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1893 – William Frawley, actor (Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, My Living Doll)

1905 – Arthur Brough, actor (Doomwatch)

1905 – Guy Boothby, sci-fi author, d @ 37

1907 – Dub Taylor, actor (Back to the Future III, Starman, Salvage 1, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Them!)

Dub Taylor in the My Favorite Martian episode, Poor Little Rich Cat.

1913 – Dane Clark, actor (Salvage 1, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1914 – Robert Alda, actor (Beyond Westworld, The Incredible Hulk, The Invisible Man, Tales of Tomorrow)

1918 – Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, sci-fi author (It, Caviar, More Than Human, Amok Time)

1919 – Mason Adams, actor (Not of this Earth, Northstar, Revenge of the Stepford Wives)

 

 

 

1931 – Lawrence Montaigne, actor Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel)

Lawrence Montaigne in Star Trek.

1935 – Jane Wagner, writer (The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

1933 – Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Beware! The Blob)

1937 – Cliff Osmond, actor (The Invisible Man (1975), The Six Million Dollar Man, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Land of the Giants, My Living Doll, Twilight Zone)

1938 – Jack Knight, actor (Out of this World, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1938 – Tony Selby, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies, Doctor Who, Superman)

1943 – Bill Duke, director / actor (The Twilight Zone, Starman (TV) / Predator, Battlestar Galactica)

 

1945 – Marta Kristen, actress (Lost in Space, Battle Beyond the Stars, Project U.F.O.)

Marta Kristen in Lost in Space

1946 – Phyllis Eisenstein, sci-fi author (Sorcerer’s Son, Born to Exile)

1953 – Barbara Niven, actress (I Married a Monster, Humanoids from the Deep)

1956 – Jonathan Schmock, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise. They Came from Outer Space, ALF)

1958 – Greg Germann, actor (Eureka, Quarantine, The Twilight Zone)

1960 – First Spaceship on Venus released (1962 USA release)

1963 – Chase Masterson, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Digital Man, Sliders)

 

1964 – Mark Dacascos, actor (Stargate: Atlantis, I Am Omega, Alien Agent, Solar Attack, DNA, The Island of Dr. Moreau

1966 – Minerva Urecal, actress, d @ 71 (The Ape Man)

1966 – Jennifer Grant, actress (Time Trax)

1967 – Currie Graham, actor (Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Total Recall, Fringe, Strange World

1968 – Eric Feldary, actor, d @ 55 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Men Into Space)

1968 – Ross Partridge, actor (The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Quantum Leap)

1968 – Ed Quinn, actor (Eureka, Behemoth)

1970 – Meeno Peluce, actor (Voyagers!, Voyager from the Unknown, The Incredible Hulk, World War III)

1975 – Drew Goddard, writer (Cloverfield)

1976 – Frieda Inescort, actress, d @ 74 (The Alligator People)

1976 – Margaret Leighton, actress (Journey Through the Black Sun, Space: 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)

1977 – James Wan, director (Insidious)

1986 – Teresa Palmer, actress (Parts Per Billion, I Am Number Four)

1991 – Max Lloyd-Jones, actor (iZombie)

1993 – Constance Ford, actress, d @ 69 (Twilight Zone, ‘Way Out)

1997 – David Doyle, actor, d @ 67 (Capricorn One, The Invisible Woman, Starman, Out of this World)

1997 – Wende Wagner, actress, d @ 55 ( Destination Inner Space)

2002 – Lawrence Tierney, actor, d @ 82 (Armageddon, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)

2009 – Wendy Richard, actress, d @ 65 (Doctor Who)

2010 – Richard Devon, actor d @ 83 (Quark, Planet of the Apes, Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, War of the Satellites, Space Patrol)

2010 – Robert McCall, artist, d @ 90 (LIFE magazine, 2001: A Space Odyssey)