Mandrake, Catwoman, Darth Vader, The Mask, Lamb Chop, Popeye

Birthdays

Shari Lewis 1933, was an American writer and performer, best known for her puppet character "Lamb Chop" wrote an episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Lights of Zetar", with her second husband Jeremy Tarcher.

Neil Maffin 1959, actor, Ven-Star Trek: Voyager episode "Infinite Regress", Merell-Stargate:Atlantis, Kroton-Andromeda.

Jim Carrey 1962, Horton - Horton Hears a Who, Count Olaf - Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Riddler / Dr. Edward Nygma - Batman Forever, Stanley Ipkiss - The Mask, Wiploc - Earth Girls are Easy.

John Bellairs 1938, sci-fi author, Chessmen of Doom

Paul O. Williams 1935, sci-fi author, Ends of the Circle

Sheree North 1933, actress, Dr. Rene Peron - Destination Inner Space (1966), Claire Hammond - Future Cop (1977).

James Earl Jones 1931, actor, Chief Bella - Tarzan (2 episodes, 1967-1968), Barney Hill - The UFO Incident (1975, TV), Darth Vader (voice) - Star Wars (1977), The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978, TV), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Ommadon - The Flight of Dragons (1982), Thulsa Doom - Conan the Barbarian (1982), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Umslopogaas - Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986), Emperor of the Night - Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987), Diablo - Garfield and Friends, Earnest Moses - The Meteor Man (1993), Franklin W. Stern - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Mufasa - The Lion King (1994),The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998), Narrator - Judge Dredd (1995), Narrator - 3rd Rock from the Sun(2 episodes, 1996), Unas - Stargate SG-1(1 episode, 1997), Narrator - The Simpsons (3 episodes, 1990-1998), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).

Eartha Kitt 1927, actress, singer, Catwoman - Batman (5 episodes, 1967-1968), Mrs. Franklin - The Magic School Bus(1 episode, 1995), Bagheera the Panther - The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998), Yzma - The Emperor's New Groove (2000), The Emperor's New Groove 2: Kronk's New Groove (2005), Yzma - The Emperor's New School (20 episodes, 2006-2007)Queen Vexas - My Life as a Teenage Robot (2 episodes, 2003-2005), Fortune Teller - American Dad (1 episode, 2007).

Warren Hull 1903, Mandrake the Magician - Mandrake the Magician (1939), Britt Reid / Green Hornet - The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941), Richard Wentworth / The Spider / Blinky McQuade - The Spider's Web (1938), The Spider Returns (1941). Events 1929, Popeye first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre. Trivia: Harold Hamgravy was Olive Oyl's fiance in the early strips, but Hamgravy had an eye for the ladies. Olive found Popeye to be more desireable later Hamgravy was written out. 1969, Star Trek:TOS "The Mark of Gideon" airs. 1993, Deep Space 9: "A Man Alone" airs. 2001, Star Trek:Voyager "Shattered" airs.