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Science fiction and fantasy events that took place on December 16, this year and in years gone by.
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Terry Carter
Terry Carter was born on December 16, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York.
Terry co-starred as Colonel Tigh in Battlestar Galactica (1979-1980). He was President Tight in Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming (1999), but his acting appearances on screen have been sporadic since the end of the original Battlestar Galactica. |
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Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somerset, England, and died on March 19, 2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka .
An author, he was known as one of the "Big Three", along with Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. He is the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey as well as dozens of other books. |
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Nicholas Courtney
Nicholas was born on December 16, 1929 in Cairo, Egypt.
Born in Egypt to a British diplomat, Nicholas has had a long acting career, but is perhaps most famous as Brigadier-General Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who. He first appeared in the role opposite the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and was a regular with the Jon Pertwee series and the first year of the Tom Baker series. The only Doctor he never appeared with (until its recent reincarnation with Eccleston and Tennant) was in Colin Baker's abbreviated tenure. |
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