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1895 – Bud Abbott, actor (Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein)

1896 – Abraham Sofaer, actor (Star Trek, Journey to the Center of Time, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Abraham Sofaer in The Outer Limits: The Glass Hand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1903 – Richard Loo, actor, (The Incredible Hulk, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits)

Richard Loo in The Outer Limits: 100 Days of the Dragon

1903 – George Coulouris, actor (The Last Days of Man on Earth, A Clockwork Orange, No Blade of Grass, Doctor Who, Pathfinders to Mars)

1907 – Barbara Morrison, actress (Project Moonbase)

1909 – Everett Sloane, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

1914 – Michael Goodliffe, actor (The Day the Earth Caught Fire, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, The End Begins)

1917 – Dort Clark, actor (Time Travelers, The Invaders, The Munsters)

1920 – Lonny Chapman, actor (The Incredible Hulk, Planet of the Apes (TV))

 

1921 – James Whitmore, actor (Them, Relic)

James Whitmore in Them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Tom Bosley, actor (Out of This World)

1928 – George Peppard, actor (Damnation Alley, Battle Beyond the Stars)

George Peppard in Damnation Alley

1936 – Stella Stevens, actress (The Nutty Professor, Monster in the Closet)

1936 – Lelia Goldoni, actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1947 – Stephen Collins (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

1940 – Richard Corben (Illustrator)

 

 

1950 – Randy Quaid, actor (Independence Day, Blade: The Series, Category 7: The End of the World, Category 6: Day of Destruction, The Day the World Ended, Bug Buster, Frankenstein [1992 TV], Martians Go Home, Heartbeeps)

1958 – I Married a Monster from Outer Space released

I Married a Monster From Outer Space released

1957 – The Brain from Planet Arous released

1960 – Elizabeth Dennehy, actress (Gattaca, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG)

1962 – Esai Morales, actor (Caprica, Freejack, The Twilight Zone (1989))

1965 – Ted King, Actor (Time Cop, X Files)

1965 – Cindy Margolis, actress (Earth Minus Zero)

1968 – Jay Underwood, actor (Not Quite Human 1 & 2, The Invisible Kid, Still Not Quite Human, The Fantastic Four (TV), Star Trek: Voyager, X Files)

1972 – Taris Tyler, actor (Real Steel, Superman Returns, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars)

1972 – Stephen Lord, actor (Judge Dredd)

1974 – Sherri Saum, actress (Heroes)

1978 – Katie Aselton, actress (Revolution)

1981 – Rupert Friend, actor (The Zero Theorem)

1982 – Olga Fonda, actress (Real Steel)

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

1986 – Sonja O’Hara, actress (Dollhouse)

2003 – Julie Parrish, actress d @ 62 (Star Trek, The Next Step Beyond, The Time Machine)

2006 – Alan Caillou, actor (The Ice Pirates, Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Questor Tapes, Journey to the Center of the Earth)

2008 – House Peters, actor, d @ 92 (Twilight Zone, Target Earth, Red Planet Mars, The Day the Earth Stood Still, King of the Rocket Men, Flash Gordon)

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1904 – Frank Lawton, actor (Invisible Ray)

1932 – Antoinette Bower, actress (Time Walker, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Starlost, Superbeast, Star Trek, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

Antoinette Bower in Star Trek: Catspaw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Len Cariou, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1943 – Ian Ogilvy, actor (Babylon 5, The Day the Fish Came Out, She Beast)

1946 – Dan O’Bannon, writer (Hemoglobin, The Return of the Living Dead, Alien, Aliens, Total Recall, Dark Star)

1947 – Rula Lenska, actress (Doctor Who, Space:1999)

Rula Lenska in Space 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rula Lenska in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

1950 – Victoria Tennant, actress (Twilight

Zone, Horror Planet)

1951 – Nicholas Yermakov, sci-fi author (Epiphany, Jehad, Clique)

1952 – Jack Wild, actor (Out of the Unknown)

1952 – Al Leong, actor (Escape from L.A., The Shadow, They Live, The Twilight Zone, My Science Project, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1952 – John Finn, actor (The X Files, Strange World, Invasion, SeaQuest 2032, Quantum Leap, The Incredible Hulk)

1953 – S.M. Stirling, sci-fi author

1953 – Donovan’s Brain released

1954 – Barry Williams, actor (Mega Piranha, Perversions of Science, The Invaders)

1956 – 1984 released

1957 – Quatermass II: Enemy from Space released

Quatermass II Enemy from Space released

1957 – Fran Drescher, actress (ALF)

1958 – The Brain Eaters released

1959 – Taylor Holmes, actor, d @ 81 (Tobor the Great)

1959 – Debrah Farentino, actress (Eureka, Earth 2)

1960 – Nicola Griffith, sci-fi author (Slow River)

1961 – Eric Stoltz, actor (The Fly 2, Caprica, The Triangle, The Butterfly Effect)

1964 – Monica Bellucci, actress (Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions)

1965 – E[dward] E[lmer] “Doc” Smith, sci-fi author, d @ 75 (Triplanetary)

1965 – Omid Djalili, actor (Alien Autopsy)

1967 – Andrea Roth, actress (The Time Tunnel, Earth: Final Conflict, Robocop)

1969 – Mark Rhino Smith, actor (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

1970 – Patrick Aherne, actor, d @ 69 (Rocketship X-M, The Son of Jekyll, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1970 – Tony Hale, actor (Ctrl)

1974 – Daniel Wu, actor (Europa Report)

1975 – Marion Cotillard, actress (Inception, Contagion)

1977 – Maia Brewton, actress (Back to the Future)

1977 – Sean Rogerson, actor (Continuum, Extraterrestrial, Sanctuary, Smallville, Fringe, Stargate: Atlantis, Underworld: Evolution)

1978 – Stark Sands, actor (Day of the Dead)

1980 – Toni Trucks, actress (Star Runners)

1982 – Lacey Chabert, actress (Lost in Space)

Lacey Chabert in Lost in Space

1982 – Teal Redmann, actress (Chameleon 3: Dark Angel)

1985 – Greyston Holt, actor (Sanctuary, SGU Stargate Universe, Fringe, Flash Gordon, The 4400, Smallville)

1987 – Alfred Bester, sci-fi author, d @ 73 (Dark Side of Earth, Demolished Man)

1994 – Raphael Coleman, actor (The Fourth Kind, It’s Alive)

1998 – Marius Goring, actor, d @ 86 (Doctor Who)

2012 – Turhan Bey, actor, d @90 (Babylon 5, VR.5, SeaQuest 2032)

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1905 – Ted de Corsia, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea)

Ted de Corsia in The Outer Limits: It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1910 – Virginia Bruce, actress (Science Fiction Theatre, The Invisible Woman)

1913 – Trevor Howard, actor (Superman, Who?)

1931 – Anita Ekberg, actress (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

1936 – James Frawley, actor (The Outer Limits, Smallville, Earth 2)

James Frawley in The Outer Limits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1937 – Jerry Weintraub, producer, d @ 77 (Westworld (TV), My Stepmother Is an Alien)

1939 – Larry Linville, actor (Lois & Clark, C.H.U.D. II – Bud the Chud, Misfits of Science)

1942 – Madeline Kahn, actress (Young Frankenstein, Slapstick [of Another Kind}, Simon)

1942 – Ian McShane, actor (Babylon 5: The River of Souls, The Fantastic Journey, Space: 1999)

Ian McShane in Space 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 – Isla Blair, actress (The Quatermass Experiment, Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Alien Attack, Space: 1999)

Isla Blair in Space: 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1945 – Reggie Bannister, actor (Phantasm, Zombie Family)

Reggie Bannister in Phantasm

 

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Patricia Hodge, actress (The Cloning of Joanna May)

1946 – Donovan Scott, actor (Babylon 5, Homeboys in Outer Space, Back to the Future Part III, The Lost Satellite, The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

1947 – Martin Ferrero, actor (The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Mark and Mindy, Jurasic Park, X Files)

1953 – Drake Hogestyn, actor (Otherworld)

1954 – Cindy Morgan, actress (Tron, Amanda and the Alien, Galaxis)

1955 – Mark Mitchell, actor (On The Beach (2000), Farscape)

1961 – Nicholas Briggs, actor (Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood)

1962 – Roger Bart, actor (The Event, The Stepford Wives)

1967 – Ludwig Donath, actor, d @ 67 (Twilight Zone, Space Patrol)

1968 – Luke Goss, actor (Lost Time, Tekken, Annihilation Earth, Fringe, Frankenstein, Blade II)

1969 – Erika Eleniak, actress (Absolute Zero, The Blob, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)

1970 – Russell Peters, actor (Source Code)

1970 – Emily Lloyd, actress (Riverworld)

1970 – Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress (The 4400)

1970 – Edward Everett Horton, actor ,d @ 82 (2000 Years Later, Down to Earth, Lost Horizon)

1974 – Alexis Cruz, actor (Stargate)

1981 – Shay Astar, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG)

1993 – Gordon Douglas, director, d @ 85 (Them!)

2001 – Gloria Foster d @ 67 (The Matrix)

2010 – Tony Curtis, actor, d @ 85 (Stargames, Lois & Clark, Lobster Man From Mars, BrainWaves, The Manitou)

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1916 – Peter Finch, actor (First Men in the Moon)

1922 – Joe Silver, actor (Rabid, They Came from Within, Out There, Lights Out)

1923 – William Windom, actor (Star Trek, The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, Space Rage, Automan, The Bionic Woman, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1926 – Ralph Ahn, actor (Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace)

1932 – Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canada, sci-fi author (Cat Karina)

1934 – Janet Munro, actress (The Crawling Eye, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

Janet Munro in The Crawling Eye

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Ronald Lacey, actor (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

Ronald Lacey in Buckaroo Banzai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Robert Hogan, actor (Twilight Zone, Tales of the Unexpected, 6 Million Dollar Man, Westworld)

1939 – Diane Aubrey, actress (Village of the Damned, Invasion)

1942 – Marshall Bell, actor (Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Stargate: Atlantis, The Astronaut Farmer, Sliders, Virus, W.E.I.R.D. World, The X Files)

1943 – J T Walsh, actor (Dark Skies, The X-Files, Outbreak, Lois & Clark)

J T Walsh in The X-Files: The List

1946 – Herbert Jefferson Jr, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Renegades, Outbreak, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, World War III, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal)

1946 – Fiona Lewis, actress (Innerspace, Strange Invaders)

1946 – Jeffrey Jones, actor (Twilight Zone, Howard the Duck,)

1947 – Michael Flynn, actor (Lightspeed, Asteroid)

1950 – John Sayles, writer (Piranha, Brother From Another Planet, Battle Beyond the Stars, Alligator)

 

1951 – Robert Wise’s film The Day the Earth Stood Still, based on an Astounding Science Fiction story by Harry Bates, is released, and is received as one of the first mature efforts to represent science fiction in film.

The Day the Earth Stood Still opened

1952 – Superman, based on the long-running comic book created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, debuts as a syndicated television show, and will continue until April 1958.

1954 – Bert Lytell, actor, d @ 69 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1956 – The Quatermass Xperiment initial release

1963 – Susan Walters, actress (Star-Crossed, I Married a Monster)

1965 – Christopher Evan Welch, actor (War of the Worlds, The Stepford Wives)

1966 – Eric Fleming, actor, d @ 41 (Conquest of Space, Queen of Outer Space)

1967 – Mira Sorvino, actress (Mimic, Intruders, Falling Skies, Space Warriors, The Stuff)

1969 – J. Trevor Edmund, actor (Return of the Living Dead III, Frogs!, Alien Nation)

1978 – Lucas Bryant, actor (Odyssey 5)

1987 – Star Trek: TNG debuted

1990 – Kirsten Prout, actress (Kyle XY, Meteor Storm, Stargate SG-1, Mindstorm, First Wave)

1992 – Keir Gilchrist, actor (Delete, Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray, ReGenesis)

1992 – Jack Sharkey, sci-fi author, d @ 61 (Ultimatum in 2050 A.D.)

2003 – Cork Hubbert, actor, d @ 51 (The Twilight Zone)

2012 – Michael O’Hare, actor, d @ 60 (Babylon 5, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, C.H.U.D.)

2012 – Looper released

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1892 – John Mylong, actor (Robot Monsters)

1919 – Jayne Meadows, actress (Project U.F.O.)

1932 – Roger C Carmel, actor (Star Trek, My Living Doll, The Munsters)

Roger C. Carmel in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

1933 – Greg Morris, actor (Superboy, War of the Worlds, The Six Million Dollar Man, Twilight Zone)

1934 – Wilford Brimley, actor (The Thing, Cocoon, Progeny, Mutant Species, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor)

Wilford Brimley in The Thing

1947 – Liz Torres, actress (Futurestates, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation [TV])

1947 – Denis Lawson, actor (Jekyll, Star Wars: Episodes IV, V and VI)

1948 – Tom Braidwood, actor (The X-Files)

1948 – A Martinez, actor (Mega Python vs. Gatoroid, Welcome to Paradox, Not of This World, The Incredible Hulk, Exo-Man)

1948 – David Kagen, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)

1948 – Tom Braidwood, actor (Alien Trespass, The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen)

1950 – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actress (Tekken, Heroes, Star Trek: TNG, Stargate SG-1, Babylon 5, Space Rangers, Alien Nation, Superboy)

1951 – Air Force Captain Edward Ruppelt is given command of Project Grudge, the Air Force’s ongoing investigation of myriad UFO reports dating back to 1947, and attempts to systematize the reporting. Eventually reconstituted as Project Blue Book, the investigations will continue until 1969.

1961 – The Day the Sky Exploded released

1952 – Shaun Cassidy, producer (Invasion)

1960 – Christopher Cousins, actor (2 Earth vs. the Spider, The Invisible Man, Stargate SG-1)

1963 – Scott Lawrence, actor (Star Trek Into Darkness, The Host, Avatar, Them, Star Trek: Voyager, Timecop, Quantum Leap)

1968 – Patrick Muldoon, actor (Spiders, Ice Spiders, Arrival II, Starship Troopers)

1970 – Tamara Taylor, actor (Serenity)

Tamara Taylor in Serenity

1972 – John Patrick White, actor (Galaxy Quest, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1975 – Travis Aaron Wade, actor (Torchwood: Web of Lies, Jekyll, War of the Worlds)

1977 – Willis Bouchey, actor, d @ 70 (The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Panic in Year Zero!, Them!, Red Planet Mars)

1980 – Kristopher Turner, actor (A Little Bit Zombie, 2030 CE)

1985 – Lloyd Nolan, actor, d @ 83 27 September 1985 (The Outer Limits)

 

2003 – Donald O’Connor, actor, d @ 78 (The Bionic Woman)

2012 – Herbert Lom, actor, d @ 95 (Whoops Apocalypse, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Mysterious Island, Project M7)

2013 – Jay Robinson, actor, d @ 83 (Voyagers!, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Dr. Shrinker, Planet of the Apes, Star Trek)

1974 – Sarah Danielle Goldberg, actress, d @ 40 (Savage Planet, Jurassic Park III)

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1875 – Edmund Gwenn, actor (Them!, Science Fiction Theatre)

1907 – Ralph Michael, actor (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Doctor Who)

Ralph Michael as Balaton in Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1907 – Shug Fisher, actor (The Giant Gila Monster)

1927 – Patrick O’Neal, actor (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Stuff, The Stepford Wives)

Patrick O’Neal in The Outer Limits: Wolf 359

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Charles Macaulay, actor (V, The Munster’s Revenge, Star Trek)

1927 – Joyce Jameson, actress (Project U.F.O., Death Race 2000, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, The Son of Dr. Jekyll)

1932 – Richard Herd, actor (V, SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: TNG & Voyager, Quantum Leap, I Married a Monster, Star Trek: Renegades, InAlienable, Trancers, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1933 – Donna Douglas, actress (Twilight Zone, Project U.F.O.)

Donna Douglas in The Twilight Zone: Eye of the Beholder

1938 – Jonathan Goldsmith, actor (Space, Manimal, The Invaders)

1941 – Martine Beswick, actor (Trancers II, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Six Million Dollar Man, Strange New World, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde)

1942 – Kent McCord, actor (Galactica 1980, Predator 2, SeaQuest 2013, Dark Skys, Farscape)

1944 – Victoria Vetri, actress (Star Trek, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Land of the Giants)

 

1944 – Helmut Bakaitis (Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions)

1946 – Togo Igawa, actor (Torchwood, Lexx)

1948 – Mary Beth Hurt, actress (D.A.R.Y.L.)

1956 – Linda Hamilton, actress (Terminator 1 & 2, Bermuda Tentacles)

1962 – Patrick Bristow, actor (Transformers: Age of Extinction)

1962 – Melissa Sue Anderson, actress (10.5:Apocalypse)

1963 – Lysette Anthony, actress (Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde, Krull)

1966 – Marc Gilpin, actor (Earthbound)

1968 – Jim Caviezel, actor (Frequency)

1979 – Arthur Hunnicutt, actor, d @ 69 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1979 – Mark Famiglietti, actor (FlashForward, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)

1981 – Ray Kellogg, actor, d @ 61 (The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1981 – Christina Milian, actress (Smallville)

1985 – Talulah Riley, actress (Inception, Doctor Who)

1986 – Ashley Leggat, actress (My Best Friend Is an Alien)

2000 – Richard Mulligan, actor D @ 67 (The Twilight Zone)

2009 – Paul Newman, actor, d @ 83 (Tales of Tomorrow)

2010 – Gloria Stuart, actress, d @ 100 (The Invisible Man 1933 and 2001)

2012 – Johnny Lewis, actor d @ 28 (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)

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1874 – Noëlle Roger, sci-fi author

1919 – Betty Ballantine, editor and publisher, Science Fiction Hall of Fame

1925 – Steve Forrest, actor (Twilight Zone, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Six Million Dollar Man)

Steve Forrest in The Twilight Zone: The Parallel

1926 – Aldo Ray, actor (Biohazard, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie, Death Dimension)

1929 – Don Draper, actor (Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1943 – Robert Walden, actor (Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, Capricorn One)

1944 – Michael Douglas, actor (Coma)

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Felicity Kendal, actress (Doctor Who)

Felicity Kendal as Lady Clemency Eddison in Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp

1946 – Louisa Moritz, actress (Galaxis, The Incredible Hulk, Death Race 2000)

1946 – Heinrich George, actor, d @ 52 (Metropolis, She)

1948 – Mimi Kennedy, actress (No Ordinary Family, Twilight Zone)

1949 – Jack Bender, director (Under the Dome, Alphas)

 

 

 

 

1951 – Mark Hamill, actor (Star Wars, 3rd Rock from the Sun, SeaQuest 2032, Time Runner)

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker

1952 – Colin Friels, actor (Space: Above and Beyond)

1952 – Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman, Smallville)

1957 – Michael Madsen, actor (Quantum Leap, 2047 – Sights of Death, Infected, Frankenstein, Species 1 & 2)

1957 – Ian Reddington, actor (Doctor Who)

1962 – Beth Toussaint, actress (Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG)

1962 – Aida Turturro, actress (Deep Blue Sea)

1963 – Tate Donovan, actor (No Ordinary Family, SpaceCamp)

1964 – Maria Doyle Kennedy, actress (Orphan Black, Jupiter Ascending)

1965 – Gordon Currie, actor (Earth: Final Conflict, Mutant X, Code Name: Eternity, First Wave)

1966 – Jason Fleming, actor (Primeval, The Quatermass Experiment, Deep Rising)

1966 – Simon Barry, writer (Continuum)

1968 – Will Smith, actor (Men in Black, I Robot, I am Legend, Independence Day, After Earth)

1969 – Hal Sparks, actor (Lab Rats, Lois & Clark, Frog)

1976 – Charlotte Ayanna, actress (Weird Science)

1977 – Clea DuVall, actor (The Event, Virtuality, Heroes, Ghosts of Mars, How to Make a Monster, The Astronaut’s Wife)

1977 – Joel David Moore, actor (Shark Night 3D, Avatar)

1978 – Rossif Sutherland, actor (Timeline)

1984 – Walter Pidgeon, actor d @ 87 (Forbidden Planet, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1989 – Jordan Gavaris, actor (Orphan Black)

2006 – John M. Ford, sci-fi author, d @ 49

2009 – Pandorum released

2014 – Laura Waterbury, actress, d @ 66 (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Mac and Me, Innerspace, The Twilight Zone)

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1912 – Don Porter, actor (Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1915 – Larry Gates, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1922 – Bert I. Gordon, director (Earth vs. the Spider, War of the Colossal Beast, The Amazing Colossal Man, The Cyclops, Beginning of the End, Empire of the Ants, The Food of the Gods, Village of the Giants)

1927 – Arthur Malet, actor (Young Frankenstein, My Favorite Martian, Munster, Go Home!)

1934 – John Brunner, sci-fi author (100th Millennium, Stand on Zanzibar)

1936 – Jim Henson, puppetier/producer/writer

1937 – Dee Pollock, actor (The Outer Limits)

Dee Pollock in The Outer Limits episode, The Inheritors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1942 – Kenneth Tigar, actor (Fringe, The X Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap, ALF, Phantasm II, Star Trek: TNG, Project U.F.O., Man from Atlantis)

Kenneth Tigar in Phantasm II

1944 – Sven-Ole Thorsen, actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe, The Running Man, Predator)

1945 – David A[llen] Drake, sci-fi author (Cross the Stars, Rolling Hot)

1945 – Ian Stewart, writer (The Science of Discworld)

1948 – Phil Hartman, actor (Coneheads, Amazon Women on the Moon, Extra Terrorestrial Alien Encounter, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1951 – Rick Zumwalt, actor (Timecop)

 

1956 – Following the World Science Fiction Convention in New York, the first Milford Science Fiction Writers Conference convenes in Milford, Pennsylvania. Organized by Damon Knight, James Blish, and Judith Merril, it attracts many of the leading writers in the field and will become the forerunner of many later professional science fiction workshops, including the long-running Clarion program.

1957 – Brad Bird, director (Tomorrowland)

1958 – Kevin Sorbo, actor (Andromeda)

Kevin Sorbo in Andromeda

1961 – John Logan, writer (Star Trek:Nemesis)

1965 – Kieran Mulroney, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Seven Days, From the Earth to the Moon, Star Trek: TNG)

1968 – Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author d @ 47(Telepath, Power of X)

1969 – Megan Ward, actress (Dark Skies, Encino Man, Trancers II)

1970 – Marc Guggenheim, writer (FlashForward)

1975 – Clive Morton, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, The Monsters, Out of This World)

1976 – Bruno VeSota, actor, d @ 54 (The Wasp Woman, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Creature of the Walking Dead, Invasion of the Star Creatures, War of the Satellites)

1976 – Ian Bohen, actor (Weird Science)

1984 – Lara Jean Chorostecki, actress (Antiviral)

1984 – Neil Hamilton, actor, d @ 85 (The Outer Limits)

1985 – Jessica Lucas, actress (Cloverfield, 2030 CE, Seven Days)

1987 – Spencer Treat Clark, actor (Unbreakable)

1998 – Genrikh [Saulovich Altshuller] Altov, sci-fi author, d @ 71

1999 – Nicole Leduc, actress (Kyle XY)

2003 – Lyle Bettger, actor, d @ 88 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)

2004 – Tim Choate, actor, d @ 49 (Babylon 5)

2009 – Cargo released

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1897 – Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Walter Pidgeon in Forbidden Planet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Mickey Rooney, actor (The Atomic Kid, Twilight Zone, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

Mickey Rooney in The Atomic Kid

1922 – Louise Latham, actress (The X-Files, Earth 2, The Philadelphia Experiment, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders)

1925 – Barry Linehan, actor (The Andromeda Breakthrough, The Tomorrow People)

1928 – Geoffrey John Barrett, sci-fi author

1945 – Paul Petersen, actor (In the Year 2889, The Monolith Monsters)

1946 – John Woo, director (The Robinsons: Lost in Space)

1952 – David Jensen, actor (This is the End, Looper, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Battleship, Creature, Battle Los Angeles, The Mist, Frankenstein)

1956 – Maren Jensen, actor (Battlestar Galactica)

1956 – Peter David, sci-fi author (Star Trek, Babylon 5)

1959 – Rosalind Chao, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, The Incredible Hulk)

1959 – Jason Alexander, actor (Meteor, Star Trek: Voyager, Coneheads)

Jason Alexander (right) in Coneheads

1960 – Jason Carter (Babylon 5, Starship II: Rendezvous with Ramses, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark)

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

1961 – Chi McBride, actor (I Robot)

1962 – Janelle Brady, actress (Class of Nuke ‘Em High)

1963 – Alex Proyas, director (I Robot)

1964 – Fred Wilcox, director, d @ 57 (Forbidden Planet)

 

1965 – Beatrice Ring, actress (Zombie Flesh Eaters 2, Interzone)

1968 – Christopher Peters, actor (Zombie High)

1978 – Anthony Mackie, actor (The Adjustment Bureau)

1978 – Keri Lynn Pratt, actor (Smallville)

1987 – Erland van Lidth, actor, d @ 34 (The Running Man)

1993 – William Cort, actor d @ 53 (Galactica 1980, Quantum Leap)

1998 – Mary Frann, actress, d @ 55 (Lois & Clark, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Journey)

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1894 – Minerva Urecal, actress (The Ape Man)

1902 – John Houseman, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Rollerball, Mork & Mindy)

1907 – Shepperd Strudwick, actor (The Monitors, Twilight Zone)

1912 – Martha Scott, actress (Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman)

1915 – Emrys Jones, actor (Out of the Unknown)

1917 – Peter Adams, actor (Donovan’s Brain, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Men Into Space, Project Moon Base, The War of the Worlds)

1917 – Samuel A. Peeples, writer (Star Trek III: The Wrath of Khan)

1925 – Virginia Capers, actress (Starman)

1928 – Eugene Roche, actor (Slaughterhouse Five, Rosewell: The UFO Coverup, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Star Trek: Voyager, Roswell)

1931 – Fay Weldon, sci-fi author (The Cloning of Joanna May, Wolf: The Mechanical Dog)

1936 – Art Metrano, actor (The Incredible Hulk)

1936 – Asa Maynor, actor (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, Man Beast)

1938 – Robert Doyle, actor (The Outer Limits, Alligator, Future Cop, The Invaders, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Robert Doyle in The Outer Limits: Expanding Human

1943 – Toni Basil, actress (Village of the Giants)

1944 – Frazer Hines (Doctor Who, Z: The Unknown)

1945 – Paul LeMat, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theater)

1948 – Jim Byrnes, actor (Stargate: Infinity, Invader, Starlight, Robocop: Alpha Command, War Planets, First Wave, Level 9, The Outer Limits, Stargate: SG1, Andromeda, V TV series)

1952 – Larry Anderson, actor (Star Trek: Insurrection, Martians Go Home, Dr. Strange, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1954 – Shari Belafonte, actress (Babylon 5: Thirdspace, Mars, Beyond Reality, Time Walker)

 

1958 – Robert Keith, actor (Babylon 5, They Came from Outer Space)

1960 – Scott Baio, actor (Out of this World, Zapped!)

1961 – Catherine Oxenberg, actress (K-9000, The Omega Code, The Time Shifters, The Vector File, Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, Higher Mission, Sharktopus vs. Mermantula)

1962 – Rob Stone, actor (V)

1963 – Stuart Fratkin, actor (Godzilla 1998, Tremors, Dr. Alien, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Sliders, They Came from Outer Space, Quantum Leap, Alien Nation)

1966 – Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster released

1966 – Ira Heiden, actor (Timelock, Lois & Clark)

1968 – Land of the Giants Debuted on ABC

Land of the Giants debuted

1971 – Elizabeth Bear, sci-fi author (The Promethean Age, New Amsterdam)

1971 – Lawrence Gilliard Jr, actor (The Walking Dead)

1975 – Mireille Enos (World War Z)

1976 – Chad Todhunter, actor (Sliders)

1978 – Daniella Alonso, actress (Revolution, Stargate: Atlantis)

1979 – MyAnna Buring, actress (Doctor Who)

1980 – Lou Holtz, actor, d @ 87 (Twilight Zone)

 

 

 

1982 – Billie Piper (Doctor Who)

Billie Piper in Doctor Who

1984 – Laura Vandervoort (V, Riverworld, Mutant X, Smallville)

1985 – Tatiana Maslany, actress (Alphas, 2030 CE, Orphan Black)

1987 – Tom Felton, actor (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Bugs)

1996 – Star Trek: First Contact released

1999 – George C. Scott, actor d @ 71 (Day of the Dolphin)

2003 – Gordon Jump, actor, d @ 71 (Hard Time on Planet Earth, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, The Lost Saucer, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)

2006 – Edward Albert, actor d @ 55 (Galaxy of Terror, Space Marines, Star Trek: DS9, Invasion America, The Girl From Mars)

2006 – Children of Men released in the UK

 

2007 – Karl Hardman, actor, d @ 80 (Night of the Living Dead)

2007 – Marcel Marceau, actor, d @ 77 (Barbarella)