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1863 – Cleveland [Langston] Moffett, sci-fi author

1911 – Colin Gordon, actor (UFO, Doctor Who, H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man, The Man in the White Suit)

1922 – Jack Klugman, actor (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1931 – Robert Donner, actor (Alien Nation: Dark Horizon, Starman, Mork & Mindy, The Incredible Hulk, Damnation Alley, Six Million Dollar Man)

1932 – Casey Kasem, actor (Homeboys in Outer Space, Battle of the Planets, Doomsday Machine, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, 2000 Years Later)

1941 – Ned Wynn, actor (The Absent Minded Professor, Son of Flubber)

1942 – John Shrapnel, actor (Alien Autopsy, Invasion: Earth, Space: 1999)

1951 – The Man From Planet X released

The Man from Planet X is released

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1955 – Devil Girl from Mars aka Devil Woman from Mars (German name) released in US

Devil Girl from Mars released in US

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1956 – Godzilla, King of the Monsters is released. Considerably re-edited from Ishiro Honda’s 1954 Japanese original Gojira, and with new material added, it begins a new spate ofgiant-monster films.

Godzilla 1956 released

1956 – Kevin McNally, actor (Doctor Who)

1959 – Sheena Easton, actress (TekWar)

1961 – Eugenie Bondurant, actress (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Space Truckers, Star Trek: TNG)

1962 – James Le Gros, actor (Phantasm II, *batteries not included, Solarbabies)

1962 – Victoria Price, actress (Edward Scissorhands)

1962 – Min-sik Choi b. 1962, actor (Lucy)

1963 – Russell T. Davies, showrunner (Wizards vs. Aliens, Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures)

1964 – Lisa Wilcox, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Something is Out There)

1965 – Anna Chancellor, actress (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Jupiter Moon)

1966 – Matt Reeves, writer / director(Future Shock / Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

1970 – Arthur Shields, actor, d @ 74 (Daughter of Dr Jekyll)

1972 – Mehmet Kurtulus b. 1972, actor (Equilibrium)

 

1973 – Elle Downs, actress (Cybergeddon, Earth: Final Conflict)

1973 – Andre Gower, actor (10.0 Earthquake, The Monster Squad, The Twilight Zone)

1976 – Sally Hawkins, actress (Godzilla 2014)

1977 – Stanley Adams, actor, d @ 62 (Star Trek, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone)

1983 – Francis Capra, actor (The Strain, Clear Skies 3, Heroes)

1983 – Ari Graynor, actor (Fringe)

1985 – Janet Lopez, actress (Attack of the 30 Foot Chola, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

1986 – Jenna Coleman, actress (Doctor Who)

1986 – Jasmine Lowe, actress (The Hunger Games)

1987 – Laura Ortiz, actress (Guardians of the Galaxy)

1988 – Jane Hancock, actress (Fringe)

1994 – Lynne Frederick, actress, d @ 49 (Space: 1999, Phase IV, Vampire Circus, No Blade of Grass)

1996 – Adam Roarke, actor, d @ 55 (Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, Frogs, Women of the Prehistoric Planet)

1997 – Paul Lambert, actor, d @ 74 (Star Trek: TNG, Automan, Planet of the Apes, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space)

1998 – Godfrey Kenton, actor, d @ 96 (Out of the Unknown)

2002 – George Alec Effinger, sci-fi author, d @ 55 (Nick of Time)

2011 – Yvette Vickers, actress, body found, d @ 82 (Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, Attack of the Giant Leeches)