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1905 – Joseph Cotten, actor (Screamers, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Lady Frankenstein, Soylent Green, City Beneath the Sea, Journey to the Unknown, From the Earth to the Moon)

1909 – James Mason, actor (The Boys from Brazil, Frankenstein: The True Story, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1911 – Leo Fuchs, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1915 – Ben Wright, actor (The Outer Limits, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Munster, Go Home!, My Favorite Martian, My Living Doll, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, The Lost World)

Ben Wright as General Benton in The Outer Limits episode, Nightmare.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1918 – Joseph Wiseman, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Twilight Zone)

Joseph Wiseman in the Twilight Zone episode, One More Palbearer.

1929 – David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Out of the Unknown, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, UFO, Space Precinct, Blakes 7)

1936 – Ralph Steadman, illustrator

1948 – Malcolm Stewart, actor (Fringe, Moon, Eureka, Kyle XY, Bionic Woman, The 4400, Blade: The Series, The Butterfly Effect 2,, Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Mysterious Ways, Andromeda, First Wave, Seven Days, Millennium, The X Files, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., Timecop, The Twilight Zone)

1950 – Nicholas Hammond, actor (Stealth, Farscape, The Lost World (TV), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997), The Martian Chronicles, Logan’s Run (TV), The Fantastic Journey)

1952 – Red Planet Mars released

1953 – Phantom From Space released

Phantom from Space released

1954 – John Blyth Barrymore, actor (Solar Crisis)

1959 – The Mysterians released

1959 – Invisible Invaders released

1960 – Rob Bowman, director (The Lone Gunmen, The X-Files, VR.5, M.A.N.T.I.S., Star Trek: TNG, Alien Nation (TV))

1961 – Larry Holden, actor (Timecop)

1963 – Grant Heslov, actor (Bug, The X-Files, Congo, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Twilight Zone)

1963 – Jamie Harris, actress (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)

1963 – Brenda Bakke, actress (Dollhouse, Solar Crisis, Star Trek: TNG)

1966 – Greg Wise, actor (House of Frankenstein (1997))

1967 – Brigitte Bako, actress (Replikator)

1976 – Cyrille Thouvenin, actor (The Happening)

1978 – Caroline Dhavernas, actress (The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne)

1978 – David Krumholtz, actor (This is the End, Serenity)

1982 – Alexandra Breckinridge, actress (The Walking Dead)

1988 – Andrew Duggan, actor, d @ 64 (Frankenstein Island, A Fire in the Sky, Project U.F.O., The Bionic Woman, The Time Machine, The Invaders)

1991 – Ronald Lacey, actor, d @ 55 (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

1994 – Royal Dano, actor, d @ 71 (Lights Out, Lost in Space, Planet of the Apes, Spaced Invaders)

1996 – Barton Heyman, actor, d @ 59 (Twilight Zone)

2002 – Bryan Pringle, actor, d @ 67 (Brazil)

2003 -The Matrix Reloaded released

2008 – Alexander Courage, composer, d @ 88 (Star Trek, Deep Rising, Congo, Jurassic Park, Superman IV, Lost In Space)

2009 – Charles Tingwell, actor, d @ 86 (UFO, Out of the Unknown, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)