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1924 – Don Knotts, actor (The Reluctant Astronaut)

Don Knotts in The Reluctant Astronaut

1925 – Al Checco, actor (Tales of Tomorrow, The Terminal Man, The Reluctant Astronaut, The 6 Million Dollar Man)

1925 – Anne Meacham, actress (Way Out)

1926 – Queenie Watts, actress (Doomwatch)

1926 – Norman Jewison, producer (Rollerball)

1926 – Paul Burke, actor (Adventures of Superman, Men Into Space)

 

 

1929 – John Woodvine, actor (Doctor Who)

John Woodvine in Doctor Who

1943 – Edward Herrmann, actor (Day of the Dolphin, The Electric Grandmother, Here Comes the Munsters)

1944 – David Feintuch, sci-fi author

1948 – Art Hindle, actor (The Clone Master, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mutant X, Total Recall 2070)

1951 – Robin Williams, actor (Mork & Mindy, Bicentennial Man)

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

1964 – Rory Stevens, actor (The Munsters, My Favorite Martian)

1956 – Satellite in the Sky released

1957 – Jon Lovitz, actor (The Stepford Wives, Coneheads, Mom and Dad Save the World, My Stepmother is an Alien)

1960 – Plan 9 from Outer Space released

1960 – Lance Guest, actor (The Last Starfighter, Stepsister from Planet Weird, The X-Files)

Lance Guest in The Last Starfighter

1962 – Ike Eisenmann, actor (Fantastic Journey, Star Trek II; The Wrath of Khan)

1965 – Trevor Etienne, actor (Falling Skies, Terminator Salvation)

1967 – Basil Rathbone, actor, d @ 75 (Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Science Fiction Theatre)

1967 – Reed Diamond (Dollhouse)

1973 – Ali Landry, actress (Repli-Kate)

1974 – Ray Galletti, actor (Smallville, The Core, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda)

1978 – Josh Hartnett, actor (30 Days of Night)

1980 – Sprague Grayden, actor (Biohazardous)

1985 – Mickey Shaughnessy, actor d. @ 65 (Conquest of Space)

1986 – Virginia Hewitt, actress, d @ 60 (Space Patrol, The Flying Saucer, The Guardians)

1989 – Rory Culkin, actor (Signs)

1993 – Robert J Glass, film producer, killed @ 53 (ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1996 – Wolf Morris, actor d. @ 71 (Microbes and Men, Doctor Who, Return to the Lost Planet)

1996 – Herb Edelman, actor, d @ 62 (Out of This World, It’s About Time)

1996 – Luana Anders, actress, d @ 58 (The Outer Limits)

2003 – Walter M. “Matt” Jefferies, American film art director d. @ 81 (Star Trek)

2004 – Jerry Goldsmith, composer d @ 75 (Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Congo)

1996 – Wolf Morris, actor, d @ 71 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Return to the Lost Planet)

2006 – Mako, actor, d @ 72 (Salvage 1, The Incredible Hulk)