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April 20:

Film releases

Television series

  • 1969 - Joe 90, a British science-fiction television series, finishes airing on ATV

Births

  • 1848 - Kurd Lasswitz (d. 1910), a German author, scientist, and philosopher considered the father of German science fiction
  • 1908 - Donald Wandrei (d. 1987), an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor
  • 1911 - Kukrit Pramoj (d. 1995), a Thai politician, author, and scholar
  • 1930 - Péter Zsoldos (d. 1997), a Hungarian science fiction author
  • 1937 - George Takei, an American actor, best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu in the television series Star Trek
  • 1939 - Peter S. Beagle, an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays
  • 1964 - Sean A. Moore (d. 1998), an American fantasy and science fiction writer and computer programmer

Deaths