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1916 – Peter Finch, actor (First Men in the Moon)

1922 – Joe Silver, actor (Rabid, They Came from Within, Out There, Lights Out)

1923 – William Windom, actor (Star Trek, The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, Space Rage, Automan, The Bionic Woman, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Invaders, Twilight Zone)

1926 – Ralph Ahn, actor (Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace)

1932 – Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canada, sci-fi author (Cat Karina)

1934 – Janet Munro, actress (The Crawling Eye, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)

Janet Munro in The Crawling Eye

 

 

 

 

 

 

1935 – Ronald Lacey, actor (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

Ronald Lacey in Buckaroo Banzai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Robert Hogan, actor (Twilight Zone, Tales of the Unexpected, 6 Million Dollar Man, Westworld)

1939 – Diane Aubrey, actress (Village of the Damned, Invasion)

1942 – Marshall Bell, actor (Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Stargate: Atlantis, The Astronaut Farmer, Sliders, Virus, W.E.I.R.D. World, The X Files)

1943 – J T Walsh, actor (Dark Skies, The X-Files, Outbreak, Lois & Clark)

J T Walsh in The X-Files: The List

1946 – Herbert Jefferson Jr, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Renegades, Outbreak, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land, World War III, The Bionic Woman, The Immortal)

1946 – Fiona Lewis, actress (Innerspace, Strange Invaders)

1946 – Jeffrey Jones, actor (Twilight Zone, Howard the Duck,)

1947 – Michael Flynn, actor (Lightspeed, Asteroid)

1950 – John Sayles, writer (Piranha, Brother From Another Planet, Battle Beyond the Stars, Alligator)

 

1951 – Robert Wise’s film The Day the Earth Stood Still, based on an Astounding Science Fiction story by Harry Bates, is released, and is received as one of the first mature efforts to represent science fiction in film.

The Day the Earth Stood Still opened

1952 – Superman, based on the long-running comic book created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, debuts as a syndicated television show, and will continue until April 1958.

1954 – Bert Lytell, actor, d @ 69 (Tales of Tomorrow)

1956 – The Quatermass Xperiment initial release

1963 – Susan Walters, actress (Star-Crossed, I Married a Monster)

1965 – Christopher Evan Welch, actor (War of the Worlds, The Stepford Wives)

1966 – Eric Fleming, actor, d @ 41 (Conquest of Space, Queen of Outer Space)

1967 – Mira Sorvino, actress (Mimic, Intruders, Falling Skies, Space Warriors, The Stuff)

1969 – J. Trevor Edmund, actor (Return of the Living Dead III, Frogs!, Alien Nation)

1978 – Lucas Bryant, actor (Odyssey 5)

1987 – Star Trek: TNG debuted

1990 – Kirsten Prout, actress (Kyle XY, Meteor Storm, Stargate SG-1, Mindstorm, First Wave)

1992 – Keir Gilchrist, actor (Delete, Matty Hanson and the Invisibility Ray, ReGenesis)

1992 – Jack Sharkey, sci-fi author, d @ 61 (Ultimatum in 2050 A.D.)

2003 – Cork Hubbert, actor, d @ 51 (The Twilight Zone)

2012 – Michael O’Hare, actor, d @ 60 (Babylon 5, The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, C.H.U.D.)

2012 – Looper released