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1893 – Grace Cunard, actress (The Bride of Frankenstein)

Grace Cunard in Bride of Frankenstein

1905 – George Baxter, actor (Flying Saucer, Unknown World, Twilight Zone, She Devil, Space Patrol)

1909 – Patrick O’Moore, actor (The Son of Dr. Jekyll, The Unknown Terror, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman, The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler)

 

 

 

 

 

1916 – Alfie Bass, , actor (Moonraker)

Alfie Bass in Moonraker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1923 – Edward Mulhare, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Outer Limits)

Edward Mulhare in The Outer Limits episode, The Sixth Finger.

1937 – Pamela Gordon, actress (The X Files, My Favorite Martian (1999), Alien Nation: Body and Soul, The Twilight Zone, Weird Science)

1942 – Douglas Trumbull, director (Brainstorm, Silent Running)

1943 – Jack O’Halloran, actor (Superman I and II)

1944 – Hywel Bennett, actor (Doctor Who)

1946 – Stuart Pankin, actor (Zenon, Babylon 5: River of Souls, The Powers of Matthew Star, Earthbound)

1946 – Tim Thomerson, actor (Trancers, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sliders, Lois & Clark, Dollman, Cherry 2000, The Twilight Zone, Zone Troopers, Metal Storm: The Destruction of Jared Syn, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, Quark)

1947 – Cindy Pickett, actress (Atomic Dog, DeepStar Six)

1948 – Gerald McRaney, actor (The Incredible Hulk, The Aliens Are Coming, Logan’s Run, The Fantastic Journey)

1948 – Robert Harvey, actor (Looper, Predators from Beyond Neptune, Roswell, Space Case)

1950 – Dimension X, a radio anthology series largely adapted from stories in Astounding and other magazines, debuts on NBC, dramatizing classic stories by Heinlein, Asimov, Bradbury, and others. It will survive until September 1951.

1955 – Kane Hodder, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Jason X, Project: Metalbeast, Scanner Cop II, Alligator, Alligator II: The Mutation)

1956 – Jim Piddock, actor (Dollhouse, Epic Movie, Independence Day, Multiplicity, The Twilight Zone)

1957 – Michael Spound, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

1960 – John Schneider, actor (Smallville, 10.5, Return of the Killer Shrews)

1963 – Dean Norris, actor (Under the Dome, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Category 6: Day of Destruction, Tremors (TV), Millennium, Starship Troopers, Dark Skies, It Came from Outer Space II, The X Files, The Lawnmower Man, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

1964 – Richard Keats, actor (Continuum, Fringe, Smallville, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1964 – Biz Markie, actor (Sharknado 2: The Second One, Men in Black II)

1966 – Robin Wright, actress (Unbreakable)

1970 – JR Bourne, actor (Fringe, Smallville, Superstorm, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Futuresport, Millennium)

1972 – Mary Randle, actress (Hollow Man)

1973 – Emma Caulfield, actress (TiMER, Weird Science (TV))

1977 – Ana de la Reguera, actress (Cowboys & Aliens)

1977 – Frank Milan, actor, d @ 71 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1978 – Rachel Roberts, actress (S1m0ne, FlashForward, Weird Science)

1980 – Katee Sackhoff, actress (Oculus, Battlestar Galactica, Bionic Woman)

1981 – Taylor Kitsch, actor (Battleship, John Carter, Kyle XY)

1984 – Kristen Storms, actress (Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century)

1989 – Gabriella Wilde, actress (Doctor Who)

1996 – John Hudson, actor, d @ 77 (Men Into Space)

1996 – Ben Johnson, actor, d @ 77 (Cherry 2000)

2003 – Kathie Browne, actress, d @ 72 (Star Trek, My Favorite Martian)

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)

2008 – Stanley Kamel, actor d @ 65 (Dark Skies, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

2013 – Annette Funicello, actress, d @ 70 (Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine)