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1901 – Ben Blue, actor (Land of the Giants)

1906 – Arthur Dudley Vinton, sci-fi author, d @ 53 (Looking Further Backward)

1914 – Desmond Llewelyn, actor, d @ 85 (Doomwatch, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Moonraker)

1916 – Edward Binns, actor (Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

Edward Binns in The Twilight Zone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1921 – Stanislaw Lem, sci-fi author (Solaris, Invincible, The Futurological Congress)

1923 – Judith Merril, [Josephine Juliet Grossman], sci-fi writer, d @ 74

1927 – Freddie Jones, actor (Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Dune, Krull, Firefox, Space: 1999)

Freddie Jones Space: 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1931 – Ian Holm, actor (The Day After Tomorrow, eXistenZ, The Fifth Element, Frankenstein, Dreamchild, Brazil, Time Bandits, Alien)

Ian Holm in Alien

1931 – Bill McKinney, actor (It Came from Outer Space II, Back to the Future Part III, Galactica 1980, Strange New World)

1947 – Christopher Neame, actor (Star Trek: Enterprise, The Invisible Man, Seven Days, The Apocalypse Watch, Sliders, Earth 2, Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Superboy, Blakes 7)

1951 – Joe Pantoliano, actor (The Matrix, Roswell, Robot in the Family, Congo)

 

1953 – Lewis Stone, actor, d @ 73 (The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Lost World (1925))

1955 – Peter Scolari, actor (Honey I Shrunk the Kids)

1957 – Hans Zimmer, composer (Inception, Man of Steel)

1958 – The Blob, a low-budget teen film starring Steve McQueen which develops a cult following and is remade in 1988, is released.

1958 – Gregg Edelman, actor (The Manhattan Project)

1960 – Robert John Burke, actor (RoboCop 3)

1962 – Amy Yasbeck, actress (Quantum Leap)

1963 – Ramon Franco, actor (Resident Evil: Extinction, The X Files)

1966 – Darren E. Burrows, actor (The Lone Gunmen, The X Files, Class of 1999, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

1969 – James Frey, sci-fi author (I Am Number Four)

1978 – Frank Fergusson, actor, d @ 78 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, Twilight Zone, The Adventures of Superman, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein)

1981 – Marty Adams, actor (Dead Before Dawn 3D, Repo Men, Repo! The Genetic Opera)

1982 – Reed Crandall, illustrator, d @ 75 (John Carter of Mars)

1986 – Emmy Rossum, actress (The Day After Tomorrow, Comet)

1987 – John Qualen, actor, d @ 87 (My Favorite Martian, Science Fiction Theatre)

1992 – Ed Peck, actor, d @ 75 (The Incredible Hulk, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Invaders)

1993 – Raymond Burr, actor, d @ 76 (Tales of Tomorrow, Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, Godzilla 1985: The legend is Reborn)

1995 – Jeremy Brett, actor, d @ 61 (Galactica 1980, The Incredible Hulk)