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1899 – Neil Hamilton, actor (The Outer Limits)

Neil Hamilton in The Outer Limits: The Invisibles

 

1914 – James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man, Killers From Space, The Flying Missle, When Worlds Collide, Day the Earth Stood Still, Phantom From Space, War of the Worlds, Science Fiction Theatre, The Amazing Colossel Man, World of Giants, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Invaders)

1919 – Richard Webb, actor (Invisible Monster)

 

 

 

1923 – Cliff Robertson, actor (Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits (original & Showtime versions)

Cliff Robertson in The Outer Limits: Galaxy Being

1929 – Nick Ramus, actor (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

1931 – Margaret Tyzack, actress (Quatermass, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange)

1935 – Topol, actor (Flash Gordon, SeaQuest 2032)

1943 – Art LaFleur, actor (Space Rangers, Trancers I & II, The Blob, Zone Troopers, WarGames, The Invisible Woman, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, The Incredible Hulk)

1944 – Jeffrey Alan Chandler, actor (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Voyager, Twilight Zone)

 

1950 – Norbert Wiener, who had earlier coined the term “cybernetics” in his 1948 book of that title, publishes The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society, arguing the benefits of automation but warning of possible misuse and wide unemployment.

1951 – Tom Wopat, actor (Smallville, Meteorites)

1952 – Angela Cartwright, actress (Logan’s Run, Lost in Space)

Angela Cartwright as Penny Robinson in Lost in Space

1953 – Janet Fielding, actress (Doctor Who)

1954 – Jeffrey Alan Combs, actor (Star Trek: DS9, SharkMan)

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).

1959 – Bruce Stait, actor (Fringe, Tron: Legacy, Smallville, Blade: The Series, Stargate: Atlantis, The 4400, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, First Wave, The X-Files)

1964 – Robert Duncan McNeil, actor (Star Trek: Voyager)

 

1965 – Charles Esten, actor (The Postman, Lois & Clark, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TNG)

1965 – Michelle Johnson, actress (Specimen)

1965 – Brenda Epperson, actress (Bug Buster)

1966 – Time Tunnel Debuted on ABC

1966 – Nestor Paiva, actor, d @ 61 (They Saved Hitler’s Brain, Jesse James Meet Frankenstein’s Daughter, My Living Doll, The Three Stooges in Orbit, Atlantis, the Lost Continent, World of Giants, The Mole People, Tarantula, Revenge of the Creature, Rocky Jones: Space Ranger, Creature from the Black Lagoon)

1966 – Adam Sandler, actor (Coneheads)

1966 – David Bennent, actor (Legend)

1968 – Julia Sawalha, actress (Comic Relief: Doctor Who – The Curse of Fatal Death)

1971 – Eric Stonestreet, actor (The Island)

1971 – Henry Thomas, actor (ET)

1972 – Goran Visnjic, actor (Extant, The Deep, Elektra)

1975 – Ethel Griffies, actress (It Happened Tomorrow)

1975 – John McGiver,actor, d @ 61 (Way Out, Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1976 – Rogelio T. Ramos, actor (Zombie Night)

1980 – Michelle Williams, actress (Timemaster, Species)

1987 – Burgess Meredith, actor, d @ 89 (The Twilight Zone)

1994 – Patrick O’Neal, actor, d @ 66 (Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits)

1994 – Roy Castle, actor dies (Dr Who & the Daleks)

1995 – Keith Wayne, actor, d @ 50 (Night of the Living Dead)

1999 – Ruth Roman, actress, d @ 76 (Day of the Animals, The Outer Limits)

2003 – Larry Hovis, actor, d @ 67 (Holmes & Yo-Yo, My Living Doll)

2014 – Denny Miller, actor, d @ 80 (V, Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Beyond Westworld, Battlestar Galactica, Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man, Doomsday Machine)