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1890 – Robert Keith, actor (Twilight Zone)

1896 – Olin Howlin, actor (Them!, The Blob)

1897 – Judith Anderson, actress (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

Judith Anderson in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

1905 – John Dierkes, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Omega Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Thing from Another World)

1906 – Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told, The Alligator People, The Cyclops, Indestrutible Man, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Man Made Monster)

 

 

 

1910 – Douglas Spencer, actor (The Thing from Another World, This Island Earth, Twilight Zone)

Douglas Spencer in the Twilight Zone episode, Mr Dingle the Strong.

1913 – Philippa Bevans, actress (Twilight Zone)

1916 – Walter Reedm actor (The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, World of Giants, How to Make a Monster, Adventures of Superman, Flying Disc Man from Mars)

1920 – Neva Patterson, actress (V, V: The Final Battle, Logan’s Run)

1926 – Hazel Courtd,actress (Twilight Zone, The Curse of Frankenstein, Devil Girl From Mars)

1928 – John Ringham, actor (Doctor Who)

1929 – Jerry Goldsmith, composer (Star Trek, Congo, Twilight Zone)

1930 – Robert Wagner, actor (Category 7: The End of the World, City Beneath the Sea)

 

1939 – Peter Purves, actor (Doctor Who)

1949 – Harold Sylvester, actor (Innerspace, Space Rage)

1953 – John Shirley, sci-fi author (Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona)

1957 – Not of This Earth released

1958 – Bess Motta, actress (The Terminator)

1960 – Robert Addie, actor (Red Dwarf, Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups , Red Dwarf Smeg Outs)

1967 – Laura Dern, actress (Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III)

1967 – Vince Gilligan, writer (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen)

1970 – Paul Kersey, actor (Hulk, Lois & Clark)

1973 – Rob Carpenter, actor (iZombie, V (2010), Condition Human, Flash Gordon (2007))

1974 – Elizabeth Banks, actress (The Hunger Games)

1976 – Keeley Hawes, actress (Doctor Who)

1986 – Brian Aherne, actor, d @ 83 (Twilight Zone)

1988 – Jade Ramsey, actress (Gamer)

1988 – Nikita Ramsey, actress (Gamer)

1997 – Chloe Grace Moretz, actress (The Fifth Wave)

1999 – Tiffany Espensen, actress (Earth to Echo, Repo Men)

2000 – Jim Varney, actor, d @ 50 (Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam)

Jim Varney as Dr Otto.

2001 – Lewis Arquette, actor, d @ 65 (FreakyLinks, Hypernauts, Babylon 5, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Seaquest 2032, Quantum Leap, Syngenor, Down To Earth, The Incredible Hulk, Man from Atlanta)

2008 – Roy Scheider, actor, d @ 75 (2010, SeaQuest 2032)

2008 – Steve Gerber, writer, d @ 60 (Man-Thing, Howard the Duck)

2012 – Journey 2: The Mysterious Island released

 

 

 

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