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1894 – Charles Meredith, actor (Adventures of Superman, Them!, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Science Fiction Theatre)

Charles Meredith in Rocky Jones, Space Ranger: Crash of the Moons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1916 – George Montgomery, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man)

1929 – Hoke Howell, actor (Alien Species, Alienator, Humanoids from the Deep, Project U.F.O., Kingdom of the Spiders, Lost in Space, The Munsters, My Living Doll)

Hoke Howell in Kingdom of the Spiders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1929 – Ira Levin, writer (The Stepford Wives, The Boys from Brazil)

1944 – G. W. Bailey, actor (Short Circuit, Runaway)

G. W. Bailey in Short Circuit

1947 – Barbara Bach, actress (The Great Alligator, The Humanoid, Screamers)

1948 – Captain Kidd Brewer Jr., actor (The Abyss, Piranha Part Two: The Spawning)

1950 – Charles Fleischer, actor (Lois & Clark, Back to the Future Part II, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1952 – Gary Imhoff, actor (The Powers of Matthew Star)

1952 – Paul Rubens, actor (Area 57)

1953 – Peter Stormare, actor (Armageddon, Minority Report, The Zero Theorem, Jurassic Park: The Lost World)

1955 – Diana Scarwid, actress (Heroes, From the Earth to the Moon, The X Files, Strange Invaders)

1958 – Priscilla Lawson, actress, d @ 44 (Flash Gordon)

1962 – Dean Devlin, producer (Eight Legged Freaks, Godzilla 1998, Independence Day, Stargate)

1964 – Clare Stansfield, actress (Steel, The X Files)

1969 – Reece Shearsmith, actor (An Adventure in Space and Time, The First Men in the Moon, Shaun of the Dead)

1969 – Journey to the Far Side of the Sun released

1977 – George Merritt, actor, d @ 86 (I Monster, The Day the Earth Caught Fire , Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)

1979 – Aaron Paul, actor (The X Files, K-PAX, 3rd Rock from the Sun)

1981 – Patrick J. Adams, actor (FlashForward)

1984 – Billy Sands, actor, d @ 73 (The Munster’s Revenge, The Reluctant Astronaut)

1988 – Alexa Vega, actress (The Tomorrow People, Repo! The Genetic Opera, NetForce)

1990 – Raymond St Jacques, actor, d @ 60 (They Live, The Powers of Matthew Star, Starman, Voyagers!, The Bionic Woman, Gemini Man, The Invaders)

1995 – Cainan Wiebe, actor (Falling Skies, Tin Man, Sanctuary, The 4400)

1996 – Greg Morris, actor, d @ 65 (Superboy, War of the Worlds, The Six Million Dollar Man, Twilight Zone)

2011 – Eve Brent, actress, d @ 81 (Roswell, Weird Science, BrainWaves, Adventures of Superman)

2011 – Nico Minardos, actor, d @ 81 (The Immortal, Twilight Zone)