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1882 – John Barrymore, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)

1896 – Arthur Shields, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll)

1899 – Gale Sondergard, actress (The Invisible Man’s Revenge)

1907 – Cesar Romero, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Latitude Zero, Lost Continent)

1914 – Kevin McCarthy, actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers (1958 & 1978), Innerspace, Trail of the Screaming Forehead, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, Slipstream, Final Approach, Eve of Destruction, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Exo-Man, The Invaders, ‘Way Out, Twilight Zone)

1916 – Ian Ballentine, publisher (Ballentine Books)

1917 – Meg Wyllie, actress (Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

Meg Wyllie in Star Trek

 

1918 – Alan Arbus, actor (Salvage 1)

1922 – Herman Kahn,sci-fi author (The Next 200 Years)

1923 – Keene Curtis, actor (Stargate: SG-1, Star Trek: Voyager, Logan’s Run, Strange New World, Stowaway to the Moon)

1927 – Harvey Korman, actor (Perversions of Science, The Invisible Woman, The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Munsters)

1927 – Carlos Romero, actor (Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Invaders)

 

 

1930 – Nico Minardos, actor (The Immortal, Twilight Zone)

Nico Minardos in the Twilight Zone, episode The Gift.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Claire Bloom, actress (Doctor Who, The Illustrated Man)

Claire Bloom as Doctor Who’s mum.

1934 – Graham Kennedy, actor (On the Beach)

1939 – Jo Clayton, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)

1942 – Francis X. McCarthy, actor (Interstellar, CAT. 8, Smallville, Race to Mars, 10.5 Apocalypse, Odyssey 5, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Babylon 5, SeaQuest 2032, M.A.N.T.I.S., Alien Nation, ALF, The Man with Two Brains, Altered States)

1942 – Sherry Jackson, actress (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

1951 – Jane Seymour, actress (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1951 – The Stars Like Dust, Isaac Asimov’s second science fiction novel, is published

1955 – Christopher McDonald, actor (SGU Stargate Universe, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: TNG)

1962 – Renee Props, actress (Weird Science)

1962 – Vladimir Sokoloff, actor, d @ 72 (Twilight Zone, Beyond the Time Barrier, Monster from Green Hell, I Was a Teenage Werewolf)

1964 – Chris Farley, actor (Coneheads)

1966 – Kim Meyers, actress (Perversions of Science, Hellraiser: Bloodline)

1967 – Michael Easton, actor, (Total Recall: 2070, Mutant X)

1971 – Renee O’Connor, actress, (Ark, Monster Ark, Alien Apocalypse)

1973 – Charles J “Tim” Holt, actor, d @ 54 (The Monster that Challenged the World)

1973 – Wally Cox, actor, d @ 48 (Twilight Zone, Lost in Space)

1973 – Sara Wynter, actress (The 6th Day, Species II)

1979 – Kaj-Erik Eriksen, actor (Quarantine, Ice Twisters, The 4400, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Outer Limits, The Girl From Mars)

1980 – Saturn 3 released in US

1983 – Ashley Tesoro, actress (Frankenstein & the Werewolf Reborn!, Mystery Monsters)

1988 – Jessica de Gouw, actress (These Final Hours)

1990 – Henry Brandon, actor, d @ 77 (War of the Worlds, The Outer Limits, The Land Unknown, Rocky Jones Space Ranger, Buck Rogers)

1990 – Jack Fletcher, actor, d @ 68 (Small Wonder, Starman, The Munsters Today)

1990 – Moon 44 released

1996 – McLean Stevenson, actor, d @ 68 (The Astronauts)

2002 – Kevin Smith, actor, d @ 38 (Riverworld)

2007 – Walker Edmiston, actor.d @ 82 (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Land of the Lost, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Lost Saucer, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Andromeda Strain, Star Trek)

2014 – Christopher Malcolm, actor, d @ 67 (Whoops Apocalypse, Superman III, The Empire Strikes Back)

2014 – Cliff Bole, director, d @ 76 (The X-Files, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, M.A.N.T.I.S., V, The Six Million Dollar Man)

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