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1914 – Dudley Manlove, actor (The Creation of the Humanoids, Plan 9 from Outer Space)

1914 – Gerald Mohr, actor (Invasion U.S.A., The Angry Red Planet, Men into Space, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Gerald Mohr in the Lost in Space episode, A Visit to Hades.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1915 – Buddy Baer, actor (Giant from the Unknown, Adventures of Superman)

1919 – Richard Todd, actor (Doctor Who)

Richard Todd in Doctor Who

1920 – Robert Hutton, actor (Trog, They Came from Beyond Space, The Slime People, Invisible Invaders, The Colossus of New York)

1922 – John Bromfield, actor (Curucu, Beast of the Amazon, Revenge of the Creature)

1932 – Ed Bishop, actor (Whoops Apocalypse, Saturn 3, 1990, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, The Day After Tomorrow, UFO, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Mouse on the Moon)

 

 

1933 – Gene Wilder, actor (Young Frankenstein)

Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein

1937 – Chad Everett, actor, d @ 75 24 July 2012 (When Time Expires)

1939 – Jordan Rhodes, actor (Battlestar Galactica, The Terminal Man)

1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, actress (The Chronicle, Star Trek: DS9, Sliders, Weird Science, Babylon 5, Twilight Zone, Swamp Thing, Escape from New York, The Fog)

1946 – Paul Lynch, director (So Weird, Sliders, RoboCop (TV), Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, Voyagers!)

1949 – Nicholas Young, actor (The Tomorrow People (79 & 13), Space: 1999)

 

1949 – Sherman Howard, actor ( Star Trek: Voyager, Retroactive, Star Trek: DS9, Sliders, SeaQuest 2032, The Stand, Space Rangers, Superboy, Quantum Leap, Star Trek: TNG, ALF, Max Headroom, Day of the Dead)

1959 – Hugh Laurie, actor (Tomorrowland)

1965 – Pamela Gidley, actress (Cherry 2000)

1966 – Malcolm Smith d @ 65 (sci-fi artist)

1967 – Clare Carey, actress (Stargate SG-1, The Invisible Man (TV), Them, Zombie High)

1969 – Peter Dinklage, actor (Pixels, Ultra)

1977 – Ryan Dunn, actor (Invader)

1978 – Joshua Jackson, actor (Fringe)

1979 – Jane Goldman, writer (Stardust)

1982 – E.T. the Extra-terrestral released

1986 – Shia LeBeouf, actor (Transformers, I, Robot, The X-Files, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

1988 – Nathan Cook, actor, d @ 38 (The Astronauts)

1993 – Bernard Bresslaw, actor, d @ 59 (Krull, Doctor Who)

1996 – Brigitte Helm, actress, d @ 90 (Metropolis, Queen of Atlantis, The Lost Atlantis)

1999 – DeForest Kelley, actor, d @ 79 (Science Fiction Theatre, Night of the Lepus , Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG)

2000 – Lew Gallo, actor, d @ 71 (Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone)

2003 – William Marshall, actor, d @ 78 (Dinosaur Valley Girls, Amazon Women on the Moon, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Star Trek)

2004 – Zenon: Z3 debuted on the Disney Channel

2004 – The Chronicles of Riddick released

2006 – Tim Hildebrandt, Illustrator, d @ 67

2007 – Mala Powers, actress, d @ 75 (The Colossus of New York, The Unknown Terror)

2008 – Outlander released

2014 – Ruby Dee, actress, d @ 89 (The Stand)