Brad Keely* (Happy birthday, Brad!)

1898: Ernst Kunstmann, special effects supervisor for the movie in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS.

1901: Felice Richmond, who had an uncredited bit part in the movie in episode 808- THE SHE-CREATURE.

1911: Kurt Maetzig, director and co-writer of the movie in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS.

1916: Albert Glasser, who provided the musical arrangements for the movie in episode 201- ROCKETSHIP X-M and composed the scores for the movies in 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.

1925: Yûzô Hayakawa, who played Kawajiri in the movie in episode K04- /304- GAMERA VS. BARUGON.

1926: Ted White, who played a brawler in the movie in episode 324- MASTER NINJA II.

1927: Antônio Carlos Jobim, who wrote the song “Garota de Ipanema” (“The Girl from Ipanema”), which was sung in the “swing choir” host segment in episode 609?-THE SKYDIVERS.

1927: Gregg Palmer, who played Johnny Mapes in the movie in episode 419- THE REBEL SET.

1931: Harold Lloyd Jr., who played Chip Gardner in the movie in episode 601- GIRLS TOWN.

1938: Ray Dennis Steckler, producer, director and one of the stars of the movie in episode 812- THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES!!?. He also had a bit part as “guy thrown into pool” in the movie in episode 506- EEGAH!

1938: Chuck Gaspar, who did special effects for the movies in episodes 401- SPACE TRAVELERS and 512- MITCHELL.

1947: Alphonse “Al” Capone (48; pneumonia), who was mentioned in a host segment in episode 1103- THE TIME TRAVELERS.

1953: Fred Preble (age 59), art director for the movies in episodes 103- THE MAD MONSTER and 520- RADAR SECRET SERVICE.

1970: Eiji Tsuburaya (age 68), the special effects director for the movie in episode 213- GODZILLA VERSUS THE SEA MONSTER, producer and special effects supervisor on the movie in episode K14- /314- MIGHTY JACK and founder of Tsuburaya Productions, the company responsible for the movies in episodes K17- /306- TIME OF THE APES, K12- /310- FUGITIVE ALIEN and K03- /318- STAR FORCE: FUGITIVE ALIEN II.

1977: Dale Van Sickel (age 69), who played Alon in the season one serial RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON and Link in the movie in episode 413- MANHUNT IN SPACE. He also did stunts in THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED (riffed by fans in Sci-fi Channel’s “MST3K: The Home Game”), in the season one serial RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON and the movie in episode 203- JUNGLE GODDESS.

1980: Dave Newell (age 75), make-up artist for the movie in episode 902- THE PHANTOM PLANET.

1981: Richard Talmadge (age 88), director of the movie in episode 109- PROJECT MOON BASE.

1990: Ava Gardner (age 67), who played Maggie Grayson in the movie in episode K16- CITY ON FIRE.

1995: William Sylvester (age 72), who played Leonard Driscoll in the movie in episode 814- RIDING WITH DEATH, Mark English in the movie in episode 818- DEVIL DOLL and Sam Slade in the movie in episode 909- GORGO.

1995: Joachim Hasler (age 65), cinematographer for the movie in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS.
2003: Fred Wood (age 81), who played a circus guard in the movie in episode 909- GORGO.

2015: Horst Grandt (age 80), who did properties for the movie in episode 305- STRANDED IN SPACE.

2017: Mary Tyler Moore (age 80), who was mentioned in host segments in episode 311- IT CONQUERED THE WORLD and 1010- IT LIVES BY NIGHT.

2019: Meshulam Riklis (age 95), the longtime husband of 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.

1992: episode 324- MASTER NINJA II first shown.

1940: Rossano Brazzi, who played Don La Manna in the movie in episode 1008- FINAL JUSTICE and was the director, screenwriter and played Phineas T. Prune in the movie in episode 1113- THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN’T, marries his future co-star Lydia (aka Lidia) Bertolini.

1947: Van Johnson, who played Lester Scott in the movie in episode 614- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL and Chip Green in
the movie in episode K15- SUPERDOME, marries Eve Lynn Abbott.

1961: The movie in episode 909- GORGO is reviewed in Variety.

1967: The movie in episode 905- THE DEADLY BEES is reviewed in Variety.

1997: In anticipation of MST3K’s eighth season, the Sci-Fi Channel airs MST3K: THE HOME GAME, during which MSTies were able post their on-line riffs during a showing of the movie THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED.

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