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1903 – Elisha Cook Jr, actor (The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman, Adventures of Superman, Star Trek)

Elisha Cook Jr. in Star Trek.

1914 – Geoffrey Lumsden, actor (The Horror of Frankenstein, Blood Beast from Outer Space, The Lost Planet)

1914 – Richard Widmark, actor (Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Swarm, Coma)

1921 – Sean Sullivan, actor (The Starlost, Dr. Frankenstein on Campus, 2001: A Space Odyssey)

1922 – Shirley Patterson, actress (It! The Terror from Beyond Space, World Without End, The Land Unknown)

1922 – Richard Mayes, actor (Doctor Who, A for Andromeda)

1927 – Akihiko Hirata, actor (Godzilla, Rodan, The Mysterians, The H-Man, Mothra, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Atragon, Ghidorah, Ultraman, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, Son of Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)

1927 – Denis Quilley, actor (Undermind, Timeslip)

1930 – Donald Moffat, actor (The Thing, Logan’s Run, Monster in the Closet, The Twilight Zone, Exo-Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Terminal Man)

Donald Moffat in John Carpenter’s, The Thing.

1932 – Robert V. Barron, actor (Quantum Leap, Frankenstein: The College Years, Alien Nation (TV), Out of This World)

1939 – Fred Schepisi, director (Iceman)

1944 – Jane Lapotaire, actress (The Asphyx)

1950 – Victoria Racimo, actress (Day of the Dolphin, The Prophecy, Logan’s Run)

1956 – Holmes Herbert, actor, d @ 74 (The Son of Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Invisible Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein )

1960 – Temuera Morrison, actor (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Island of Dr. Moreau)

1961 – John Lynch, actor (Scintilla, Alien Hunter, Chimera)

1961 – Tahnee Welch, actress (Cocoon I & II, Johnny 2.0)

1967 – Steve Le Marquand, actor (Farscape)

1968 – Tricia Leigh Fisher, actress (No Ordinary Family, C.H.U.D. II – Bud the Chud)

1970 – Graham Shiels, actor (Guardians of the Galaxy)

1970 – Danielle Cormack, actress (Cleopatra 2525)

1971 – Robert Lowery, actor, d @ 57 (Adventures of Superman, The Monster and the Ape, Revenge of the Zombies)

1973 – Steven Geray, actor, d @ 69 (Time Tunnel, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, The Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Evil of Frankenstein, Adventures of Superman)

1974 – Josie Ho, actress (Contagion)

1974 – Joshua John Miller, actor (Class of 1999)

1974 – Tiffany Brissette, actress (The Ewok Adventure)

1976 – Eugene Khumbanyiwa, actor (District 9)

1977 – Howard Hawks, director, d @ 81 (The Thing from Another World)

1986 – Kit Harington, actor (Silent Hill: Revelation 3D)

1986 – Elsa Lanchester, d @ 84 (Bride of Frankenstein)

1989 – Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress, d @ 75 (Timeslip)

1991 – Dehl Berti, actor, d @ 70 (Invasion U.S.A., The Six Million Dollar Man)

1993 – Jeff Morrow, actor, d @ 80 (This Island Earth, The Twilight Zone, Octaman, Twilight Zone, The Giant Claw, Kronos, The Creature Walks Among Us)

1994 – Robert Emhardt, actor, d @ 80 (Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1995 – Zach Mills, actor (Super 8)

1998 – Hurd Hatfield, actor, died @ 81 (Between Time and Timbuktu, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

2000 – Leo V Gordon, actor/writer, d @ 78 (Seaquest 2032, Alienator / Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Wasp Woman)

2000 – Jason Robards, actor, d @ 78 (The Day After, A Boy and His Dog)

2001 – Nigel Hawthorne, actor, d @ 72 (Demolition Man)

2005 – Vincent Schiavelli, actor, d @ 57 (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Otherworld, Star Trek:TNG, M.A.N.T.I.S., The X-Files,

2012 – Gerry Anderson, writer/producer, d @ 83 (Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, Space Precinct, Space; 1999, UFO, Stingray, Fireball XL5)