1891: Dora Clement, who played Ann Zorka in the season two serial THE PHANTOM CREEPS.**

1904: Doris Packer, who played the judge in the movie in episode 522- TEEN-AGE CRIME WAVE.

1917: Peter Leeds, who played Michael Clyde in the movie in episode 601- GIRLS TOWN and Mr. Carter in the movie in episode 618- HIGH SCHOOL BIG SHOT.

1919: June Jocelyn, who played Nurse Wilson in the movie in episode 309- THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, Mrs. Flynn in the movie in episode 313- EARTH VS. THE SPIDER, the teenage caveman’s mother in the movie in episode 315- TEENAGE CAVEMAN and Mrs. Edwards in the movie in episode 319- WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST.

1927: Clint Walker, who was mentioned in host segment in episode 213- GODZILLA VS THE SEA MONTER and episode 501- WARRIOR OF THE LOST WORLD.

1936: Taldo Kenyon, who played Sir Anthony in the movie in episode 411- THE MAGIC SWORD.*

1939: Michael J. Pollard, who was mentioned in host segments in episodes 415- THE BEATNIKS and 301- IT CONQUERED THE WORLD.

1961: John Terlesky, who played Deathstalker in DEATHSTALKER II, which was featured in the 30th Anniversary Tour in 2018.*

1964: Wynona Judd, mentioned in host segments in episode 1004- FUTURE WAR and episode 610- THE VIOLENT YEARS.*

1970: John T. Coyle (age 79), who did the special effects for the season four serial UNDERSEA KINGDOM.

1971: Rodd Redwing (age 66), who played Nazar in the movie in episode 803- THE MOLE PEOPLE.

1991: Jack Byron (age 95), who played a photographer in the movie THIS ISLAND EARTH riffed in MST3K: The Movie.

1995: Ernst Kunstmann (age 97), special effects supervisor for the movie in episode 211- FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS.

1998: Stanley Bickman (age 66), producer for the movie in episode 618- HIGH SCHOOL BIG SHOT.

2000: Bill Thomas (age 78), costume designer for the movies in episodes 802- THE LEECH WOMAN and 805- THE THING THAT COULDN’T DIE.

1936: The season four serial UNDERSEA KINGDOM premieres.

1937: Bud Westmore, make-up artist for THIS ISLAND EARTH (seen in MST3K: THE MOVIE), the movie in episode 801- REVENGE OF THE CREATURE and six other MSTed movies, weds actress Martha Raye. They divorce September of the same year.

1969: “Die Folterkammer des Dr. Fu Manchu,” the movie in episode 323- THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU, has its premiere in West Germany, its country of origin.

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