BORN ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY

• 1982 – Lizzy Caplan who starred in the film “Cloverfield” and appeared on the HBO series “True Blood.”
• 1971 – Monica Potter, who starred in the films “Saw,” “Along Came a Spider” and the 2009 remake of “Last House on the Left.”
• 1959 – Vincent D’Onofrio who appeared in “Ed Wood” (as Orson Welles), “Men In Black”, “The Thirteen Floor” and “Jurassic World.”
• 1955 – David Alan Grier who appeared in “Tales From the Hood,” “Amazon Women on the Moon,” “Bewitched” and “Jumanji.”
• 1936 – Tony Musante who is best known for playing the title role in the TV series “Toma” and who starred in the film “The Bird With the Crystal Plumage.”
• 1935 – Master magician Harry Blackstone, Jr.
• 1905 – Character actor Nestor Paiva who appeared in the 1939 version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Mighty Joe Young,” “The Creature From the Black Lagoon” and “Revenge of the Creature.”
• 1899 – Madge Bellamy who appeared in “White Zombie.”.
• 1891 – Wrestler Man Mountain Dean who grappled with “Mighty Joe Young.”

DIED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY

• 2007 – Will Schaefer, who composed the music for many TV and cartoon series’ including “I Dream of Jeannie,” “The Godzilla Power Hour” and “The Superfriends,” passed away at the age of 78.
• 2003 – Comedian Buddy Hackett, who starred in the film “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm,” passed away at the age of 78.
• 1999 – Shane Dixon, who has performed the stunts for such movies as “They Live,” “Ghost” and “Copycat,” passed away at the age of 44.
• 1993 – George McFarland, better known as “Spanky” of “The Little Rascals,” passed away at the age of 64.
• 1987 – King Donavan who appeared in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” and “The Magnetic Monster,” passed away at the age of 69.
• 1980 – Thomas Browne Henry, appeared in “How to Make a Monster”, “The Thing That Couldn’t Die”, “Blood of Dracula”, “The Brain from Planet Arous”, “20 Million Miles to Earth”, “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” and more. He passed away at the age of 72.

FILMS RELEASED ON THIS DAY IN HORROR HISTORY

• The Horrible Dr. Hickcock 1962
• The Monster of the Opera 1964
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 1972
  Judge Dredd 1995
  Postmortem 1998
  Spider-Man 2 2004
  Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane 2007
• The Final Curtain aka Acts of Death 2007
  Fear Girls: Volume 2 2009
  Killer Shorts 2009
  Second Coming 2009
  The Garbage Man 2009
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 2010