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1903 – Dayton Lummis, actor (The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Flight That Disappeared, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Red Planet Mars)

1908 – Ford Rainey, actor, d @ 96 25 July 2005 (The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Invaders, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits)

Ford Rainey in The Outer Limits episode, I, Robot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1917 – Earl Cameron, actor (Inception, Battle Beneath the Earth, Doctor Who, The Andromeda Breakthrough)

Earl Cameron in Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, producer (Dune, Army of Darkness)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Harry Turner, artist

1921 – William Asher, director (Twilight Zone)

1922 – Rory Calhoun, actor (Hell Comes to Frogtown, Night of the Lepus)

1926 – Richard Anderson, actor (The Stepford Children, Automan, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Astronaut, Land of the Giants, The Invaders, Forbidden Planet, Captain Midnight)

Richard Anderson in Forbidden Planet

1928 – Tom Reese, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone)

1930 – Terry Nation, writer (Doctor Who, Blake’s 7)

1931 – Roger Penrose, sci-fi author (White Mars)

1937 – Adam Roarke, actor (Star Trek, The Six Million Dollar Man, Frogs, Women of the Prehistoric Planet)

1937 – Dustin Hoffman, actor (Sphere, Outbreak)

 

1949 – Keith Carradine, actor (Cowboys & Aliens, Dollhouse, Star Trek: Enterprise, Perversions of Science, Special Report: Journey to Mars)

1952 – Alfre Woodard (Star Trek: First Contact, True Blood)

1953 – Donnie Most, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Dark Skies, Sliders, The Munsters Today)

1955 – Branscombe Richmond, actor (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Tremors, Alien Nation, Misfits of Science, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Automan, The Bionic Woman, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1984 – Richard Deacon, actor, d @ 63 (Piranha, The Lost Saucer, The Munsters, Twilight Zone, My Favorite Martian, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, This Island Earth, Invaders form Mars)

1984 – Walter Tevis, sci-fi author, d @ 56 (The Man Who Fell to Earth)

1986 – Peyton List, actress (The Tomorrow People, Smallville, FlashForward)

1988 – Alan Napier, actor, d @ 85 (Twilight Zone, The Mole People)

1993 – Harry Bellaver, actor, d @ 88 (The Stuff, Tom Corbett Space Cadet)

1993 – Mickey Morton, actor, d @ 66 (The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Bionic Woman, Star Trek)

2004 – Fay Wray, actress d @ 96 (King Kong, Doctor X)

2010 – Patricia Neal, actress, d @ 84 (Day The Earth Stood Still , Stranger from Venus aka Immediate Disaster)

2013 – Karen Black, actress, d @ 74 (Light Speed, Invisible Dad, The Invisible Kid, The Invaders)

2014 – Menahem Golan, producer of numerous sci-fi movies, d @ 85