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1991 – Glenn Langan, actor, d @ 73 (The Return of Doctor X, Mutiny in Outer Space, Women of the Prehistoric Planet , The Andromeda Strain, The Amazing Colossal Man)

1973 – Edward G Robinson, actor, d @ 79 (Soylent Green)

1952 – The John C. Winston publishing company announces the first five titles in its new series of juvenile science fiction novels which, later under the imprint Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, will extend to 35 novels before ending in 1961, including titles by Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Lester del Rey, Donald A. Wollheim, and others.

1913 – William Prince, actor (Spontaneous Combustion, The Cat from Outer Space, The Invisible Man, Tales of Tomorrow)

2002 – Dimitra Arliss, actress, d @ 79 (Firefox)

1986 – Leif Erickson, actor, d @ 74 (Invaders from Mars, The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping, Project U.F.O.)

1992 – José Ferrer, actor, d @ 80 (Dune, The Being, The Swarm, Exo-Man)

1904 – Douglas Evans, actor (King of the Rocket Men, Beginning of the End, The Munsters, Moon Pilot, Twilight Zone, The Magnetic Monster, The Invisible Monster)

1905 – Charles Lane, actor (Otherworld, Strange Invaders, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)

1915 – William Hopper, actor (20 Million Miles to Earth, The Deadly Mantis, Conquest of Space)

1920 – Derek Bond, actor (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1925 – Paul Newman, actor (Tales of Tomorrow)

1927 – William Redfield, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Tales of Tomorrow, Conquest of Space)

1978 – Leo Genn, actor, d @ 72 (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1923 – Anne Jeffreys, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica)

1925 – Joan Leslie, actress (The Incredible Hulk

1928 – Philip Jose Farmer, sci-fi writer (Riverworld)

1949 – David Strathairn, actor (Godzilla 2014, Alphas, Iceman, The Brother from Another Planet)

1964 – Paul Johansson, actor (Andromeda, First Wave, Earth: Final Conflict, They Came from Outer Space)

2006 – Len Carlson, actor, d @ 68 (Cypher)

2012 – Ian Abercrombie, actor, d @ 77 (Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000, Otherworld, Voyagers!, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Young Frankenstein, The Questor Tapes)

1931 – Mary Murphy, actress (The Outer Limits, The Electronic Monster)

1965 – Allison Hossack, actress (The Philadelphia Experiment, Fringe, Sanctuary, Eureka, Masters of Science Fiction, Stargate: Atlantis, The Twilight Zone, Stargate: SG-1, Anthrax, First Wave, Escape from Mars, The Outer Limits, Sliders)

1971 – Bryan Callen, actor (Scary Movie 4)

1971 – Dorian Gregory, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The Apocalypse

1993 – Cameron Bright, actor (Earth’s Final Hour, Stargate SG-1, The 4400

1952 – Mimi Leder, director (Deep Impact)

1928 – Roger Vadim, director, d @ 72 11 February 2000 (Barbarella)

1914 – Dorothy Newman, actress, d @ 80 20 May 1994 (Twilight Zone, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

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1927 – Gregg Palmer, actor (Star Trek, From Hell It Came, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1931 – Dean Jones, actor (Special Report: Journey to Mars, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes)

1931 – Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein’s Daughter, Mutiny in Outer Space)

1977 – Donald Kerr, actor, d @ 85 (Devil Bat, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1981 – Richard Talmadge, actor, d @ 88 (The Phantom Empire)

1990 – Alexander Lockwood, actor, d @ 87 (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Monster on the Campus, The Invisible Boy, Tales of Tomorrow)

1991 – Stanley Brock, actor, d @ 59 (Out of this World, Quantum Leap, Amazon Women on the Moon, Night of the Comet, Salvage 1, The Bionic Woman)

1995 – William Sylvester, actor, d @ 72 (The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1900 – Mildred Dunnock, actress (‘Way Out, The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1934 – Elizabeth Allen, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone)

1980 – Queenie Watts, actress, d @ 53 (Doomwatch)

1990 – Ava Gardner, actress, d @ 67 (On The Beach)

1941 – Gregory Sierra, actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kids,Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Clones, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)

2008 – Christopher Allport, actor, d @ 60 (The Invisible Man, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, Invaders from Mars, The Twilight Zone)

1936 – Diana Hyland, actress (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Soylent Green)

1958 – Dinah Manoff, actress (Mork & Mindy)

1979 – Christine Lakin, actress (The Frankenstein Theory, Big Monster on Campus, 3rd Rock from the Sun

1974 – Kurt Evans, actor (Arrow, Fringe, Watchmen, The Andromeda Strain, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, The X-Files)

1946 – Richard Poe, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager)

1944, Anita Pallenberg, actress (4:44 Last Day on Earth, Barbarella)

1943 – Tobe Hooper, director (Taken, Dark Skies, Invaders From Mars)

1941 – Gregory Sierra, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, Honey I Blew Up the Kids, Something Is Out There, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)

1918 – King Donovan, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956], The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Magnetic Monster)

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1973 – J Carrol Naish, actor, d @ 77 (Dracula vs Frankenstein)

1911 – C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, sci-fi author (Judgment Night, Northwest Smith, Cthulhu Mythos)

1917 – Ernest Borgnine, actor (Escape from New York, Gattaca, Future Cop, The Black Hole, The Neptune Factor, Captain Video and His Video Rangers)

1918 – John McLiam, actor (Star Trek: TNG, V, Voyagers!, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk, The Food of the Gods, The Invisible Man, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1920 – Jerry Maren, actor (Frankenstein Rising, Spaceballs, The Twilight Zone, The Being, TRON, Planet of the Apes, Superman and the Mole-Men)

1924 – Marvin Kaplan, actor (The Came from Outer Space, The Lost Saucer)

1925 – William Hudson, actor (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)

1950 – Bull Montana, actor, d @ 62 (The Lost World, Flash Gordon)

1962 – Tom Shirley, actor, d @ 62 (‘Way Out)

1972 – Jerome Cowan, actor, d @ 74 (The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Visit to a Small Planet, Have Rocket — Will Travel)

1975 – Larry Fine, actor, d @ 72 (The Three Stooges in Orbit, Have Rocket – Will Travel, Flying Saucer Daffy, Outer Space Jitters, Space Ship Sappy)

1991 – Lawrence Lott, actor, d @ 40 (Philadelphia Experiment)

1992 – John Bleifer, actor, d @ 90 (Men Into Space, Queen of Outer Space, The 27th Day)

1946 – Michael Ontkean, actor (The Outer Limits)

1948 – Michael Des Barres, actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Superboy, Super Force, ALF, I Monster)

1970 – Matthew Lillard, actor (Area 57, Wing Commander)

2006 – Chris Penn, actor, d @ 40 (Future Kick)

2010 – Pernell Roberts, actor, d @ 81 (Man From Atlantis)

2012 – James Farentino, actor, d @ 73 (The Final Countdown)

1961 – Nastassja Kinski, actress (Day the World Ended)

1969 – Stephanie Romanov, actress (Menno’s Mind)

1980 – Nicole Marie Lenz, actress (First Strike)

1944 – David Gerrold, writer (The Trouble With Tribbles)

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1954 – Killers from Space released

1992 – Ian Wolfe, actor, d@ 95 (THX-1138, Creator, The Terminal Man, Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1923 – Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars, A Canticle for Leibowitz)

1906 – Bob Steele, actor (The Atomic Submarine, Giant from the Unknown)

1907 – Dan Duryea, actor (The Bamboo Saucer, Twilight Zone)

1923 – Florence Halop, actress (Gemini Man)

1934 – Lou Antonio, actor (Dark Skys)

1939 – Sonny Chiba, actor (Invasion of the Neptune Men, Message from Space)

1943 – Gil Gerard, actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Nuclear Hurricane, E.A.R.T.H. Force)

1944 – Rutger Hauer, actor (Blade Runner, Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Flying Virus)

1950 – Richard Dean Anderson, actor (Stargate: SG1, SGU Stargate Universe, Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods – Final Cut, Stargate: Continuum, Stargate: Atlantis)

1950 – Richard Gilliland, actor (Star Kid, Bug, Dark Skies)

1959 – Tyrone Power Jr, actor (Cocoon, Cocoon: The Return)

1972 – Ewen Bremner, actor (AVP: Alien vs. Predator)

1933 – Arlene Golonka, actress (Dr. Alien)

1933 – Chita Rivera, actress (The Outer Limits)

1963 – Gail O’Grady, actress (Time Trax, Superboy)

1973 – Lanei Chapman, actress (Space: Above and Beyond, Star Trek: TNG)

1974 – Tiffani-Amber Theissen, actress (Cyborg Soldier)

1977 – Sonita Henry, actress (Doctor Who, Star Trek [2009], The Fifth Element)

1951 – David Patrick Kelly, actor (K-PAX, The Crow, Dreamscape)

1939 – Greg Hildebrandt, illustrator

1939 – Tim Hildebrandt, Illustrator

1934 – Lou Antonio, actor (Star Trek)

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1906 – Robert E[rvin] Howard, US, sci-fi author

1920 – George Breakston, writer (The Manster)

1923 – Diana Douglas, actress (A Fire in the Sky, Science Fiction Theatre)

1924 – Robert Halmi Sr., producer (Riverworld, Flash Gordon, Dinotopia, )

1932 – Piper Laurie, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1934 – Bill Bixby, actor (Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, The Incredible Hulk)

1935 – Seymour Cassel, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1940 – John Hurt, actor (Alien, Doctor Who, Masters of Science Fiction, Contact, Frankenstein Unbound, Spaceballs)

1955 – John Wesley Shipp, actor (The Sector, Sensory Perception, The Outer Limits)

1956 – Michael Kospa, actor (Fringe, Apollo 18, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Watchmen, Eureka, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits, The X-Files)

1965 – Diane Lane, actress (Batman vs Superman, Man of Steel, Judge Dredd)

1966 – Herbert Marshall, actor, d @ 75 (The Fly, Gog, Riders to the Stars)

1967 – Olivia d’Abo, actress (The Twilight Zone, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: TNG)

1974 – Leon Lontoc, actor, d @ 64 (Adventures of Superman, The Flying Missile)

1976 – Balthazar Getty, actor (Judge Dredd)

1977 – Matthew Newton, actor (Farscape)

1980 – Christopher Masterson, actor (Electric Sleep

1981 – Beverley Mitchell, actress (Quantum Leap)

1988 – Parker Fennelly, actor, d @ 96 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1994 – Telly Savalas, actor, d @ 72 (Twilight Zone, Capricorn One)

2012 – Richard Tufeld, California, voice actor, d @ 85 (Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

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1925 – Charles Aidman, actor (Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Alien Zone, Innerspace, The Twilight Zone)

1915 – Alan Hewitt, actor (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)

1950 – George Orwell, whose 1984 established a new standard in dystopian fiction only two years earlier, dies.

1938 – Georges Méliès, director, d @ 76(A Trip to the Moon, The Hallucinated Alchemist, Under The Sea)

1998 – Jack Lord, actor, d @ 77 (The Invaders)

1923 – Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer

1897 – J Carrol Naish, actor (Dracula vs Frankenstein)

1921 – John Doucette, actor (The Time Machine, The Time Tunnel, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, The Flying Missile)

1922 – Telly Savalas, actor (Twilight Zone, Capricorn One)

1964 – Joseph Schildkraut, actor, d @ 67 (Twilight Zone)

1988 – Abraham Sofaer, actor, d @ 91 (Star Trek, Journey to the Center of Time, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1938 – John Savident, actor (Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Doomwatch)

1942 – Mac Davis, songwriter / actor (Smallville / Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

1970 – Ken Leung, actor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1934 – Audrey Dalton, actress (The Monster that Challenged the World, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1935 – Ann Wedgeworth, actress (The Twilight Zone, My Science Project)

1957 – Geena Davis, actress (The Fly)

1969 – Karina Lombard, actress (The 4400)

1999 – Susan Strasberg, actress, d @ 60 (The Invaders)

1990 – Jacob Smith, actor (Evolution’s Child, Meego)

1981 – Izabella Miko, actress (Mr. Blob in the Universe)

1958 – Michael Wincott, actor (Alien: Resurrection)

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1884 – Abraham P Merritt, sci-fi author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!)

1896 – Rolfe Sedan, actor (Young Frankenstein)

1898 – Colin Clive, actor (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein)

1912 – Christopher Casson, actor (Zardoz)

1914 – Wensley Pithey, actor (Doomwatch)

1919 – Alex Nicol, actor (Ape, The Clones, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1920 – DeForest Kelley, actor (Science Fiction Theatre, Night of the Lepus , Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG)

1926 – Patricia Neal, actress (Day the Earth Stood Still, Stranger from Venus aka Immediate Disaster)

1926 – Michael Higgins, actor (The Outer Limits)

1928 – Peter Donat, actor (The X-Files)

1934 – Tom Baker, actor (Doctor Who, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1946 – David Lynch, actor / director /screenplay (Dune)

1950 – Liza Goddard, actress (Doctor Who)

1950 – Daniel Benzali, actor (Jericho, The X-Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

1955 – Wyatt Knight, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1958 – Lorenzo Lamas, actor (Atomic Eden, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Sci-Fighter)

1963 – James Denton, actor (Masters of Science Fiction

1981 – Crystal Lowe, actress (Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis, Scary Movie 4, The Twilight Zone, Stargate SG-1)

1987 – Evan Peters, actor (Invasion)

1993 – Joseph Anthony, actor, d @ 80 (Tales of Tomorrow)

2002 – Carrie Hamilton, actress, d @ 38 (The X-Files)

2012 – Underworld Awakening released

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1919 – Anthony Dexter, actor (The Phantom Planet, Fire Maidens of Outer Space, 12 to the Moon)

1922 – Guy Madison, actor (On the Threshold of Space, The Beast of Hollow Mountain)

1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, actor (My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1926 – Fritz Weaver, actor (Twilight Zone, Day of the Dolphin, The X-Files, Star Trek: DS9, The Twilight Zone, The Martian Chronicles, Demon Seed, The Invaders, ‘Way Out)

1950 – Isaac Asimov’s first novel, Pebble in the Sky, is published.

1962 – Snub Pollard, actor, d @ 72 (Master of the World, The Day the Earth Stood Still )

1965 – Frank Reicher, actor, d @ 89 (Superman and the Molemen)

1969 – Charles Winninger, actor, d @ 84 (Science Fiction Theatre)

1970 – Hal March, actor, d @ 49 (The Atomic Kid)

1973 – Max Adrian, actor, d @ 69 (Terrornauts, Doctor Who)

1976 – Kevin Coughlin, actor, d @ 30 (The Invaders)

1991 – John Russell, actor, d @ 70 (Jason of Star Command)

2006 – Anthony Franciosa, actor, d @ 77 (The Twilight Zone, Earth II)

1923 – Jean Stapleton, actress (The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

1930 – Tippi Hedren, actress (The 4400, The Bionic Woman)

1967 – Grace Cunard, actress, d @ 73 (The Bride of Frankenstein)

1941 – Tony Anholt, actor (Space: 1999, Destination Moonbase-Alpha, Cosmic Princess)

1953 – Desi Arnaz Jr, actor (Automan)

1955 - Paul Rodriguez, actor (The Twilight Zone, Time Changer)

1961 – Paul McCrane, actor (RoboCop, The X-Files, Superboy, The Blob)

1961 – William Ragsdale, actor (Frankenstein: The College Years)

1942 – Shelly Fabares, actress (Mork & Mindy, The Incredible Hulk, Twilight Zone, Captain Midnight)

1953 – Linda Hayden, actress (The Boys from Brazil)

1954 – Katey Sagal, actress (Space Cases)

1977 – Benjamin Ayres, actor (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1)

1958 – Allen Steele, sci-fi author (Orbital Decay, The Death of Captain Future)

1932 – Richard Lester, director (Superman II and III, The Mouse on the Moon)

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1916 – Orville Sherman, actor, d @ 68 1 October 1984 (Westworld, The Twilight Zone, The Brain Eaters, The Adventures of Superman)

1932 – Robert Anton Wilson, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Schrodinger’s Cat)

1933 – John Boorman, director (Zardoz)

1950 – John Hughes, director (Weird Science)

1955 – Kevin Costner, actor (Waterworld, The Postman, Man of Steel, Testament)

1961 – Jeff Yagher, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Mysterious Ways, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Twilight Zone, V)

1963 – Jane Horrocks, actress (Red Dwarf)

1969 – Dave Bautista, actor (Riddick, Guardians of the Galaxy)

1969 – Jesse L. Martin, actor (The X-files)

1981 – Antje Traue, actress (Man of Steel, Pandorum)

1983 – Samantha Mumba, singer / actress (Evolution / The Time Machine)

1985 – Wilfrid Brambell, actor, d @ 72 (The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II)

2000 – Nancy Coleman, actress, d @ 87 (Tales of Tomorrow)

2001 – Al Waxman, actor, d @ 65 (Millennium, Spasms)

2009 – Kathleen Byron, actress, d @ 88 (Blakes 7)

2009 – Bob May, actor, d @ 69 (The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

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1921 – Dehl Berti, actor (Operation Neptune, One Step Beyond, The Six Million Dollar Man)

2003 – Richard Crenna, actor, d @ 76 (Intruders, Marooned, Leviathan)

1942 – Nancy Parsons, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1973 – Fred Essler, actor, d @ 77 (Conquest of Space, Adventures of Superman)

1983 – Doodles Weaver, actor, d @ 71 (Earthbound, Land of the Giants, Superman)

1992 – Dorothy Alison, actress, d @ 66 (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Journey Into the Unknown)

1935 – Paul O[sborne] Williams, sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle)

1938 – John Bellairs, sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom)

1931 – James Earl Jones, actor (Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Lois & Clark, The UFO Incident)

1942 – Randy Boone, actor (Star Wars, Stargate SG-1, Lois & Clark, The UFO Incident)

1943 – Geoffrey Deuel, actor (Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

1947 – Todd Susman, actor (The Invaders, Weird Science, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Coneheads, ALF, The Twilight Zone)

1956 – Mitch Vogel, actor (Ark II, The Immortal)

2004 – Noble Willingham, actor, d @ 72 (Fire in the Sky, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, Man from Atlantis)

2008 – Allan Melvin, actor, d @ 84 (Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian)

1933 – Sheree North, actress (Future Cop)

1969 – Naveen Andrews, actor (Planet Terror, Future Tense, Rollerball)

1975 – Freddy Rodriguez, actor (Planet Terror)

1981 – Ray J, actor (Mars Attacks!, Steel)

1980 – Zooey Deschanel, actress (Tin Man, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1966 – Joshua Malina, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate SG-1)

1965 – D.J. Caruso, director (I Am Number Four, Smallville)

1941 – Tom Lowell, actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, The Twilight Zone)