#ThisDayInFandomHistory: Steel Empire is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by HOT・B and released on the Sega Genesis. The original game was released on this date in 1992 in Japan. #OnThisDay #SteelEmpire #HotB #SEGA #Genesis

Happy birthday to writer and producer Àlex Pastor. Born today in 1981 in Spain, he is known for work on Bird Box: Barcelona, Carriers, The Last Days, and Syfy's Incorporated. #ÀlexPastor

Happy birthday to Canadian actress Kiara Hunter, born today in 1972. In fandom, Hunter is known for roles in known for Bordello of Blood, The X-Files, The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space, Viper, NightMan, Stargate: SG-1, and Alien Incursion. #KiaraHunter

Happy birthday to Canadian actor Steve Bacic, born today in 1965. Bacic is known for playing the characters Gaheris and Telemachus Rhade on the Sci-Fi series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. #SteveBacic

Happy birthday to Canadian actor David Orth, born today in 1965. His most notable role was as Edward 'Ned' Malone in the TV series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. #DavidOrth

Today we celebrate the birthday of Keiko Nobumoto, born today in 1964. A Japanese screenwriter, she wrote the screenplay for Cowboy Bebop and created Wolf's Rain, and is credited for concept contributions during the early production phase of Lazarus. #KeikoNobumoto

Happy birthday to Chuck Borden, born today in 1962. Borden is a stuntman, stunt coordinator and second unit director, known for his stunt work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. #ChuckBorden

Happy birthday to American caricature artist and art director Sam Viviano, born today in 1953. Viviano is best known for his work with Mad magazine, for which he produced the first digital illustration. #SamViviano

Happy birthday to Japanese manga artist Waki Yamato, born today in 1948. Among her early time works, Mon Cherie CoCo, was adapted into an anime series, and her work, Haikara-san ga Tōru, was very successful, winning the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo in 1977. #WakiYamato

Happy birthday to American actor Whitney Rydbeck, born today in 1945. Rydbeck has had a prolific career as an actor, and some of his notable appearances in fandom in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Battle Beyond the Stars. #WhitneyRydbeck

Today we celebrate the birthday of Canadian actor and narrator Douglas Rain, born today in 1928. Alhough primarily a stage actor, Rain provided the voice of the HAL 9000 computer for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact. #DouglasRain

Happy birthday to American cartoonist Al Jaffee, born today in 1921. Notable for his 65 years of work in the satirical magazine Mad, he was its longest-running contributor, holding the Guinness World Record for having the longest-ever career as a comic artist. #AlJaffee

#ThisDayInFandomHistory: Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the supervillain The Mad Thinker first appeared in "The Fantastic Four Battle the Mad Thinker and His Awesome Android" in Fantastic Four #15, released today in 1963. #OnThisDay #MadThinker #FantasticFour #MarvelComics

Happy birthday to American actress Jaimie Alexander, born today in 1984. Alexander is known for portraying Jessi on the TV series Kyle XY and Lady Sif in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. #JaimieAlexander

Happy birthday to American actor Rick Worthy, born today in 1967. Worthy is best known for appearing in a variety of science fiction and fantasy television shows including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, and Supernatural. #RickWorthy

Happy birthday to Graham Nolan, born today in 1962. Graham is an Inkpot Award winning cartoonist, best known for his long run on Batman in Detective Comics and as the designer and co-creator of the iconic Batman villain Bane. #GrahamNolan

Happy birthday to Rich Koz, born today in 1952. Koz is an American actor and broadcaster best known as horror-movie host Svengoolie and his early '90s children's cartoon showcase The Koz Zone. #RichKoz #Svengoolie

Happy birthday to American actor and comedian Frank Welker, born today in 1946. Welker is best known for his voice work in such animated shows as the Scooby-Doo franchise, Futurama, the Transformers franchise, Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy, Astro, and The Smurfs. #FrankWelker

Happy birthday to American cinematographer and film director Dean Cundey. Born today in 1946, he is known for work on such films as Galaxina, Escape From New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Invisible Woman, Project X, Jurassic Park, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. #DeanCundey

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara Feldon, born today in 1933. Feldon is an American character actress, primarily known for her roles on television. Her most prominent role was that of Agent 99 on the 1960s sitcom Get Smart. #BarbaraFeldon

Happy birthday to Sy Barry, born today in 1928. Barry is an American comic-book and comic-strip artist, best known for his work on the strip The Phantom, which he inked for more than three decades. #SyBarry

Today we celebrate the birthday of American science fiction author Harry Harrison, born today in 1925. He is mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room!, the latter the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green. #HarryHarrison

Today we celebrate the birthday of Polish actor, singer and director Vladek Sheybal, born today in 1923. Known for his portrayal of the chess grandmaster Kronsteen in the James Bond film From Russia with Love, he also appeared in UFO, The New Avengers, and more. #VladekSheybal

Today we celebrate the birthday of Takashi Shimura, born today in 1905. A Japanese actor, he is known in fandom for Gojira aka Godzilla, the American version Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Godzilla Raids Again, The Mysterians, Mothra, Gorath and others. #TakashiShimura

Today we celebrate the birthday of American actress and burlesque queen Angelique Pettyjohn, born today in 1943. Known for her role as drill thrall Shahna in original Star Trek, she also appeared in The Lost Empire, Repo Man, and The Wizard of Speed and Time. #AngeliquePettyjohn

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#ThisDayInFandomHistory: The Five Star Stories is a manga series created by Mamoru Nagano, building on his work on the anime series Heavy Metal L-Gaim. An anime film adaptation of the first volume was released on this date in 1989. #OnThisDay #TheFiveStarStories #MamoruNagano

Today we celebrate the birthday of American actor Anton Yelchin, born today in 1989. Yelchin is best known in fandom for playing Pavel Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek franchise. #AntonYelchin

Happy birthday to American actor David Anders, born today in 1981. He is known for his roles as Adam Monroe on Heroes, John Gilbert on The Vampire Diaries, Victor Frankenstein / Dr. Whale on ABC's Once Upon a Time, and Blaine "DeBeers" McDonough on iZombie. #DavidAnders

Happy birthday to Scottish-American actor, singer, presenter, author, judge, and comic book writer John Barrowman, born today in 1967. Barrowman is perhaps best known for his role as Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and Torchwood. #JohnBarrowman