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1892 – William Demarest, actor, d @ 91 (Twilight Zone)

1899 – Ian Keith, Boston actor (It Came from Beneath the Sea, Captain Midnight, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1905 – Franchot Tone, actor (Twilight Zone, Tales of Tomorrow)

1921 – Michael Fox, actor (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Twilight Zone, Voyagers!, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Gemini Man, Young Frankenstein, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, War of the Satellites, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre, Conquest of Space, The Magnetic Monster)

Michael Fox in the Twilight Zone episode, Sounds and Silences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – Lynn Cartwright, actress (The Wasp Woman, The Lucifer Complex, Far Out Space Nuts, Queen of Outer Space, Science Fiction Theatre)

Lynn Cartwright in The Lucifer Complex

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930 – Joanne Woodward, actress (Tales of Tomorrow)

1930 – Lieux Dressler, actress (Kingdom of the Spiders)

1937 – Barbara Babcock, actress (Star Trek)

Barbara Babcock in the Star Trek episode, A Taste of Armageddon.

1940 – Howard Hesseman, actor (Flight of the Navigator, Martian Child, Level 9, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Outer Limits, Amazon Women on the Moon)

1940 – Bill Hunter, actor (Space: Above and Beyond, Doctor Who)

1941 – Charlotte Stewart, actress (Tremors, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1990), UFOria)

1943 – Mary Frann, actress (Lois & Clark, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Journey)

1944 – Alan Fudge, actor (Man From Atlantis, Edward Scissorhands, Brainstorm, Galaxis, M.A.N.T.I.S., Quantum Leap, Alien Nation, The Twilight Zone, Chiller, Capricorn One)

1947 – Hajime Sorayama, illustrator

 

1951 – Stephen Leigh, sci-fi author (Dinosaur World, The Omega Egg, Wild Cards)

1951 – Mark Harrison, illustrator

1956 – Angela Aames, actress (Mork and Mindy, Automan)

1957 – Timothy Spall, actor (Red Dwarf)

1959 – First Man Into Space released

1961 – Grant Shaud, actor (Lois & Clark)

1962 – Adam Baldwin, actor (Stargate SG-1, Firefly, Control Factor, The X-Files, Hyper Sonic, The Outer Limits, Gargantua, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Visitor, Starquest II, Independence Day, Digital Man, VR.5, Predator 2)

1965 – Noah Emmerich, actor (Super 8, The Walking Dead)

1966 – Donal Logue, actor (Blade, The X-Files, Robotrix)

1969 – John Boles, actor, d @ 73 (Frankenstein)

1970 – Julia Parker, actress (A Girl a Guy a Space Helmet, Alien Armageddon)

1972 – Richard Coyle, actor (Ultra)

1973 – Bingbing Li, actress (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution)

1975 – Christina Nigra, actress (Out of This World, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1976 – Nikki Amuka-Bird, actress (Jupiter Ascending, Torchwood)

1977 – Allison Hayes, actress, d @ 46 (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Men into Space)

1981 – Juan Riedinger, actor (Continuum, Sanctuary, Collision Earth, Fringe, Smallville, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Bionic Woman (2007))

1983 – Kate Mara, actress (The Martian, Transcendence)

1985 – David Huffman, actor, d @ 39 (Firefox)

1985 – Pat J O’Malley, actor, d @ 80 (My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone, Lights Out)

1989 – Joe Silver, actor, d @ 66 (Rabid, They Came from Within, Out There, Lights Out)

1998 – J T Walsh, actor, d @ 54 (Dark Skies, The X-Files, Outbreak, Lois & Clark)

2015 – Leonard Nimoy, actor, d @ 83 (Star Trek, Fringe, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Brave New World, The Lost World, The Outer Limits, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Twilight

Leonard Nimoy passed away today at 83. Here he is as Spock.