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1897 – Jack Raine, actor (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone)

1903 – George E Stone, actor (Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1896 – Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Doctor Who, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Project M7)

Walter Fitzgerald in Doctor Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1917 – James Donald, actor (Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Miles to Earth)

1922 – Bill Macy, actor (Millennium, Starman (TV))

1923 – Liam Sullivan, actor (Misfits of Science, Logan’s Run (TV), Star Trek, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

Liam Sullivan in Star Trek

1928 – Pernell Roberts, actor (Man From Atlantis)

1930 – Fred Saberhagen, sci-fi author (Berserker series, Earth’s End)

1931 – Robert Morse, actor (Here Come the Munsters, The Twilight Zone)

1934 – Dwayne Hickman, actor (Dr, Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, The Boy with Green Hair)

1941 – Diane McBain, actress (Land of the Giants)

1941 – Miriam Margolyes, actress (The Sarah Jane Adventures, Morons from Outer Space)

1946 – Andreas Katsulas, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, Babylon 5, Millennium, Star Trek: TNG, The Death of the Incredible Hulk, Alien Nation (TV), Communion, Max Headroom)

1947 – Hugh Keays-Byrne, actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, Farscape, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Badlands 2005, Mad Max)

1947 – Gail Strickland, actress (My Apocalypse, Star Trek: DS9, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star, Starflight: The Plane that Couldn’t Land)

1954 – Patrick St. Esprit, actor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Revolution, Super 8, Tremors (TV), The X Files)

1958 – War of the Satellites released

War of the Satellites released.

1960 – Thomas Byrd, actor (Alien Nation (TV), Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1962 – Karel Roden, actor (Frankenstein’s Army, Hellboy, Blade II)

1962 – Nathaniel Parker, actor (Stardust)

1968 – Cynthia Preston, actress (Andromeda, Total Recall 2070, The X-Files)

1973 – Saskia Mulder, actress (The Descent)

1979 – Jenn Gotzon, actress (Hulk)

1980 – Matt Long, actor (Helix)

 

1981 – Arthur O’Connell, actor, d @ 73 (Fantastic Voyage, The Reluctant Astronaut, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1981 – Allen Leech, actor (Primeval)

1982 – Emmy Robbin, actress (Planet Terror)

1982 – Eric West, actor (World War Z)

1990 – Luke Kleintank, actor (No Ordinary Family)

1990 – Jill Ireland, actress, d @ 54 (Star Trek, My Favorite Martian, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1992 – Spencer Breslin, actor (The Happening)

1995 – Marshall Thompson, actor, d @ 66 (Bog, Science Fiction Theatre, Fiend Without a Face, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, First Man Into Space, World of Giants, Men Into Space, Ark II)

1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery, actress, d @ 62 (Twilight Zone)

1995 – Elisha Cook Jr, actor, d @ 81 (The Twilight Zone, The Bionic Woman, Adventures of Superman, Star Trek)

2004 – Lincoln Kilpatrick, actor, d @ 73 (Fortress, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Six Million Dollar Man, Soylent Green, The Omega Man)

2008 – Joseph Pevney, director, d @ 96 (The Incredible Hulk, Star Trek, The Munsters, Destination Space)

2012 – Battleship released

2013 – Steve Forrest, actor d @ 87 (Twilight Zone)

2013 – Arthur Malet, actor, d @ 85 (Young Frankenstein, My Favorite Martian, Munster, Go Home!)