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1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, sci-fi author, d @ 36 (Empires of the Moon and Sun)

1909 – Brenda De Banzie, actress (Out of the Unknown)

1911 – Ann Doran, actress (Twilight Zone, Project U.F.O., It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Adventures of Superman)

1931 – Darryl Hickman, actor (The Tingler, Space Stars, Sky Commanders)

Darryl Hickman (left) in The Tingler

 

 

 

 

 

 

1939 – Charles Cyphers, actor (Sliders, SeaQuest 2032, Lois & Clark, Escape from New York, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1940 – Phil Proctor, actor (Lobster Man from Mars, The Twilight Zone)

Phil Proctor in Lobsterman From Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 – Frances Lee McCain, actor (Back to the Future)

1946 – Gwynne Gilford, actress (Masters of the Universe, Beware the Blob)

1950 – Tony Carroll, actor (Masters of the Universe, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)

1954 – Bruce Abbott, actor (Black Scorpion, Bride of Re-Animator, Re-Animator, Interzone, The Last Starfighter)

Bruce Abbott in Re-Animator

1955 – Nina Axelrod, actress (Brainstorm, Time Walker)

1958 – Michael Hitchcock, actor (Super 8, Serenity, Bug)

1967 – Carlos Jacott, actor (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Firefly, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1968 – Rachel Blakely, actress (The Lost World)

1969 – Alexis Arquette, actress (Alien Nation)

1972 – Elizabeth Berkley, actress (S. Darko, Threshold, Control Factor, Perversions of Science)

 

1973 – Royal Butler, actor, d @ 80 (Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere, Mysterious Island)

1974 – Truman Bradley, TV host, d @69 (Science Fiction Theater)

1979 – Gabriel Pimentel, actor (InAlienable)

1985 – Grant Williams, actor (The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Monolith Monsters) dies of toxic poisoning at 54

1993 – Hannah Lochner, actress (Dawn of the Dead, Terminal Invasion)

1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, actress, d @ 77 (The Gamma People)

2004 – Sam Edwards, actor, d @ 89 (Project U.F.O., The Invaders, Space Patrol)

2006 – Patrick Allen, actor, d @ 79 (UFO, Journey to the Unknown, Island of the Burning Damned, 1984)

2014 – James Shigeta, actor, d @ 85 (Space Marines, Babylon 5, SeaQuest 2032, The Outer Limits)