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1884 – Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer/editor (1960 Hugo, editor, Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories)

1899 – Glenn Strange, actor (Space Patrol, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, The Monster Maker, The Mad Monster, Flash Gordon)

1910 – Mae Clarke, actress (Frankenstein)

1921 – John Doucette, actor (The Time Machine, The Time Tunnel, Science Fiction Theatre, Adventures of Superman, The Flying Missile)

1924 – Fess Parker, actor (Them!)

1927 – Lois Nettleton, actress (Babylon 5, The Munsters Today, The Bamboo Saucer, Twilight Zone, Captain Video)

1928 – Ann Blyth, actress (Twilight Zone)

1930 – Robert Culp, actor (Outer Limits, Xtro 3: Watch the Skies, Lois & Clark, The Ray Bradbury Theatre)

Robert Culp in The Outer Limits: Demon With a Glass Hand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1933 – Julie Newmar (My Living Doll, Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Oblivion 1 and 2, Deep Space, The Powers of Matthew Star, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Jason of Star Command, The Bionic Woman)

Julie Newmar in My Living Doll

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Diana Wynne Jones, sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week)

1934 – John Standing, actor (Lexx, Eerie, Indiana, Space: 1999)

John Standing in Space: 1999: The Mark of Archanon

1937 – Andrew Offutt, sci-fi author (Undying Wizard)

1939 – Maurice Hurley, writer/producer (Star Trek: TNG)

1945 – Robert Balaban, actor (Altered States, 2010, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

1946 – Lesley Ann Warren, actress (It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!)

1950 – Marshall Manesh, actor (The X Files)

1954 – James Cameron, director ( Avatar, Terminator, Terminator 2:Judgment Day, The Abyss, Aliens, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning)

1955 – Jeff Perry, actor (Fringe, Invasion)

 

 

1956 – Bela Lugosi, actor d @ 73 (The Invisible Ray, Son of Frankenstein, The Phantom Creeps, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Ape Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Return of the Ape Man, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 From Outer Space)

1957 – Laura Innes, actress (Warehouse 13, The Event, Deep Impact)

1958 – Angela Bassett, actress (Supernova, Contact, Strange Days, Alien Nation)

1960 – Timothy Hutton, actor (Iceman)

1961 – Elpidia Carillo, actor (Solaris, Predator I & II)

1963 – Christine Cavanaugh, actress (The X-Files)

1965 – Andy Milder, actor (Transformers, Star Trek: Voyager, Armageddon, Star Trek: DS9)

1969 – Russ Bender, actor, d @ 59 (The Navy vs. the Night Monsters , The Satan Bug, Space Twilight Zone, Panic in Year Zero!, Probe Taurus, War of the Colossal Beast, Amazing Colossal Man, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Day the Earth Stood Still, It Conquered the World)

1971 – Paul Lukas, actor, d @ 80 (20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Tales of Tomorrow)

1975 – George Stults, actor (Hydra, Night Skies)

1982 – Todd Haberkorn, actor (Star Trek Continues, Warehouse 13: Grand Designs)

1985 – Arden Cho, actor (Mega Python vs. Gatoroid)

1988 – Kevin G. Schmidt, actor (The Butterfly Effect, Taken)

1992 – Malcolm Atterbury, actor, d @ 85 (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, How to Make a Monster)

1993 – Cameron Monaghan, actor (Fringe, Threshold)

1993 – Tom Fuccello, actor, d @ 56 (Mac and Me, V)

1998 – Phil Leeds, actor, d @ 82 (Alf, Frankenstein’s Great Aunt Tillie)

2002 – Jeff Corey d @ 88(Star Trek, Babylon 5)

2002 – The Adventures of Pluto Nash released

2008 – Roberta Collins, actor, d @ 57 (Death Race 2000)

2012 – William Windom, actor, d @ 88 (Star Trek, The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman)