath the Sea)

2003 – Anthony Caruso, actor, d @ 86 (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel)

2011 – The Adjustment Bureau released

 

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1921 – Jan Sterling, actress, d @ 82 (The Incredible Hulk, 1984)

1921 – Harry Landers, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, Phantom of Space, Star Trek, World of Giants)

1924 – Marlon Brando, actor (Superman, The Island of Doctor Moreau)

1926 – Andrew Keir, actor (Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Years to Earth, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1926 – Timothy Bateson, actor (Doctor Who, The Evil of Frankenstein, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

1928 – Kevin Hagen, actor (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

1937 – William Gaunt, actor (Doctor Who, Out of this World)

1937 – Lawrence Dane, actor (Stargate SG-1, The Time Shifters, Millenium, Bionic Showdown, Scanners, The Invaders)

1941 – Eric Braeden, actor (The Aliens Are Coming, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man, The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Colossus: The Forbin Project)

1959 – David Hyde Pierce, actor (The Terminator)

1966 – Shelley Michelle, actress (Galaxy Hunter

1969 – Ben Mendelsohn, actor (Farscape)

1969 – Rex Evans, actor, d @ 65 (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman)

1973 – Jamie Bamber, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Star Trek Continues, Dollhouse, Pulse 2: Afterlife

1973 – Matthew Ferguson, actor (Cube²: Hypercube, Earth: Final Conflict

1973 – Adam Scott,a ctor (Piranha 3D, Star Trek: First Contact)

1978 – Alessandro Juliani, actor (Man of Steel, Continuum, Eve of Destruction, Fringe, Smallville, Riverworld, Battlestar Galactica, The Time Tunnel, Stargate SG-1, Earthsea)

1982 – Warren Oates, actor, d @ 53 (Lost in Space, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1982 – Cobie Smulders, actor (Andromeda, Smallville)

 

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1908 – Buddy Ebsen, actor (Twilight Zone)

1914 – Alec Guinness, actor (Star Wars IV – VI)

1917 – Dabbs Greer, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Starman, The Incredible Hulk, The Invaders, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Adventures of Superman, Space Patrol)

1920 – Jack Webb, actor (Project U.F.O.)

1926 – Elena Verdugo, actress (House of Frankenstein)

1923 – Gloria Henry, actress (Doin’ Time on Planet Earth)

1928 – Rita Gam, actress (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1934 – Brian Glover, actor (Alien 3, Doctor Who)

1935 – Sharon Acker, actress (Threshold, The Powers of Matthew Star, Galactica 1980, Star Trek)

1945 – Linda Hunt, actress (Dune, Space Rangers)

1948 – Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, US, sci-fi author

1954 – Ron Palillo, actor (The Invisible Woman)

1961 – Christopher Meloni, actor (Man of Steel, Target Earth, Twelve Monkeys)

1961 – Kevin Bernhardt, actor (Superboy)

1962 – Clark Gregg, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence

1970 – Jamison Newlander, actor (The Blob)

1974 – Douglass Dumbrille, actor, d @ 84 (Twilight Zone)

1975 – Adam Rodriguez, actor (Category 7: The End of the World, Roswell

1976 – Ray Teal, actor, d @ 74 (Twilight Zone)

1977 – Michael Fassbender, Actor (Prometheus)

1979 – Lindy Booth, actress (Warehouse 13, Category 7: The End of the World, The 4400, Star Hunter, Mutant X, Earth: Final Conflict)

1988 – Jesse Plemons, actor (Battleship, Paul)

2002 – Jack Kruschen, actor, d @ 80 (Lois & Clark, The Time Machine, The Incredible Hulk, The Angry Red Planet, Adventures of Superman, The War of the Worlds)

 

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1906 – Ned Glass, actor (Twilight Zone, The War of the Worlds)

1909 – Abner Biberman, director (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1917 – Leon Janney, actor (Tom Corbett: Space Cadet)

1920 – Joan Frances, actress, d @ 75 (Fahrenheit 451)

1926 – Lyndon Brook, actor (Invasion, 1990, Who?)

1926 – Anne [Inez] McCaffrey, US, sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums)

1928 – George Grizzard, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Twilight Zone)

1929 – Jonathan Haze, actor (X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, Not of this Earth, It Conquered the World, The Day the World Ended, Monster from the Ocean Floor)

1930 – Grace Lee Whitney, actress (The Outer Limits, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: Voyager, Sci Fi Visionaries, Kiss ‘N’ Tell: Romance in the 23rd Century, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, Spacelift: Transporting Trek Into the 21st Century)

1931 – George Baker, actor (Curse of the Fly, Doomwatch, Doctor Who)

1932 – Gordon Jump, actor (Hard Time on Planet Earth, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, The Lost Saucer, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)

1934 – Don Hastings, actor (Captain Video and His Video Rangers, The Secret Files of Captain Video)

1936 – Don Steele, actor (Death Race 2000)

1938 – John Quade, actor (Manimal)

1942 – Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron, Neveryona)

1945 – Heather Young, actress (Land of the Giants, Galactica 1980, The Time Tunnel)

1952 – Annette O’Toole, actress (The Outer Limits, Superman III, Smallville)

1953 – Barry Sonnenfeld, director (Men in Black)

1957 – The Incredible Shrinking Man released

1960 – Michael Praed, actor (Nightflyers, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne)

1961 – Jennifer Runyon, actress (Carnosaur, Quantum Leap, Terminator: Salvation, Alien Nation)

1962 – Tony Guma, actor (Star Trek Into Darkness, Super 8, Star Trek)

1963 – James Robinson, writer (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Cyber Bandits)

1969 – Traci Lin-Tavi, actress (Class of 1999)

1971 – Jessica Collins, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1971 – Lachy Hulme, actor (The Matrix Revolutions)

1972 – Allen Hughes, director (The Book of Eli)

1972 – Albert Hughes, director (The 7 Wonders of Crysis 3, The Book of Eli)

1976 – David Oyelowo, actor (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Interstellar)

1982 – Sam Huntington, actor (Superman Returns, Fanboys, Warehouse 13)

1982 – Taran Killam, actor (Roswell)

1985 – Josh Zuckerman, actor (Kyle XY)

1981 – D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author, d @ 65 (Colossus)

1997 – Asa Butterfield, actor (Ender’s Game)

1998 – Gene Evans, actor, d @ 75 (The Incredible Hulk, The Giant Behemoth, Science Fiction Theatre, Donovan’s Brain)

2004 – Carrie Snodgress, actress, d @ 58 (The X-Files)

2005 – John Forsythe, actor, d@ 92 (Marooned)

 

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1915 – John Vivyan, actor (Men into Space)

1918 – Ted Post, director, d @ 95 20 August 2013 (Ark II, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone)

1922 – Patrick McGee, actor (The Last Days of Man on Earth, A Clockwork Orange, Monster of Terror)

1922 – Richard Kiley, actor (Jurassic Park, Star Trek: DS9, Howard the Duck, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Twilight Zone)

1927 – William Daniels, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980)

1929 – Lee Patterson, actor (The Immortal, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1934 – Richard Chamberlain, actor (The Swarm

1943 – Christopher Walken, actor (Brainstorm, Communion, The Stepford Wives)

1946 – Ian McDonald, sci-fi author (Desolation Road, The Chaga Saga, Brasyl)

1950 – Ed Marinaro, actor (The Twilight Zone, Doomsday Rock)

1957 – Marc McClure, actor (Back to the Future I & III, Superman I – IV)

1957 – Gene Lockhart, actor, d @ 65 (Science Fiction Theatre, Tales of Tomorrow, Lights Out)

1957 – Mary Cadorette, actress (The Munsters Today)

1958 – Tony Cox, actor (W.E.I.R.D. World, Invaders from Mars, Spaced Invaders, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Spaceballs, The Ewok Adventure, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype)

1963 – Paul Mercurio, actor (Dark Planet)

1965 – William McNamara, actor (The Outer Limits, Perversions of Science)

1971 – Ewan McGregor, actor (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones , Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith)

1972 – Andrew Bowen, actor (Evolution, Jedi Camp)

1974 – Carol Ann Plante, actress (Amanda and the Alien

1974 – Adrian Holmes, actor (Continuum, Elysium, Primeval: New World, Battlestar Galactica, V, Smallville, The Andromeda Strain, Kyle XY, Flash Gordon, Stargate SG-1, The 4400, The Twilight Zone)

1976 – Josh Saviano, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1978 – Daniel Mays, actor (Doctor Who)

1982 – Judith Shekon, actress (Jekyll and Hyde)

2003 – Candice Rialson, actress, d @ 54 (Logan’s Run)

2003 – Anne Gwynne, actress, d @ 84(Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, House of Frankenstein, Teenage Monster)

 

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2014 – Kate O’Mara, actress, d @ 74 (Doctor Who)

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1898 – Joyce Carey, actress (Journey into the Unknown)

1918 – Joseph Allen Jr, actor (Lights Out)

1929 – Richard Dysart, actor (The Thing, Gemini Man, The Terminal Man)

1929 – Shirley Stoler, actress (The Powers of Matthew Star, Frankenhooker)

1930 – John Astin, actor (Starship II: Rendezvous with Ramses, Homeboys from Outer Space, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!, They Came from Outer Space, The Return of the Killer Tomatoes!, Otherworld, Twilight Zone)

1937 – Jay W Macintosh, actress (Logan’s Run)

1957 – Paul Reiser, actor (Aliens)

1962 – Bil Dwyer, actor (Re-Animated, What Planet are You From)

1971 – Selmer Jackson, actor, d @ 82 (The Lost Missile, Adverntures of Superman, Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere)

1972 – Peter Whitney, actor, d @ 55 (Adventures of Superman)

1982 – Jason Dohring, actor (Deep Impact, The Tomorrow People, Roswell)

1989 – Dort Clark, actor, d @ 71 (Time Travelers, The Invaders, The Munsters)

2003 – Michael Jeter, actor (Waterworld, Jurassic Park III)

 

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1902 – Onslow Stevens, actor (Them!, The Creeper)

1905 – Philip Ahn, actor (The Time Tunnel)

1908 – Arthur O’Connell, actor (Fantastic Voyage, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1913 – Niall MacGinnis, actor (Island of Terror)

1914 – Phil Foster, actor (Conquest of Space)

1919 – Eileen Heckart, actress (Out There)

1935 – Frederick Treves, actor (Doctor Who, Doomwatch, The Andromeda Breakthrough, A for Andromeda)

1942 – Scott Wilson, actor (Radio Free Ablemuth, The Host, The X-Files, Judge Dredd, The Twilight Zone)

1948 – Bud Cort, actor (The Twilight Zone, Brave New World, Invaders from Mars

1955 – Brendan Gleeson, actor (28 Days Later…, A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1955 – Christopher Lawford, actor (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The 6th Day

1955 – Marina Sirtis, actress (Star Trek: TNG series & movies, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager, InAlienable, Stargate SG-1, Earth: Final Conflict, The Outer Limits)

1957 – Christopher Lambert, actor (Fortress

1960 – Annabella Sciorra, actress (Asteroid)

1968 – Lucy Lawless, actress (Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files)

1972 – Ed Vassallo, actor (Fringe, War of the Worlds)

1986 – Luke Eberl, actor (Eyeborgs, Planet of the Apes)

1994 – Bill Travers, actor, d @ 72 (Gorgo)

1997 – Eddie Ryder, actor, d @ 74 (The Munsters, Voyager to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, Space Patrol)

2007 – Calvin Lockhart, actor (Predator 2)

 

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