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1908 – Arthur Space, actor (The Swarm, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth)

Arthur Space in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1916 – Lock Martin, actor (Invaders from Mars, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Incredible Shrinking Man)

Lock Martin (mutant left) in Invaders from Mars

1924 – Randy Stuart, actor (The Incredible Shrinking Man)

1926 – Edwin A. Abbott, sci-fi author, d @ 87 (Flatland)

1928 – Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur)

1950 – Susan Anton, actress (Out of This World, Quantum Leap, Making Mr. Right)

1953 – Michael Bofshever (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: DS9, Roswell)

 

1958 – Ed Hinton, actor, d @ 39 (Lost Continent, Red Planet Mars, Space Patrol, Captain Midnight, Adventures of Superman)

1960 – Hiroyki Sanada, actor (Sunshine Extant, Helix, Super Electric Bioman, Message from Outer Space)

1962 – Carlos Bernard, actor (Alien Raiders, 10.5: Apocalypse, Babylon 5: A Call to Arms)

1962 – Deborah Foreman, actress (Lobster Man from Mars)

Deborah Foreman in Lobster Man From Mars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1963 – JoAnn Willette, actress (Twilight Zone, Real Genius)

1966 – Jonathan Crombie, actor (Earth: Final Conflict)

1968 – Mark Donovan, actor (The World’s End, Shaun of the Dead, Cyberon)

Mark Donovan (second from left) in Shawn of the Dead

1968 – Hugh Jackman, actor (Real Steel)

1970 – Kirk Cameron, actor (The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

1974 – Kate Beahan, actress (The Matrix Revolutions, Farscape, Strange Planet)

1975 – Dion Johnstone, actor (Defiance, The X Files: I Want to Believe, The Core, Stargate SG-1, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show)

1979 – Celia Lovsky, actress, d @ 82 (Soylent Green, Star Trek, Twilight Zone)

1986 – Marcus T. Paulk, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)

1986 – Tyler Blackburn, actor (Brave New World)

 

1991 – Regis Toomey, actor, d @ 93 (Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (movie & TV))

1992 – John Hancock, actor, d @ 51 (Star Trek: TNG, The Twilight Zone, Voyagers!, The Incredible Hulk)

1992 – Josh Hutcherson, actor (The Hunger Games, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Zathura: A Space Adventure)

1993 – Leon Ames, actor, d @ 91 (Testament)

1995 – David McLean, actor, d @ 73 12 October 1995 (Deathsport, Kingdom of the Spiders, The Andromeda Strain, I Dream of Jeannie, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)

1997 – Nicholas Elia, actor (Eureka, White Noise)

2001 – The American Astronaut released

2007 – Lonny Chapman, actor, d @ 73 (The Incredible Hulk, Planet of the Apes (TV))

2009 – Dean Ellis, illustrator, d @ 88

2009 – Travis Davis, actor, d @ 40 (Space Marines)