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1918 – Mort Marshall, actor, d @ 60 (Target Earth, Out There)

1918 – Evelyn Ankers, actress (The Invisible Man’s Revenge, The Ghost of Frankenstein)

1923 – Julius Harris, actress (Eerie, Indiana, The Incredible Hulk)

1930 – Ted Hughes, sci-fi author (The Iron Giant)

1930 – Harve Bennett, writer (Time Trax, Star Trek II -V, The Bionic Woman, The Invisble Man)

1933 – Glenn Corbett, actor (Automan, Manimal, The Immortal, City Beneath the Sea, Star Trek)

Glenn Corbett as Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: Metamorphosis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Floyd Red Crow Westerman, actor (The X-Files)

Floyd Red Crow Westerman in The X-Files

1939 – Anthony Valentine, actor (Alien Attack, Space: 1999, A for Andromeda)

1941 – Franco Columbu, actor (The Running Man, The Terminator)

1943 – Robert De Niro, actor (Brazil, Frankenstein)

1946 – Shane Briant, actor (Farscape, The Lost World, Chameleon 2 and 3, Time Trax, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell)

1947 – Jennifer Rhodes, actress (3rd Rock from the Sun, Quantum Leap)

1948 – Bo Rucker, actor (Superman)

1951 – Robert Joy, actor (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Star Trek: Voyager, The Outer Limits, Waterworld, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Millennium , Threshold)

1957 – Tim Bagley, actor (Zombieland, The Day After Tomorrow, The X Files, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1958 – Nicholas Bell, actor (I Frankenstein, Wicked Science, The Lost World, Chameleon, Sky Trackers)

1960 – The Time Machine released

The Time Machine released

1961 – Larry B. Scott, actor (Super Force, Hard Time on Planet Earth, SpaceCamp)

1963 – Don McKeller, actor (eXistenZ, RoboCop)

1968 – Andrew Koenig, actor (InAlienable, Deep Space Nine)

1968 – Helen McCrory, actress (Doctor Who, Frankenstein)

1969 – Donnie Wahlberg, actor (Dreamcatcher)

1970 – Rupert Degas, actor (Red Dwarf

1971 – Horace McMahon, actor, d @ 64 (Twilight Zone, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Tales of Tomorrow)

1974 – Edgar Dearing, actor, d @ 71 (Twilight Zone, Tarantula)

1976 – William Redfield, actor, d @ 49 (Fantastic Voyage, Conquest of Space, Tales of Tomorrow)

1982 – Barney Phillips, actor, d @ 68 (The Invaders, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1987 – Shaike Ophir, actor, d @ 57 (America 3000)

1988 – Victoria Shaw, actress, d @ 53 (Westworld)

1991 – Austin Butler, actor (Aliens in the Attic)

1991 – Don Dubbins, actor, d @ 63 (Starman, The Illustrated Man, Mork & Mindy, The Incredible Hulk, Project U.F.O., The Invaders, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Twilight Zone, Men Into Space, From the Earth to the Moon)

2000 – Emil [Theodore] Petaja, sci-fi author, d @ 85 (Star Mill, Tramontane)

2014 – Michael A. Hoey, director, d @ 79 (The Navy vs. the Night Monsters)