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Paul Birch is born (1912). This genre regular played a vampire from outer space in Roger Corman's Not of This Earth (1957) and a professor who faces an intergalactic Zsa Zsa Gabor in Queen of Outer Space (1958). Paul's other credits include Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956), the ultra-low-budget The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955), and the classic 1953 adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1953). Paul, who died in 1969, was born in Atmore, Alabama.

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Jeff Morrow is born (1907). Jeff played Leslie Gaskill, the scientist fighting a sinister machine from space in Kronos (1957), and took on the famous "Gill Man" when he played Dr. William Barton in The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). Jeff's other credits include The Giant Claw (1957), the classic This Island Earth (1954), Blood Legacy (1971), and Octaman (1971). He also starred in an episode of the original Twilight Zone ("Elegy") and in an episode of the updated Twilight Zone ("A Day in Beaumont"). Jeff, who died in 1993, was born in New York, New York.

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Orlando Bloom is born (1977). Orlando Bloom is best known to genre fans as Legolas Greenleaf from the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Orlando was born in Canterbury, Kent.

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SCIFIpedia Timeline for January 13