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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)

Ted Cassidy as the slave in the Lost in Space episode, The Thief of Outer Space.

Ted Cassidy as the slave in the Lost in Space episode, The Thief of Outer Space.

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)

Michael Biehn in Aliens

Michael Biehn in Aliens

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

Return of the Fly

Return of the Fly

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)

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