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1904 – Alice Martha Lightner Hopf, sci-fi author

1920 – Bibi Osterwald, actress (Out of this World)

1925 – John Fiedler, actor (They Came from Outer Space, Ark II, Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Tom Corbett Space Cadet)

John Fiedler in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Shelley Berman, actress (The Munsters Today, Beware! The Blob, Twilight Zone)

1930 – Joan Rice, actress (The Horror of Frankenstein)

1932 – Peggy Ann Garner, actress (The Outer Limits)

Peggy Ann Garner in The Outer LImits episode, The Probe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Jeremy Kemp, actor (Star Trek: TNG)

1938 – Victor Buono, actor (Man from Atlantis, Moonchild, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Victor Buono in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

1938 – Marshall Efron, actor (THX 1138)

1941 – Bridget Hanley, actress (Mad Mad Scientist)

1943 – Blythe Danner, actress (The X-Files, Futureworld)

1944 – Trisha Noble, actress (Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Out of the Unknown)

1947 – Paul Auster, sci-fi author (Travels in the Scriptorium, Moon Palace)

1947 – Stephen McHattie, actor (Septic Man, 2012, Fringe, Star Trek: Enterprise, Mutant X, Star Trek: DS9, Visitors of the Night, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S., Quantum Leap, The Twilight Zone)

1948 – Susanne Benton, actress (A Boy and his Dog)

1950 – Morgan Fairchild, actress (Roswell, Venus Rising, Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000, Lois & Clark, Time Express, Mork & Mindy)

1950 – Pamela Franklin, actress (Project U.F.0., Gemini Man, The Food of the Gods, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1957 – Michele Greene, actress (Lightning: Fire from the Sky, Stargate: SG-1, The Outer Limits, The Unborn II)

1958 – Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author, d @ 42 (Dark World, As You Were)

1959 – Thomas Calabro, actor (The Nest, Ice Spiders)

1959 – Frederic Lehne, actor (The X-Files, Sliders, Babylon 5)

1960 – B J Jefferson, actress (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman)

1961 – Keith Gordon, director (The Strain)

1970 – Warwick Davis, actor (The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains!, Doctor Who, Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, The Ewok Adventure, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Star Tours)

1971 – Elisa Donovan, actor (Shark Swarm, Encino Woman)

1972 – John Litel, actor, d @ 79 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Flight to Mars)

1975 – Terry Chen, actor (Elysium, Continuum, Battlestar Galactica, V (2010), I Robot, The Chronicles of Riddick, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Godzilla, Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray, Riverworld, The 4400, Jake 2.0)

1978 – Kelly Sullivan, actress (Found in Time)

1978 – Adrian R’Mante, actor (S1m0ne)

1989 – John Cassavetes, actor, d @ 59 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1991 – Nancy Kulp, actress, d @ 69 (Quantum Leap, Moon Pilot, Twilight Zone)

1999 – Abigail Hargrove, actress (World War Z)

2003 – Lana Clarkson, actress, d @ 40 (Black Scorpion, Amazon Women on the Moon, Brainstorm)

2006 – Jean Byron, actress, d @ 80 (Invisible Invaders, Science Fiction Theatre, The Magnetic Monster)

2006 – Al Lewis, actor, d @ 82 (The Munsters, Here Come the Munsters, Munster’s Revenge, Munster, Go Home!, Lost in Space)

2010 – Frances Reid, actress, d @ 95 (The Andromeda Strain, Project U.F.O.)

2012 – Ben Gazzara, actor, d @ 81 (The Neptune Factor)

2012 – Zalman King, actor, d @ 69 (Galaxy of Terror, Land of the Giants)

2012 – Christopher Samuel Youd, sci-fi author, d @ 89 (The Death of Grass, The Tripods)

2013 – Peter Gilmore, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Warlords of the Deep)

 

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