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1883 – Francis X. Bushman, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Phantom Planet)

1901 – Harry Harvey Sr, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still, Lost in Space)

Harry Harvey Sr in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

1904 – Ray Bolger, actor (Battlestar Galactica)

1908 – Bernard Lee, actor (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Journey to the Unknown, The Brain)

 

 

 

 

1927 – Lee Philips, director / actor (Salvage 1 / Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

Lee Phillips in The Outer Limits episode, The Galaxy .

1929 – Douglas Hickox, director (The Giant Behemoth)

1932 – Elaine Devry, actress (Project U.F.O., The Atomic Kid)

1939 – Sal Mineo, actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Immortal)

1942 – Walter Hill, producer (Alien 1 – 4, Prometheus, Perversions of Science, W.E.I.R.D, Aliens vs Predator)

1944 – William Sanderson, actor (Blade Runner, Avatar, The Low Budget Time Machine, Babylon 5: Thirdspace, Hologram Man, The X-Files, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone)

1944 – Jeff Jones, artist

1947 – George Alec Effinger, sci-fi author (Nick of Time)

1948 – Lally Cadeau, actress (ReGenesis, The Twilight Zone, Videodrome, Threshold)

1961 – Mark Venturini, actor (Space Rangers, Return of the Living Dead)

1962 – Julie Moran, actress (Independence Day, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1964 – Tony Gardner, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Jekyll, My Parents are Aliens)

1964 – Krista Tesreau, actress (Quantum Leap)

1967 – Trini Alvarado, actress (Fringe)

1967 – Emerson Treacy, actor, d @ 66 (Science Fiction Theatre)

1968 – Basil Sydney, actor, d @ 73 (The Hands of Orlac)

1968 – Howard Smith, actor, d @ 74 (Twilight Zone)

1974 – Jemaine Clement, actor (Men in Black 3)

1978 – Antonio Cupo, actor (Andromeda)

1980 – Sarah Shahi, actress (The Death and Return of Superman)

1981 – Richard Boone, actor, d @ 63 (The Last Dinosaur)

1982 – Paul Lynde, actor, d @ 55 (The Munsters)

1989 – Emily Meade, actress (Fringe)

2000 – John Newland, director/actor/producer/host, d @ 82 (One Step Beyond, The Next Step Beyond, Star Trek / One Step Beyond, The Next Step Beyond, Lights Out, Tales of Tomorrow / Timestalkers / One Step Beyond, The Next Step Beyond)

2008 – Maila Nurmi [Vampira], actress, d @ 85 (Plan 9 From Outer Space)

2012 – Lila Kaye, actress, d @ 82 (Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde, The Invisible Man)