BORN ON THIS DATE
1896: Frank Baxter, who appeared as the gesture professor in the movie in episode 803- THE MOLE PEOPLE.
1909: Edwin Max, who played Harold in the movie in episode 704- THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN.
1910: James Ellison, who played Duke Barnum in the movie in episode 611- LAST OF THE WILD HORSES.
1918: Ted Thorpe, who played cafe manager Al in the season one serial RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON.
1920: Bob Johnson, who was the narrator for the movie in episode 113- THE BLACK SCORPION and also played the dispatcher and the newscaster in that movie.
1928: Hazen Gifford, who played Bob Adams in the short A YOUNG MAN’S FANCY, seen in episode 610- THE VIOLENT YEARS.
1929: Noboru Nakaya, who appeared in the movie in episode K17- /306- TIME OF THE APES.
1940: Sean Barrett, who voiced an interrogator in the English dub of the movie in episode K14- /314- MIGHTY JACK.*
1944: Walker Boone, who played “Policeman #1” in episode K20- THE LAST CHASE.
1954: Pia Zadora,who played Girmar in the movie in episode 321- SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS and was also mentioned in host segments in episode 211- FISRT SPACESHIP ON VENUS, 522- TEENAGE CRIME WAVE and 904- WEREWOLF.*

DIED ON THIS DATE
1955: Robert Kent (age 46; heart attack), who played Benson in the movie in episode 520- RADAR SECRET SERVICE and Capt. Bob West in the season two serial THE PHANTOM CREEPS.
1971: Franz Spencer a.k.a. Franz Schulz (age 74), who wrote the original story for the movie in episode 602- INVASION U.S.A.
1974: John Wengraf (age 77), who played Dr. Erik Heinrich in the movie in episode 524- 12 TO THE MOON.
1985: Ward Ellis (age 58), who played Jeff in the short ONCE UPON A HONEYMOON, seen in episode 701- NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST.
1997: Alvy Moore (age 75). Crow does an impression of him in episode 518- THE ATOMIC BRAIN.
1998: Albert Glasser (age 82), who provided the musical arrangements for episode 201- ROCKETSHIP X-M and composed the scores for episodes 309- THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, 313- EARTH VS. THE SPIDER, 315- TEENAGE CAVEMAN, 317- VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT, 319- WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST, 409- THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN, 414- TORMENTED, 517- BEGINNING OF THE END, 602- INVASION U.S.A. and 611- LAST OF THE WILD HORSES.
2002: Elizabeth Russell (age 85) who played Countess Lorenz in the movie in episode 105- THE CORPSE VANISHES.
2009: Dom Deluise (age 75), who played Munchie in the movie in episode 1304- MUNCHIE. He was also included in the list of prominent “doughy guys” shown in a host segment in episode 522- TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE.

EVENTS ON THIS DATE
1940: Arline Judge, who played Mrs. Hotchkiss in the movie in episode 106- THE CRAWLING HAND, marries James Bryant. She married many times.
1951: The movie in episode 510- THE PAINTED HILLS opens in theaters.
1962: Christopher Plummer, who played The Emperor in the movie in episode 1106- STARCRASH, marries his second wife, Patricia Lewis.
1979: The movie in episode 1310- H.G .WELLS’ THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME premiered in Canada, where it was filmed.
2017: Goldie Hawn, who played a spectator in the movie in episode 202- SIDEHACKERS, receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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This Date in MSTory is written and compiled by Christopher Cornell, Brian Henry and Steve Finley with assistance by Tim Brown, Gordon Lawyer and many other Satellite News commenters.