Beyond The Threshold

1899 – George Macready, actor, d @ 73 (The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Alligator People, The Monster and the Ape)
1907 – Lurene Tuttle, actress (Voyagers!, My Favorite Martian, The Clonus Horror, My Living Doll, The Munsters, Twilight Zone)
1912 – Barry Sullivan, actor (The Bionic Woman, The Invisible Man [1975], The Sixth Sense, The Immortal, Planet of the Vampires, Pyro… The Thing Without a Face)

1922 – Lane Bradford, actor (Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, My Favorite Martian, The Adventures of Superman, Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, Zombies of the Stratosphere)
1923 – Richard Attenborough, actor (Jurassic Park)
1927 – Daniel Keyes, sci-fi author (Flowers for Algernon)
1928 – Charles Gray, actor (Out of this World, Man in the Moon, H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man, Firestar, First Contact, The Beast Must Die)
1928 – Dick O’Neill, actor (Timecop, The Incredible Hulk, The UFO Incident, Gammera the Invincible)

1935 – William Friedkin, director (director, Bug, Twilight Zone)
1938 – Elliot Gould, actor (Contagion, Lois & Clark, Frogs!, Frog, The Twilight Zone)
1939 – Joel Schumacher, director (Flatliners, The Incredible Shrinking Woman)

1941 – Ellen Geer, actress (Star Trek: TNG, Beauty and the Beast, Creator, The Bionic Woman)

1952 – Deborah Van Valkenburgh, actress (Star Trek: DS9, Quantum Leap)

1954 – Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, sci-fi author (Enigma, Empery)
1958 – The 16th annual World Science Fiction Convention is held in South Gate, California, drawing over 320 attendees. Fritz Leiber wins the best novel award for The Big Time, and The Incredible Shrinking Man, with a screenplay by Richard Matheson based on his novel, wins “outstanding movie.”
1958 – The Fly, with a screenplay by James Clavell based on George Langelaan’s 1957 Playboy story, is released; spawning two sequels and a 1986 remake by David Cronenberg.

The Fly 1958

 
1968 – Victor Sutherland, actor, d @ 79 (Donovan’s Brain, Them!)
1971 – Carla Gugino, actress (Threshold, Quantum Leap, ALF)

1973 – Michael Dunn, actor d @ 38 (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek, The Mutations)

1975 – Dante Basco, actor (Alien Nation: Body and Sou)
1977 – Jean Hagen, actress, d @ 54 (Panic in Year Zero!)

1981 – Jay Ryan, actor (Terra Nova)
1981 – Emily Hampshire, actress (Earthsea, Mutant X, Earth: Final Conflict)

1983 – Simon Oakland, actor, d @ 68 (The Starlost, The Satan Bug, The Outer Limits, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone)
1985 – Evelyn Ankers, actress, d @ 67 (The Invisible Man’s Revenge, The Ghost of Frankenstein)

1987 – Lee Marvin, actor, d @ 63 (Twilight Zone)
1991 – Dallas Adams, actor, d @ 44 (Doctor Who, Space 1999, Frankenstein: The True Story)

2000 – Shelagh Fraser, actress, d @ 79 (Star Wars)
2002 – Alan MacNaughtan, actor, d @ 82 (Frankenstein Created Woman, Journey to the Unknown, Out of this World)