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1915 – James Millhollin, actor (Lost in Space, It’s About Time, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)

James Millhollin as Willoughby the Llama in Lost in Space: The Great Vegetable Rebellion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Vera Miles, actress (BrainWaves, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms)

Vera Miles in The Outer Limits: The Form of Things Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Barbara Eden 1931 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Stepford Children)

Barbara Eden in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1938 – Ronny Cox, actor (Robocop, The Twilight Zone)

1940 – Lee Majors, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman)

1943 – Bobby Diamond, actor (Twilight Zone)

1944 – Bob Peck, actor (Jurassic Park, Slipstream)

1949 – Shelley Long, actress (Zombie Hamlet, Lois & Clark)

1954 – Mark Vann, actor (Torchwood)

1954 – Stranger from Venus aka Immediate Disaster released

1955 – Jennifer Holmes, actress (Misfits of Science, Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk)

1961 – Deron McBee, actor (The Invisible Man, Roswell, Sliders, M.A.N.T.I.S., Time Barbarians)

1963 – Ed Gale, actor (Weird Science, Lifepod, Phantasm II, Spaceballs, Howard the Duck)

1966 – Francis X. Bushman, actor, d @ 83 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Phantom Planet)

1970 – Jay Mohr, actor (S1mOne, From the Earth to the Moon)

1970 – River Phoenix, actor (Explorers)

Aaron Douglas b. 1971 (Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, I, Robot, The Strain, Falling Skies, Smallville, Bionic Woman)

1974 – Ray Park, actor (Star Wars: Episode 1)

1975 – Hank Patterson, actor, d @ 86 (Twilight Zone, Earth vs. the Spider, Tarantula, The Amazing Colossal Man, Beginning of the End)

1999 – James White, sci-fi author, d @ 71 (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)

2001 – Kathleen Freeman, actress, d @ 82 (Out of this World, The Munsters Today, ALF, The Fly)

2003 – Alana Mansour, actress (Terra Nova)

2005 – Brock Peters, actor, d @ 78 (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Alligator II: The Mutation, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman)

2007 – Robert Symonds, actor, d @ 80 (Future Cop, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Ice Pirates , C.H.U.D. II, Quantum Leap, Mandroid, Star Trek: DS9)

2013 – Gilbert Taylor, cinematographer, d @ 99 (Flash Gordon, Star Wars)