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1911 – Danny Kaye, actor (The Twilight Zone)

Danny Kaye (left) in one of his last roles in The Twilight Zone episode, Paladin of the Lost Hour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1916 – Orville Sherman, actor, d @ 68 1 October 1984 (Westworld, The Twilight Zone, The Brain Eaters, The Adventures of Superman)

Orville Sherman (left) in The Brain Eaters.

1932 – Robert Anton Wilson, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Schrodinger’s Cat)

1933 – John Boorman, director (Zardoz)

1938 – Basil Hoffman, actor (Eerie Indiana, Small Wonder, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1948 – M.C. Gainey, actor (Revolution, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S., Starman, Time After Time)

1950 – John Hughes, director (Weird Science)

1955 – Kevin Costner, actor (Waterworld, The Postman, Man of Steel, Testament)

1961 – Jeff Yagher, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Mysterious Ways, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, The Twilight Zone, V)

1963 – Jane Horrocks, actress (Red Dwarf)

1969 – Dave Bautista, actor (Riddick, Guardians of the Galaxy)

1969 – Jesse L. Martin, actor (The X-files)

1972 – George Mitchell, actor, d @ 66 (The Andromeda Strain, Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Invasion of the Animal People)

1978 – Carl Betz, actor, d @ 56 (Killdozer)

1979 – Rebakah Jean Morgan, actress (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

1980 – Jason Segel, actor (This is the End)

1981 – Antje Traue, actress (Man of Steel, Pandorum)

1983 – Samantha Mumba, singer / actress (Evolution / The Time Machine)

1985 – Wilfrid Brambell, actor, d @ 72 (The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II)

1991 – Matt Kane, actor (The Dinosaur Project)

2000 – Nancy Coleman, actress, d @ 87 (Tales of Tomorrow)

2001 – Al Waxman, actor, d @ 65 (Millennium, Spasms)

2008 – Lois Nettleton, actress, d @ 78 (Babylon 5, The Munsters Today, The Bamboo Saucer, Twilight Zone, Captain Video)

2009 – Kathleen Byron, actress, d @ 88 (Blakes 7)

2009 – Bob May, actor, d @ 69 (The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

2014 – Sarah Marshall, actress, d @ 80 (Star Trek, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, Small Wonder)