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1906 – John Carradine, actor (Lights Out, Twilight Zone, The Unearthly, Lost in Space, The Incredible Petrified World, Half Human, The Cosmic Man, Invisible Invaders, Invasion of the Animal People, The Wizard of Mars, The Astro-Zombies, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Horror of the Blood Monsters, Blood of Ghastly Horror, Moodchild, Young Frankenstein, Stowaway to the Moon, Shock Waves, Young Frankenstein, Monster,The Ice Pirates, The Twilight Zone, Monster in the Closet, Evil Spawn)

John Carradine in the Lost in Space episode, The Galaxy Gift.

1912 – Willard Parker, actor (The Earth Dies Screaming)

1914 – William S. Burroughs, sci-fi author (The Soft Machine, Naked Lunch, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead)

 

 

 

 

 

1918 – Charles J “Tim” Holt, actor (The Monster that Challenged the World, The Yesterday Machine)

Tim Holt in The Monster that Challenged the World. One of the better fifties sci-fi flicks.

1919 – Red Buttons, actor (Early Edition, C.H.O.M.P.S.)

1926 – Stefan Gierasch, actor (Star Trek: TNG, Megaville, The Twilight Zone, Holmes and Yo-Yo, The Incredible Hulk, Return to Earth)

1937 – Stuart Damon, actor (Destination Moonbase-Alpha, Space: 1999, UFO)

 

 

 

 

1940 – H.R. Giger, artist (Necromicon, Giger’s Alien, Dune)

H.R. Giger

1941 – David Selby, actor (Morphman, The Black Hole, Doctor Franken)

1945 – Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown, writer (U.F.O.)

1946 – George Arliss, actor, d @ 77 (Trans-Atlantic Tunnel)

1946 – Charlotte Rampling, actress (Zardoz)

1947 – David Ladd, actor (Beyond the Universe)

1948 – Christopher Guest, actor (Heartbeeps, Attack of the 50 foot Woman)

1948 – Barbara Hershey, actress (Insidious, The Invaders)

1951 – O’Neal Compton, actor (Deep Impact, Lois & Clark, The Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Quantum Leap, Brother Future)

1951 – Robin Sachs, actor (Resident Evil, Star Trek: Voyager, Galaxy Quest, Babylon 5, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Torchwood)

1955 – Debra Jo Fondren, actress (Mork & Mindy)

1956 – Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, based on Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers originally serialized in Collier’s in 1954, is released and is widely regarded as a political or social allegory. It will be remade in 1978, 1993, and 2007.

1959 – British novelist Kingsley Amis delivers the first of a series of lectures on science fiction at the Christian Gauss Seminars at Princeton.  Published in 1960 as New Maps of Hell, it will be instrumental in gaining general literary attention to the genre, and will be the first work of science fiction criticism to be published in a mass-market paperback (by Ballantine).

1961 – Tim Meadows, actor (Aliens in the Attic, Coneheads)

1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress (eXistenZ)

1964 – Laura Linney, actress (The Mothman Prophecies, Congo)

1965 – Arabella Field, actress (Bug, Godzilla 1998)

1966 – Eric Michael Zee, actor (How to Make a Monster, Independence Day)

1967 – Chris Parnell, actor (Eureka, Evil Alien Conquerors)

1969 – Michael Sheen, actor (Doctor Who, Tron: Legacy, Capture Anthologies: The Dimensions of Self)

1969 – Leslie Zemeckis, actress (I Married a Monster)

1969 – Michael Sheen, actor (Doctor Who, TRON: Legacy, Underworld, Mary Reilly)

1971 – Markus Redmond, actor (The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human, Project: ALF)

1973 – David Meunier, actor (Revolution, Jericho)

1973 – Danielle Koenig, actress (InAlienable)

1973 – David Meunier, actor (Revolution)

1974 – Rod Roddenberry, producer (Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Trek Nation)

1975 – Myndy Crist, actress (Dark Skies, The Time Machine (2002))

1981 – Nora Zehetner, actress (Warehouse 13

1986 – Brittany Allen, actress (Warehouse 13, Extraterrestrial, Virtual Mom)

1990 – Anthony Ingruber, actor (Avatar)

1991 – Dean Jagger, actor, d @ 87 (End of the World, Alligator, X: The Unknown, Twilight Zone, On the Threshold of Space

1993 – Tip Tipping, actor, d @ 34 (Doctor Who, Aliens)

1995 – Doug Mcclure, actor, d @ 59 (Out of this World, Superboy, Automan, Manimal, Firebird 2015 AD, Humanoids from the Deep, Warlords of the Deep, At the Earth’s Core, The People that Time Forgot, The Land That Time Forgot, Satan’s Triangle, Twilight Zone)

2006 – Franklin Cover, actor, d @ 77 (The Stepford Wives, Between Time and Timbuktu)

2012 – S. William Hinzman, actor, d @ 75 (Mimesis, Night of the Living Dead)