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1882 – Edward Van Sloan, actor (Frankenstein)

Edward Van Sloan in Frankenstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1901 – Max Adrian, actor (Terrornauts, Doctor Who)

Max Adrian in Doctor Who: Myth Makers

1910 – Malcolm Smith, artist

1917 – Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, sci-fi author (Anything Box)

1923 – Gordon R[upert] Dickson, sci-fi author (Genetic General)

1926 – Betsy Palmer, actress (Out of This World)

1928 – Emmaline Henry, actress (The Munsters)

1939 – Barbara Bosson, actress (The Last Starfighter, Star Trek: DS9, Capricorn One)

1941 – Robert Foxworth, actor (Frankenstein, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: Enterprise,, Stargate: SG-1, Babylon 5, SeaQuest 2032, Beyond the Stars,The Questor Tapes)

1942 – Marcia Wallace, actress (Small Wonder, ALF)

1942 – Michael Zaslow, actor (Star Trek, Meteor, Star Trek: First Contact)

Michael Zaslow in Star Trek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1946 – Dennis Muren, special effects artist (Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, E.T., Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds, Super 8, The Abyss, Innerspace, Hulk, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Flesh Gordon, Rocketship X-M)

1958 – Rachel Ticotin, actress (Total Recall, )

Rachel Ticotin in Total Recall

 

 

 

 

 

 

1959 – Susanna Clarke, sci-fi author (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

1959 – Jaymes Butler, actor (Night of the Living Dorks, Resident Evil, Ice Planet)

1976 – Logan Marshall-Green b. 1976 (Prometheus)

Logan Marshall-Green in Prometheus

1976 – Oscar Beregi Jr, actor, d @ 58 (Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Young Frankenstein)

1976 – Chad Lindberg, actor (Rise of the Zombies, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The X Files)

1977 – Martin Copping, actor (Zombie Hunter)

1978 – Mary Kate Schellhardt, actress (Infection: The Invasion Begins)

1979 – Jordan Johnson-Hinds, actor (Robocop)

1982 – James Broderick, actor, d @ 55 (Twilight Zone)

1986 – Penn Badgley, actur (Parts Per Billion)

1995 – George McCowan, director, d @ 68 (War of the Worlds (TV), The Shape of Things to Come, The Starlost, Frogs, The Invaders)

1999 – Noel Johnson, actor, d @ 82 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown, Doomwatch, A for Andromeda, The Andromeda Breakthrough)

2005 – Michael Piller, writer, d @ 57 (Star Trek, Hard Time on Planet Earth)

2013 – Ender’s Game released