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1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Mars Saga, John Carter)

1893 – Betty Blythe, actress, d @ 78 7 April 1972 (She)

1897 – Wolfe Barzell, actor (Frankenstein’s Daughter, Twilight Zone, Atlantis, the Lost Continent)

1899 – Richard Arlen, actor (The Human Duplicators, The Crawling Hand, Science Fiction Theatre, The Lady and the Monster)

1920 – Richard Farnsworth, actor (Space Rage)

1922 – Yvonne De Carlo (The Munsters)

Yvonne de Carlo as Lily Munster

1922 – Vittorio Gassman, actor (Quintet)

1928 – George Maharis, actor (Superboy, Logan’s Run, Bionic Woman, Death in Space, Journey to the Unknown, The Satan Bug)

1937 – Ron O’Neal, actor (The Final Countdown, Hyper Space, Brave New World)

1939 – Lily Tomlin, actress (The Incredible Shrinking Woman, The X-Files)

 

 

 

 

 

1940 – Judy Levitt, actress (InAlienable, Babylon 5 , Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: Generations, Moontrap)

Judy Levitt in Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country

1942 – C. J. Cherry (Downbelow Station, Cyteen, Faded Sun Trilogy)

1943 – Don Stroud, actor (Babylon 5, The Alien Within, Carnosaur 2, Cyber Seeker, Frogtown II, Quantum Leap, Super Force, Hyper Space, The Powers of Matthew Star, The Incredible Hulk)

1944 – Beau Starr, actor (Final Days of Planet Earth, The 4400, Earth: Final Conflict, Total Recall 2070, V, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1944 – Zito Kazann, actor (The X Files, Sliders, Waterworld, Automan, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1948- James Rebhorn, actor (Independence Day, Coma)

1950 – Theodore Sturgeon publishes The Dreaming Jewels, his first novel.

1950 – The 8th World Science Fiction Convention, called Norwescon, is held in Portland, Oregon, with Anthony Boucher as guest of honor. It attracts about 400 attendees, more than twice the size of previous “Worldcons.”

 

1951 – The 9th World Science Fiction Convention is held in New Orleans, with an attendance of 190. Fritz Leiber is guest of honor

1951 – Timothy Zahn, sci-fi author (Hugo, Cobra Strike)

1952 – The 10th annual World Science Fiction convention is held in Chicago with an attendance of about 870—more than double that of the previous largest Worldcon in 1950. Hugo Gernsback is guest of honor, and the convention votes to institute annual science fiction awards called the Hugo, to be initially presented the following year.

1954 – Tobor the Great released

Tobor The Great released 1954

1956 – The 14th annual World Science Fiction Convention, the first in New York since 1939, draws an attendance of about 850. Robert A. Heinlein wins the best novel Hugo for Double Star, and Robert Silverberg is “most promising new author.”

1958 – The 16th annual World Science Fiction Convention is held in South Gate, California, drawing over 320 attendees. Fritz Leiber wins the best novel award for The Big Time, and The Incredible Shrinking Man, with a screenplay by Richard Matheson based on his novel, wins “outstanding movie.”

1966 – James Nguyen, actor (Birdemic 1 & 2)

1968 – Zak Penn, writer (Alphas, Pacific Rim 2, The Incredible Hulk)

1970 – Padma Lakshmi, actress (Star Trek: Enterprise)

1971 – Maury Sterling, actor (Extant, Dollhouse, Star Trek: Enterprise, Dark Skies, Outbreak)

 

1971 – Ricardo Chavira, actor (Warehouse 13, Piranha 3D)

1974 – Burn Gorman, actor (Pacific Rim, Torchwood)

1975 – Scott Speedman, actor (Underworld: Evolution, Underworld)

1977 – Adrienne Wilkinson, actress (Star Trek: Renegades)

1979 – Camille Chen, actress (Meteor)

1981 – Michael Adamthwaite, actor (Nerds and Monsters, Fringe, Behemoth, Riverworld, Smallville, Flash Gordon, Stargate SG-1)

1986 – Murray Hamilton, actor, d @ 63 (Damnation Alley, ‘Way Out, Men into Space, Twilight Zone

1987 – Philip Friend, actor, d @ 72 (H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

2003 – Rand Brooks, actor, d @ 84 (The Munsters, Men into Space, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Space Patrol)

2009 – Humanity’s End released