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1894 – William Fawcett, actor (The Munsters, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, Twilight Zone, Commando Cody, Captain Video, Atom Man vs. Superman)

1907 – Sid Tomack, actor (The Space Children)

1911 – Brian Morrow, actor (The Bionic Woman, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Invaders, Cyborg 2087, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, Twilight Zone)

Brian Morrow as Komack in Star Trek: Amok Time

1922 – Harry Harris, director (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space)

1934 – Michael A. Hoey, director (The Navy vs. the Night Monsters)

1937 – Archie Goodwin, writer (Marvel Comics and Warren Publications)

1941 – Christopher Connelly, actor (The Bronx Warrier, The Raiders of Atlantis, Earthbound, Beyond Westworld, The Martian Chronicles, Salvage 1, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1942 – Nancy Ann Dibble, Netherlands, sci-fi author (Summerfair)

1945 – Willard Huyck, writer/director (Howard the Duck)

 

1948 – Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, sci-fi author (Black Flame)

1950 – A. E. van Vogt publishes The Voyage of the Space Beagle, a “fix-up” novel from previously published stories, one of which would much later provide the inspiration for the film Alien.

1954 – Mark Lindsay Chapman, actor (Lois & Clark, Weird Science, The Langoliers, Swamp Thing, Max Headroom)

Mark Lindsay Chapman in Swamp Thing

 

 

 

 

 

1955 – Julian Richings, actor (Man of Steel, Survival of the Dead, Re-Generation, My Best Friend is an Alien, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms, Cube, Mimic, RoboCop, War of the Worlds)

1957 – Heather Thomas, actress (Swamp Thing, Cyclone, Zapped!)

Heather Thomas in Swamp Thing

1957 – The 15th annual World Science Fiction convention in London is the first held outside North America and draws an attendance of 268. John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, becomes the first three-time guest of honor (he had previously been guest of honor in 1947 and 1954).

1958 – Sonja Smits, actress (TekWar, Videodrome)

1961 – David Knell, actor (The Invisible Man, Total Recall, ALF)

1962 – Thomas Kretschmann, actor (FlashForward, Bionic Woman, Frankenstein, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Blade II, Total Recall 2070, Total Reality)

 

 

1966 – Star Trek, Debuted NBC

Star Trek debuted

 

1971 – Martin Freeman, actor (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Shaun of the Dead)

1975 – Larenz Tate, actor (The Postman, The Twilight Zone)

1975 – John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82

1981 – Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor (Smallville)

1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, actor, d @ 78 (Doomsday Machine)

1991 – Brad Davis, actor, d @ 42 (Twilight Zone)

2006 – Frank Middlemass, actor, d @ 87 (The Invisible Man, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed)