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1901 – Frieda Inescort, actress (The Alligator People)
1903 – Paul Newlan, actor, (Twilight Zone)

Paul Newlan (left) in Twilight Zone

Paul Newlan (left) in Twilight Zone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1911 – Bernard Herrmann, composer/conductor (It’s Alive, Fahrenheit 451, Lost in Space, Twilight Zone, Mysterious Island, The Day the Earth Stood Still)
1919 – Slim Pickens, actor (The Black Hole)

1920 – Ray Harryhausen, no introductions needed

Ray Harryhausen

Ray Harryhausen

1928 – Ian Bannen, actor (The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV))

1934 – Corey Allen, director (Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Otherworld, The Powers of Matthew Star)

1943 – Soon-Tek Oh, actpr (Seven Days, Stargate SG-1, Babylon 5, Time Trax, The Final Countdown, Logan’s Run (TV), The Invaders)

 

1944 – Gary Busey, actor (Piranha 3DD, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms, Predator 2)

Gary Busey and some old friends.

Gary Busey and some old friends.

1947 – Brian Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune universe)
1947 – Michael Carter, actor (The Cloning of Joanna May, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Doctor Who)
1948 – Fred Grandy, actor (Death Race 2000)

1950 – Michael Whelan, Illustrator
1957 – Maria Conchita Alonzo, actress (Predator 2, The Running Man)

1960 – Missile to the Moon released in Mexico
1961 – Sharon Lawrence, actress (The After, Nuclear Family, Atomic Twister, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York, Star Trek: Voyager)
1962 – Amanda Donohoe, actress (Starship Trooper 3: Marauder, The Atlantis Conspiracy, Stardust)
1963 – Frank R. Paul, artist, d @ 79
1964 – Kathleen Wilhoite, actress (The 4400, Quantum Leap)
1967 – Melora Hardin, actress (Zombie Hamlet, Timecop, Lois & Clark, Quantum Leap, Mann & Machine, The Rocketeer)
1968 – Judith Hoag, actress (I am Number Four, The X-Files, Strange World, Armageddon, Quantum Leap)
1969 – Aleks Paunovic, actor (Chupacabra vs. the Alamo, Eve of Destruction, Smallville, Caprica, Stargate: Atlantis, Bionic Woman, Flash Gordon, Battlestar Galactica, Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep, Eureka, Mutant X, Andromeda, Stargate SG-1, Roswell: The Aliens Attack)
1969 – Ilan Mitchell-Smith, actor (Superboy, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Weird Science)

1971 – Sharon Conley, actress (The Hunger Games)
1974 – Christy Taylor, actress (Weird Science (TV), Mars: Base One)
1977 – Travis Richey, actor (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Robot, Dinocroc vs. Supergator)
1977 – Zuleikha Robinson, actress (The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen)
1978 – Bob Crane, actor, d @ 48 (Twilight Zone)
1979 – Sharon Lemelin, actress (Zombie Hamlet, Anonymous Rex)

1984 – Christopher Egan, actor (Gothica (TV), Resident Evil: Extinction)
1986 – Robert Drivas, actor, d @ 47 (Illustrated Man)

1991 – Addison Timlin, actor (Zero Hour)
1993 – Lorenzo James Henrie, actor (Fear the Walking Dead, Star Trek)
1995 – Lana Turner, actress, d @ 74 (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
1996 – Pamela Mason, actress, d @ 80 (Navy vs Night Monsters)
1999 – Declan Mulholland, actor, d @ 65 (Time Bandits, Quatermass, Doctor Who)

2000 – Vittorio Gassman, actor, d @ 77 (Quintet)
2005 – War of the Worlds released
2007 – Fred Saberhagen, sci-fi author, d @ 77 (Berserker series, Earth’s End)
2008 – Don S. Davis, actor, d @ 65 (Stargate, Flash Gordon, Andromeda, Atomic Train, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The X-Files, M.A.N.T.I.S

2011 – Transformers: Dark of the Moon released
2014 – Don Matheson, actor, d @ 84 (Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space)
2014 – Meshach Taylor, actor, d @ 67 (ALF, Ultra Warrior, The Incredible Hulk)

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