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1891 – L. F. Hay, sci-fi author

1890 – Frank Conroy, actor (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

1904 – Alice Martha Lightner Hopf, sci-fi author

1914 – Woody Chamblis, actor (The Six Million Dollar Man, Logan’s Run, Glen and Randa)

1916 – Jack Arnold, director (Creature From the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Tarantula, It Came From Outer Space)

1922 – Sergio Franz Funaro, sci-fi author

1923 – Nicholas Fisk, sci-fi author

1924 – Robert Webber, actor (Out There, Tales of Tomorrow, The Outer Limits, Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land)

Robert Webber in The Outer Limits: Keeper of the Purple Twilight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Wilanne Schneider Belden, sci-fi author

1926 – Genrikh [Saulovich Altshuller] Altov, sci-fi author

1926 – Cleveland [Langston] Moffett, sci-fi author, d @ 63

1927 – Roger Moore, actor (Moonraker, The Man Who Wouldn’t Die)

Roger Moore in Moonraker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1927 – John Robert Russell, sci-fi author

1931 – James England, sci-fi author

1943 – Dyanne Thorne, actor (Space, Star Trek)

Dyanne Thorne (left) in Star Trek A Piece of the Action

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944 – Udo Kier, actor (Iron Sky, Blade, Armageddon, Johnny Mnemonic, SeaQuest 2032)

1945 – Miles John Breuer, sci-fi author, d @ 56

1948 – Gerard Murphy, actor (Waterworld, Doctor Who)

1949 – Katy Manning, actress (Doctor Who)

Katy Manning in Doctor Who

1951 – John Sumner, actor (District 9, The Tommyknockers, Atomic Twister)

1952 – Rick Aviles, actor (Waterworld, The Stand)

1952 – Harry Anderson, actor (Lois & Clark)

1953 – Greg Evigan, actor (The 6 Million Dollar Man, Northstar, Deepstar Six, Tekwar, The Outer Limits, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Metal Tornado, Invasion Roswell)

1953 – Richard Christian Matheson, sci-fi author

1953 – Noëlle Roger, sci-fi author, d @ 79

1961 – Elizabeth Pena, actress, d @ 55 (It Came from Outer Space II, The Invaders, *batteries not included)

1962 – Trevor Goddard, actor (The X-Files, Babylon 5)

1963 – Lori Petty, actress (Star Trek: Voyager, Alien Nation, Twilight Zone)

1968 – Robert C. Cooper, Producer (Stargate SG-1)

1970 – Jon Seda, actor (Twelve Monkeys)

1970 – Paul Fitzgerald, actor (Fringe, Roswell)

1972 – Nels Lennarson, actress (The Tomorrow People, Smallville, The Andromeda Strain, Bionic Woman, Stargate: Atlantis, Blade: The Series, Stargate SG-1, Strange Frequency, Andromeda)

1980 – Ben Whishaw, actor (The Zero Theorem)

1983 – Paul Fix, actor, d @ 82 (Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Adventures of Superman)

1985 – Daniel Clark, actor (Earth: Final Conflict, My Best Friend Is an Alien)

1986 – Keenan Wynn, actor, d @ 70 (Twilight Zone, The Dark, Manimal, Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star)

1988 – Max Thieriot, actor (The Astronaut Farmer)

1988 – Mackenzie Mauzy, actress (Forever)

1989 – Michael Carmine, actor, d @ 30 (Batteries Not Included)

1992 – Critters 4 released

1999 – Geoffrey John Barrett, sci-fi author, d @ 71

1999 – Richard B. Shull, actor, d @ 70 (Heartbeeps, Holmes and Yo-Yo, Ssssssss, Slither)

2002 – Wilfred Greatorex, writer, d @ 80 (1990)

2009 – Collin Wilcox Paxton, actor, d @ 74 (The Immortal, Twilight Zone)

2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, actor d @ 58 (Manimal, Wing Commander, Earth: Final Conflict, Quatermass (TV), The Quatermass Conclusion)

2012 – John Clive, actor, d @ 79 (A Clockwork Orange)