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1909 – Anne Seymour, actress (Planet of the Apes, Trancers)

1917 – Herbert Lom, actor (Whoops Apocalypse, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Mysterious Island, Project M7)

1926 – Alfred Slote, sci-fi author (My Robot Buddy, Omega Station)

1926 – Lee Richardson, actor (Fly 2)

Lee Richardson in The Fly 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – Earl Holliman, actor (Forbidden Planet, Twilight Zone, Visit to a Small Planet, The Six Million Dollar Man)

1929 – Eve Brent, actress (Roswell, Weird Science, BrainWaves, Adventures of Superman)

1930 – Sam Reese, actor (The Outer Limits)

Sammy Reese in The Outer Limits: Behold Eck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Ian Abercrombie, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000, Otherworld, Voyagers!, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Young Frankenstein, The Questor Tapes)

1936 – Charles Dierkop (Star Trek, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Charles Dierkop in Star Trek

1940 – Brian De Palma (Mission to Mars)

1945 – Felton Perry, actor (RoboCop 1 – 3, Automan)

1948 – Michael Sacks (Slaughterhouse-Five, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

1949 – Kathrine Baumann, actress (The Thing with Two Heads)

1950 – Amy Madigan, actress (Fringe, Doppelganger, The Day After)

1956 – Tony Gilroy, writer (Armageddon)

1958 – Scott Patterson, actor (The Event, Them, The Lost World)

1958 – Roxann Dawson, actress (Star Trek: Voyager)

 

1958 – Julia Nickson, actress (Half-Life, SeaQuest 2032, Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG)

1959 – John Hawkes, actor (S. Darko, Strange Frequency, Taken, The X Files, Steel, Future-Kill)

1960 – Anne Ramsay, actress (Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: TNG)

1961 – Virginia Madsen, actress (The Astronaut Farmer, Star Trek: Voyager, The Apocalypse Watch, Earth 2, Zombie High, Creator, Dune)

1964 – Roxanne Biggs-Dawson, actress (Star Trek Voyager)

1967 – Harry Connick Jr., Actor (Bug, Independence Day)

1970 – Chester Morris, actor, d @ 69 (The She-Creature)

1971 – Percy Helton, actor, d @ 77 (Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

1977 – Leonard Carey, actor, d @ 90 (Adventures of Superman, The Invisible Man’s Revenge, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

1979 – Ariana Richards, actress (Spaced Invaders, Jurassic Park, Tremors)

1979 – Cameron Richardson, actor (10.0 Earthquake)

1985 – Sam Reese, actor, d @ 55 (The Outer Limits)

1987 – Lorne Greene, actor, d @ 72 (Battlestar Galactica)

1994 – Jessica Tandy, actress, d @ 85 (*batteries not included, Cocoon)

1998 – Dane Clark, actor, d @ 86 (Salvage 1, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre)

2002 – Kim Hunter, actress d @ 79 (Planet of the Apes 1, 2, 3)

2003 – John Ritter, actor, d @ 55 (It Came From the Sky)

2009 – Zakes Mokae, actor, d @ 75 (The X Files, Waterworld, Outbreak)

2010 – Harold Gould, actor, d @ 86 (The Outer Limits, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Project X, The Invaders, The Satan Bug, Twilight Zone, The Man from Planet X)

2010 – Kevin McCarthy, actor, d @ 96 (Invasion of Body Snatchers [1958 & 1978], Innerspace, Trail of the Screaming Forehead, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, Slipstream, Final Approach, Eve of Destruction, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Exo-Man, The Invaders, ‘Way Out, Twilight Zone)