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1900 – Mildred Dunnock, actress (‘Way Out, The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1918 – King Donovan, actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956], The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Magnetic Monster)

King Donovan in The Magnetic Monster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Gregg Palmer, actor (Star Trek, From Hell It Came, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)

Gregg Palmer in Star Trek.

1931 – Dean Jones, actor (Special Report: Journey to Mars, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes)

1931 – Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein’s Daughter, Mutiny in Outer Space)

1934 – Elizabeth Allen, actress (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone)

1936 – Diana Hyland, actress (The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1941 – Gregory Sierra, actor (Honey I Blew Up the Kids,Star Trek: DS9, The X-Files, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Clones, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)

1942 – John Owens, actor (Dinotopia, Doctor Who)

1943 – Tobe Hooper, director (Taken, Dark Skies, Invaders From Mars, Perversions of Science)

1944 – Anita Pallenberg, actress (4:44 Last Day on Earth, Barbarella)

1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Soylent Green)

1946 – Richard Poe, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager)

1951 – Diane Salinger, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Mann & Machine, Creature)

1958 – Dinah Manoff, actress (Mork & Mindy)

1959 – Eugene Osment, actor (Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

1965 – Alex Nevil, actor (Star Trek (2009), Star Trek: Enterprise, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Lois & Clark)

1972 – Johnny Green, actor (Monster Man, The Twilight Zone, Back to the Future)

1974 – Kurt Evans, actor (Arrow, Fringe, Watchmen, The Andromeda Strain, The 4400, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, The X-Files)

1974 – William Fawcett, actor, d @ 79 (The Munsters, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, Twilight Zone, Commando Cody, Captain Video, Atom Man vs. Superman)

1975 – Mia Kirshner, actress (War of the Worlds)

1977 – Donald Kerr, actor, d @ 85 (Devil Bat, Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1979 – Christine Lakin, actress (The Frankenstein Theory, Big Monster on Campus, 3rd Rock from the Sun

1980 – Queenie Watts, actress, d @ 53 (Doomwatch)

1981 – Richard Talmadge, actor, d @ 88 (The Phantom Empire)

1981 – Charlie Bewley, actor (Extant)

1985 – Tom Hopper, actor (Doctor Who)

1986 – L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi author, d @ 74

1990 – Ava Gardner, actress, d @ 67 (On The Beach)

1990 – Alexander Lockwood, actor, d @ 87 (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Monster on the Campus, The Invisible Boy, Tales of Tomorrow)

1991 – Stanley Brock, actor, d @ 59 (Out of this World, Quantum Leap, Amazon Women on the Moon, Night of the Comet, Salvage 1, The Bionic Woman)

1995 – William Sylvester, actor, d @ 72 (The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1995 – William Hurst, actor, d @ 72 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Gemini Man, 2001: A Space, Gorgo)

1995 – John Smith, actor, d @ 63 (Project U.F.O.)

2008 – Christopher Allport, actor, d @ 60 (The Invisible Man, The X-Files, Quantum Leap, Invaders from Mars, The Twilight Zone)