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1866 – H. G. Wells, sci-fi author (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine)

Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of War of the Worlds featuring Justin Hayward (The Moody Blues) on vocals including the great song, “Forever Autumn” and Richard Burton as the narrator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1906 – Derrick De Marney, actor (Projected Man, Things to Come)

Derrick De Marney having a bad day in The Projected Man

 

 

 

 

 

 

1907 – Lloyd Gough, actor (The Invaders, The Outer Limits)

Lloyd Gough with William Shatner in The Outer Limits: Cold Hands Warm Heart

1918 – Rand Brooks, actor (The Munsters, Men into Space, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Space Patrol)

1919 – Nigel Stock, actor (Lost Continent, Doctor Who)

1930 – Dawn Addams, actress (Riders to the Stars, Star Maidens)

1931 – Larry Hagman, director/actor (Beware! the Blob / Fail-Safe, Superman)

1935 – Henry Gibson, actor (Stargate SG-1, Total Recall 2070, Star Trek: DS9, Cyber Bandits, Eerie, Indiana, Twilight Zone, Small & Frye, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, My Favorite Martian)

1942 – Tracy Reed, actress, d @ 69 2 May 2012 (Dr. Strangelove, UFO, Out of the Unknown, Journey to the Unknown)

 

1943 – Jerry Bruckheimer, producer (Armageddon)

1947 – Stephen King, sci-fi/horror author

1950 – Bill Murray, actor (Zombieland

1953 – Sunny Johnson, actress (Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype)

1955 – Rebecca Balding, actress (The Bionic Woman)

1959 – David Coulier, actor (Lois & Clark)

1963 – Angus Macfadyen, actor (Equilibrium)

1970 – Rob Benedict, actor (Threshold)

1970 – James Lesure, actor (Space: Above & Beyond)

1971 – Luke Wilson, actor (The X-Files)

1973 – Diana Sands, actress, d @ 39 (The Outer Limits)

1979 – John McQuade, actor, d @ 67 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1980 – Robert Hoffman, actor (Aliens in the Attic)

1980 – Aleksa Palladino, actress (Spectropia

1980 – Autumn Reeser, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)

1981 – Maggie Grace (Creature Unknown)

1983 – Joseph Mazzello, actor (Coma, Star Kid, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park)

1991 – Angelo Rossitto, actor, d @ 83 (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Galaxina, Jason of Star Command, Invasion of the Saucer Men)

1990 – Allison Scagliotti, actress (Warehouse 13)

1990 – Christian Serratos, actress (The Walking Dead)

1992 – Billy Williams, actor, d @ 77 (A Fire in the Sky, Night of the Zombies, The Giant Spider Invasion, Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space, Men into Space, Space Master X-7, Science Fiction Theatre)

2003 – Pamela Gordon, actress, d @ 66 (The X Files, My Favorite Martian (1999), Alien Nation: Body and Soul, The Twilight Zone, Weird Science)

2007 – Resident Evil: Extinction

2007 – Alice Ghostley, actress, d @ 83 (Small Wonder)

2009 – Robert Ginty, actor, d @ 60 (Project U.F.O., Programmed to Kill)

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1904 – Elvia Allman, actress (The Nutty Professor, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian)

1922 – Damon Knight, writer (Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man)

1924 – Donald Harron, actor (The Outer Limits, Really Weird Tales, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Donald Harron in The Outer Limits: The Inheritors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1926 – Jack Garner, actor (The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man)

1927 – Rosemary Harris, actress (The Boys from Brazil)

1928 – Adam West, actor (The Outer Limits, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Monster Island, Black Scorpion, Weird Science, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, Zombie Nightmare, Time Warp, Warp Speed)

Adam West in The Outer Limits: The Invisible Enemy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Mel Stewart, actor (Martians Go Home, The Invisible Woman, Bride of Re-Animator)

1930 – Kathie Browne, actress (Star Trek, My Favorite Martian)

1934 – Lloyd Haynes, actor (Star Trek)

Lloyd Haynes in Star Trek

1941 – Mariangela Melato, actress (Flash Gordon)

1942 – Randolph Mantooth, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Project U.F.O.)

1947 – Tanith Lee, sci-fi writer

1948 – Jeremy Irons, actor (Batman vs. Superman, The Time Machine)

1949 – Ernie Sabella, actor (Quantum Leap)

1955 – Rex Smith, actor (The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, Transformations)

1958 – Richard Ridings, actor (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Red Dwarf)

1964 – Kim Richards, actress (Project U.F.O.)

1971 – Sanaa Lathan, actor (Alien vs, Predator, Blade)

1982 – Columbus Short, actor (Quarantine, War of the Worlds)

1985 – Kevin Zegers, actor (Specimen, The X-Files, Dawn of the Dead, Smallville, It Came from the Sky)

1987 – Danielle Panabaker, actress (Time Lapse, Piranha 3DD)

1988 – Katrina Bowden, actress (Piranha 3DD)

1998 – Patricia Hayes, actress, d @ 88 (The Tomorrow People, The Terrornauts)

2000 – Ann Doran, actress, d @ 89 (Twilight Zone, Project U.F.O., It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Adventures of Superman)

2006 – Elizabeth Allen, actress, d @ 77 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone)

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1903 – Esther Ralston, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1916 – Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author (Crystal Cave)

1917 – Ib Melchoir, director / writer (Angry Red Planet / Reptilicus, Death Race, Planet of the Vampires, The Outer Limits, The Time Travelers, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Angry Red Planet, Men Into Space)

1928 – Roddy McDowall, actor (Twilight Zone, The Invaders, Planet of Apes 1, 3, 4, 5 & TV, The Alien Within, Quantum Leap, Earth Angel, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth, Small& Frye, The Martian Chronicles, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Cat from Outer Space, Laserblast, The Fantastic Journey, Embryo, Journey to the Unknown, It!)

Roddy McDowall in The Twilight Zone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – David Huddleston, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Capricorn One)

1938 – Paul Benedict, actor (The Electric Grandmother, The Man with Two Brains, The Twilight Zone, Attack of the 50ft Woman)

1945 – Bruce Spence, actor (Halfway across the Galaxy and Turn Left, The Matrix Revolutions, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, I Frankenstein, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Farscape, The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas)

Bruce Spence as Tion Medon in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith

1948 – John Ritter, actor (It Came From the Sky)

1955 – Tim Burd, actor (Repo! The Genetic Opera, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Mutant X, Odyssey 5, TekWar)

1956 – Aaron Lustig, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Day After Tomorrow, Star Trek: Enterprise, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Relic, Star Trek: Voyager, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Quantum Leap, Edward Scissorhands, ALF, Alien Nation)

1962 – Dustin Nguyen, actor (VR.5, SeaQuest 2032)

1963 – James Urbaniak, actor (Futuremanity, Futurestates, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1963 – William Shockley, actor (Quantum Leap, Alien Nation, RoboCop)

1965 – Kyle Chandler, actor (Super 8, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1965 – Bryan Singer, director (Superman Returns)

1966 – Tracy Dali, actress (Space Girls in Beverly Hills, Encino Man, Back to the Future Part II)

1967 – Malik Yoba, actor (Alphas)

1971 – Ian Whyte, actor (Aliens vs. Predator I & II, Prometheus)

1978 – Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC

Battlestar Galactica debuted

1979 – Neill Blomkamp, director (District 9, Elysium)

1984 – Richard Basehart, actor d @ 70 (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)

1993 – James Griffith, actor, d @ 77 (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Amazing Transparent Man)

1994 – Iris Adrian, actress, d @ 82 (The Munsters)

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1914 – Clayton Moore, actor (Radar Men from the Moon)

Clayton Moore (left) in Radar Men From the Moon

 

 

 

 

 

 

1933 – Harve Presnell, actor (Lois & Clark, Star Trek: Voyager)

1936 – Walter Koenig, actor (Checkov-Star Trek, InAlienable, Babylon 5, Moontrap, The Questor Tapes, The Starlost)

Walter Koenig

 

1944 – Rowena Morrill, artist

1947 – Sam Neill, actor (Jurassic Park, Sci Fi Inside: ‘The Triangle’, Bicentennial Man, Event Horizon, Memoirs of an Invisible Man)

1950 – Howard Deutch, director (Warehouse 13)

1953 – Robert Wisdom, actor (Invader)

1959 – Wayne Morris, actor, d @ 45 (Science Fiction Theatre, The Return of Doctor X)

 

 

1959 – Mary Crosby, actress (Ice Pirates, Star Trek: DS9, Lois & Clark, Automan)

Mary Crosby as Ice Pirates Princess Karina

1959 – Kirk Baltz, actor (Level 9, Seven Days, NetForce)

1959 – Haviland Morris, actor (Aliens in the Family)

1960 – Radames Pera, actor (Starman, Project U.F.O., The Six Million Dollar Man)

1960 – Callum Keith Rennie, actor (Alphas, FlashForward, Battlestar Galactica, The X Files: I Want to Believe, Tin Man, Bionic Woman, Smallville, Blade: Trinity, The Butterfly Effect, Mutant X, Strange World, eXistenZ, Timecop)

1960 – Melissa Leo, actress (Oblivion)

 

1964 – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Debuted on ABC

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea debuted

1967 – Dan Cortese, actor (Demolition Man)

1967 – K.C. Martel, actor (E.T. The Extra-terrestrial, The Munsters’ Revenge)

1969 – Joon-ho Bong, director (The Host)

1971 – Pat Healy, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise)

1973 – Andrew Lincoln, actor (Moonshot)

1975 – Brian Klugman, writer/actor (Tron Legacy / Cloverfield)

1980 – Mark Wells (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)

1984 – Andre de Vanny, actor (Wicked Science)

1984 – Richard Brautigan, sci-fi author, d @ 49 (In Watermelon Sugar, The Hawkline Monster)

1989 – Jessica Brown Findlay, actress (Frankenstein)

1989 – Jesse James, actor (Jumper, The Butterfly Effect, Angel, The X-Files)

1999 – Charles Crichton, director, d @ 89 (Alien Attack, Space: 1999, The Day After Tomorrow)

2005 – Robert Wise died @ 91 (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Andromeda Strain, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

2006 – Mickey Hargitay, actor, d @ 80 (Lady Frankenstein)

2009 – Patrick Swayze, actor, d @ 57 (Donnie Darko)

2009 – Henry Gibson, actor, d @ 73 (Stargate SG-1, Total Recall 2070, Star Trek: DS9, Cyber Bandits, Eerie, Indiana, Twilight Zone, Small & Frye, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, My Favorite Martian)

2014 – Angus Lennie, actor, d @ 84 (Doctor Who)

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1660 – Daniel Defoe, sci-fi writer (Memoirs of Sundry Tranactions from the World of the Moon)

1909 – Herbert Berghof, actor (Out There, Red Planet Mars)

1912 – Reta Shaw, actress (Lost in Space)

1913 – Roy Engle, actor (The Flying Saucer, The Man from Planet X, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Zombies of the Stratosphere, The Magnetic Monster, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Beneath the Sea, Not of this Earth, The Colossus of New York, My Favorite Martian, The Invaders, Silent Running, Kingdom of the Spiders)

1924 – Scott Brady, actor (The Fantastic Journey, The Invisible Man, The Immortal, Journey to the Center of Time, Destination Inner Space)

1924 – Maurice Jarre, composer (Solar Crisis, Solarbabies, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Firefox)

1924 – Norman Alden, actor (The Nutty Professor, My Favorite Martian, Planet of the Apes TV series, Back to the Future)

1931 – Barbara Bain, actress (Space 1999)

Barbara Bain in Space: 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Joe E. Tata, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, The Outer Limits)

Joe E. Tata in The Outer Limits: The Zanti Misfits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Richard Kiel, actor (Twilight Zone, Moonraker, The Phantom Planet, The Nutty Professor, The Human Duplicators, The Humanoid, Out of this World, The Incredible Hulk TV series, Our Robot Overlords)

Richard Kiel in The Twilight Zone: To Serve Man

1946 – Frank Marshall, producer (Back to the Future)

1948 – Clyde Kusatsu, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star, Meteor, Star Trek: TNG, Godzilla 1998, Dollhouse, Babylon 5: Thirdspace, Lois & Clark, ALF)

1948 – Paul Wegener, actor, d @ 73 (The Golem)

1952 – Christine Estabrook, actress (The X Files)

1952 – Raymond O’Connor, actor (Babylon 5, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Dr. Alien)

1953 – Ann Dusenberry, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1954 – Isiah Whitlock Jr., actor (Europa Report)

1966 – Laura Stepp, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Voyager)

1967 – Jonathan Walker, actor (Continuum, Fringe, The Thing, V, Smallville, Flash Gordon, Stargate SG-1, The X Files, Cyberjack)

1976 – Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed, Jurassic World)

1979 – Elizabeth Weinstein, actress (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Smallville, Stargate SG-1)

1980 – Ben Savage, actor (Aliens for Breakfast)

1982 – Philip Ober, actor, d @ 80 (The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1983 – Sean Brosnan, actor (U.F.O.)

1987 – Erin Way, actress (Warehouse 13, Alphas)

2011 – Jack Garner, actor, d @ 84 (The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man)

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1901 – Ben Blue, actor (Land of the Giants)

1906 – Arthur Dudley Vinton, sci-fi author, d @ 53 (Looking Further Backward)

1914 – Desmond Llewelyn, actor, d @ 85 (Doomwatch, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Moonraker)

1916 – Edward Binns, actor (Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Edward Binns in The Twilight Zone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Stanislaw Lem, sci-fi author (Solaris, Invincible, The Futurological Congress)

1923 – Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer, d @ 74

1927 – Freddie Jones, actor (Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Dune, Krull, Firefox, Space: 1999)

Freddie Jones Space: 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Ian Holm, actor (The Day After Tomorrow, eXistenZ, The Fifth Element, Frankenstein, Dreamchild, Brazil, Time Bandits, Alien)

Ian Holm in Alien

1931 – Bill McKinney, actor (It Came from Outer Space II, Back to the Future Part III, Galactica 1980, Strange New World)

1947 – Christopher Neame, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, The Invisible Man, Seven Days, The Apocalypse Watch, Sliders, Earth 2, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Superboy, Blakes 7)

1951 – Joe Pantoliano, actor (The Matrix, Roswell, Robot in the Family, Congo)

 

1953 – Lewis Stone, actor, d @ 73 (The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Lost World (1925))

1955 – Peter Scolari, actor (Honey I Shrunk the Kids)

1957 – Hans Zimmer, composer (Inception, Man of Steel)

1958 – The Blob, a low-budget teen film starring Steve McQueen which develops a cult following and is remade in 1988, is released.

1958 – Gregg Edelman, actor (The Manhattan Project)

1960 – Robert John Burke, actor (RoboCop 3)

1962 – Amy Yasbeck, actress (Quantum Leap)

1963 – Ramon Franco, actor (Resident Evil: Extinction, The X Files)

1966 – Darren E. Burrows, actor (The Lone Gunmen, The X Files, Class of 1999, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1969 – James Frey, sci-fi author (I Am Number Four)

1978 – Frank Fergusson, actor, d @ 78 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Superman, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein)

1981 – Marty Adams, actor (Dead Before Dawn 3D, Repo Men, Repo! The Genetic Opera)

1982 – Reed Crandall, illustrator, d @ 75 (John Carter of Mars)

1986 – Emmy Rossum, actress (The Day After Tomorrow, Comet)

1987 – John Qualen, actor, d @ 87 (My Favorite Martian, Science Fiction Theatre)

1992 – Ed Peck, actor, d @ 75 (The Incredible Hulk, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Invaders)

1993 – Raymond Burr, actor, d @ 76 (Tales of Tomorrow, Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, Godzilla 1985: The legend is Reborn)

1995 – Jeremy Brett, actor, d @ 61 (Galactica 1980, The Incredible Hulk)

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