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1900 – Nellie Burt, actress (The Outer Limits, It’s About Time, The Invaders)

Nellie Burt in The Outer Limits episode, Don’t Open Till Doomsday.

1905 – Sterling Holloway, actor (Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Superman)

1916 – Robert Parrish, director (Twilight Zone, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun)

1920 – Rosalie Crutchley, actress (The Gamma People)

 

 

 

 

1927 – Barbara Rush, actress (When Worlds Collide, The Outer Limits, The Unknown, It Came from Outer Space, The Bionic Woman)

Barbara Rush in The Outer Limits episode, The Form of Things Unknown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Iain Cuthbertson, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Doctor Who)

Iain Cuthbertson in Doctor Who.

1930 – Sorrell Booke, actor (Slaughterhouse-Five, The Cat from Outer Space)

1932 – Richard Stahl, actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Terminal Island, Beware! The Blob, Slaughterhouse-Five)

1938 – Jim Norton, actor (Babylon 5, Star Trek: TNG, Memoirs of an Invisible Man)

1941 – John Bennett Perry, actor (Independence Day, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1946 – Diana Ewing, actress (The Girl with Something Extra, Star Trek)

1956 – Ann Magnuson, actress (The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas)

1953 – Arthur Hoyt, actor, d @ 78 (The Lost World)

 

1957 – The final issue of Collier’s magazine, which earlier in the decade had prominently featured science fiction writers such as Ray Bradbury and Jack Finney and promoted space travel in a series of nonfiction articles, is published, removing from the market one of the few general-interest magazines to feature science fiction.

1958 – Matt Frewer, actor (Max Headroom, The Stand, Falling Skies, Taken, Dawn of the Dead, The Incredible Hulk, The Outer Limits, Star Trek: TNG, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Supergirl, Delete, Eureka, Weirdsville,, Lawnmower Man 2, The Stand, Eerie Indiana)

1958 – Gary Jones, actor (Stargate: SG1, SGU Stargate Universe, Stargate Continuum, Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods – Final Cut, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Andromeda, Snakehead Terror, The Outer Limits)

1958 – Julian Sands, actor (Smallville, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, The Tomorrow Man)

1962 – Patrick Cassidy, actor (Smallville, Perversions of Science, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

1963 – Dave Foley, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, Eureka)

1964 – Ralph Dumke, actor, d @ 64 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)

1965 – Julia Ormond, actress (Exploding Sun)

1969 – Lindsay Kennedy, actor (Galactica 1980)

1970 – Josh Stamberg, actor (Dark Skies, Legion. The Time Machine)

1971 – Jeremy Licht, actor (Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Next One, The Phoenix, The Swamp Thing (TV))

1976 – Seth Grahame-Smith, writer (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

1980 – Greg Cipes, actor (Supergator)

1980 – Erin Cahill, actress (Storm War, Jekyll, Creature Unknown)

1983 – Kerry Condon, actor (The Walking Dead)

1985 – Lenora Crichlow, actress (Doctor Who)

1990 – Robert F Adams, sci-fi author, d @ 57 (Castaways in Time)

1991 – Berry Kroeger, actor, d @ 78 (Demon Seed, Young Frankenstein,The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, The Time Travelers, World of Giants)

1997 – Bill Lancaster, writer, d @ 49 (The Thing (1982))

2000 – Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, actress (Hulk)

2012 – Harry Fowler, actor, d @ 85 (Doctor Who)