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1901 – Melvyn Douglas, actor (Twilight’s Last Gleaming)

1908 – Kurt Neumann, director (The Fly, Rocketship X-M)

1911 – Gordon Jones, actor (The Monster that Challenged the World)

1912 – John Le Mesurier, actor (Unidentified Flying Oddball, The Mouse on the Moon)

1916 – Gregory Peck, actor (Marooned, The Boys from Brazil, On the Beach)

Gregory Peck in The Boys From Brazil

1917 – Robert [Albert] Bloch, sci-fi author (Cthulhu Mythos, Star Trek)

1921 – Robert Q. Lewis, actor (C.H.O.M.P.S.)

1923 – Michael Vincent Gazzo, actor (Automan, Alligator, Future Cop)

1926 – Roger Corman, producer/director

1929 – Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Demolition Man, Firefox)

 

 

1933 – Frank Gorshin, actor (The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, Black Scorpion, Twelve Monkeys, Lois & Clark, The Meteor Man, Monsters, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Star Trek, The Munsters, Invasion of the Saucer Men)

Frank Gorshin in Invasion of the Saucer Men

1939 – Virginia Kiser, actress (Max Headroom, The Twilight Zone, Space Raiders)

1939 – Roger Davis, actor (Galactica 1980, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, Twilight Zone)

1941 – Michael Moriarty, actor (The 4400, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, The Stuff, Island of the Alive, Deadly Skies)

1943 – Max Gail, actor (Quantum Leap, The Aliens Are Coming)

1944 – Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx)

 

 

 

 

1946 – Jane Asher, actress (A for Andromeda, Journey to the Unknown, Out of This World, The Quatermass Xperiment)

Jane Asher in The Quatermass Xperiment

1949 – John Berg actor (Star Trek: Nemesis)

1949 – Larry Franco, producer (2012, Hulk, Jurassic Park III, Mars Attacks!, The Rocketeer, They Live, Starman, The Thing, Escape from New York)

1952 – Mitch Pileggi, actor (The X-Files, Shocker, Mega Cyclone, Stargate: Atlantis, The Lone Gunmen, Alien Nation)

1954 – Christopher S Nelson, actor (Without Warning, Ark II, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1960 – Von Flores, actor (ReGenesis, Starhunter, Earth: Final Conflict, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms, Johnny 2.0, Johnny Mnemonic, TekWar, War of the Worlds)

1961 – Lisa Zane, actress (The Outer Limits, The Incredible Hulk)

1961 – Greg Anderson, actor (Stargate, The 4400, The Outer Limits, Millennium, The X-Files)

1962 – Lana Clarkson, actress (Black Scorpion, Amazon Women on the Moon, Brainstorm)

1963 – Charles Edwin Powell, actor (The 8th Plague, Frankenstein and Me)

 

1970 – Thea Gill, actress (Riverworld)

1970 – Wendy Braun, actress (Children of the X Files, Evolution)

1971 – Krista Allen, actress (Alien Presence, Andromeda, Smallville, Mutant X, The X-Files, Avalon: Beyond the Abyss, Weird Science)

1972 – Brian Donlevy, actor, d @ 71 (The Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)

1974 – William Hudson, actor, d @ 55 (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Moon Pilot, Men Into Space, The Amazing Colossal Man, The Man Who Turned to Stone, Science Fiction Theatre, The She-Creature, Rocky Jones Space Ranger)

1978 – Douglas Henderson, actor, d @ 59 (King Dinosaur, The Outer Limits, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, The War of the Worlds, Adventures of Superman, Science Fiction Theatre, Invasion of the Saucer Men, The Invaders)

1981 – Tom Riley, actor (Doctor Who)

1986 – Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author, d @ 82 (Devil’s Planet)

1989 – Lily James, actress (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

2008 – Charlton Heston, actor, d @ 84 (Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, The Outer Limits, Armageddon, SeaQuest 2032, Call from Space, Solar Crisis)

2010 – Maggie Pierce, actress, d @ 78 (My Favorite Martian)