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1887 – John Hamilton, actor (Adventures of Superman, Donovan’s Brain, The Flying Missile, The Invisible Monster, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe)

1890 – Karl Freund, cinematographer (Metropolis, The Golem)

1907 – Jason Johnson, actor (The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man (1975), The Andromeda Strain, The Cape Canaveral Monsters, Twilight Zone, Adventure of Superman, Invasion of the Saucer Men)

1907 – Alexander Knox, actor (Crack in the World, The Son of Dr. Jekyll,Holocaust 2000)

1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, director (Small Wonder, Manimal, Small & Frye, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Immortal, The Atomic Kid)

1918 – Stirling Silliphant, writer, died 1996 (Space)

1920 – Elliot Reid, actor (Small Wonder, The Munsters)

1920 – Steve Conte, actor, died 1997 (Teenage Zombies)

1922 – Henry Scott, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

Henry Scott in The Outer Limits episode, Hundred Years of the Dragon.

1922 – Sherry Moreland, actress (Pyro… The Thing Without a Face, Adventure of Superman, Rocketship X-M)

1938 – Michael Pataki, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Automan, Beyond Westworld, The Invisible Man, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

1943 – Fred Coffin, actor (The Invisible Man (TV), Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, The X-Files, Something is Out There, The Twilight Zone)

1943 – Michael Attwell (Doctor Who)

1945 – Keith Wayne, actor (Night of the Living Dead)

1948 – John Carpenter, director/writer (Starman, They Live, The Thing, Escape from New York, Escape from L.A., Ghosts of Mars / Dark Star)

1950 – Debbie Allen, actress (Quantum Leap)

1950 – Caroline Munro, actress (Space: 1999, At the Earth’s Core)

1956 – Jennifer Dale, actress (Mutant X, TekWar, RoboCop, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Beyond Reality, The Twilight Zone)

1962 – Mark Steger, actor (Heroes: Going Postal, I Am Legend, Men in Black II)

1963 – Kathy Evison, actress (Highlander [TV], SeaQuest 2032)

1968 – Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst, actress (Perversions of Science)

1968 – David Chokachi, actor (Crimson Force, 10.0 Earthquake, Abner the Invisible Dog)

1968 – John Davidson, actor, d @ 81 (The Devil Bat)

1971 – Kermit Maynard, actor, d @ 68 (It Came From Outer Space)

1972 – Annika Peterson, actress (The Man from Earth)

1972 – Richard T. Jones, actor (Event Horizon, Godzilla 2014, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, M.A.N.T.I.S.)

1972 – Dameon Clarke, actor (A Scanner Darkly)

1973 – Eriko Tamura, actor (Heroes, Nuclear Hurricane)

1974 – Nick Dash, actor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)

1979 – Ted Cassidy, actor, d @ 46 (Man From Atlantis, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Genesis II, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Angry Red Planet)

1981 – Bernard Lee, actor, d @ 73 (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Journey to the Unknown, The Brain)

1982 – Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, actress (Automata)

1988 – Ballard Berkeley, actor, d @ 83 (Blood Beast from Outer Space, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

1986 – Mason Gamble, actor (Gattica)

1987 – Joyce Jameson, actress, d @ 59 (Project U.F.O., Death Race 2000, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, The Son of Dr. Jekyll)

1993 – Glenn Corbett, actor, d @ 59 (Automan, Manimal, The Immortal, City Beneath the Sea, Star Trek)

1998 – Emil Sitka, actor, d @ 82 (My Favorite Martian, Flying Saucer Daffy, Outer Space Jitters, Space Ship Sappy, Space Patrol)

2002 – Ron Taylor, actor, d @ 49 (Star Trek: DS9, Quantum Leap, The Ice Pirates)

2014 – Russell Johnson, actor, d @ 89 (This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, The Twilight Zone)