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1888 – Chester Conklin, actor (The Beast with a Million Eyes)

Chester Conklin (dead on ground) in The Beast With a Million Eyes.

1909 – Robert Douglas, director, Man from Atlantis, Future Cop, The Immortal, The Invaders, Lost in Space)

1912 – Nick Cravat actor (Twilight Zone, The Island of Dr. Moreau)

1912 – Donald Barry, actor (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal, Land of the Giants, Frankenstein – 1970, Project U.F.O., The Munsters)

 

 

 

 

1922 – Kathleen Byron, actress (Blakes 7)

Kathleen Byron in Blakes 7.

1923 – Jerome Bixby, writer (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Fantastic Voyage, It! The Terror from Beyond Space)

1928 – Mitchell Ryan, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Dark Skys, Judge Dredd, Mann & Machine, ‘Way Out)

1930 – Angela Paton, actress (The X Files, Sliders, Star Trek: Voyager, Quantum Leap, Flatliners)

 

 

 

1930 – Rod Taylor, actor (The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy, The Time Machine, World Without End, Twilight Zone)

Rod Taylor in The Time Machine. He died a few days ago on Thursday.

1935 – Melvyn Hayes, actor (The Curse of Frankenstein, Quatermass II)

1937 – Felix Silla, actor (Spaceballs, Star Trek, Return of the Jedi, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, Demon Seed, Planet of the Apes)

1947 – Anna Calder-Marshall, actress (Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka)

1947 – Sondra Currie, actress (Alien Nation: Dark Horizon, RoboCop (TV), They Came from Outer Space, Misfits of Science, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk)

1953 – John Sessions, actor (Whoops Apocalypse)

1953 – John Sessions, actor (Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time)

 

1954 – Saskia ten Batenburg, actress (Supergirl)

1956 – Phyllis Logan, actress (Invasion: Earth, 1984)

1958 – Alyson Reed, actress (The X-Files)

1962 – Melanie Hill, Actress (Stardust)

1963 – Jason Connery, actor (Lightspeed, Smallville, Doctor Who, Alien Strain)

1965 – Loredana Romito, actress (Transformations)

1965 – Olivia Barash, actress (Repo Chick, Repo Man, Dr. Alien, The Incredible Hulk

1966 – Shelly Sweeney, actress (Godzilla: Final Wars, Godzilla 2000, Godzilla vs. Destroyah, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)

1967 – Derek Riddell, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Doctor Who)

1969 – Kyle Richards, actor (Time Express)

1972 – Amanda Peet, actress (2012, The X Files)

1972 – Konstantin Khabenskiy, actor (World War Z)

1973 – Rockmond Dunbar, actor (Alien Raiders, Earth 2)

1977 – Devin Ratray, actor (Surrogates)

1977 – James Huang, actor (Skyline)

1978 – Michael Bates, actor, d @ 57 (A Clockwork Orange)

1995 – Peter Pratt, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who)

2000 – Helena Carter, actress, d @ 79 (Invaders from Mars)

2003 – Richard Simmons, actor, d @ 89 (The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, The Munsters)

2007 – Solveig Dommartin, actress, d @ 45 (Until the End of the World)

2007 – Robert Anton Wilson, sci-fi author, d @ 74 (Trick Top Hat)

2009 – Harry Turner, artist, d @ 88

2013 – Mariangela Melato, actress, d @ 71 (Flash Gordon)

2015 – Anita Ekberg, actress, d @ 83 (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)