Sci-Fi History: September 11th.

Events on this day: September 11th.

This is a small selection of science fiction and horror related events that have happened on this day over the years.

Born on this day:

1909 – Anne Seymour, actress - Planet of the Apes, Trancers.

1917 – Herbert Lom, actor - Whoops Apocalypse, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Mysterious Island, Project M7.

1926 – author Alfred Slote.

1926 – Lee Richardson, actor Fly II.

1928 – Earl Holliman, actor - Forbidden Planet, Twilight Zone, Visit to a Small Planet, The Six Million Dollar Man.

1929 – Eve Brent, actress - Roswell, Weird Science, BrainWaves, Adventures of Superman.

1934 – Ian Abercrombie, actor - Star Trek: Voyager, Babylon 5, Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000, Otherworld, Voyagers!, Battlestar Galactica, The Six Million Dollar Man, Young Frankenstein, The Questor Tapes.

1936 – Charles Dierkop - Star Trek, Land of the Giants, , Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

1940 – Brian De Palma - Mission to Mars.

1949 – Kathrine Baumann, actress - The Thing with Two Heads.

1958 – Roxann Dawson, actress - Star Trek: Voyager.

1958 – Julia Nickson, actress  - Half-Life, SeaQuest 2032, Babylon 5, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG.

1959 – John Hawkes, actor - S. Darko, Strange Frequency, Taken, The X Files, Steel, Future-Kill.

1960 – Anne Ramsay, actress - Planet of the Apes, Star Trek: TNG.

1961 – Virginia Madsen, actress - The Astronaut Farmer, Star Trek: Voyager, The Apocalypse Watch, Earth 2, Zombie High, Creator, Dune.

1964 – Roxanne Biggs-Dawson, actress - Star Trek Voyager.

1967 – Harry Connick Jr., Actor - Bug, Independence Day.

Died on this day:

1987 – Lorne Greene, actor, died aged 72 - Battlestar Galactica.

1998 – Dane Clark, actor, died aged  86 - Salvage 1, Twilight Zone, Science Fiction Theatre.

2002 – Kim Hunter, actress died aged 79 - Planet of the Apes 1, 2, 3.

2010 – Harold Gould, actor, died aged 86 - The Outer Limits, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, Project X, The Invaders, The Satan Bug, Twilight Zone, The Man from Planet X.

2010 – Kevin McCarthy, actor, died aged 96 - Invasion of Body Snatchers (1958 & 1978), Innerspace, Trail of the Screaming Forehead, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, Slipstream, Final Approach, Eve of Destruction, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Exo-Man, The Invaders, ‘Way Out, Twilight Zone.