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1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, sci-fi author (The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and Sun)

1891 – Victor Kilian, actor (Planet of the Apes, Unknown World)

1900 – Ludwig Donath, actor (Twilight Zone, Space Patrol)

Ludwig Donath (right) in the Twilight Zone

1906 – Lou Costello, actor (The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man)

1916 – Virginia Gregg, actress (Project U.F.O., Man From Atlantis, The Six Million Dollar Man, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

1928 – William F. Nolan, sci-fi author (Logan’s Run)

 

 

1930 – Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Men into Space)

Allison Hayes in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

1931 – John Smith, actor (Project U.F.O.)

1936 – Jean Boht, actress (The Cloning of Joanna May)

1937 – Anne Kristen, actress (Space Precinct)

1939 – David Spielberg, actor (SeaQuest 2032, Star Trek: TNG, Starman, Automan, Mork & Mindy, The Henderson Monster)

1940 – Joanna Miles, actress (Star Trek: TNG, The Incredible Hulk, A Fire in the Sky, Bug)

1942 – Ben Murphy, actor (Time Walker, The Twilight Zone, Gemini Man)

1946 – Martin Kove, actor (Alien Lockdown, The Black Scorpion, Future Shock, Hard Time on Planet Earth, Twilight Zone, Beyond Westworld, The Incredible Hulk, Death Race 2000)

1947 – Judy Loe, actress (Doomwatch: Winter Angel, Space Island One)

1948 – Anna Maria Horsford, actress (Minority Report, The Chronicle)

Anna Maria Horsford in Minority Report

1952 – John David Carson, actor (Empire of the Ants, Creature from Black Lake, Day of the Dolphin)

1955 – Larry Cedar, actor (Philidelphia Experiment II, The Twilight Zone: The MovieTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: Enterprise, Honey, I Shrunk the Kid (TV), Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, C.H.U.D. II, Battlestar Galactica)

1957 – Eddie Deezen, actor (Lloyd in Space, Wargames, Zapped!, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Laserblast)

1958 – Richard Schenkman, director (The Man from Earth)

1959 – Michael Carmine, actor (Batteries Not Included)

1959 – Tom Arnold, actor (The Outer Limits, Coneheads)

1962 – Jonathan Scott-Taylor, actor (1990)

1964 – Edward Van Sloan, actor, d @ 81 (Frankenstein)

1968 – Moira Kelly, actress (The Twilight Zone)

1969 – Andrea Elson, actress (ALF)

1970 – Shane Brolly, actor (Deadly Swarm)

1970 – William Hopper, actor, d @ 55 (20 Million Miles to Earth, The Deadly Mantis, Conquest of Space)

1970 – Amy Pietz, actress (Star Trek: TNG)

1972 – Dwayne Boyd, actor (Resurrection, The Hunger Games, Surface)

1974 – Sebastian Siegel, actor (Roswell)

1978 – Lara Cox, actress (The Lost World)

1979 – Charles Wagenheim, actor, d @ 83 (Ark II, The Six Million Dollar Man, Science Fiction Theatre)

1983 – Thelma Pelish, actress, d @ 56 (The Incredible Hulk)

1982 – Ayn Rand, author, d @ 77 (Fountainhead, Anthem, Atlas Shrugged)

1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, actor, d @ 78 (Doomsday Machine)

1986 – Joel Palmer, actor (First Wave, The X Files)

1986 – Adolph Caesar, actor, d @ 52 (The Twilight Zone)

1987 – Hannah Taylor-Gordon, actress (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

1989 – Harry Andrews, actor, d @ 77 (Superman, The Last Days of Man on Earth)

1992 – Elvia Allman, actress, d @ 87 (The Nutty Professor, The Munsters, My Favorite Martian)

1993 – Elise Eberle, actress (The Astronaut Farmer)

1993 – Elise Eberle, actress (The Astronaut Farmer)

1996 – Simon Cadell, actor, d @ 45 (1990, Meteor)

1997 – Alisha Bow, actress (Extant)

1999 – Dylan Schmid, actor (Stonados, Falling Skies, Fringe)

2000 – John Colicos, actor, d @ 71 (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, Star Trek: DS9, War of the Worlds, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Starlost)

2001 – Aryana Engineer, actress (Resident Evil: Retribution)

2004 – Frances Dee, actress, d @ 94 (I Walked with a Zombie)