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Birthdays
| Gwyneth Paltrow 1972, actress, Polly Perkins - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Pepper Potts - Iron Man (2008), Pepper Potts - Iron Man 2 (2010). |
| James Shooter 1951, writer, occasional fill-in artist, editor, and publisher for various comic books. He is most notable for his successful and controversial run as Marvel Comics' ninth editor-in-chief, and his work as editor in chief of the short-lived but influential company Valiant Comics. At the age of 14, Shooter began selling stories to DC Comics. Writing for both Action Comics and Adventure Comics, beginning with Adventure Comics #346 (July 1966), Shooter provided not only writing but pencil breakdowns as well. Shooter created several characters for the Legion of Super-Heroes including Karate Kid, Ferro Lad, and Princess Projectra. He also created the Superman villain The Parasite. In the mid-70s,Shooter joined the Marvel staff as an assistant editor and writer, being most remembered for the Korvac Saga in Avengers. In 1978 he succeeded Archie Goodwin to become Marvel's ninth editor-in-chief. In July 2009 Dark Horse Comics announced at the Comic-Con International in San Diego that Shooter will oversee the publication of new series based on classic Gold Key characters like Turok, Doctor Solar, and Magnus, Robot Fighter, and write some of them as well. |
| Charles Burns 1955, cartoonist, Charles Burns' earliest works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine, and Another Room Magazine of Oakland, CA, but he came to prominence when his comics were published for the first time in early issues of RAW, the avant-garde comics magazine founded in 1980 by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. In 1982, Burns did a die-cut cover for RAW #4. Raw Books also published two books of Burns as 'RAW One-Shot': Big Baby and Hard-Boiled Defective Stories. From 1993 to 2004, he serialized the 12 chapters of his Harvey Award-winning graphic novel Black Hole (12 issues from Kitchen Sink Press and Fantagraphics Books). In October 2005, he released a slightly remastered collection of Black Hole. |
| Sophia Violet Crumb 1981, cartoonist, Comics Sophie drew as a child appeared in Weirdo magazine, and she collaborated with her parents on Dirty Laundry Comics. She has also produced two issues of a series titled Belly Button Comix, which is published by Dutch publisher Oog & Blik together with Fantagraphics Books. Her most recent work is Sophie Crumb: Evolution of a Crazy Artist, published by W.W. Norton in 2010. She is the daughter of underground comix artists Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb. |
| Emmett Vogan 1893, actor, Train Conductor - Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939), Mr. Howard, Track and Baseball Coach - Blondie Goes to College (1942), Policeman Telephoning - Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942), Joseph Yomans, aka Paul Breck - The Shadow Returns (1946), Fight Commissioner - Joe Palooka, Champ (1946), Cop in Squad Car - Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947), Secretary of National Security - Superman (1948)[Chs. 3, 8], Mr. Williams - Batman and Robin (1949)[Chs. 1, 3, 12-14], First Congressman - Tobor the Great (1954). |
| Roger C. Carmel 1932, actor, Admiral Halder - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1 episode, "The Machines Strike Back", 1965), Colonel Gumm - Batman (2 episodes, 1967), Harcourt Fenton 'Harry' Mudd - Star Trek (2 episodes, 1966-1967), Harcourt Fenton Mudd - Star Trek: The Animated Adventures (1 episode, "Mudd's Passion", 1973), Judge Jones - The Invisible Man (1 episode, "Stop When Red Lights Flash", 1975), Cyclonus / Quintesson Leader - The Transformers: The Movie (1986) (voice), Cyclonus / Motormaster / Quintesson Judge #2 / Unicron - Transformers: Five Faces of Darkness (1986) (V) (voice), Motormaster / Cyclonus - The Transformers (16 episodes, 1985-1986), Sir Tuxford / Prisoner / Town Crier - Adventures of the Gummi Bears (4 episodes, 1986), Starnose - The Glo Friends (1986) TV series (voice), Sultan - Ducktales (1 episode, "Master of the Djinni", 1987). |
| Scott DeVenney 1947, actor, Bob Briggs - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). |
| Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa 1950, actor, Mandarin Bailiff - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "Encounter at Farpoint", 1987), Detective Jed Slade - The Adventures of Superboy (1 episode, "Terror from the Blue", 1989), Yamato - Alien Nation (1 episode, "The First Cigar", 1989), Shikido - Not of This World (1991) (TV), Zylyn - Space Rangers (4 episodes, 1993), Morishi - Babylon 5 (1 episode, "Convictions", 1995), Turghan - Stargate SG-1 (1 episode, "Emancipation", 1997), Peter - Seven Days (1 episode, "Walter", 1999), Krull - Planet of the Apes (2001), Roshi - Elektra (2005), Brushogun - Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2007) (V) (voice), The Swordsmith - Heroes (2 episodes, 2007). |
Events
| 1961, Top Cat airs on ABC. |
| 1963, CBS airs the last The Twilight Zone TV show. A total of 134 30-minute and 17 60-minute shows aired. |
| 1968, Star Trek:TOS, "The Enterprise Incident" airs. |
| 1975, Dr. Who, four-part serial "Planet of Evil" airs. |
| 1991, Filming is finished on Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The last scene filmed is (deliberately) the last scene of the movie, with the Enterprise leaving Khitomer on its last voyage. |
| 2002, Firefly, "Bushwhacked" airs. |
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