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1882 – Paul Harvey, actor (The Flying Missile)

1898 – Bessie Love, actress (The Hunger, Battle Beneath the Earth, The Andromeda Breakthrough, The Lost World)

1914 – Robert Wise, director (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Andromeda Strain, The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1915 – Edmond O’Brien died 9 May 1985 (1984, Fantastic Voyage, Moon Pilot)

1927 – Gwen Watford, actress (Doomwatch)

1928 – Leo P[atrick] Kelley, sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space)

1931 – Philip Baker Hall, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Roswell, M.A.N.T.I.S., Man from Atlantis)

1948 – Judy Geeson, actress (Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion, Star Trek: Voyager, Horror Planet, Star Maidens, Space: 1999)

Judy Geeson in Space: 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1951 – Harry Groener (Star Trek: TNG, Roswell, Star Trek: Enterprise, The Day the World Ended, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Star Trek: Voyager, Quantum Leap)

1953 – Amy Irving, actress(Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics)

Amy Irving in Rod Serling’s Lost Classics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1953 – Stuart Milligan, actor (Doctor Who, Whoops Apocalypse, Outland)

Stuart Milligan in Doctor Who

1954 – Don Wilson, actor (Sci-Fighter, Virtual Combat, Cyber Tracker)

1954 – Clark Johnson, actor (Re-Generation, Murder in Space)

1957 – Jim Jackman, actor (Zombthology, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Spaceballs)

1958 – Chris Columbus, director (Bicentennial Man)

1959 – Stacey Nelkin, actress (Fringe, Twilight Zone)

1963 – Jay Laga’aia, actor (Star Wars: Episodes II and III, Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!, Mysterious Island)

1969 – Johnathon Schaech, actor (Star-Crossed, Quarantine)

1972 – James Duval, actor (Lazarus: Day of the Living Dead, Evilution, Donnie Darko, Independence Day)

1974 – Ryan Phillippe, actor (Invader)

1974 – Sebastian Gutierrez, writer (The Eye, Gothika)

1974 – Sarah Danielle Goldberg, actress (Savage Planet, Jurassic Park III)

1976 – George Baxter, actor, d @ 71 (Flying Saucer, Unknown World, Twilight Zone, She Devil, Space Patrol),

1981 – Lindsay Maxwell, actress (The Butterfly Effect 2, Stargate SG-1, Seven Days)

1984 – Harry Treadaway, actor (Cockneys vs Zombies)

1985 – Elyse Levesque, actress (SGU Stargate Universe, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Smallville, Flash Gordon, 2030 CE)

1994 – Charles Drake, actor, d @ 76 (Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Invaders, Tobor the Great, It Came from Outer Space)

2010 – Resident Evil: Afterlife released

2010 – E C Tubb, sci-fi author, d @ 90

2014 – Richard Kiel, actor, d @ 74 (Twilight Zone, Moonraker, The Phantom Planet, The Nutty Professor, The Human Duplicators, The Humanoid, Out of this World, The Incredible Hulk TV series, Our Robot Overlords)