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1908 – Carl Esmond, actor (From the Earth to the Moon)

1909 – Joseph Losey, director (X the Unknown, The Boy with Green Hair )

1919 – Douglas Henderson, actor (King Dinosaur, The Outer Limits, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, The War of the Worlds, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre, Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Invaders)

Douglas Henderson in The Outer Limits episode, The Architects of Fear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1919 – Joe Seneca, actor (SeaQuest 2032, The Blob (1988))

1924 – Guy Williams, actor (I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Lost in Space)

Guy Williams in Lost in Space.

1926 – Frank Aletter, actor (It’s About Time, Automan, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man, Planet of the Apes, My Favorite Martian, The Big Brain, Twilight Zone)

1926 – Tom Tryon, actor (I Married a Monster from Outer Space)

1926 – Warren Mitchell, actor (Moon Zero Two, Blood Beast from Outer Space, Out of the Unknown, The Crawling Eye)

1934 – Richard Briers, actor (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Doctor Who)

1940 – John Castle, actor (RoboCop 3)

1941 – Faye Dunaway, actress (Supergirl, The Gene Generation)

1941 – Marjoe Gortner, actor (Starcrash, Food of the Gods, Otherworld

1943 – Ronald Hunter, actor (Man Without a Head)

1943 – Holland Taylor, actor (Strange Frequency)

1945 – Vonetta McGee, actress (Brother Future, Repo Man)

1947 – Stuart Baird, director (Star Trek: Nemesis)

1948 – Carl Weathers, actor (Predator, Alien Siege, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1949 – Christine Belford, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Beyond Westworld, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1949 – Lawrence Kasdan, writer (The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi)

1954 – Riders to the Stars released

1957 – Suzanne Danielle, actress (Flash Gordon, Doctor Who)

1957 – Humphrey Bogart, actor, d @ 57 (The Return of Doctor X)

1961 – Ernest Thesiger, actor, d @ 81 (Bride of Frankenstein)

1963 – Steven Soderbergh, director (Solaris, Contagion)

1964 – Mark Addy, actor (The Time Machine)

1965 – Jemma Redgrave, actress (Doctor Who)

1967 – Emily Watson, actress (Equilibrium)

1968 – LL Cool J, actor (Rollerball (2002), Deep Blue Sea)

1969 – Jason Bateman, actor (The Twilight Zone)

1973 – Katie Griffin, actress (Annedroids, Earth: Final Conflict, Total Recall 2070, RoboCop)

1974 – Kevin Durand, actor (Real Steel, I Am Number Four, Resident Evil: Retribution, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits)

1974 – Davis S. Hogan, actor (Z Nation)

1977 – Peter Finch, actor, d @ 60 (First Men in the Moon)

1978 – Blossom Rock, actress, d @ 81 (She Devil)

1990 – David Arkin, actor, d @ 49 (Whitney and the Robot)

1992 – Hari Rhodes, actor, d @ 59 (Earth II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Automan, Beyond Westworld, Salvage 1, Logan’s Run, The Bionic Woman, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, The Satan Bug, The Lost Missile, The Outer Limits)

1994 – Esther Ralston, actress, d @ 91 (Tales of Tomorrow)

2000 – Supernova released

2004 – Ron O’Neal, actor, d @ 66 (The Final Countdown, Hyper Space)

2004 – Uta Hagen, actress, d @ 84 (The Boys From Brazil, The Twilight Zone)

2007 – Barbara Kelly, computer voice d @ 82 (Space 1999, Alien Attack)

2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, actor, d @ 88 (Star Trek, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Escape From the Planet of the Apes )