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1852 – Arthur Dudley Vinton, sci-fi author (Looking Further Backward)

1893 – Ann O’Neal, actress (Twilight Zone)

1909 – Maurice Denham, actor (Doctor Who, Blood Beast from Outer Space, Out of This World, Project M7)

1911 – James Gregory, actor (Twilight Zone, Star Trek)

1919 – Robert McCall, artist (LIFE magazine, 2001: A Space Odyssey)

1920 – Alan North, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star)

1921 – Gerald S O’Loughlin, actor (Automan, The Powers of Matthew Star, Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1925 – Harry Guardino, actor (Goldengirl, The Outer Limits)

Harry Guardino (right) in The Outer Limits episode, The Human Factor.

1931 – Ronnie Schell, actor (Phil of the Future, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Mork & Mindy)

1937 – Peter Medak, director (Species II, The Twilight Zone, Otherworld, The Changeling, Space: 1999)

1943 – Harry Shearer, actor (The Visitor, Sliders, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Godzilla 1998)

1948 – Charles Herbert, actor (The Fly, Men Into Space, Twilight Zone, The Colossus of New York, The Monster That Challenged the World)

 

 

1953 – John Callahan, actor (Bone Eater, Dinocroc vs. Supergator)

1955 – Stefan Arngrim, actor (Land of the Giants, The X Files, Battlestar Galactica:Razor, V, Caprica, Fringe, Flash Gordon)

1958 – Joan Severence, actress (Max Headroom)

1958 – Nej Adamson, actor (Doctor Who)

1967 – Karen Verne, actress, d @ 49 (Twilight Zone)

1969 – Donald Foster, actor, d @ 80 (Twilight Zone)

1969 – Martha Byrne, actress (Anna to the Infinite Power)

1970 – Martha Byrne, actress (Anna to the Infinite Power)

1970 – Charlie Ruggles, actor, d @ 84 (The Munsters)

1978 – Josh Cowdery, actor (Godzilla 2014)

1978 – Estella Warren, actress (Planet of the Apes)

1982 – Jack Webb, actor, d @ 62 (Project U.F.O.)

1984 – Adnan Haskovic, actor (Snowpiercer)

1992 – Spencer Daniels, actor (Star Trek (2009))

1993 – James Ellison, actor, d @ 93 (I Walked with a Zombie, The Undying Monster)

1994 – Sebastian Lewis Shaw, actor, d @ 89 (Chimera, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Out of the Unknown)

1995 – Patric Knowles, actor, d @ 84 (From the Earth to the Moon)

1998 – Conor Carroll, actor (Ender’s Game)

2000 – Billy Barty, American actor, d @ 76 (The Lost Saucer, Bride of Frankenstein, Lobster Man from Mars, Masters of the Universe)