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1914 – Robert Emhardt, actor (Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1909 – Sydney Bromley, actor (Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Prehistoric Women, Night Creatures, Quatermass and the Pit, Quatermass II, 1984)

Sydney Bromley in Quatermass and the Pit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Mark Goddard, actor (Lost in Space, Strange Invaders)

Mark Goddard in Lost in Space

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940 – Dan Hedaya, actor (Alien Resurrection, Twilight Zone, BuckarooBanzie, Earthlings)

Dan Hedaya doing a brain examination in Alien Resurrection. Too bad it was his own.

1942 – Chris Sarandon, actor (Star Trek: DS9, The Outer Limits, Perversions of Science, Frankenstein)

1945 – Linda Harrison, actress (Planet of the Apes, Cocoon, Beneath the Planet of the Apes)

1947 – Robert Hays, actor (Starman, Deadly Invasion)

1949 – Michael Richards, actor (Coneheads, Whoops Apocalypse)

1951 – Lynda Carter, actress (Smallville)

 

1952 – The Washington, D.C. area experiences UFO sightings, including radar signals, that revive interest in UFO’s.

1957 – Nevil Shute’s On the Beach is published in the U.S. It later provides the basis for Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film.

1965 – Paul Ben-Victor, actor (The Invisible Man, Red Scorpion 2, The X-Files)

1968 – Laura Leighton, actress (The Outer Limits)

1969 – Jennifer Lopez, actress (The Cell)

1969 – Rick Fox, actor (Dollhouse, Holes)

1979 – Archie Duncan, actor, d @ 79 (R3, The Mouse on the Moon, X: The Unknown, Devil’s Plot)

1979 – Rose Byrne, actress (28 Weeks Later, Star Wars II)

1981 – Summer Glau, actress ( Dollhouse, Firefly/Serenity, The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

1982 – Elisabeth Moss, actress(Invasion)

1990 – Daveigh Chase, actor (S. Darko, Donnie Darko)

1991 – Isaac Bashevis Singer sci-fi author, d @ 88 (The Golem)

1991 – Emily Bett Rickards, actress (Soldiers of the Apocalypse)

1996 – Virginia Christine, actress, d @ 76 (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman)

1997 – Brian Glover, actor, d @ 63 (Alien 3, Doctor Who)

2002 – Maurice Denham, actor, d @ 92 (Doctor Who, Blood Beast from Outer Space, Out of This World, Project M7)

2012 – Sherman Hemsley, actor, d @ 74 (Lois & Clark, The Twilight Zone, The Incredible Hulk)

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