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1896 – Bill Walker, actor (Twilight Zone, Dimension 5, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, World of Giants)

1899 – Charles Laughton, actor (Island of Lost Souls)

1903 – Beatrix Lehmann, actress (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown)

1906 – Frank Parker, actor (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1916 – Olivia de Havilland, actress (The Swarm)

1920 – Harold Sakata, actor (Death Dimension, Dimension 5)

1923 – Constance Ford, actress (Twilight Zone, ‘Way Out)

1925 – Farley Granger, actor (The Invisible Man, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1931 – Tab Hunter, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1934 – Jean Marsh, actress (An Adventure in Space and Time, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, UFO, Unearthly Stranger, Twilight Zone)

1934 – Jamie Farr, actor (Out of this World, My Favorite Martian)

1935 – Ron Masack, actor (They Came from Outer Space, Starman (TV), The Aliens Are Coming, Laserblast, Land of the Lost, Twilight Zone)

1935 – David Prowse, actor (Star Wars, The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Space: 1999, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Tomorrow People, Doctor Who, A Clockwork Orange, The Horror of Frankenstein)

David Prowse as Darth Vader

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Karen Black, actress (Light Speed, Invisible Dad, The Invisible Kid, The Invaders)

Karen Black in The Invaders episode, The Ransom.

1940 – Inga Neilsen, actress (Beyond Westworld, The Invisible Man)

1942 – Genevieve Bujold, actress (Coma)

1944 – Tony DiBenedetto, actor (Lois & Clark)

1945 – Deborah Harry, actress (Anamorph, Videodrome)

1951 – Daryl Anderson, actor (The Phoenix

1951 – Trevor Eve, actor (Doomwatch: Winter Angel)

1951 – Terrence Mann, actor (Solarbabies)

1952 – Brian George, actor (The 4400, Andromeda, Star Trek: Voyager, The X-Files, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: DS9, Weird Science, Here Come the Munsters, Quantum Leap, Martians Go Home)

 

1952 – Dan Aykroyd, actor (Evolution, Coneheads, My Stepmother Is and Alien, Twilight Zone: The Movie)

1954 – Thea von Harbou, writer, d @ 65 (Metropolis)

1955 – Robby the Robot built (Lost in Space, Earth Girls are Easy, Mork & Mindy, Project U.F.O., Space Academy, Ark II, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, The Invasion of the Neptune Men, The Invisible Boy, Forbidden Planet)

Robby the Robot

1956 – Earth vs the Flying Saucers released

1956 – Alan Ruck, actor (Zombie Night, Fringe, Eureka, The Happening, InAlienable, Stargate: Atlantis, Star Trek: Generations)

1959 – Dale Midkiff, actor (Flight of the Living Dead, Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion, Time Trax)

1962 – Andre Braugher, actor (The Andromeda Strain, The Mist, Frequency)

1962 – Dominic Keating, actor (Enterprise, Heroes)

1968 – Colin Patrick Lynch, actor (Serenity, Firefly, Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

1977 – Liv Tyler, actress (Space Station 76, The Incredible Hulk, Armageddon)

 

1979 – Elizabeth Thai, actress (Man of Steel, Eureka, Fringe, The Dresden Files, The 4400, Smallville, Andromeda)

1979 – Richard Ward, actor, d @ 64 (The Immortal)

1980 – C P Snow, sci-fi author, d @ 74

1981 – Clemency Burton-Hill, actress (Supernova)

1981 – Kim Jackson, actress (Iron Sky)

1982 – Hilarie Burton, actress (Extant, Forever)

1986 – Roy Poole, actor, d @ 62 (The Bionic Woman, The Invaders)

1986 – Alice Nunn, actress, d @ 60 (Misfits of Science)

1989 – Hannah Murray, actress (Clone)

1990 – Anna Palk, actress, d @ 48 (Frozen Dead, Fahrenheit 451)

1998 – Armageddon released

2004 – Marlon Brando, actor, d @ 80 (The Island of Dr. Moreau, Superman)

2009 – Karl Malden, actor, d @ 97 (Meteor)