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1902 – Brian Aherne, actor, d @ 83 (Twilight Zone)

Brian Aherne as Booth Templeton in the Twilight Zone episode The Trouble with Templeton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1913 – Louis Nye, actor (The Munsters)

Louis Nye as Zombo in The Munsters

1916 – Glenn Ford, actor (Day of Resurrection, Superman, The Visitor)

1919 – Dan O’Herlihy, actor (RoboCop, RoboCop 2, VR.5, The Last Starfighter, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Death Ray 2000, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman, Invasion U.S.A.)

1924 – Terry Southern, writer (Barbarella)

1925 – Roscoe Lee Browne, actor (Logan’s Run, SeaQuest 2032, Swamp Thing, Moon 44, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Planet of the Apes, The Invaders)

1931 – Phil Bruns, actor (Digital Man, Amazon Women on the Moon, The Twilight Zone, The Six Million Dollar Man)

 

1940 – Joy Harmon, actress (Village of the Giants)

Joy Harmon in Village Of The Giants

1942 – Sharon Spelman, actress (The Blob (1988), The Stepford Children)

1942 – Stephen Macht, actor (Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Galaxina, The Six Million Dollar Man

1949 – Douglas Barr, actor (Spaced Invaders, Superboy)

1950 – John Diehl, actor (Singularity Principle, Jurassic Park III, The X-Files, Stargate, The Dark Side of the Moon, \Escape from New York)

1954 – Joel Rosenberg, sci-fi author

1966 – Todd Eric Andrews, actor (Zapped Again!)

1969 – Carrie Stevens, actress (Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, Dinocroc vs. Supergator, Weird Science (TV))

 

1971 – Kendrick Cross, actor (Insurgent, Under the Dome)

1972 – Bailey Chase, actress (Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice)

1972 – Julie Benz, actress (Defiance, No Ordinary Family, Roswell, Sliders)

1976 – Darius McCrary, actor (Transformers)

1978 – James Badge Dale, actor (World War Z)

1980 – George Pal, producer/director, d @ 72 (Conquest of Space,The War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide, Destination Moon, The Time Machine, Atlantis, the Lost Continent)

1982 – Hugh Marlowe, actor, d @ 71 (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1982 – Margaret Sheridan, actress, d @ 55 (The Thing from Another World)

1987 – Emilia Clarke, actress (Terminator: Genesis, Triassic Attack)

1988 – Nicholas Braun, actor (Brave New World)

1990 – Caitlin Stasey, actress (I Frankenstein)

1990 – Sunset Carson, actor, d @ 69 (Alien Outlaw)

1990 – David Rappaport, actor, d @ 38 (Time Bandits)

1997 – Ariel Gade, actress (Meteor, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Invasion)

1999 – Oliver Reed, actor, d @ 62 (Spasms, The Brood, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2006 – Betsy Jones-Moreland, actress, d @ 76 (The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, Creature from the Haunted Sea)