posted by admin on Jul 31
1889 – Donald Foster, actor (Twilight Zone)
1914 – Mario Bava, director, (Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs, Planet of the Vampires, The Immortal Monster)
1918 – Basil Henson, actor (The Final Programme, Out of the Unknown, The Frozen Dead)
1919 – Primo Levi, sci-fi author (The Periodic Table)
1925 – Gore Vidal, author / actor, d @ 86 (Visit to a Small Planet / Gattaca)
1929 – Don Murray, actor (The Stepford Children, Radioactive Dreams, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
1932 – Ted Cassidy, actor (Man From Atlantis, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Genesis II, Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Angry Red Planet)
1935 – Geoffrey Lewis, actor (Odyssey 5, The X-Files, The Lawnmower Man, Annihilator, Amazing Stories, Night of the Comet, Mork & Mindy, Quark, The Six Million Dollar Man)
1939 – France Nuyen, actor (Automan, The Six Million Dollar Man, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Star Trek, Dimension 5)
1943 – Sab Shimono, actor (Waterworld, The X-Files, Max Headroom)
1944 – Geraldine Chaplin, actress ( Z.P.G.)
1947 – Richard Griffiths, actor (Superman II)
1950 – Lane Davies, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun, Babylon 5: In the Beginning, Lois & Clark)
1951 – Barry Van Dyke, Atlanta Ga, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder)
1953 – James Read, actor (Star Trek: Voyager, Lois & Clark)
1955 – Creature with the Atomic Brain released
1956 – Michael Biehn, actor (Metal Hurlant Chronicles, Planet Terror, Clockstoppers, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, Asteroid, The Abyss, The Seventh Sign, Aliens, The Terminator, Logan’s Run (TV), Alien 5)
1957 – Dirk Blocker, actor (The X Files, Quantum Leap, Starman, Beyond Westworld)
1957 – The 27th Day released
1958 – Greg Travis, actor (Night of the Living Dead 3D, Starship Troopers, Humanoids from the Deep)
1959 – Return of the Fly released
1962 – Wesley Snipes, actor (Blade, Futuresport, Demolition Man)
1965 – Ian Roberts, actor (Infected, Superman Returns)
1965 – Pat Finn, actor (3rd Rock from the Sun)
1966 – Jim True-Frost, actor (Fringe, W.E.I.R.D. World)
1966 – Dean Cain b. 1966 (Smallville, 10.5: Apocalypse, Lost, Futuresport, Lois & Clark)
1971 – Christina Cox, actress (Elysium, Stargate: Atlantis, The Chronicles of Riddick, Andromeda, Mutant X, Code Name: Eternity, Earth: Final Conflict, First Wave)
1975 – Annie Parisse, actress (Fringe, NYPD 2069)
1978 – James Harvey Ward, actor (No Ordinary Family)
1979 – Beatrix Lehmann, actress, d @ 76 (Doctor Who, Out of the Unknown)
1981 – Eric Lively, actor (The Butterfly Effect 2)
1992 – Percy Herbert, actor (The Tomorrow People, Doomwatch, Mysterious Island, Quatermass II: Enemy from Space)
2001 – Poul Anderson, sci-fi author d @ 75 (The Technic History series, Hoka, Tales of Known Space)
2003 – Fred Coffin, actor, d @ 60 (The Invisible Man (TV), Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century, The X-Files, Something is Out There, The Twilight Zone)
2004 – Virginia Grey, actress, d @ 87 (Science Fiction Theatre)
2011 – Carl Steven d @ 36 (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
2013 – Michael Ansara, actor, d @ 91 (The Outer Limits, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, It’s Alive, Land of the Giants, Star Trek, The Time Tunnel)