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1916 – Keenan Wynn, actor (Twilight Zone, The Dark, Manimal, Hyper Sapien: People from Another StarManimal, The Clonus Horror, The Lucifer Complex, Piranha, The Bionic Woman, Laserblast, The Girl with Something Extra)

Keenan Wynn in the Twilight Zone episode, A World of His Own.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Robert Gunner, actor (Planet of the Apes)

1942 – John Pleshette, actor (Lois & Clark)

1942 – Lanny Flaherty, actor (Men in Black 3, Signs, Waterworld)

1946 – Rade Serbedzija, actor (Surface, Space Cowboys)

Rade Serbedzija in Space Cowboys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Maury Chaykin, actor (Eureka, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Lexx, Twilight Zone, Def-Con 4, WarGames)

1950 – Simon Jones, actor (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Twelve Monkeys, Brazil)

1950 – Destination Moon released

Destination Moon released

1952 – Roxanne Hart, actress (Meteorites)

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

1968 – Cliff Curtis, actor (Mysterious Island)

1969 – Bryan Fuller, writer (Heroes, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9)

1969 – Paul Levesque, actor (Blade: Trinity)

1970 – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, actor (Oblivion)

1972 – Maya Rudolph, actress (Gattaca)

1983 – Blair Redford, actress (FlashForward, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1984 – James Mason, actor, d @ 75 (The Boys from Brazil, Frankenstein: The True Story, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)

1985 – Lou Taylor Pucci, actor (Carriers)

 

1996 – Ashlyn Sanchez, actress (The Happening)

2001 – Planet of the Apes released

2009 – Pearl Shear, actor, d @ 81 (Doctor Mordrid, Max Headroom, The Invisible Man (1975))

2010 – Maury Chaykin, actor, d @ 61 (Eureka, Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Lexx, Twilight Zone, Def-Con 4, WarGames)

2012 – Geoffrey Hughes, actor, d @ 68 (Doctor Who)

2012 – R G Armstrong, actor, d @ 95 (Predator, Salvage 1, Quantum Leap, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone)